The Muddiest Point-Week 10

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Week 10 Comments

November 11, 2010 6:31 PM 

November 11, 2010 6:37 PM

Week 10 reading notes

Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work

This article highlights the differences of providing access to digital collections and providing effective digital library services. It is very important to understand the role that federal funding had throughout the history of implementing digital library technologies and how this translates in developing and acquiring different important tools that will offer "effective and efficient access to the distributed information environment ." It is very clear how DLI programs have a key role in the field of digital libraries  and contribute to the progress of different projects.

Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative 

 Reading this article makes me think about how collaborative projects can always fall into the issue of every organization/individual/professional wanting to run his/her own agenda within the project. With this article you see that nevertheless it is possible to achieve the goal of collaboration especially after the "problems" they had to face with the emergence of the WWW.

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age

I think that Lynch continues the discussion of digital library technologies and institutional repositories but with a critical eye. He  emphasizes that institutional repositories are more than just software and hardware and presents and interesting and informative essay of the importance of institutional repositories, the challenges and future directions. With scholarly communication changing institutional repositories are becoming means of providing access to information but information professionals must acknowledge the importance of treating these systems with caution and understand how scholarly communication will continue to change and new ways to deal with this will have to be considered.

The Muddiest Point-Week 9

No muddiest point for this week.

Week 9 Comments

November 4, 2010 8:24 PM

November 4, 2010 5:35 PM

Week 9 reading notes

XML Schema Tutorial

Again, I was very impressed with the tutorial just like the HTML one but I really feel that this is too much for me! I tried to grab all the basics but one has to be a little bit more experience with these Markup Language to thoroughly understand how they work.

Extending Your Markup:
An XML Tutorial

This short article/tutorial clearly states the benefits of XML and the different characteristics that make it more meaningful and useful. 

A survey of XML standards: Part 1

This was one of the most informative readings of this week. Recommended instructions and further reference might be helpful for people that are willing to try XML. I don't see myself working full-time with Mark-up Languages but I am bookmarking this, just in case :)

Week 8 Comments

I was wondering if Jeipu could provide us with a Jing instructional video for our last assignment. I know we didn't have "questions" but I find a little bit overwhelming all the instructions of constructing a website. I believe that a video will help cover the basics. Thank you!