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Friday, November 28, 2008
Muddiest Point-Dec. 2
I just read about the Total Information Awareness tracking system, according to the article funding for the project was eliminated in 2003. However did the developers ever test it on real (individual) information?
Friday, November 21, 2008
Muddiest Point for Nov. 25
In order to create a digital library for a small public library what would be the network requirements?
Reading Notes for Nov. 25
The articles for this weeks' reading were probably my faves because it discussed the current trends going on in libraries and the wider public, social software that impact how we learn and its broader effects on society.
The article on Using a Wiki by Charles Allan, basically describes how to use a wiki to manage a library instruction program. It seems that wikis are great for collaboration and for aggregating individual knowledge. It manages information and everyone (given access to the wiki) can edit the document. (Here it comes) BUT, the surrounding environment should be conducive to share information to produce an effective wiki. I say this because in some office environments, individuals are protective of their experience or knowledge.
Creating the academic library folksonomy by Xan Arch, describes social tagging and the use of social tagging in universities. Social tagging allows users to create bookmarks or tags for websites and save them on-line. When tags are created it can be a subject or key word created by the user, this is folksonomy--or taxonomy created by other people. UPenn is utilizing social tagging to bookmark quality websites and records the information in their on-line catalog to share the resource with other users.
About wikipedia & Jimmy Wales, it was interesting to learn about the neutral point of view espoused by Jimmy Wales and his league of volunteers regarding content in wikipedia. The social concept of cooperation gave me goosebumps. Also how 1/3 of the traffic and written articles are in english and the rest are in other languages. And books like Linked and The Wealth of Networks come in to mind regarding the strength of collaboration...
The article on Using a Wiki by Charles Allan, basically describes how to use a wiki to manage a library instruction program. It seems that wikis are great for collaboration and for aggregating individual knowledge. It manages information and everyone (given access to the wiki) can edit the document. (Here it comes) BUT, the surrounding environment should be conducive to share information to produce an effective wiki. I say this because in some office environments, individuals are protective of their experience or knowledge.
Creating the academic library folksonomy by Xan Arch, describes social tagging and the use of social tagging in universities. Social tagging allows users to create bookmarks or tags for websites and save them on-line. When tags are created it can be a subject or key word created by the user, this is folksonomy--or taxonomy created by other people. UPenn is utilizing social tagging to bookmark quality websites and records the information in their on-line catalog to share the resource with other users.
About wikipedia & Jimmy Wales, it was interesting to learn about the neutral point of view espoused by Jimmy Wales and his league of volunteers regarding content in wikipedia. The social concept of cooperation gave me goosebumps. Also how 1/3 of the traffic and written articles are in english and the rest are in other languages. And books like Linked and The Wealth of Networks come in to mind regarding the strength of collaboration...
Friday, November 14, 2008
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