Week 14

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Muddiest Point:
When cloud computing applications are offered, how does a company offset the costs of these services? It would seem to me that these applications can be rather costly.

Security and Privacy

This week’s reading offered a great topic that is becoming more and more dependent on technologies, or at least more comfortable with technology as it plays an increasing role in all aspects of our lives. I am not a conspiracy theorist or anything of that nature but after working in law enforcement I can certainly see how the new technologies can be contorted and used in ways that may have not been considered at their inception.

As a society we have accepted technology, yet as we have seen many times over, we have not necessarily addressed legal and ethical issues that come with these new technologies. I think people need to take a common sense approach with their own information privacy and be cautious about how they freely put themselves out there. No matter how innocently they proceed, information can be obtained fairly easy if you try hard enough.

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Social Software

The articles presented for this sections reading really caught my interest, new technologies serving as methods of creating a community and educating it. I have used wikis and blogs in the past as sources of information ranging from gaming to politics and everything in between, but it never occurred to me that these technologies could be used as formal educational tools. This class’s blog assignment was my first experience writing a blog and I found the idea of real time information exchange in an open community to be fascinating. I can now see the immense potential that these technologies have for serving a libraries community in a relatively low maintenance medium.

The same goes for the use of wikis, but I was always concerned about the quality of content. I think for wikis to be really successful as an educational tool, or even just as a tool for the open sharing of ideas, a higher degree of trust must be present. Jimmy Wales addressed some of the issues I personally have had with wikis, he also covered some interesting idea such as the culture of the wiki community, the “Google Rule” (really got a good chuckle out of that), and of course the digital divide.

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Muddiest point:

There was a mention in the video of “IRC”, it’s something I was not familiar with prior to hear it there.

Unit 11: Digital Library, Institutional Repositories

Unit 11: Digital Library, Institutional Repositories

I am lost on which week or assignment number these are so I will be posting by title and hopefully just working ahead.


Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work:

• The origin of digital libraries comes from the government, specifically the work of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (D.A.R.P.A.), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A) and National Science Foundation (N.S.F.). In the 1990’s the government advanced the idea of the digital library as a means of providing access to large amounts of data to researchers that would otherwise have difficulty accessing or utilizing the research of others. It has certainly paid off for the rest of us.

Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative:

• Discusses the effect of the web on librarians and computer scientists and their respective expectations.

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age:

• A nice overview on institutional repositories and the concepts behind them. I like the idea of a completely collaborative effort that included students as having input as well as just gaining access.

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Muddiest point: Agian, I was okay with the material covered, but I think my dates on these assignments are still off. Example, was this reading due on 11/21, 11/28 or am I off by more than I expected?

Unit 10

I never really paid much attention to search engines beyond the general concept of I put something in and it gives me some directions on where on the web to look further. Granted, often times finding what I wanted took slightly more effort, but overall it was a fairly mundane task that I carried out constantly. That is until recently! Through my studies within the M.L.I.S. program, and some personal interest in long term research goals, web searches have become something of an interest to me.

Web Search Engines:

· The complexity of web searches is amazing.

· The idea of Politeness in the crawling algorithms made me laugh, but I can see the problems that would be created without such features.

· Never realized that by linking on your site it would increase its rank.

Metadata Harvesting:

· Was a long read that I really struggled to understand for the most part.

The Deep Web:

· Interesting idea, something I never had heard of.

· Decent article, the illustrations made the concepts more concrete and a lot more understandable.

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Muddiest point: Just about everything in the Metadata article! I know I am late posting this, but I think I lost track of what I should be posting and when. I can hopefully make up some ground this week. Also; With the use of spam rejection techniques used by crawlers, does this eliminate or reduce the threat of “goggle bombs?”