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Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Week 11 Readings and Muddiest Point
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
I have often found myself extremely frustrated at the prospect of retrieving esoteric information because of how widely distributed I have found scholarly information to be. I do, despite my frustration, also share the belief that "seamless federation across distributed heterogeneous resources remains the holy grail of digital library work". In other words, this article has revealed to me the extent to which I am able to overlook the drawbacks of concepts such as open access and widely available information for everyone because of how much I enjoy the benefits. I also have new-found respect and the desire to adulate the NSF.
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
I wonder how Melville Dewey would have actually reacted upon encountering a Turing Machine. This article traces an interesting history of the WWW as well as google and other search engines. It does, however, surprise me that library dependency on all things IT is not a more widely understood dependency. The librarians I have known in the past (and read about, my current employment is a huge exception to the following statement) have been at odds with technology people. As a future librarian, I understand that it is my task to utilize the benefits of IT in order to advance my own field.
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
I like to think that I currently attend an institutional repository because suich is definitely the place I would like to be. I think that the ideas expressed in this article show how academic institutions have not been utilized to their full potential. It seems as though they are performing tasks that may have been very well suited for libraries. It is the obli9gation of such universitities as the ones mentioned in the article to advance scholarly communication in any way technologically possible.
Muddiest Point
What is still difficult for me to understand regarding the latest "hand on point" is, firstly, how am I to record the outcome of my search for futurte discussion? Secondly (and MKUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY) I am interested to know how I can see the process of adding more terms lessens the number of retrieved documents in a search. I would actually like to see the number of documents decrease as I enter terms. Of course, I am just curious. Is there any way (technologically) that I can see this in action?
I have often found myself extremely frustrated at the prospect of retrieving esoteric information because of how widely distributed I have found scholarly information to be. I do, despite my frustration, also share the belief that "seamless federation across distributed heterogeneous resources remains the holy grail of digital library work". In other words, this article has revealed to me the extent to which I am able to overlook the drawbacks of concepts such as open access and widely available information for everyone because of how much I enjoy the benefits. I also have new-found respect and the desire to adulate the NSF.
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
I wonder how Melville Dewey would have actually reacted upon encountering a Turing Machine. This article traces an interesting history of the WWW as well as google and other search engines. It does, however, surprise me that library dependency on all things IT is not a more widely understood dependency. The librarians I have known in the past (and read about, my current employment is a huge exception to the following statement) have been at odds with technology people. As a future librarian, I understand that it is my task to utilize the benefits of IT in order to advance my own field.
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
I like to think that I currently attend an institutional repository because suich is definitely the place I would like to be. I think that the ideas expressed in this article show how academic institutions have not been utilized to their full potential. It seems as though they are performing tasks that may have been very well suited for libraries. It is the obli9gation of such universitities as the ones mentioned in the article to advance scholarly communication in any way technologically possible.
Muddiest Point
What is still difficult for me to understand regarding the latest "hand on point" is, firstly, how am I to record the outcome of my search for futurte discussion? Secondly (and MKUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY) I am interested to know how I can see the process of adding more terms lessens the number of retrieved documents in a search. I would actually like to see the number of documents decrease as I enter terms. Of course, I am just curious. Is there any way (technologically) that I can see this in action?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Week 10 Readings
Web search engines: This p[roved to be an enlightening article. It basically describes the process behind entering a url and the behind-the scenes of summoning up documents based on your search terms. For the most part, I did not realize that much work was dopne on the other end of a search. I( merely thought that the search results were purely generated by the terms I entered and not bu ID numbers. This article has proven to me that the ease of using a search engine actually involves a much greater process at hand. There are methods for imporvement in constant development.
OAI archives: This article proves to me that my taks as a librarian will never be complete and, accordingly, I will always have work to do (good thing). I've hear the argument that search engines have eliminated the need for librarians, but the amount of push for complete archiving of intertnet data has shown me that there will never be a point where thigns become complteely manageable for the common user.
Deep Web: The existence of the deep web has been a subject of great interest to mke. When you enter a term into google, you are bound to come up with resaults that several peiople have come up with before. In other words, retreigving a rare and desired piece of information seems more and more like an art. The amount of content and "bots" in the deep web shoiws how such information is much harder and potentiaslly more dangerous to retreive.
OAI archives: This article proves to me that my taks as a librarian will never be complete and, accordingly, I will always have work to do (good thing). I've hear the argument that search engines have eliminated the need for librarians, but the amount of push for complete archiving of intertnet data has shown me that there will never be a point where thigns become complteely manageable for the common user.
Deep Web: The existence of the deep web has been a subject of great interest to mke. When you enter a term into google, you are bound to come up with resaults that several peiople have come up with before. In other words, retreigving a rare and desired piece of information seems more and more like an art. The amount of content and "bots" in the deep web shoiws how such information is much harder and potentiaslly more dangerous to retreive.
Week 10 Muddiest Point
HTML and XML
Although we have covered this material extensively, I still have trouble understanding the level at which XML oversees HTML. In other words, when i am creating my own website and using code, how do I know when it is time to employ html (in the visual sense). I know thatr it serves the purpose of managing html, but I do not see why a person would need it unless they are managing a very large website will lots of html content. In other words (for our last assignment), do you think ti would be worthwhile to learn xml just to manage a small personal webpage?
Although we have covered this material extensively, I still have trouble understanding the level at which XML oversees HTML. In other words, when i am creating my own website and using code, how do I know when it is time to employ html (in the visual sense). I know thatr it serves the purpose of managing html, but I do not see why a person would need it unless they are managing a very large website will lots of html content. In other words (for our last assignment), do you think ti would be worthwhile to learn xml just to manage a small personal webpage?
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