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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
Reading Notes for Week 11: Nov. 18
Digital Libraries by W. Mischo
As the title suggests the Digital Libraries article by W. Mischo listed the challenges and influential work in the field of digital libraries. It mentioned the history of federal funded support for the digital libraries initiative that began as early as 1993. It was surprising to learn that the total amount of funding was 68 million dollars, but big time government agencies like NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the FBI were involved in funding the project. The influential work of the University of Illinois was mentioned as it provided the ability of viewing journal articles in a marked-up format within an internet environment, this led to web-based access to full-text journal searches.
The author hints at the competition with Google and their capabilities for “search and discovery” and academic library federated searching. To catch up, the NISO Meta Search Initiative was formed to develop industry standards for one-search access to multiple resources that will allow libraries to offer users the same search experience if they were using a web-search engine.
Dewey Meets Turing by A. Paepcke, H. Garcia-Molina, and R. Wesley
An interesting article that discusses the complex relationship between librarians and computer science. The interest in digital libraries was the harbinger to new technologies, improved search capabilities and peaked the interest of publishers. With the internet explosion and digital library initiatives, publishers saw the opportunity to raise their journal subscriptions. While the article does not explicity state that the relationship between computer science and library scientists have soured, you get the sense that its not a happy union.
As the title suggests the Digital Libraries article by W. Mischo listed the challenges and influential work in the field of digital libraries. It mentioned the history of federal funded support for the digital libraries initiative that began as early as 1993. It was surprising to learn that the total amount of funding was 68 million dollars, but big time government agencies like NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the FBI were involved in funding the project. The influential work of the University of Illinois was mentioned as it provided the ability of viewing journal articles in a marked-up format within an internet environment, this led to web-based access to full-text journal searches.
The author hints at the competition with Google and their capabilities for “search and discovery” and academic library federated searching. To catch up, the NISO Meta Search Initiative was formed to develop industry standards for one-search access to multiple resources that will allow libraries to offer users the same search experience if they were using a web-search engine.
Dewey Meets Turing by A. Paepcke, H. Garcia-Molina, and R. Wesley
An interesting article that discusses the complex relationship between librarians and computer science. The interest in digital libraries was the harbinger to new technologies, improved search capabilities and peaked the interest of publishers. With the internet explosion and digital library initiatives, publishers saw the opportunity to raise their journal subscriptions. While the article does not explicity state that the relationship between computer science and library scientists have soured, you get the sense that its not a happy union.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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