Readings for week 8

Lynch, Clifford A. (1997). The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard, Part 1: A Strategic View of its Past, Present, and Future. D-Lib Magazine, April 1997.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april97/04lynch.html



My note:

A very good article that talks about the Z39.50 standard. It explains the Z39.50 standard and the time line of it and the role of content semantics in Z39.50. It also talks about its development and its versions. I found this article worth to read.

Muddiest point week 8

I have no muddy point for this week.

Readings for week 7

M. Henzinger et al. challenges in Web Search Engines. ACM SIGIR 2002.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=792553

My note:

With this increasing of data every day, it is a challenge for the search engines to control this amount of data. Some problems in information retrieval for the web search engines have been discussed clearly. It is a very good article that talks about this issue.

Muddiest point for week 7

I have no muddy point for this week

Readings for week 6

Margaret Hedstrom “Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation”

http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/paper_hedstrom.pdf

My note:

A good article focusing in this issue. It is a very huge challenge that faces libraries, what makes it worse is the fast growing of digitization.
The question was how to digitize? And now, how to preserve what we have digitized (and also what will be digitized in future) especially for long period of time? Many aspects are involved: economic, social, and institutional as technological.

Muddiest point for week 6

I hove no muddy point this week.