Week 9 (: Blogs where I have posted

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Week 9 readings & muddy point

XML: Martin Bryan Ok. XML is a formal language which can be used to 'pass information about component parts of a document to another computer system.'  It is object-oriented, hierarchical, and  is a clearly defined format.   Luckily, the other readings for this week cleared this all up for me. XML Standards: Uchi Ogbuji I sense that XML is a deeper language than HTML.  I looked at the ZVON XML tutorial (http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XMLTutorial/General/book.html posted on this page, and began to see what XML is about.  I think I can do it. Tutorial: Andre Bergholz: I was unable to locate this at the URL provided,  and in the magazine  it was published.  Through the U Pitt Libraries, I found the IEEE Internet  Computing Journal for  July 2000, but the pages 74-79 ( this article) were missing.  As proof, I've included the two sandwiching articles.  The ZVON Tutorial helped a lot however so I feel ok about missing this one. From July 2000 IEEE Internet Computing: U Pitt E journals: Building an IP network quality-of-service testbed McWherter, D.T.; Sevy, J.; Regli, W.C. Page(s): 65-73 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/4236.865089 Abstract  | Full Text: PDF (124 KB)  Rights and Permissions Dreams of a unified information space W3C activities at WWW9 Woods, S. Page(s): 81-83 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIC.2000.865090 Abstract  | Full Text: PDF (84 KB)  Rights and Permissions ________________________________________________ XML Schema Tutorial: Deeper than XML, better than DTD, it enhances both using coding  language already in existence, and boasts standardized formations  to avoid confusion in dates or quantities.  Largely way over my head. Muddiest Point: Not so much for class, but as in how these readings could apply to me.  Could I actually use these in a web page?  It's worth a try!

Koha Library

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week 8 readings/personal muddiest point

W3 schools HTML Tutorial: ah! The mystery is not so confusing anymore.  Embarrassing point: I have a Mac but could not find SimpleText on it so I could not go from rich to simple text and do the actual tutorial.  Finally, the world opens up and I don't have the right program?  

Anyway, I especially like how to view a webpage's html source.

WebMonkey cheatsheet: no longer able to open through website in syllabus, but one enterprising soul in our class found it and posted the url in our discussion boards.  I like this page and bookmarked it for further experiments in html, like when I make my myspace page all fancy.

CSS Tutorial: but this is were the really fancy stuff comes into play.  Good to know and this has also been bookmarked.

Article: Beyond html: An article taking us through the process of a university library trying to make sense out of its web pages.  From total independence and incoherence they attempt to get a library game plan going.  I takes 3 years for the web development librarian to get the library in shape enough to begin paying attention to its departmental web pages.  They were flexible with many variables in this living process: from what service to use ( they went with the free one and not the expensive shiny one) to how they allowed librarians to make their pages: some used html, some spent a lot of time, some were assisted in cutting and pasting.  Some mistakes were made and changes followed as the authors respond to the reality of library web pages.  All in all, a great process piece.

Musddiest Point: Why do not I have SimpleText? Is there another Mac equivalent to notepad?

week 7 comments

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http://kirstenbell.blogspot.com/2008/10/week-7-readings-and-muddiest-point.html

jing project

The video can be found here:

http://www.screencast.com/users/maggiehyoung/folders/Jing/media/8d593215-b53e-4bfb-b790-15bfe2db23f3

Here are my images.  The full set can be found on the right hand side of the screen.  It's called 'jing.':

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiehelenyoung/

week 7 readings and muddiest point

"Inside the Google Machine" Sergey Brin and Larry Page, 2/04, Monterey CA

I enjoyed this fun presentation immensely.  Their picture of the globe and the google searches was very interesting: with the heavy European daytime traffic and the full breadth of traffic in the US compared with Africa being totally dark.

Google seems like a very human centered place to work, which they think is the secret to their web success.  

I was not fully aware before of how much money was to be made in advertising: that is how google makes their money, and how individual web pages thrive as well.

I love the 20% idea, having bright people work on what they are interested in.  And, obviously, some cool stuff has come out of that and has benefitted google.

I also liked seeing the globe with the data travelling.  I never before pictured data, in some sense, physically moving from point to point.

Dismantling Integrated Library Systems, Andrew Pace

So, I glean here that ILS systems are not working well for libraries across the board, and libraries are continuing to pay for these services even if they are unhappy with them, which then leads to lack of ILS innovation?  No longer is the answer to simply find a new service, now the services must be tweaked and made more effective.  This is a slow process, and some librarians have realized success only when they went in and fixed it themselves.  The author thinks that the present system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt to work interchangeably in libraries, rather than have small ineffective systems competing with each other.  Of course, I could be completely off in my understanding of this article.

How Internet Infrastructure Works, Jeff Tyson

I agree that the great thing about the Internet is that nobody owns it. 

Okay, so it is a network of networks, which we were able to view in the google video.  And routers make sure information gets to where it needs to go, and does not go where it is not needed. 

I appreciate the explanation particulary of the DNS system. It indeed is a great design.

Muddiest Point:  What where ILS systems before the early 1990s?