Week 12 Reading Notes

Week 12 provided some very interesting readings.  I found it very intereseting to learn about new search engines, future trends or metadata harvesting and "The Deep Web". As a person who has only had knowledge of the World Wide Web and search engines such as Google, I can say that I surprised to learn about these deeper, more intensive processes to search and find information.  I don't know if I do not do many searches or maybe do not look for information that is difficult to find, but I can say that the World Wide Web has served me quite well thus far. 
After reading ther materials for this week, completing lab 12, and looking at the title for Assignment 6,
I think it is safe to assume that we are now better searchers with the ability to evaluate a web search system.

Week 11 Lab

Week 11 Reading Notes

Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work

This article focuses on the current "digital libraries".  Lynch addresses the concerns about the differences between providing assess to discrete sets of digital collections and providing digital library services.

Dewey Meets Turing: libraries, computers scientists and digital libraries initiative

I think it is interesting to look at how computer scientists have broadened opportunities for library science. It is unfortunate that the DLI money did not go into collection building as some librarians had thought it would. I think as computer scientists and librarians merge, more communication and considerations needs to take place to ensure libraries can provide scholarly support.

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age

Very interesting  way to explain networked information revolution. Institutional repositories have made a huge impact.

Week 10 Reading Notes

Intro to XML
 This was a very interesting article.  I found the beginning to the article to be easy to understand because it talked about HTML and I feel more comfortable with HTML at this point. As far as XML, The Extensible Markup Language, is concerned, I do feel the article convinced me that XML is easier and makes better sense than HTML. However, do I feel comfortable and confident that I can do it? No! Not yet!
I like how they use tag and element and attribute.  Now that I am becoming  more familiar with HTML, I wish we were learning it a bit longer instead of moving to something new. I really like HTML. I do not consider myself an expert by any means but I do feel like I understand how to use it now.

XML Schema tutorial

W3C, World Wide Web Consortium, is a term I have heard but now I have an understanding. I found it interesting that it was created in 1994 and that it is working to make the web accessible to all people.

A Survey of  XML Standards: Part 1

Very confusing article for me. the DTD and the SGML seem very complex. I can remember feeling this confused when I first read about HTML and CSS. Now I can actually write HTML and CSS pages and insert videos and google maps. 

Week 9 Lab

http://www.pitt.edu/~lmk75/Lab9.html

Week 9 Reading Notes

HTML5 is a language that structures and presents content for WWW. I like the fact that HTMLS5 will potentially run on smart phones and tablets. i think the new features such as <video>, <audio>, and <canvas> elements will be a great improvement. The potential that HTML5 offers will improve the markup language and allow for a more universal understanding and compatibility.

For every aspect of HTML5 video there is a different function. It is interesting how the control attribute adds audio controls such as volume, play, and pause. I also found "Drag and Drop" and Creating a Canvas" to be very interesting features.  I wish I was taking this course in person so I could see and learn face to face.  I would love to become proficient in HTML.

Week 8 Lab

http://www.pitt.edu/~lmk75/index.html