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assignment 3 bib

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

Week 6 Readings

This week, I found the reading to much easier than the past several weeks.The local area network article was just the basics of small area computer networking. The Computer Networking post described the factors of computer networking, scale, connection method, functional relationship, and network topology.The youtube post of common types of computer networks indicated the different types of networks from personal area to metropolitan area networks. The one that I am most familiar with is campus are network. Where I went to undergrad had massive problems with networks, theirs kept crashing, especially on registration days.

Muddiest point week 5

Are visual perceptions frequent in any other computer operations other than visual imaging?

week 4 comments

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muddiest point week 4

In regards to the lecture on databases, how easily can integrated databases be manipulated and confused between the users?

week 5 readings

Data compression article: This article descirbed data compression as encoding information using fewer bits that an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. It also said that encoding only works if the sender and the receiver use the same language. Data compressing is useful because it "reduces the expensive resources" like hard disks. The downside of data compression is that it must be decompressed which might hurt some applications.There are two kinds of compression, lossless and lossy. Lossless has less errors than lossy.

Data compression basics: This article basically describes encoding as short hand for the computer. While in most cases it is short hand, it can make the data longer than the original. For me, encoding is confusing. The data means the same thing but is shown different.

Imaging Pittsburgh: In 2002 the University of Pittsburgh received a grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to create a "shared gateway to visual image collection over Pittsburgh region". The grant helped to create a collection of Pittsburgh and local people throught the years. The project took two years and was a great success.

YouTube and libraries: I never thought about using YouTube to promote libaries but I guess it can be done. The article also says that you can advertise new material and put a link on the video to go to the library web site. So many people use youtube that it would be easy to get the public to see your youtube video.

week 3 muddiest point

I was confused when I listened to the lecture. It sounded that being able to run windows on OS X was a bad thing. Is it?

week 3 comments

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flickr assignment

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Week 4 Readings

In the Database reading, it said that a database was a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. I am a little confused about the hierachial model and the network model. The thing that I am really hungup on is that the network model has members and sets. I thought that the network was like the internet that linked other systems together.

I understood the Metadata better as I took a crime mapping course in my undergrad classes. Metadata is data of data. It is usally used in geospatial work which is the placement of data, such as crime mapping.

The overview of the Dublin Core Data Model is the breakdown of the database. It is a bassically a database for all global infortaion possible. The recources are everything from weather forcasts to books. It describes the DCMI as a 'cross-discipline rescource discovery'. I think that this is a great invention but it seems to me that the internet does the same thing.

Week three readings

I read week three's course work an came to these conclusions. I read the "Introduction to Linux" and found this work to understandable and easy to follow. There were things in it that I did not know, though I am a self-professed computer idiot. I did not know the meaning or function of a filter. I do not know if this will help me in everyday life but if is ever a question on Jeopardy, I will know it.
I read both Mac OS X articles and found the Wikipedia to be more useful. But since I do not own a Mac, I was utterly confused.
I did, however, understand the "Update on Windows Road map". I have Vista on my computer and was glad to hear that they are making progress to make Vista more compatible with software. I had sever problems with Vista when I got my computer and did not know where everything was as it is set up different.

Week 1 readings

In the article Lied Library @ four years: technology never stands still, the main point was that there was a library database system that was a trail at UNLV. It was a cutting edge system that they tried for four years while researching the system. It was all hi-tech that made searching for information easier and faster. The new system was put in place of an existing system. The system continued to grow. Some complications that arose with the new system was that students were able to access articles easier so they were printing more articles. In a year the printing on campus doubled.

In the Format Trends article, the point was that a lot of libraries are changing they copies of books into digital databases that make it easier and more accessible to people. There is no difference of the format in the area of information so most libraries are changing to meet the needs of the masses.

In the info. literacy and info tech literacy article, they define info literacy as the communication and content of context whereas the definition of info tech. literacy deals with the locating and searching for info in databases using networks such as text, video, and web. The two need to be taught together to work. Some of the top tech trends today are blogging, copyright, PDA's, Ebooks, Search engines, Google, library catalogs, and web sources.