Here is the link to my Koha list. I chose Shakespeare as my topic. The books on my list have to do with his plays, literary criticism and acting. One of them, "1001 Insults, Putdowns and Comebacks" is a hilarious book that takes humorous quotes from Shakespeare and other greats and puts them into a list of the best insults in literature.
My Koha list
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Week 9 Reading
Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
XML is a way to personalize one's documents and sites. Elements are marked, much in the way that things are tagged online. The fact that XML does not provide predefined set of tags or standardized template for documents increases the amount of personalization XML offers.
Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1
This article also highlights the personalization possible in XML. It contains a list of different XML types, as well as different standards. It also mentions "the XML is celebrated for its activity in creating informal but important standards to fill gaps left by the big organizations." This reminds me of Linux, in which the user can choose their "flavor" of operating system, and users are constantly improving and building upon their systems.
Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz
This article claims that XML Schemas are preferable to DTD because...
XML is a way to personalize one's documents and sites. Elements are marked, much in the way that things are tagged online. The fact that XML does not provide predefined set of tags or standardized template for documents increases the amount of personalization XML offers.
Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1
This article also highlights the personalization possible in XML. It contains a list of different XML types, as well as different standards. It also mentions "the XML is celebrated for its activity in creating informal but important standards to fill gaps left by the big organizations." This reminds me of Linux, in which the user can choose their "flavor" of operating system, and users are constantly improving and building upon their systems.
Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz
- "Meaningful annotation is, in essence, what XML is all about." This makes sense to me.
- "It’s easiest to think of a DTD as a context-free grammar." This, however, does not. How can grammar not have a context? As a former English major, my concept of grammar has everything to do with organizing elements (in this case, words) in a way which will make sense to the reader. This cannot be done without a given context.
This article claims that XML Schemas are preferable to DTD because...
- You don't have to learn a new language
- You can use your XML editor to edit your Schema files
- You can use your XML parser to parse your Schema files
- You can manipulate your Schema with the XML DOM
- You can transform your Schema with XSLT
Week 8 Muddiest Point
How does HTML code recognize color? How does it decide what shade of a certain color is the color in the code?
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Week 8 Readings
W3schools HTML Tutorial
At first I thought that I knew absolutely noting about HTML. That is still pretty much true. But there were a couple of things that did look familiar from -and I'm embarrassed to admit this- LiveJournal. While using LJ, people use simple html a lot. They use HTML to make "cuts" on their journal that will take them from a brief description of what their journal post is about to an extended entry. This makes the initial post smaller, which is vital to LJ. People on LJ usually have a very long "friends lists" that shows all the posts of each of their friends. These posts need to be short so that people can quickly scroll through their "flist" and choose which posts they want to delve deeper into. If a LJ user makes a very long post on their journal or on a community's journal without any cuts, you can bet they will get comments saying "CUT PLEASE!"
HTML Cheatsheet
This is much clearer than the first guide. I could see this being very useful for starting off with HTML.
W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial
It seems like CSS is in improvement on HTML for 2 reasons
1. It gives you the ability to give your backgrounds pictures and general richer visuals
2. More options when it comes to borders, outlines, lists, and tables.
Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system.
It is encouraging that librarians were involved in developing their web guides. So often we are more or less at the mercy of the technology that we have to use. If we do not like our database, if our website isn't user friendly, tough luck, we're told. In this instance, the librarians and web developers designed something that will surely make it easier for librarians and their patrons to access information.
At first I thought that I knew absolutely noting about HTML. That is still pretty much true. But there were a couple of things that did look familiar from -and I'm embarrassed to admit this- LiveJournal. While using LJ, people use simple html a lot. They use HTML to make "cuts" on their journal that will take them from a brief description of what their journal post is about to an extended entry. This makes the initial post smaller, which is vital to LJ. People on LJ usually have a very long "friends lists" that shows all the posts of each of their friends. These posts need to be short so that people can quickly scroll through their "flist" and choose which posts they want to delve deeper into. If a LJ user makes a very long post on their journal or on a community's journal without any cuts, you can bet they will get comments saying "CUT PLEASE!"
HTML Cheatsheet
This is much clearer than the first guide. I could see this being very useful for starting off with HTML.
W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial
It seems like CSS is in improvement on HTML for 2 reasons
1. It gives you the ability to give your backgrounds pictures and general richer visuals
2. More options when it comes to borders, outlines, lists, and tables.
Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system.
It is encouraging that librarians were involved in developing their web guides. So often we are more or less at the mercy of the technology that we have to use. If we do not like our database, if our website isn't user friendly, tough luck, we're told. In this instance, the librarians and web developers designed something that will surely make it easier for librarians and their patrons to access information.
Week 7 Muddiest Point
I heard from the NPR news/quiz show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me that the "://" part of the URL is arbitrary and does not really serve any purpose. Are there other parts of HTTP that are superfluous or perhaps redundant?
Friday, October 16, 2009
Week 7 Comments
Instead of commenting on classmate's readings, I decided to watch their Jing videos.
Comment on Casey C.'s video:
http://cac160.blogspot.com/2009/10/assignment-4.html
Comment on Sara C.'s video
http://lis2600infotechnology.blogspot.com/2009/10/jing-assignment.html
Comment on Casey C.'s video:
http://cac160.blogspot.com/2009/10/assignment-4.html
Comment on Sara C.'s video
http://lis2600infotechnology.blogspot.com/2009/10/jing-assignment.html
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