Unit 10

Digital Libraries

I wonder why the Library of Congress was not involved in the first Digital Libraries Initiative. Were/are librarians overlooked when it comes to information technology?

Dewey meets Turing

This article answers my previous question about librarians’ role in the development of information technology. It paints a static picture of the profession slow to adapt to new developments.

Institutional Repositories
The author raises good points on digital repositories about how they should be managed and what their impact can be on scholarship. I will be interested to see what kind of partnerships are formed between universities and other institutions to document the community they share. The one topic I wish he could have explained more was how access to online archives collections would be administered.

Unit 9 Muddiest Point

Can you tell just by looking at a web site whether the underlying tags are HTML or XML?

Unit 9 Comments

http://edenorelove.blogspot.com/2010/11/reading-responses-unit-9.html?showComment=1289087281448#c7286523145811418880

http://feliciaboretzkylis2600.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-9-notes.html?showComment=1289087590234#c3599306465337261468

Unit 9

Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML)

The article was written simply, but I still didn't understand what XML was after reading it.

A survey of XML standards: Part 1

Covers XML namespace, base, inclusions, information set, canonical form, path language, pointer framework, and different languages. These mini introductions were not enough to help me understand what they are, though I admit I didn't bother clicking on the suggested resources.

Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial

Better explanation than the first two readings. Compares and contrasts XML with HTML.

XML Schema Tutorial

While going through the above readings, I kept thinking everything will make sense once I get to the W3 School tutorial--I was wrong. It teaches you how to write specific elements but does not show what the result looks like. I wish they would've added a similar editor feature like the one in the HTML and CSS tutorials to let us experiment with XML.

Unit 8 Muddiest Point

I have no muddiest point this week.

Assignment 5

My username is ELH52 and my bookshelf is called "Sedaris."

http://upitt01-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=58

Week 8 Comments

http://lis2600fall2010priyashenoy.blogspot.com/2010/10/reading-notes-for-11110.html?showComment=1288374751306#c3740732278784747845

http://christyfic.blogspot.com/2010/10/reading-notes-week-8-nov-1-2010.html?showComment=1288375828819#c2651896244804639597