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Muddiest Point Nine

After we have completed all 10 of our blog posts, muddiest points, comments (which, if we have done one every week, all we need are 2 more comments and a muddiest point next week,) and the website assignment, is there anything else that we have to post, or do? Or are we, other than attending class, basically done? Is there anyway that our TA's can grade the week 10 work a bit quicker than normal so that we can be sure that there is no other work/posts that we need to do?

Reading X

The article that William H. Mischo wrote gave a nice overview of the hurdles that need to be jumped in order to have a successful digital library. I really liked the idea that there is a "difference between providing access to discrete sets of digital collections and providing digital library services." I do believe that there is a lot of confusion between the two, and because of that, potentially in some cases, patrons are not getting all of the services they need. I noticed that the author cited Michael Lesk. I do not consider him the most credible source. In the book that we read in 2000, I believe that he suggested that the Internet only takes up 10G's of data.
The article Dewey Meets Turing talked a bit about the relationship between librarians and information technology. It has been made very clear in our classes that this relationship is an incredibly vital one. I particularly liked the section Mutual (Mis?)Conceptions. I thought there were some really interesting ideas presented in this section.
The article by Clifford A. Lynch discussed institutional repositories and some of the challenges that they face. I thought one of the more valuable aspects of this article was the section regarding the cautions for institutional repositories. Institutional repositories can really provide a lot of scholarly communication if set up properly. Lynch lists several reasons why repositories can fail (such as incorrect policy, management failure or incompetence, or technical problems.) These maybe aspects of our future jobs that we will have to become well versed in, in order to be successful.

Comments for week 9

1- https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5586031599791302355&postID=5941816636844715535&page=1

2- https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057727177405306622&postID=5389078526747347216&page=1

3- https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8599774071021712765&postID=1402288256790470716&page=1

Muddiest Point Eight

How do you make glitter text?

Readings IX

The Martin Bryan article “Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML)”gave a basic overview of what XML is, and why it is an important thing to know about. It was convenient that this article stated the significance right of the bat, instead of waiting until the very end like some of the other articles that we have read, so that overall, the technical terminology was easier to compute.
Uche Ogbuji’s articles offered a much more technical description of XML. It allowed for those who were not that familiar with the subject to become familiar, as well as for those who were more advanced, to learn more. Some of the links on that page were completely over my head, but from what I understood, between buzz words, this series of links complimented Bryan well.
I am, in general, a big fan of tutorials. I liked the two tutorials because they allowed for an application of the information from the previous two links. They are a good way of seeing if you actually absorbed any of the material from the articles.
Once again, these are handy resources to know about. I doubt, other than in this class, that I am going to be using/talking about any hardcore XML anytime soon, but if I did, I would at least now have something to say about it.

Koha Assignment

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I did banned books btw.