Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries
This article discussed the history of blogs and some of the uses of weblogs in academic and library settings. The articles starts off by explaining the popularity of blogs and how easy it is for any one to set up their own personal blog for individual or collaborative use. New websites and software, such as the one I'm using for this one, allow users to create blogs and provide them with the design templates and webspace to do so. The article also discusses several examples where blogs can be used to assist teams or collaboration. There are several instances where I think blogs serve as a good collaborative and communication tool. It works well for coursework similar to what we are doing in this class, as we post our summaries online and have the ability to comment on a classmate's blog as well. Additionally, the example in the article, of a reference blog, is also a good use of weblogs. I've never used a blog as a "project management tool" when working with other students in a group. I'm actually not sure how effective this would be (I think there may be other software that would work better) but I do think a library using a blog to disseminate information is a good idea and great way to connect to patrons.
Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons
As the title states, this article explored the growth and usages of wikis. I really like wikis and have used them in different groups and jobs. Wikis make it easy to provide group members with information while also allowing others to comment and add their own information. Similar to the growth in popularity of blogs, wiki pages are becoming widely used because of available software and ease of use. Libraries can also use wikis for instruction, similar to the example of the Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University, and for employees to share information amongst one another as well.
Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News
Tagging is the processes of attaching "tags" to websites as a way to organize and provide them with keyword characteristics. Even though I have utilized tagging before, I previously didn't really know how the whole process works. The article suggests that libraries use tagging to provide information to patrons, such as relevant websites on the Internet or databases. I've noticed how libraries have started to use tagging, like the Carnegie Library in it's catalog system. Still, libraries that establish a tagging system must watch out for malicious or spam tagging that could mess up the whole collaborative process that they are trying to create.
How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
This was a video of Jimmy Wales discussing the structure of Wikipedia and its influence/significance today. This was a pretty interesting lecture, although quite short. Wales explains how Wikipedia was driven by the idea of free access to information and uses the wiki software which allows anyone to contribute to the content. Even Wales calls the volunteer contribution model somewhat chaotic but I think that's a great part of Wikipedia. There are no set roles for the contributors and each individual can interact to their own desire and ability. I also thought it was interesting when he discussed the need to briefly lock articles regarding Bush and Kerry and instances of 'vandalism' on the site. However, this seems to be something that the administrators have their own process to deal with it.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Comments for this Week
http://jbullough.blogspot.com/2009/11/week-10-digital-libraries.html?showComment=1258327211368#c8020489451015388168
http://kourteneywantshermlis.blogspot.com/2009/10/bbc-news-net-set-for-language-shake-up.html?showComment=1258329408638#c6082793794657618266
http://kourteneywantshermlis.blogspot.com/2009/10/bbc-news-net-set-for-language-shake-up.html?showComment=1258329408638#c6082793794657618266
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Reading Post for Unit 11
Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work
-There has been a movement by information professionals to develop these digital libraries comprised of the existing digital collections.
-federally funded and supported digital projects were present from early on.
-Some of the first federal funded projects were called the Digital Libraries Initiative or DLI-1
-DLI-1 was comprised of six university led projects
Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative.
-National Science Foundation's digital library is targeted toward librarians, computer scientists, and publishers but the ultimate project appealed to many other groups
-Many computer scientists, who had been trained for years to use libraries, they were able to help generate how libraries can operate in the digital environment
-librarians saw an great opportunity to get sufficient funding and that digital technology was important in order to advance libraries influence on scholarly works
-The popularity of the World Wide Web changed the direction of the projects
-There was some disagreement between the role of user and reference services in regards to the collection
-both computer scientists and librarians were affected by the world wide web and had to change their view and purpose of the project
Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age
-Technology has made online repositories possible
-This information revolution has impacted scholarly communication and access
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed Dspace repository system
-Other universities are attempting to recreate this model repository system at their own institution
-most important aspects are the "management of technological changes, and the migration of digital content from one set of technologies to the next as part of the organizational commitment to providing repository services"
-the increase of these repositories shows that academic and university scholarly communication is switching to digital format
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-There has been a movement by information professionals to develop these digital libraries comprised of the existing digital collections.
-federally funded and supported digital projects were present from early on.
-Some of the first federal funded projects were called the Digital Libraries Initiative or DLI-1
-DLI-1 was comprised of six university led projects
Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative.
-National Science Foundation's digital library is targeted toward librarians, computer scientists, and publishers but the ultimate project appealed to many other groups
-Many computer scientists, who had been trained for years to use libraries, they were able to help generate how libraries can operate in the digital environment
-librarians saw an great opportunity to get sufficient funding and that digital technology was important in order to advance libraries influence on scholarly works
-The popularity of the World Wide Web changed the direction of the projects
-There was some disagreement between the role of user and reference services in regards to the collection
-both computer scientists and librarians were affected by the world wide web and had to change their view and purpose of the project
Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age
-Technology has made online repositories possible
-This information revolution has impacted scholarly communication and access
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed Dspace repository system
-Other universities are attempting to recreate this model repository system at their own institution
-most important aspects are the "management of technological changes, and the migration of digital content from one set of technologies to the next as part of the organizational commitment to providing repository services"
-the increase of these repositories shows that academic and university scholarly communication is switching to digital format
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Muddiest Point for this week
I really enjoyed the presentation on digital libraries. I have no muddiest point for this week.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Reading Notes for this week
Web Search Engines: Part 1 and Part 2
I was unable to find these articles on the websites. They didn't come up after hitting the link and I couldn't find them after searching on the journal website by article and author name.
Current developments and future trends for the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting
- OAI = Open Archives Initiative
- the original purpose of the protocol was to facilitate access to "diverse e-print archives"
- serves as a way to distribute content
- requires metadata in certain forms which can allow a search of the "invisible web"
- OAI wasn't originally meant for libraries but has proven to be beneficial to libraries and archives.
- There are several initiatives by libraries (and sometimes collaborations among libraries)
- There are some problems with the OAI registry of data providers, including completeness and search/browse capabilities
- ERRoLs = Extensible Repository Resource Locators
The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value
- regular search engines cannot retrieve websites that are located in a space considered the deep web
- In the deep web, results are only achieved through a specific search
- search engines usually retrieve web pages two ways: authors submit or search documents from one "hypertext link to another"
- the study presented in the article was to try to discover the size of the deep Web and the relevance of its content
- site are assigned to one of twelve arbitrary categories
- deep websites receive half as much traffic as surface websites
I was unable to find these articles on the websites. They didn't come up after hitting the link and I couldn't find them after searching on the journal website by article and author name.
Current developments and future trends for the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting
- OAI = Open Archives Initiative
- the original purpose of the protocol was to facilitate access to "diverse e-print archives"
- serves as a way to distribute content
- requires metadata in certain forms which can allow a search of the "invisible web"
- OAI wasn't originally meant for libraries but has proven to be beneficial to libraries and archives.
- There are several initiatives by libraries (and sometimes collaborations among libraries)
- There are some problems with the OAI registry of data providers, including completeness and search/browse capabilities
- ERRoLs = Extensible Repository Resource Locators
The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value
- regular search engines cannot retrieve websites that are located in a space considered the deep web
- In the deep web, results are only achieved through a specific search
- search engines usually retrieve web pages two ways: authors submit or search documents from one "hypertext link to another"
- the study presented in the article was to try to discover the size of the deep Web and the relevance of its content
- site are assigned to one of twelve arbitrary categories
- deep websites receive half as much traffic as surface websites
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Blog Comments for this Week
http://sregan-lis2600.blogspot.com/2009/10/unit-9-xml.html?showComment=1257056954145#c5940544304841531298
http://letishagoerner2600.blogspot.com/2009/10/readings-110309.html?showComment=1257058918641#c6446870069855057535
http://letishagoerner2600.blogspot.com/2009/10/readings-110309.html?showComment=1257058918641#c6446870069855057535
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