Muddiest Point 12/9

With regard to cloud computing-What happens if the company that your documents are saved at goes bankrupt and the website isn't available? Wouldn't the possibility of that instance alone keep Microsoft and others in business for the need of backing up materials?

Muddiest Point

Would making your personal data that the government collects available and secure to yourself be a viable option for the government to maintain security and privacy issues eliminated?

Wk 13 blog post

You tube video was no longer available due to copyright claims from Viacom.

TIA and Data Mining

I thought this was interesting. I had no idea just how much the government put programs in place to track it's citizens. I have nothing to hide and could care less if they know, yet it is totally an invasion of privacy. I like how many newsworthy stories are on this website that I don't hear about on mainline news.

Notes:
A database by TIA would be populated by transaction data contained in current databases such as financial records, medical records, communication records and travel records as well as new sources of information.

A key component of the TIA project was to develop data mining or knowledge discovery tools that would sort through the massive amounts of information to find patterns and associations.

In September 2003, Congress got rid of the TIA, however other similar programs are still being implemented. Those programs include Novel Intelligence for Massive Data and Transportation Security Administration.

Muddiest Point

Are there certain qualifications required to be a part of the "Wikipedia Community"? Do they go through sort of a hiring process to make sure they know what they are talking about?

Week 12 post

Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons
-creates better information sharing
-facilitates collaboration in the creation of resources
-efficiently divides work loads
-two uses-sharing knowledge and ability to cooperate in creating resources
-Commercial sites abound to help you build your own Wiki includes seedwiki, pbwiki, jotspot, twiki, phpwiki.
-the creator of the wiki decides who has editing rights to the wiki.
-wikis are used to manage public services information, collaborate on and keep track of reference questions and assess databases.


Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution

Social tagging is a relatively new phenomenon that allows an individual to create bookmarks for web sites and save them online
Tags include subject keywords chosen by the user, brief descriptions of sites
Folksonomy is a taxonomy created by ordinary folks
U of Penn adopted PennTags where UP students, faculty and staff can book mark useful websites
Open source content management software is Drupal
Academic social tagging site is connotea

Jimmy Wales- Wikipedia
Neutrality on issues. If problems occur and opinions are given, they will be asked to leave.
The wikipedia core community meets off line too.
Whenever changes are made, a "wikipedia community person" is sent a copy to double check information and delete what they need to.
Votes for deletion page, to see if something needs deleted.
Next step is to create textbooks on wikipedia. It should take at least 20 years.

Week 11 Post

Dewey Meets Turing

-Librarians, computer scientists and publishers are interested in beginning the Digital Libraries Initiative in 1994, funded by the National Science Foundation.
-Computer scientist say DLI as a chance to impact society.
-Librarians say DLI as a means to get funding and to insure the libraries continued impact on scholarly work.
-when the web came along, it changed DLIs plans but the need to have better and more complete holdings remains a focus.
-With the web, deals with publishers and copyright restrictions made computer scientists change how they publish their work.
-Now the library was forced to change ideas because many journal publisher's business decision to charge at a premium for digital content computer scientists have named information hubs.
-Opportunities now arise for direct connections between librarians and scholarly authors.

Digital Libraries

-The mantra has been: aggregate, virtually collocate and federate. The goal of seamless federation across distributed, heterogeneous resources remains the holy grail of digital library work.
-DLI-1 funded six university led projects to develop and implement computing and networking technologies that could make large scale electronic test collections accessible and interoperable.
School are: U of MI, Stanford, U of CA-Berkely, U of CA-Santa Barbara, Carnegie Mellon and U of IL-Champaign-Urbana.
-Probably the most significant contribution of the IL project was the transfer of technology to our publishing partners and other publishers.
-A large number of significant digital library standards and technologies have been developed by entities outside of the federally funded projects
publishers
publisher consortium
Bibliographic utilities
W3C
Academic consortium
NISO
LOC
Library integrated system vendors
web search engines
Computer companies
Open Source community

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age

-The development of institutional repositories emerged as a new strategy that allows universities to apply serious, systematic leverage to accelerate changes taking place in scholarship.
-Online storage costs have dropped significantly; repositories are now affordable.
-Operational responsibility for these services may reasonably be situated in different organizational units at different universities promoting collaboration among librarians, IT people, archives and records managers, faculty and university administrators and policymakers.
-A mature and fully realized institutional repository will contain intellectual works of faculty and students.
-Cautions
administration might try to gain more control over faculty intellectual work
overloading the repository
creating repositories to rapidly
Repositories need to be sure to preserve formats, have identifiers, and documentation and management of rights.

Now working

I made a couple adjustments and my web page will work. I discovered that it will work on Internet Explorer but not FireFox.

www.pitt.edu/~lar68