Muddiest point wk 12

In the TED video Jimmy Wales used the term IRC (internet relay chat), how is that kind of chat different than other chat programs?

On the 12th week of LIS2600, my professor gave to me...

Ok, so it's a bit schmaltzy, but tis' the season, the solstice is upon us.  Anyhoo, the readings/video...

in a way we did get a gift of sorts this time around.  i thoroughly enjoyed the TED video as performed by jimmy wales of wikipedia fame.  what a guy!  a "free" encyclopedia in every home, that can afford a) a computer, b) the internet c) has electricity...yes, i am a cynic.  to be fair, i think his heart is definitely in the right place.  i love the way wikipedia works the legion of dedicated volunteers and info-geeks who contribute and edit that volume of information is astounding.  i think they have the right business model.  imagine a world of wiki-everything?!  do you hear john lennon singing "imagine" about now?

as for the other articles, i have seen the possibilities of wikis in the library.  i think that it is an excellent tool for student assistant training and communications.  we tried using facebook in a similar way to coordinate student schedules but that kind of collaboration works if one has buy-in from all parties.  how does one get pain-in-the a*#, techno-phobic colleagues to see the light?

i found the library "folksonomy article equally intriguing.  once again, there are many folks in the library world who can't quite deal with giving up control over anything.  however, starting out on the reference level and promoting this kid of collaboration amongst students might just get us to the point where people might enjoy sharing information...imagine a library where the users created their own catalog?  what would it look like?  uh oh, i hear lennon again.  no...

what i hear is a legion of dead shushers rolling in their graves.

Week 11 comments

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Muddiest point wk 11

I am still a little unsure about the notion of the "deep Web."  How do we know it exists if the webcrawlers are incapable of pulling this information to the surface web?  Are there special "deep web" crawlers that search the dark recesses of the Web?  How does one obtain access to these mysterious sites?

Wk 11 Readings

Ok, so I really like the idea of Digital Libraries, especially when it makes the publishers of over-priced electronic journals nervous.  It was fascinating to read about the collaboration  between librarians and computer scientists on DLI and the subsequent UI Testbed which provided publishers with the opportunity to eventually take advantage of the very organizations that made their new ejournals possible.  I was also unaware that this federal grant was also responsible for the spinoff product...google.  The possibilities are fascinating.  I followed the link to the Dutch university open access policies.  It will be interesting to see what, if any, US institutions follow suit.

What I found disturbing, however, was the following sentence, "The DLI proposals had architected what looked like a reasonably comfortable nest....."  Why not use "build" or "construct" both of these are perfectly good verbs just sitting around waiting to be used.  

The Institutional Repositories concept offers an intriguing opportunity for universities to fully utilize their scholarly resources.  It would certainly assist in making digital scholarship more acceptable, as long as the administration doesn't overstep its bounds....