I saw that we had some updated assignment grades. Will we be getting updates on our blogs as well?
Thanks!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Assignment 6: My website
Here is the link to my index. You will find links to the other three pages there.
http://www.pitt.edu/~kdh29/
I hope it's working correctly!
http://www.pitt.edu/~kdh29/
I hope it's working correctly!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Week 10 notes
1) Mischo, W. (July/August 2005). Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8).http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html
This article gives a background of some of the early digital library projects. It was interesting to read about the DLI-1 and DLI-2 because I had never heard of them. I thought it was interesting, and the article pointed this out, that the Internet was still pretty new when the DLI-1 began. This shows that many organizations were interested in moving libraries forward as the Internet came about. People think of libraries as old-school, dusty old places with books, but now they are increasingly right beside or part of developing these technologies. We just need to market ourselves to change the perception.
It was also interesting to note that many network developments have happened outside of federally/grant-funded ventures. So many see the value in these systems.
2) Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html
This article is important because it discusses the relationship/merger between librarians and computer scientists. At the time, most librarians did not know very much about these systems, and they needed computer science to make sure they didn't get "left behind" as information and the world went digital. It was interesting to note the resentment the librarians felt about the computer scientists "hijacking" the money, but computer scientists felt librarians were focusing on the wrong things, like metadata and collection development. The article point out, though, that the "core" of librarianship remains: "The information must be organized, collated, and presented."
3) Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml
This article discusses institutional repositories. I had never heard that term, but once the author defined it, I knew what they were. ("...a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.") The most important thing I drew out of this article is how we organize the exponentially exploding amount of information. In LIS 2000, Dr. Tomer talked about how many people publish scholarly works each year, and how few of those works are read or used by anyone after they are published. (Something like 2% or less.) We have to deal with archiving this, or decide whether it is worth archiving. Who has that power or knowledge, though? Metadata can help us better organize the information, which is probably why we discussed it in this class. I didn't really grasp how important metadata is until reading this article. Without metadata, the information is just loaded into these repositories without a good way to find anything.
This article gives a background of some of the early digital library projects. It was interesting to read about the DLI-1 and DLI-2 because I had never heard of them. I thought it was interesting, and the article pointed this out, that the Internet was still pretty new when the DLI-1 began. This shows that many organizations were interested in moving libraries forward as the Internet came about. People think of libraries as old-school, dusty old places with books, but now they are increasingly right beside or part of developing these technologies. We just need to market ourselves to change the perception.
It was also interesting to note that many network developments have happened outside of federally/grant-funded ventures. So many see the value in these systems.
2) Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html
This article is important because it discusses the relationship/merger between librarians and computer scientists. At the time, most librarians did not know very much about these systems, and they needed computer science to make sure they didn't get "left behind" as information and the world went digital. It was interesting to note the resentment the librarians felt about the computer scientists "hijacking" the money, but computer scientists felt librarians were focusing on the wrong things, like metadata and collection development. The article point out, though, that the "core" of librarianship remains: "The information must be organized, collated, and presented."
3) Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml
This article discusses institutional repositories. I had never heard that term, but once the author defined it, I knew what they were. ("...a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.") The most important thing I drew out of this article is how we organize the exponentially exploding amount of information. In LIS 2000, Dr. Tomer talked about how many people publish scholarly works each year, and how few of those works are read or used by anyone after they are published. (Something like 2% or less.) We have to deal with archiving this, or decide whether it is worth archiving. Who has that power or knowledge, though? Metadata can help us better organize the information, which is probably why we discussed it in this class. I didn't really grasp how important metadata is until reading this article. Without metadata, the information is just loaded into these repositories without a good way to find anything.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Week 9 muddiest point
In the Assignment 6 instructions, it says: "You can use any available Website editor." I Googled this, and was bombarded with a lot of sites, some looking better than others. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on which website editor was best. What would be a good one for me to try?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Unit 9 notes
1) Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML)http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/internet/web/xmlintro.htm
This exact page could not be found and I was redirected to the BURKS page. It explained that BURKS is a collection of resources for computing students who don't have access to the Internet. This sounds like a good idea except 1. I don't know any student that has absolutely no access to the Internet (campus, library, etc.) and 2. How could you get a computing degree if you never really get to do things online? Just some thoughts.
2) Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004.http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html
Honestly, I didn't have much of a clue about XML, so I started with Wikipedia for a basic overview before moving on to this site. That gave me somewhat of an idea, although I'm still a bit murky because I have almost no technical computer background. The IBM site above seems like a great go-to site for all kinds of XML resources. It had some great tutorials; I especially liked this one: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/xmlintro/?S_TACT=104AHW06 The address example of why XML is needed over HTML (page 2) was excellent and suddenly made its purpose so much clearer. It mentioned that XML ("with the right tools") can even make text into voice.
3) Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz PDF
This had some great examples with the explanation of XML, especially the bibliographies. It explained XLinks, XPaths, XPointers, etc., which I previously had no knowledge on.
4) XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp
Like the other W3 Schools tutorials we have used, this one was great. It laid out basically everything you need to know. Although it was good, I thought some of the IBM tutorials were more straightforward and in clearer language. This one went in baby steps, though, which is good for someone slowly learning XML (me!).
This exact page could not be found and I was redirected to the BURKS page. It explained that BURKS is a collection of resources for computing students who don't have access to the Internet. This sounds like a good idea except 1. I don't know any student that has absolutely no access to the Internet (campus, library, etc.) and 2. How could you get a computing degree if you never really get to do things online? Just some thoughts.
2) Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004.http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html
Honestly, I didn't have much of a clue about XML, so I started with Wikipedia for a basic overview before moving on to this site. That gave me somewhat of an idea, although I'm still a bit murky because I have almost no technical computer background. The IBM site above seems like a great go-to site for all kinds of XML resources. It had some great tutorials; I especially liked this one: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/xmlintro/?S_TACT=104AHW06 The address example of why XML is needed over HTML (page 2) was excellent and suddenly made its purpose so much clearer. It mentioned that XML ("with the right tools") can even make text into voice.
3) Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz PDF
This had some great examples with the explanation of XML, especially the bibliographies. It explained XLinks, XPaths, XPointers, etc., which I previously had no knowledge on.
4) XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp
Like the other W3 Schools tutorials we have used, this one was great. It laid out basically everything you need to know. Although it was good, I thought some of the IBM tutorials were more straightforward and in clearer language. This one went in baby steps, though, which is good for someone slowly learning XML (me!).
Lecture 8 muddiest point
I am feeling very apprehensive about Assignment 6. I have never done anything with html, so I'm not sure where to start. Where is a good place to build it? Do you have any good examples of what our final product should look like (maybe from past semesters)?
Also, Assignment 6 isn't listed under "assignments" in Courseweb. It would be nice if we had a step-by-step instruction like we have for the past projects.
Thank you!
Also, Assignment 6 isn't listed under "assignments" in Courseweb. It would be nice if we had a step-by-step instruction like we have for the past projects.
Thank you!
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