Week11

This week’s reading materials are about digital library, especially with academic purpose.

I think that Mischo clearly express what is the problem and what is the goal of the digital library in his article published in 2005. He summarizes that “ information providers have designed enhanced gateway and navigation services on the interface side and also introduced federation mechanisms to assist users through the distributed, heterogeneous information environment” (Mischo,2005). Also, he introduces the history of DLI, the federal movement for developing effective tools for retrieval.

Next, I strongly agree with the opinion of the authors of Dewey Meets Turing. Since starting to study the Library Science, I have heard many complaints about roles of librarians in the digital era. Some say that there are invasion from other disciplines and machines, but we already have answers about the problems. According to Dewey Meets Turing, librarians should persist their unique and traditional roles such as resource organization, collation, and presentation, and the importance of a curating service is increasing dramatically.

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Week10 Reading Note

XML is an acronym of Extensible Markup language and is used for encoding information to machine readable formats. XML is usually compared with HTML, but they are clearly different purposes. HTML is for displaying content and XML is for encoding content itself. For example, in HTML environment, a machine can just display or represent ‘FORD’ with some specific font style and size according to the rule by established by HTML tag, but a machine can understand ‘FORD’ as an auto-maker thanks to the XML tag in the XML environment. This is significant because we need to co-relate information for better digital information environment. In this view, we can say that XML assists to achieve semantic web, and the ontology could have been developed based on XML.

After reading these three reading materials, I realized that there are a lot of studying materials about XML in online. I, literally, experienced why a user needs effective and efficient information retrieving tools to find the resource for his/her information needs.

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HTML is a markup language for content presentation on the World Wide Web. This purpose is to support encoding the content including the various multimedia methods and providing human and machine readable syntax. And its wide usage promoting by W3 consortium assists interoperability between different application interfaces. We already examine this interoperability through the lab exercise for week 8. The HTML document encodes the content with elements and their attributes which specify a use of an element. However, the fifth version of HTML, HTML 5, is still working on the progress by a cooperation work between W3C and
the WHATWG, and it has several reinforcements comparing with the previous version of HTML 4 in many ways. Those reinforcements include below;

*New Elements
*New Attributes
*Full CSS3 Support
*Video and Audio
*2D/3D Graphics
*Local Storage
*Local SQL Database

*Web Applications (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5)

XTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language, and it has characteristics of XML and HTML, together. There are several differences in XHTML from HTML, and they are “XHTML elements must be properly nested, XHTML elements must always be closed, XHTML elements must be in lowercase, and XHTML documents must have one root element" ( http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_xhtml.asp).

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