Week 9 - muddiest point (xml)

I have no muddiest point for this week.

Week 11 - comments (digital libraries)

http://issuesininfotech2600.blogspot.com/2009/11/week-10-readings.html

http://brandonlocke.blogspot.com/2009/11/readings-ten.html

Week 11 notes - digital libraries

Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work

This gives a lot of history about the development of digital libraries, which is pretty interesting. I think this quote does the best job of showing just how long digital library programs have been going on, something which surprised me: "When DLI-1 began, the World Wide Web was in a very nascent stage. At that time, the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Mosaic 2.0 beta was the Web browser of choice, the HTML 2.0 standard was still under development, Netscape had yet to release its first Web browser and Microsoft Windows 3.1 was the standard personal computer operating system."


Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative

This article also had a lot of background, but from a different perspective than we usually read. Rather than strictly informational, it talked about how this project brought together Librarians and Computer Scientists. I enjoyed this article, and seeing a more human perspective to the things we've been learning about.


Association of Research Libraries :: Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age

This article talks about the benefits of institutional repositories, but also a few of the problems that can arise if we're not careful. This is pretty straight-forward, so I don't have much to say about it really.

Week 11 - muddiest point (digital libraries)

I had no muddiest point this week.

Week 9 - Comments

http://jonwebsterslis2600blog.blogspot.com/2009/11/week-8-readings.html

http://cac160.blogspot.com/2009/11/unit-9-readings.html

Assignment 5 - Koha

Here's the link for my list:

http://upitt04-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=54

Week 9 - Notes

An Introduction to XML
I really didn't get anything out of this. After reading it, I'm still not really sure what the point of XML is.

A survey of XML standards: Part 1
This seemed to be a basic listing of various ways to use XML, and programs or tutorials that would help someone use that function.

Extending Your Markup: An XML Tutorial
Now I finally see what XML is! At least I think so. Instead of influencing the layout on a web page, as HTML does, it marks the text itself (for instance, in figure 1b, showing exactly what the various details of a book are). I'm still not 100% clear on all the details, but for the most part, this article does a really good job of explaining everything.

XML Schema Tutorial
This is basically a tutorial for how to use an XML Schema rather than DTD. As far as I can tell, XSD is preferable to DTD because it uses the XML language, so it can be easily learned, and can be made with the same tools that one already uses for XML.