Sunday, September 28, 2008
Week Six Comments
1- https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8599774071021712765&postID=5870066501645722289&page=1
2- I commented on a thread about YouTube on the discussion board. https://courseweb.pitt.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_9047_1%26url%3D
2- I commented on a thread about YouTube on the discussion board. https://courseweb.pitt.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_9047_1%26url%3D
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Muddiest Point Five
What is the main difference between saving something as a BibTex or RIF format file?
Reading VI
Local Area Connection and Network Computers
These are one of those things that I know I have and have used but I do not know much about. I found the Wikipedia entries a bit lacking compared to other Wikipedia articles that we have read for this class. I found that clicking the many links on the pages was important in fully understanding what was going on.
Common types of computer networks
I thought that this video was a nice little companion to the two Wikipedia entries. It was presented in incredibly easy brief terms. Although I already knew much of the information, I would imagine that for someone very new to the subject, this video would be useful.
RFID
I am not that familiar with RFID, but from what I have read, it would make mass inventories run much smoother and be much easier to complete. This would of course only be if the range of the sensor could be toned down a bit. After having a job where the manual input of barcodes was necessary for an inventory of thousands of CD’s, I would welcome the opportunity for RFID to do it for me. I also though it was kind of interesting that this article noted how to cheat the RFID reader with a gum wrapper. This is something that I might keep in mind for later….
These are one of those things that I know I have and have used but I do not know much about. I found the Wikipedia entries a bit lacking compared to other Wikipedia articles that we have read for this class. I found that clicking the many links on the pages was important in fully understanding what was going on.
Common types of computer networks
I thought that this video was a nice little companion to the two Wikipedia entries. It was presented in incredibly easy brief terms. Although I already knew much of the information, I would imagine that for someone very new to the subject, this video would be useful.
RFID
I am not that familiar with RFID, but from what I have read, it would make mass inventories run much smoother and be much easier to complete. This would of course only be if the range of the sensor could be toned down a bit. After having a job where the manual input of barcodes was necessary for an inventory of thousands of CD’s, I would welcome the opportunity for RFID to do it for me. I also though it was kind of interesting that this article noted how to cheat the RFID reader with a gum wrapper. This is something that I might keep in mind for later….
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Muddiest Point Three
We mentioned in class the topic of data redundancy. How does one eliminate it other than manually going through the information? Does the database management system do it for you? If so how?
Reading V
Data Compression Wikipedia
The first article of data compression was very helpful in terms of giving links and explanations of the buzz words used. There were a lot of random words and concepts that I had never heard before such as "lossless versus lossy compression." It was beneficial to read this entry before reading the very long article, "Data Compression Basics" because it allowed me to have a brief understanding of the terminology used in this field. This was especially important because "Data Compression Basics" was written in a rather casual manner, making some of the concepts confusing for those who are not very familiar with the subject.
Data Compression Basics
"Data Compression Basics" was a nice companion to the Wikipedia entry. I was able to use it as reinforcement of the concepts that I had just read on data compression. I thought that it also gave pretty good descriptions of the difference between data and information, two terms which I see getting mixed up a lot. This is the kind of article that is good to read/scan over once so that in the future you will know where to find detailed information on this subject. I can see it being a valuable resource to know about although I am not sure if I will be needing to know this much information on data compression anytime soon. Note to Self: The best part of this article would the example used regarding the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I must confess that it is by far one of my favorite religions.
Imaging Pittsburgh: Creating a shared gateway to digital image collections of the Pittsburgh region"
I did not really get a lot out of this article. I realized that it mentioned the steps involved in compiling and compressing data onto one site so that several organization's photographs could be placed online, but over all I did not really see the applicability of this article compared to the previous two.
YouTube
I do not really see how using YouTube alongside the library is really that great of an idea. It does not really seem that convenient. Sure you can have a video of someone clicking all over a website in order to show how to use an online catalogue or database, but you could do something just as easily by using a PowerPoint or text and screenshots. PowerPoint is not the best thing to use on the web always, but plain text is actually sometimes easier to follow than videos. At least in text based instructions and power points you can add hyperlinks. To be quite frank, most people at the library I work at cannot even log onto their computer let alone fathom trying to understand directions on a video. YouTube does have its benefits of having some obscure old videos on it that could be beneficial for a library to know about, but I am not sure that it could practically function in all of the ways this article suggest it could better than old fashion text instructions.
The first article of data compression was very helpful in terms of giving links and explanations of the buzz words used. There were a lot of random words and concepts that I had never heard before such as "lossless versus lossy compression." It was beneficial to read this entry before reading the very long article, "Data Compression Basics" because it allowed me to have a brief understanding of the terminology used in this field. This was especially important because "Data Compression Basics" was written in a rather casual manner, making some of the concepts confusing for those who are not very familiar with the subject.
Data Compression Basics
"Data Compression Basics" was a nice companion to the Wikipedia entry. I was able to use it as reinforcement of the concepts that I had just read on data compression. I thought that it also gave pretty good descriptions of the difference between data and information, two terms which I see getting mixed up a lot. This is the kind of article that is good to read/scan over once so that in the future you will know where to find detailed information on this subject. I can see it being a valuable resource to know about although I am not sure if I will be needing to know this much information on data compression anytime soon. Note to Self: The best part of this article would the example used regarding the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I must confess that it is by far one of my favorite religions.
Imaging Pittsburgh: Creating a shared gateway to digital image collections of the Pittsburgh region"
I did not really get a lot out of this article. I realized that it mentioned the steps involved in compiling and compressing data onto one site so that several organization's photographs could be placed online, but over all I did not really see the applicability of this article compared to the previous two.
YouTube
I do not really see how using YouTube alongside the library is really that great of an idea. It does not really seem that convenient. Sure you can have a video of someone clicking all over a website in order to show how to use an online catalogue or database, but you could do something just as easily by using a PowerPoint or text and screenshots. PowerPoint is not the best thing to use on the web always, but plain text is actually sometimes easier to follow than videos. At least in text based instructions and power points you can add hyperlinks. To be quite frank, most people at the library I work at cannot even log onto their computer let alone fathom trying to understand directions on a video. YouTube does have its benefits of having some obscure old videos on it that could be beneficial for a library to know about, but I am not sure that it could practically function in all of the ways this article suggest it could better than old fashion text instructions.
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