Muddiest point for Social Software (12/1)

Do not you think that Libarary 2.0 makes people forget the main prupose and idea for liabraries?

comments for week #12

I commented on this blog http://djd2600it.blogspot.com/ and on Jaime Filipek ‘s blog

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Last Assignment

Last Assignment ( My website)

http://www.pitt.edu/~rab118/

Reading for Week # 13

Reichardt, R., & Harder, G. (2005). Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries.
Main points of this article are:
- All libraries grapple with the need to publicize their services to their patrons
- Marketing and outreach help determine who the library's audience is, what services to offer them, how to let them know that the services exist,
- This webliography collects examples of promotional materials, blogs, and library liaison programs to inspire creativity in marketing and outreach strategies for the scientific, technical and medical (STM) library.
- The purpose of the webliography is to provide examples of materials and approaches that are being used for marketing and outreach by libraries in general, and STM libraries in particular.


2) Charles Allan, "Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons"
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/apr/usingawiki.cfm

Main points of this article are:
- The multi-author, collaborative software known as a wiki, can be used by librarians to manage their work in library instruction programs
- A library instruction wiki can create better information sharing, facilitate collaboration in the creation of resources, and efficiently divide workloads among librarians.
- Library instruction wikis have two chief uses: the sharing of knowledge and the ability to cooperate in creating resources, such as informational handouts and guides.
- A library instruction program includes multiple librarians dealing with changing information and gaining independently held bits of knowledge
- Wikis are an excellent way to close these gaps and improve inefficiencies. Wikis are increasingly used to manage information in organizations, and libraries are beginning to employ them. Use everyone’s specific experiences and valuable individual expertise!
3) Xan Arch, "Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News,
http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/feb/libraryfolksonomy.cfm
Main points of this article are:
- You bookmark the sites you find, but soon your bookmark list is huge. You research from home and from work and you can’t always find the site you bookmarked yesterday. Was it on your work computer? Are you really finding all the sites that you need for your research? Can Google really find everything you want?
- Social tagging is a relatively new phenomenon that allows an individual to create bookmarks (or “tags”) for Web sites and save them online
- These tags include subject keywords chosen by the user and often a brief description of the site. Sites like del.icio.us allow users to share these tags and discover new Internet resources through common subject headings.
- The resulting collaboration is called a folksonomy—a taxonomy created by ordinary folks. In a way, this technology is making users create their own controlled vocabulary and assign subject headings to each Web site they visit. If we are already making classifiers out of ordinary people, why not bring social tagging into the library?
- So you want to try social tagging in your library. It was useful for your own research, and you can see that it would be a significant added service for your patrons. You’ve chosen the software, and you have found a niche for it in your library’s Web site. Now how do you create content?

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I agree with the ideas that these two articles pointed, and I would like to see all libraries adopt them.
4) Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html
I really liked this video, and I think Wikipedia is a good source of information. I know that anyone can add and change information in Wikipedia. But I think most people who need information about some topic, first they read about it from Wikipedia and then they see what sources Wikipedia offer so they can read about the topic more.
Personally I like Wikipedia and I use it every day.

Muddiest point for week #12

I do not have muddiest point for week # 12

comments for week #11

I commented on Letty’s and Tiffany’s blog.

Reading for Week # 12

1)Mischo, W. (July/August 2005). Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html

It talks about the “ Distributed information environment”
This distributed information environment is populated by silos of: full-text repositories maintained by commercial and professional society publishers; preprint servers and Open Archive Initiative (OAI) provider sites; specialized Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) services; publisher and vendor vertical portals; local, regional, and national online catalogs; Web search and metasearch engines; local e-resource registries and digital content databases; campus institutional repository systems; and learning management systems.


2)Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html

This article talks about Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative and how each of them relates to each other. after combining the word digital with library, three interested parties are immediately defined: librarians, computer scientists, and publishers.


3)Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html

The webpage does not work!

Muddiest point for week #11

No muddiest point for week # 11

Assignment # 5 (Koha)

My topic is about RFID (Lis2600-RFID)

http://upitt04-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=45

Reading for Week # 11

1) David Hawking , Web Search Engines:
I could not access to the article


2) Shreeves, S. L., Habing, T. O., Hagedorn, K., & Young, J. A. (2005). Current developments and future trends for the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting. Library Trends, 53(4), 576-589.

- Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has been widely adopted since its initial release in 2001
- This article provides a brief overview of the OAI environment, two years out from the release of the production version of the protocol.
- It looks into some of the interesting developments within the OAI world, particularly the use of the protocol within specific communities of interest, the development of a comprehensive registry of OAI data providers, and a resolver for OAI identifiers that extends the protocol beyond its traditional use
- it documents some of the current challenges for both data and service provider
- and the article provides some of the possible future directions for the OAI protocol and community.

3) MICHAEL K. BERGMAN, “The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value” http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html- According to Michael K. Bergman:
- While a great deal may be caught in the net, there is still a wealth of information that is deep, and therefore, missed
- Traditional search engines create their indices by spidering or crawling surface Web page
- raditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web
- Deep Web sources store their content in searchable databases that only produce results dynamically in response to a direct request. But a direct query is a "one at a time" laborious way to search. BrightPlanet's search technology automates the process of making dozens of direct queries simultaneously using multiple-thread technology and thus is the only search technology, so far, that is capable of identifying, retrieving, qualifying, classifying, and organizing both "deep" and "surface" content.
- Search engines obtain their listings in two ways: Authors may submit their own Web pages, or the search engines "crawl" or "spider" documents by following one hypertext link to another.

Muddiest point for week #10

No muddiest point for this week

comments for week #10

I commented on Sara C’s blog
I commented on Natalie Marlin's blog

Muddiest point for week #9

No muddiest point for week # 9

Reading for Week # 10

1) Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/internet/web/xmlintro.htm
2) Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html
3) Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz PDF
4) XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp



All the four reading for week # 10 are talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language).

First reading talks about:
What is XML?
The components of XML
How is XML used?
Defining your own tag sets
Defining the attributes of elements
Incorporating standard and non-standard text elements
Illustrations, tables and other special elements
Using XML coded text

Second reading talks about:

XML
Catalogs
XML Namespaces
XML Base
XInclude
XML
Infosetfoset
Canonical XML ("c14n")
XPath
XPointer
XLink
RELAX NG
W3C XML Schema
Schematron

Third reading is about:

XML Schema Tutorial and it talks about What is an XML Schema?

comments for week #9

I commented on
ken-tsukuda’s blog & Rachel Nash’s blog

Muddiest point for week #7

I understand that Google uses the Crawling method to give its users the result they need, how about Yahoo and other search engines, do they use the same method, or there are different methods that search engines use?

Reading for Week # 9

1)W3schools HTML Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/
2)HTML Cheatsheet http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/HTML_Cheatsheet/

- These WebPages are about how to use and learn the HTML Language
- They teach the basics element of how to write HTML code.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- And it is not considered a programmer language.
- It is a markup language which is a markup tags.
- The main purpose of the Web browsers is to read the HTML language. For example , Explorer and Firefox are the web browsers that read HTML language without showing the HTML tags


3)W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/css/

- CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
- The purpose of CSS is to describe the element of HTML ‘
- And it defines how HTML displays
- There are more than one CSS. For example, there are CSS Background, CSS Text , CSS Font, CSS Border, CSS Outline, CSS Margin, CSS Padding, CSS List, CSS Table, CSS Dimension and CSS Display.
- So as you see here there are different CSS to set and describe the element for the HTML



4)Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system. Library Hi Tech, 24(1), 29-53.

“The web guides were extremely diverse on a visual level. Each librarian, as well as the Student assistants and support staff who also worked on the pages, used different fonts, colors
And layout designs. Navigation was hampered by the lack of agreed-upon guidelines for content arrangement and labeling. While some librarians utilized their previous experience with
FrontPage or other web editing programs, others had never created a single web page. The lack
of any training system to address these differing web page and site-building skills among the
Librarians were also a factor affecting the quality and consistency of the guides.”

This paper shows how the web development librarian and the web programmer work together to find new system that can set policies and guidelines in place to help the fifteen liaison librarians.

Comments on reading # 7

I commented on Letty’s blog and Annie's blog

Screencast URL for Jing Video: How to do a movie at your home by using “Windows Movie Maker”

http://www.screencast.com/users/rafeef/folders/Jing/media/154c0133-60e9-4abf-a5d1-48c267e26ad5

Flickr URL for my Jing Photo # 5

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeef/3993701263/sizes/m/

Flickr URL for my Jing Photo # 4

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeef/3993701245/

Flickr URL for my Jing Photo # 3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeef/3993701207/

Flickr URL for my Jing Photo # 2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeef/3993700879/

Flickr URL for my Jing Photo #1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeef/3994462164/

Muddiest point for week #6

No Muddiest point for week #6

Reading for week # 7

1) Tyson, Jeff. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm/printable

I am going to summarize the important terms in this reading

- The Internet Society is a non-profit group established in 1992, oversees the formation of the policies and protocols that define how we use and interact with the Internet.
- (ISP) stands for Internet Service Provider
- (LAN) stands for local area network (
- (POP) stands for Point of Presence. The POP is a place for local users to access the company's network, often through a local phone number or dedicated line.
- NAPs stands for Network Access Points
- The routers: determine where to send information from one computer to another. Routers are specialized computers that send your messages and those of every other Internet user speeding to their destinations along thousands of pathways.
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) created the first high-speed backbone in 1987.
- Internet Protocol or IP Addresses :Every machine on the Internet has a unique identifying number,
- RL: Uniform Resource Locator: when you use the Web or send an e-mail message, you use a domain name to do it.
- Internet Protocol: Domain Name System: When the Internet was in its infancy, it consisted of a small number of computers hooked together with modems and telephone lines.
- Root DNS servers: would start its search for an IP address by contacting one of the
- Internet servers make the Internet possible. All of the machines on the Internet are either servers or clients

Andrew K. Pace. „Dismantling Integrated Library Systems“ Library Journal, vol 129 Issue 2, p34-36. 2/1/2004

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By reading this article I found that librarians have a significant impact on technology. According to the article “Librarians are dismantling systems, and creating new modules, out of frustration with the inflexible nonextensible technology of their propriety system.” Because of that we as librarians we have to make sure that we have good knowledge about technology so we can keep up with the expanding of technology to benefit our libraries

Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Inside the Google machine.

The video was very interesting and I liked it. I think Google are going in a right direction. They try to invent things that can help not just their society but also they want to benefit the whole world this video is old, now Google works on new project called “WAVE” which is a host conversation. People can see what you write in the email immediately if they are online.

Comments for week # 6

I commented on these two blogs ( SARA and Rachel’s blogs)
http://lis2600infotechnology.blogspot.com/2009/09/week-6-readings-computer-networks.html#comment-form

http://rsj2600.blogspot.com/2009/10/reading-notes-week-6.html#comments

Assignment 3: Personal Bibliographic Management Systems

The URL of my library in CiteULike

http://www.citeulike.org/user/rafeef

Muddiest point for week #5

No Muddiest Point for week # 5

Reading Week # 6

1) Local Area Network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Area_Network

This reading talks about LAN which stands for local area network. LAN is “a computer network covering a small physical area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings, such as a school, or an airport”. There are two kind of LAN: smaller and larger LAN .smaller LAN consists of one or more switches linked. But at least one of them connects to a router, cable modem, or ADSL modem for Internet access. However the lager LAN uses redundant linked with switches to prevent loops. Moreover LAN can be connected together through leased lines.

Computer network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_networkCommon types of computer networks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dpgqDdfUjQ

The second reading talks about Computer network. Computer Network is more than one computer and they are interconnected. There are three type of Wired technology: Twisted-Pair Wire (used in telephone), Coaxial Cable (TV) and Fiber Optics (transmits light). And there are six types Wireless Technologies: Terrestrial Microwave (satellite dishes), Communications Satellites(Earth-orbiting systems), Cellular and PCS Systems (antenna device), Wireless LANs, Bluetooth(open wireless protocol),and The Wireless Web(World Wide Web through equipments like cellular phones). Then it talks about type of networks and network topology such as bus network, star network, ring network, mesh network, star-bus network, tree or hierarchical topology network. All networks consists of hardware components.


Coyle, K. (2005). Management of RFID in libraries. Journal of Academic Librarianship

I did hear about RFID before when I was in a business school. But I did not know that RFID can help librarians in many ways. I like the ideas that Coyle points in her articles about how libraries can benefit in the future from this technology. Moreover, I hope in the future , RFID can solve many challenges that librarians face in library

Comments for week # 5

i commented on Jon webster's blog and on DjJ Dougan's Blog

Reading for week # 5

1) Data Compression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression

The first reading talks about Data compression. Data compression is the process of encoding information using fewer bits. We use data compression to make sure that both sender and receiver understand the encoding schema. Data compression has advantage reduce the consumption of expensive resources. But it also has disadvantage; compressed data must be decompressed to be used, and this extra processing may be detrimental to some applications. Then it explains what the different between Lossless (sender's data more concisely without error.)Versus lossy compression (guided by research on how people perceive the data in question)

2) Data compression basics (long documents, but covers all basics and beyond): http://dvd-hq.info/data_compression_1.php
This reading has the same information that the first reading has about data compression , but the second reading explain it more by using images and examples.

3) Edward A. Galloway, “Imaging Pittsburgh: Creating a shared gateway to digital image collections of the Pittsburgh region” First Monday 9:5 2004 http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/galloway/index.html

This article talks about "Imaging Pittsburgh" .The purpose of this project is to create a single Web gateway for the public to access thousands of visual images from photographic collections held by the Archives Service Center of the University of Pittsburgh. The benefit of this project is to allow the users working with the collections as a group. And let them obtain a wider picture of events and people. The user of the gateway can Conduct a keyword search across all the image collections; Browse images within any given collection; Read about the collections and their contents, including provenance, date span, and coverage; Explore the image collections by time, place and theme; and Order image reproductions.

4) Paula L. Webb, YouTube and libraries: It could be a beautiful relationship C&RL News, June 2007 Vol. 68, No. 6 0 http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2007/jun07/youtube.cfm

I tried to open this link but it does not open with me. anyone has the same problem ?

Muddiest point for week #4

Why most of people use Operational database instead of other type of databases (analytical database and Data warehouse). And what is the difference between them?

Comments for week # 4

Commented on Annie Seale's blog and Yuqi he's Blog

Reading for week #4

Database:

This article talks about Databases which is an integrated collection of logically related records or files consolidated into a common pool that provides data for many applications and it describe the types of databases which are Relational model ( most commonly used),Hierarchical model and Network model. Moreover it defines Database management systems .At the end of the article, talks about Storage structures, Transactions and concurrency, Locking, Applications and how all of these databases can take advantage of indexing. This article helps me a lot to understand more about database because I will have an assignment in other LIS class about databases.

Metadata:

This research talks about Metadata. Gilliland defines, describes and talks about different kind of metadata. Metadata is data about data. There are 4 types of metadata which are Administrative, Descriptive, and Preservation, Technical, and use metadata. Moreover Gilliland mentions the Attributes and Characteristics of Metadata and gives examples of them. Then at the end of the research, he talks about why is metadata is important. This reading let me understand more what does metadata mean, in the beginning of this semester I did not sure what does metadata mean and when I can use this world.

The Dublin core data model:

I did read this article but I still not understand what does Dublin core data model mean and what does it use for? Is it a language used to describe a metadata and is library use this kind of model. I am still not sure what this article about.

Muddiest point fo week #3

I Did not understand what Disk Defragmenter do?

Comments on reading week # 3

I commented on Jon Webster's blog and Suzy Deucher's Blog

Assignment #2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeef/

Readng week #3

Reading week # 3

Machtelt Garrels. “Introduction to Linux: A Hands on Guide”
This reading talks about Linux and the history of Linux and how it started. There was no operating system(like Unix) which was Simple and elegant, Written in the C programming language instead of in assembly code, and able to recycle code. Then it talks about how Linux is difficult. It says it depends on the person. Who used UNIX before says no it is not difficult, but for other it might difficult. Linux has a good future because it provides more than the operating system: there is an entire infrastructure supporting the chain of effort of creating an operating system, of making and testing programs for it, of bringing everything to the users, of supplying maintenance, updates and support and customizations, etcetera.

http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
I have never used Mac. And this reading let me know many things about it. I used to think about Mac the same things that other people think about Mac: Macs are good only for graphics/media work, Macs suck for hackers, there is very little software for the Mac, and Macs are overpriced/not worth the price. But after reading these websites, I have more information about it and I think I might buy a Mac computer in the future.

Paul Thurott “An Update on the Windows Roadmap”

This website talks about windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7). And it talks about the future of windows Xp and if people can get this operating system if they want it. Then it explains why windows vista is a very important operating system. The main reason that makes them creates widows vista is to improved security. Then it talks about the future of operating system and what Microsoft windows going to release in the future (they called it windows7)

Muddiest point for week #2

Muddiest point for week #2

Are the components of a PC are similar to the components of Mac?

Comment week #2

I commented on Jon Webster's blog ( September 10)
http://jonwebsterslis2600blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/week-two-readings.html?showComment=1252638663780#c5999129872191451974

I commented on katie zimmerman's blog (september 10)
http://jonwebsterslis2600blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/week-two-readings.html?showComment=1252638663780#c5999129872191451974

Comment week #1

1) I commented on Yuqi He's Blog ( September 7 , 2009 )
https://courseweb.pitt.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_17106_1%26url%3d
2) I commented on jamie Bommer's blog ( September 7, 2009)
https://courseweb.pitt.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_17106_1%26url%3d

Notes for Reading required #2

Personal computer hardware

This reading talks about typical personal computer hardware, and how it is made up of multiple physical components of computer hardware. And how these components can be installed and work in a personal computer. I think it is good reading to read and understand because it describes how a computer works and what a computer consist of.
-Motherboard
- Power supply
- Video display controller
- Removable media devices
- Internal storage
- Sound card
-Other peripherals(input)
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“Moore’s Law” and the video:


Is The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moor, co-founder of Intel.
Moor's Law states that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18. Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades.


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Computer history website

The Computer History Museum is one of the world's largest collections of computing artifacts. The Computer History Museum allows you to explore the computer revolution and its impact on the human experience. If you visit the museum you can see collections of computing artifacts such as The Babbage Engine, Visible Storage and Mastering the Game. also the website itself provides you with some picture and stories of the information age.

Assigment # 1

Notes on required readings for week #1

1) OCLC report: Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers (2004).

This report shows that traditional publishing (scholarly and popular) is slowing down, and E-book have entered the adoption phase and this affect the traditional print more. The major trends in the content space are not just technological changes but also social changes. So library and librarians must work hard and try to find new ways to let people come back to library. Paying attention on how content is created, found and used let libraries solve some of their problem. We can use ourselves as an example, we use blogs for this class to write our thoughts and reviews on the articles an report wikis and blogs become more popular and the individual becomes the center of social publishing not institution. Librarians and libraries could use blogs and wikis to reach out their communities


2)Clifford Lynch, “Information Literacy and Information Technology Literacy: New Components in the Curriculum for a Digital Culture”

This Paper talks about two main forms of literacy, Information technology literacy and Information literacy, and how both forms of literacy are distinct but inter-related. I agree with Clifford lynch when he mentioned in his paper that we need to understand not only the two forms of the literacy but we need to understand how each form works with technology , history, economic, social and public policy issues. So because of that, librarians do not have to know just about information literacy but they must know about technology, people, information resources, infrastructure and how different systems can connect people with resources.



3)Vaughan, J. (2005). Lied Library @ four years: technology never stands still. Library Hi Tech, 23(1), 34-49. At

I think this is a very good paper to read and study, because it shows real experiences from other library (lied library) and how this library dealt with information technology maintenance, enhancement and future development. For instance, the paper shows how major research library faces challenges with maintaining and enhancing new and existing technology and system. Because of the technology is growing rapidly, the lied library in 2003 replaced over 600 unites and removed all the existing PC's to meet their user needs .To reduce the huge expenses, library have all major systems under support. Moreover, the lied library main goal is to meet user needs and expectations. Because of that the library has done several things to maximize the finite resource. The library only let students to check out laptops, and setup a system for student to register their personal laptops. In addition, the lied library provides a good service for a student by putting restrictions for community users. I think all academic libraries must adopt these kinds of policies to make things easy for their students.

Muddiest point for lecture #1

I know information technology is important and helpful to library. but do librarians must know about every specific things in technology to be a good librarian?