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Week 11 Readings & Muddiest Point

Reading Notes:

Web Search Engines, Part 1 & 2:
These articles look at Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft and how they provide
high quality answers to queries by crawling through the Web. It also
discussed indexing algorithms and techniques that could be used to speed up
searching.

Current Development OAI-PMH:
This explored how the Open Archives Initative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting is being used by various communities to find metadata relative
their specific needs. This was a lot of information to take in, but it's
good to know that this protocol has far exceeded its initial goals.

The Deep Web:
This discussed how most of the Web is buried, and the traditional search
engines aren't capable of retrieving content from the Deep Web. The only way
to get results from the Deep Web is to do a direct request with is a
laborious way of searching. What was most interesting to me was that
awareness of this content existing is nearly non-existent. I personally had
never heard of the Deep Web, and would very much like to try to searching on
it.

Muddiest Point:
I'm curious about how long PageRank has been around and if it caught on quickly. 
If Google invented it, it's got to be fairly new.

Assignment 6

I originally typed up HTML codes in Notepad for this assignment. I had a lot of trouble uploading it, so I started over using Google sites. Here is my new and working web site!

http://sites.google.com/site/dls84lis/

Week 10 Comments

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Week 10 Notes and Muddiest Point

Reading Notes:

Digital Libraries: This article looked at digital libraries. It discussed how the Digital Libraries Initiative projects involving several universities led to the best practices and standards for digital library work. It was interesting to discover that Google came about because of these projects. Think of how vastly different many of our lives would be without Google. This piece had a lot of information.

Dewey Meets Turing: This article looked at how the Digital Library Initiative interested libraries and computer scientists. Also discussed was how the WWW played a huge role in both disciplines. I thought it intriguing that despite all the technical changes occurring, the author was adamant that core function of librarianship remains, which is organizing, collating, and presenting information. This is something that so many people seem to think is not the case. Often when I tell someone I'm going to school for Library Science, I get lectured on how libraries won't be around much longer because of technology.

Institutional Repositories: This article looked at institutional repositories used by universities and the positive and negative effects they could have. The author looked at potential dangers involved in having institutional repositories and how they can also encourage the exploration and adoption of new forms of scholarly communication.

Muddiest Point:
I was confused by the idea of empty elements. Why do these exist and do they have to? I guess I just don't grasp the purpose of them.