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Reading Notes for 11/29/10

"Weblogs"

This article provided an explanation and history of blogs, while also offering advice on how to implement them into science and technology libraries.

"Using a Wiki"

This article advocates wiki use in library instruction.

"Creating the Academic Library Folksonomy"

This article describes the benefits of social tagging in conjunction with the library website.

"How a ragtag band created Wikipedia"

This video was about the creation of Wikipedia.

Muddiest Point for 11/22/10

I had no muddiest point for this lecture.

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Reading Notes for 11/22/10

Web Search Engines: Part 1 & 2

This article focuses on how web search engines work.

OAI Protocol

This article is an overview of the OAI community.

Deep Web

This article describes the Deep Web and methods for searching it.

Muddiest Point for 11/15/10

So an institutional repository just a digital library specific to an institution?

Muddiest Point for 11/8/10

Everything.

Assignment 5

My virtual bookshelf title is Dust Bowl. My user name is mlr61. Just click the title to go to the list.

Reading Notes for 11/8/10

Introducing the Extensible Markup Language:

This reading explained the BURKS project. I'm not sure how it was relevant to XML.

A Survey of XML Standards:

As the title describes, this article focuses on XML standards. There are also several links to various tutorials in order to help the reader.

Extending Your Markup:

This article gives a pretty good explanation of XML. It also provides examples for the reader.

XML Schema Tutorial:

This was a great tutorial that explained XML in an understandable manner. Though there seem to be too many advertisements on the website (as on the previous assigned tutorials from this site).