Monday, November 29, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Reading Notes for Week of 11/22/10 M. Farina
Web Search Engines: Parts 1 and 2
I find it so interesting how search engines can scan websites for specific words and phrases to find query results. What's more amazing to me is how quickly they can do so, while filtering out unwanted material all the while considering spam tactics. It's important to consider the search side together with the indexing side of web content. The need for a concise, logical indexing system becomes even more apparent. This is an incredible complex task, taking into consideration acronyms, misspellings, multiple languages, etc.
Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
The Open Archives Initiative has grown from the need for interoperability and efficient content sharing. The article's mention of the Deep Web helped me to understand that not all relevant information may be found by search engines. We can all benefit from learning how to initiate better search queries, in order to retrieve some of this "buried" information.
I find it so interesting how search engines can scan websites for specific words and phrases to find query results. What's more amazing to me is how quickly they can do so, while filtering out unwanted material all the while considering spam tactics. It's important to consider the search side together with the indexing side of web content. The need for a concise, logical indexing system becomes even more apparent. This is an incredible complex task, taking into consideration acronyms, misspellings, multiple languages, etc.
Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
The Open Archives Initiative has grown from the need for interoperability and efficient content sharing. The article's mention of the Deep Web helped me to understand that not all relevant information may be found by search engines. We can all benefit from learning how to initiate better search queries, in order to retrieve some of this "buried" information.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Readings for Unit 10 AND COMMENT LINKS- M. Farina
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Digital Libraries- Challenges & Influential Work
This article points out the complicated processes involved in a search for information, as complicated by the sheer quantity of digital resources available. The background information on DLI-1 especially interesting, as well as the accountability of federal funding into such initiatives.
Dewey Meets Turing
This presents an interesting angle into looking at DLI- the relationships between librarians and computer scientists, and the 'wrench' of the world wide web being thrown into their otherwise-perfect coupling. Yet again we see reference to access, algorithms, Google, copyright restrictions, etc. To make a long story short, change usually isn't easy to deal with, and the DLI's history provides plenty of obstacles met and overcome.
Institutional Repositories
It's hard to imagine that institutional repositories were only born 8 years ago; so much has gone on in such a short time. MIT's DSpace played a crucial role in ...
Sunday, November 7, 2010
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