Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Assignment 6: Web Page
Yay! My web page works now. I had to go back to FileZilla and sort it out, and some things are still a little off, but it works! Sorry it was late, but I had technical difficulties. Here's the link:
http://www.pitt.edu/~rkn7/
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Unit 10: Comments
I posted on Joshua's blog at:
http://jbullough.blogspot.com/2009/11/week-10-digital-libraries.html#comments
and on Christa's blog at:
http://christaruthcoleman2600.blogspot.com/2009/11/readings-for-week-13.html#comments
Friday, November 13, 2009
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.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Unit 9: Comments
I commented on Sarah's blog at:
http://2600infototechnology.blogspot.com/2009/11/9th-readings.html#comments
and on Erin's at:
http://erinlis2600.blogspot.com/2009/11/week-9-notes.html#comments
Friday, October 30, 2009
Assignment 5: Collection Building in Koha
Here is the URL for my list in Koha. It is called "Redwall Books" as I searched for books in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
URL:
http://upitt04-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=33
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