So much of this seems obvious now, but this article is ten years old. It may well be that this influenced how systems work now.Arms, William. "Chapter 6: Economic and legal issues," in Digital Libraries, MIT Press, 2000.
"Technology can contribute to the solutions, but it can not resolve economic or social issues."Arms, William. "Chapter 7: Access management and security," in Digital Libraries, MIT Press, 2000.
Huh? Technology has done wonders for economic and social issues. Maybe this is a symptom of this being such an old text (relatively speaking) but even in 1999 people were recognizing the economic and social power of technology - particularly the Internet. The "dot-com bubble" was in full force in 1999!
"Data on many personal computers is unprotected except by physical access; anybody who has access to the computer can read the data."Lesk, Michael. "Chapter 9: Economics" in Understanding Digital Libraries, 2005.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of this. I know it's not true now - I'm not entirely sure it was true in 1999. It rather depends on the operating system, and there's also encryption. Anyway, I didn't learn anything new from this chapter.
This, by far, is the most interesting of the readings for the week - it's the most current and the most relevant. It's very interesting that we haven't resolved these issues yet. And I don't have the answers, either.Muddiest Point: None
Given my computer science background, I don't see many surprises here, but it's still very interesting reading. The amount of power and equipment needed to do this is always surprising, though - just as a matter of magnitude.Hawking, David. "How Things Work: Web Search Engines: Part 2." Computer August 2006, Link
The mathematics here make my head spin and make me glad that I'm not a programmer. That said, it seems unfortunate to me that this is the end of this series on search engines - assuming, of course, that it is.Henzinger, Monika R., Rajeev Motwani, and Craig Silverstein. "Challenges in Web Search Engines." ACM SIGIR Forum Vol 36 No 2, Fall 2002,
This article is strictly about under-researched search engine problems: spam, content quality, quality evaluation, web conventions (i.e. standard practices), duplicate hosts, and vaguely-structured data. Essentially, what I get out of this article is that the web is still rather chaotic, so search engines aren't easy.
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The Scorpion Open Source project offers software that implements a system for automatically classifying Web-accessible text documents. Scorpion is intended for use by investigators who have a machine-readable subject classification scheme or thesaurus and wish to incorporate it into an automatic classification system.CyberStacks
CyberStacks(sm) is a centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant World Wide Web (WWW) and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme. Resources are organized under one or more relevant Library of Congress class numbers and an associated publication format and subject description. The majority of resources incorporated within its collection are monographic or serial works, files, databases or search services. All of the selected resources in CyberStacks(sm) are full-text, hypertext, or, hypermedia, and of a research or scholarly nature.Dublin Core
European Library Treasures Web Exhibition
- Task:
- Propose, plan and develop a prototype digital collection, using Open Source software (e.g., Greenstone, DSpace, Fedora, Ruby on Rails).
- Requirements:
- Address the need of a group of real users
- Include at least three collections and at least one other media format in addition to text (minimally 25 documents total).
