Unit 10: Reading Notes

Web Search Engines Part 1 and Part II: I could not access these articles no matter how hard I tried. PittCat was not helpful, and though I found the full text for 2006, and could find the title in the index, the articles were not in the full text I accessed. I think that maybe the journal title is different than what is posted since IEEE Computer seems to be a publisher, not a journal. Who knows. If anyone found the articles feel free to comment! ;D Current Developments and future trends for OAI protocol for metadata harvesting. This didn't make much sense at first as this was my introduction to OAI. However, once I understood the basic context it went better. I actually checked out the Sheet Music Consortium. The paper had a true description in that this particular repository had a terrible search and browse feature. Also when you got to the content, different sources had different user interfaces for navigating between sheet music pages. This was annoying and confusing. I did access "Oh, Susanna" from the 1800's, and it crushed my childhood memories of singing a silly lighthearted song. I'll just say there's a reason why we don't sing the original verses. "Old Dan Tucker" was similar though not as bad. Sigh... Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value I really liked the comparison of the internet searches being like dragging a net across the surface of the ocean. Visual metaphors usually work well for me, and so the ongoing deep sea concept helped me visualize the internet better. Pictures are great! It was also nice to see which specific sites are the largest deep web sites. Interesting article, though a bit dry at times.