Sunday, November 29, 2009

Comments for 12/1/09 Lecture

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Muddiest Point from 11/24/09 Lecture

If the search engines only collect a very small amount of what is on the net, does the other stuff matter?

Monday, November 23, 2009

Assignment 6

http://www.pitt.edu/~jww7/

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Readings for Week 11

I could not get the Hawking articles to work, they just wanted money. Could this be a Mac issue?

Current developments and future trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
This article provides a case study for an open access initiative. I like how they broke everything down and provided a list of best practices. Also attention was given to the fact that this project was ongoing and provided a guide to future additions.

The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value

A lot of the points in the article were also referenced in the LIS 2000 book Linked. I find it interesting that so much information exists that normal search engines don't pick up. If you don't have the right connections, than you don't get the hits. To be able to better access information, search engines are going to have to offer a way into the deeper web.

Week 11 Comments

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Muddies Point 11/17/09 Lecture

When using XML and defining your own markup tags, how do you avoid confusion when other people attempt to add on to your work?

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Muddies Point: 11/10/09 Lecture

I have no muddiest point this week

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Assignment 5

http://upitt04-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=65

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Week 9 Comments

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http://cac160.blogspot.com/2009/11/unit-9-readings.html?showComment=1257741005487#c6829735106429391309

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http://laine05.blogspot.com/2009/11/reading-notes-for-1110-class.html?showComment=1257741137553#c283361052730074372

Week 9 Readings

An Introduction to the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
This provides an overview of XML. I have to admit much of what is being said goes over my head by a considerable margin, but I get a sense of what the language can do. There are markups, of which three are commonly used in XML. Also you can string them together. I think the article title was a bit misleading, because you need to have some sense of computer language before you could tackle this article fairly.

A survey of XML standards
I like how the author breaks down the components of XML and offers multiple sources of information, to allow you to find more information if desired. Again with the heavy computerspeak, I had a hard time following it. It would be nice if there was a section on XML for dummies, with try me sections to allow us to get our hands dirty. All they theory without practical basis is not helping me at all.

Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial
This goes a little slower for those of us who have a big case of the huhs? I am again grateful for the set of examples, they help to provide a visual reinforcement of what the text is talking about. Though I will admit I went to Wikipedia so I could understand the concepts better. XML seems to be designed to better serve web needs.

ML Schema Tutorial

This is much better than the last ones. Bullet points to keep me on topic with this. Also It was broken down into easily digestible chunks. This article had the advantage of not trying to sound too smart and just trying to explain the concept with easy to understand writing and good visual images.