1. An Introduction to XML
OK ... I haven't felt that the material so far has been over my head until this week. I have zero experience using XML and struggle a little with the basic premise of it. It's not a template or pre-defined set of tags, but is used to identify components of documents by identifying the smaller parts that make them up ... Alright, so it seems XML is used to transport data, not display it? I hope these other readings make the concept of XML clearer for me.
2. A Survey of XML Standards
Yeah, no, this did very little for me. What I get from this is that as technologies develop and become more prevalent, standards develop. In the case of this article and XML, I'm not exactly sure what these standards mean.
3. Bergholz, Andre, "Extending Your Markup: An XML Tutorial" IEEE Computing, July/Aug. (2000)), 74-79.
A-ha! It's beginning to coalesce. The examples of code here really help. So, it seems here that we can consider XSL a template?
4. XML Schema Tutorial
And, I'm buried again ... I'm going to trick or treat and come back to this business ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Week 8 Readings
1. W3schools HTML Tutorial Not much to comment on here, except how simple basic publishing can be ... every time you get stuck, look up a site like this and figure out how to do stuff. In the words of Dr. Steve Brule: "So go make some computer technologies of your own. Get out of the house and go do it!"
FOR YOUR TECHNOLOGY
2.HTML Cheatsheet: anyone else not able to access this or find it otherwise. Please comment if you found it.
3. W3schools CSS Tutorial
Again, a nice reference ... I've never used CSS, but for me the trick is to just jump in and ignore the pages upon pages of language. Rather, I like to refer to specific portions of the guide as I need them and eventually hope that I pick up a working knowledge for what I need.
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.
Here we can see the benefit of laying out a CMS in order to shift time and effort away from mastering programming language to preparing more meaningful content ... or at least saving time with the original content. I also appreciate the section on what kinds of options exist for CMSs - out-of-the-box, in-house, open source, etc. This is obviously important given the multitude of institutions, their needs, and their financial means.
FOR YOUR TECHNOLOGY
2.HTML Cheatsheet: anyone else not able to access this or find it otherwise. Please comment if you found it.
3. W3schools CSS Tutorial
Again, a nice reference ... I've never used CSS, but for me the trick is to just jump in and ignore the pages upon pages of language. Rather, I like to refer to specific portions of the guide as I need them and eventually hope that I pick up a working knowledge for what I need.
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.
Here we can see the benefit of laying out a CMS in order to shift time and effort away from mastering programming language to preparing more meaningful content ... or at least saving time with the original content. I also appreciate the section on what kinds of options exist for CMSs - out-of-the-box, in-house, open source, etc. This is obviously important given the multitude of institutions, their needs, and their financial means.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Week 7 - Internet and WWW
How Internet Infrastructure Works
I like this site and think it provides pretty clear instructions of ... uh ... how stuff works. This is no exception and serves as a good primer for learning about internet structure. My question here in thinking about the "networks of networks" is the size of one of the big ISPs (Time Warner, AT&T, etc.) and how they are divided. Are there regional networks inside their national networks? I guess so, since when things go down, it isn't a nation-wide crisis, but would like to see how this breaks down nonetheless. Another observation here is direct fiber optic connections to the home/business and how long before that infrastructure is built up. Even in rural southwest Ohio, a company I used to work for could access a small fiber optic network via receiving a beam from the provider, but it wasn't a direct, hard, connection - and, accordingly had problems.
Andrew K. Pace. „Dismantling Integrated Library Systems“ Library Journal, vol 129 Issue 2, p34-36. 2/1/2004
It isn't too surprising to learn about the increase of third party software and add-ons to ILS development. Even in a profession as seemingly cohesive as the libraries, gradations of goals and profiles exist leaving each library in need of customized products, not just a one-stop-shop right out of a box. The trick is creating a market infrastructure to support this model.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page discuss Google back in 2004.
First, I'm wondering what has changed in the past 3-4 years at Google?
This video presentation is interesting in terms of getting a peek at how Google operates as a corporate structure and how immense it is. Most amusing is the simplicity of their search as evidenced by the example of the teenage blogger. Otherwise, I'm not sure how much I learned about how Google works in this presentation.
I like this site and think it provides pretty clear instructions of ... uh ... how stuff works. This is no exception and serves as a good primer for learning about internet structure. My question here in thinking about the "networks of networks" is the size of one of the big ISPs (Time Warner, AT&T, etc.) and how they are divided. Are there regional networks inside their national networks? I guess so, since when things go down, it isn't a nation-wide crisis, but would like to see how this breaks down nonetheless. Another observation here is direct fiber optic connections to the home/business and how long before that infrastructure is built up. Even in rural southwest Ohio, a company I used to work for could access a small fiber optic network via receiving a beam from the provider, but it wasn't a direct, hard, connection - and, accordingly had problems.
Andrew K. Pace. „Dismantling Integrated Library Systems“ Library Journal, vol 129 Issue 2, p34-36. 2/1/2004
It isn't too surprising to learn about the increase of third party software and add-ons to ILS development. Even in a profession as seemingly cohesive as the libraries, gradations of goals and profiles exist leaving each library in need of customized products, not just a one-stop-shop right out of a box. The trick is creating a market infrastructure to support this model.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page discuss Google back in 2004.
First, I'm wondering what has changed in the past 3-4 years at Google?
This video presentation is interesting in terms of getting a peek at how Google operates as a corporate structure and how immense it is. Most amusing is the simplicity of their search as evidenced by the example of the teenage blogger. Otherwise, I'm not sure how much I learned about how Google works in this presentation.
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