Week 10 comments

http://skdhuth.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-10-notes.html?showComment=1289878948473#c5778733820137445191

http://nrampsblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/reading-notes-for-unit-10.html?showComment=1289879205177#c7005020828007820328

http://pittlis2600.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-ten-reading-notes.html?showComment=1289879689210#c7850762156681967141

http://jonas4444.blogspot.com/2010/11/reading-notes-for-week-10.html?showComment=1289880101312#c8266438736780789737

Week 10 readings

Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work
While I enjoyed the second article more than this one, what I found interesting in this one was the list of all the digital library standards and technologies that emerged outside the federally funded research, including Oracle, Yahoo, Fedora and Ex Libris MetaLib.  Some good did come out of the federally supported projects, including Google, but it makes one wonder whether these things would have emerged on there own without government intervention and strictly supported by consumer supply and demand.

FYI:
armamentarium:  the aggregate of equipment, methods, and techniques available to one for carrying out one's duties  (I had never seen this word before.)

Dewey Meets Turing
What an interesting article.  While librarians and computer scientists were busy trying to figure out how to collect and disseminate digital information, the Web exploded, bringing an unprecedented amount of information that no one ever expected to factor into the equation.  I love the contrast between the roles of librarian and computer scientist.  This article seems to provide a respectful overview of both positions without pointing fingers at who's wrong and who's right.  And the conclusion is hopeful for both sides.

Institutional Repositories:  Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age
"At the most basic and fundamental level, an institutional repository is a recognition that the intellectual life and scholarship of our universities will increasingly be represented, documented, and shared in digital form, and that a primary responsibility of our universities is to exercise stewardship (emphasis mine) over these riches: both to make them available and to preserve them." 

Scholarship in the digital age is a tricky proposition:  those producing the content want it widely available, they want recognition (and often payment) for the work and they want the work preserved.  Making this scholarship available and preserving it at the university level just makes sense.  If this is something that a university is going to take on, they must ensure they are doing it properly and for the right reasons.

Muddiest Point--Week 9

I'm embarassed to admit the entire concept of Web design is a muddiest point for me.  I will try to review the lectures and the powerpoint presentations from the last two weeks, and hopefully I will have a better grasp.  But I have to wonder if there is a point to my understanding beyond being able to complete assignment six.  Will this information change before I need to use it again?

Assignment 5

The name of my list is Generation Millennials.
My user name is MAJ66

http://upitt01-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=118

Week Nine Comments

http://skdhuth.blogspot.com/2010/11/unit-9-notes.html?showComment=1289059334793#c3457758995440906417

http://nrampsblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/unit-9-reading-notes.html?showComment=1289059518740#c4343782389496826401

http://pittlis2600.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-nine-reading-notes.html?showComment=1289059764111#c6555875681434156762

http://dougappich-informationtechnology.blogspot.com/2010/11/notes-for-116.html?showComment=1289059926739#c8705482690927453432

Introducing XML--Week 9 readings

Wow!  These articles are getting more and more difficult.  I feel like I'm getting nowhere with some of these readings.  What made the most sense to me after looking at all the articles for this week is that XML is not a standard way of coding text, since it would be impossible to find a way that would work with all languages, but rather a way to pass documents from one computer to another, keeping the structure intact.  If I've gotten this wrong, I hope someone can clear it up for me.  I thought the W3 schools article was the easiest to understand, but there is a lot missing in my basic foundation for these articles to be truly comprehensible.

Muddiest Point--Week 8

I have no muddiest point this week. I have been unable to watch the lecture because I have been without Internet service since Tuesday.