Week 9 Comments

Here are my comments for Nov 8th.

Zach's LIS 2600 blog

http://pittlis2600.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-nine-reading-notes.html?showComment=1288659674811#c1926928485211520581

James McNeil's blog

http://jrm170.blogspot.com/2010/11/118-reading-responses.html?showComment=1288659755871#c8157705901944824138

Muddiest Point for November 1st class

I am confused about how Jeipu got to the Notepad document so that he could type in HTML commands and then make it a web page. Do you just create a new text document? And then... how do you export this or something so that it becomes a website? I didn't understand that step. Thanks!

Reading Notes- Week 9, Nov 8, 2010

Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Is the link that's posted in CourseWeb for the correct site? When I clicked on this one I was taken to a page entitled "The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students" written by a man named John English. But I guess I can briefly comment on it... I think the idea of providing free information for the purposes of education is really admirable. Textbooks are so expensive. And, in this case, the internet used to be really expensive. Providing students with free resources, I'm always a fan of that. Furthering education will only lead to positive things for the individuals who are learning, and the society that they are able to impact with what they've learned.

A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004

The article says that the current version of XML was translated into English. What does this mean? Is it explained in simpler terms somewhere? XML is based on SGML and is supposed to be a simplified version of that. All of the links to tutorials and other sources look extensive. I like that the author didn't try to reinvent the wheel, but just led you to tutorials and instructions that already exist. I might have missed this, but XML sounds a lot like HTML to me...what is the difference? I'm sure we've covered this in class or somewhere before, but they're both markup languages. Does it have to do with compatibility?

Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz

This article maybe answers my questions from the above article. It says that XML lets you "meaningfully annotate text." I see under "addressing and linking" some specific differences are listed. You can do certain things with XML that you can't so with HTML. The article explains XML in depth. But I think I still don't really see the differences between HTML and XML. Maybe it would help if I saw someone actually using it instead of just the figures shown in the article.

XML Schema Tutorial

Just like the tutorial we looked at last week from W3schools, this one looks very comprehensive. I don't really know what else to say about it except that it looks thorough and like a good resource for anyone interested in learning about XML and seeing lots of examples.

Assignment 5- Koha- Due Nov 8, 2010

Hi all,

My "virtual bookshelf" on Koha is called "Ethnicity and Festivals." The books are ones I used for my senior thesis which I wrote on a Hungarian festival. My username is cmf68. Here is the direct link:
http://upitt01-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=42

Christy

Week 8 Comments

Here are my comments for Week 8, November 1st.

BarbCMBlog

http://barbcmblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-8-reading-notes.html?showComment=1288275985848#c6452390558516673425

Megan's LIS 2600 blog

http://megrentschler.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-8-reading-notes-11110.html?showComment=1288275744736#c1693838146472555349

Muddiest Point for October 25th class

In all of our classes we keep talking about information and the internet growing exponentially. Will we ever get to a point where the internet stops growing at such a high rate? Will things level off? Will the internet ever drastically decrease in size?

Reading Notes- Week 8, Nov 1, 2010

W3schools HTML Tutorial

This website seemed to have everything you need to know to learn HTML and make a website. I am not sure how much I trust it that "HTML is easy to learn - You will enjoy it." That sounds like a big promise to make. If HTML was that easy to learn, I think more people would know it. And, as far as me enjoying learning HTML, that remains to be seen. But, maybe the website knows me better than I think. I guess if I'm ever going to build a website I will definitely go back to this page. I even saw a link on the bottom that takes you to wix.com to start building your own site. If these sites make it a step by step process, I would be interested in learning how to make a website because I feel like that's really useful. I have friends back home that are like "If you learn anything in that IT class like how to make a website, remember it because I want to make one and then you can show me how!" I found it interesting how W3 offered "online certifications" for things like XML, CSS, and Java. Are these legitimate? Is this something that you could really show a potential employer and be like "Look, proof that I can do this"? Because if so, that would be helpful.

HTML Cheatsheet

This website was less extensive that W3, but I liked that they had all the links posted. You could just copy and paste them into your own website. That would save you from having to remember all of them (because there's so many that'd be difficult). It does half the work for you. All you have to do is pick the color of your font.

W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial

I tried some of the examples where you can edit the background and text, and it was so cool! With the structure already in place, just altering the url for the background image wasn't hard. And I saw where I could change the text to say what I wanted. This was pretty neat. As far as something like editing the background image, or putting up headings or images on a web page, can you use images that don't already exist on the internet? Like a photo you've taken? Or some graphic you've created? Because is it against copyright law to just snatch images from across the internet and make them your website background? Does anyone know about this?

Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system

This article shows how important it is to have everyone at your institution on the same page. People were just creating web pages linked to the library's site, if I understand this correctly, but they weren't consistent. This makes things look weird and confuses users. This article described a lot of solutions to this problem that would be helpful to other libraries facing the same challenges.