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.

1 comment:

  1. I couldn't get the Hawking article to work either... I also thought the "Deep Web" article was like a condensed version of Linked.

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