My "muddiest point" this week is installing and running greenstone. It appears that the only version available for mac is the web version, which requires me to download a web server called Apache...I've done so but am not sure what to do with Apache.
Maybe I am making things way more complicated than necessary, but some help would be appreciated!
Showing posts with label week 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week 3. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Reading Notes week 3
I don't have all of the readings in front of me at the moment, so I'm going to just do a brief commentary on them as a whole.
I have to say that I'm still confused by the concept of DOI's. Unfortunately I read the Lynch article last...I feel like reading that one first would have perhaps made things a bit clearer. I understand the motivation behind developing a DOI system, in particular the concept of persistence. However, I do not necessarily how they would work. Lynch raised some good points that helped me to understand that this system is not yet fully fleshed out, and that was helpful. In particular the statement that "Today's standard browsers do not yet understand URNs and how to invoke resolvers to convert them to URLs, but hopefully this support will be forthcoming in the not too distant future."
I suppose one of the main things that confused me was the need for something similar to an ISBN for digital content. Perhaps (probably) I am over-simplifying things, but it seems to me that an ISBN or ISSN are necessary because large numbers of copies exist for printed works. For most digital content, only one or a small few copies exist and this/these can be accessed by multiple users concurrently. To be honest, I am not well versed in Intellectual Property or Copyright issues at all, and this is probably what is confusing me the most.
Another thing that stood out to me was the issue of not being able to learn an object's DOI unless the object carries it as a label. If I wanted to know the ISBN of a particular book, there are ways for me to find it by searching with other, known identifiers such as the title. It seems to me that there is a huge issue in general with the naming of web-based content. Digital files can be given filenames that could serve as some sort of searchable identifier, but in general web pages and sites that host digital content are haphazardly named and authoring information is inconsistently revealed, if at all.
Lesk and Arms Chapter 9 were straightforward and I do not really have much to say about them. In particular, Arms provided a good refresher for me on some concepts that I am somewhat familiar with, but could always learn more about!
I hope this was sufficient for this week's posting...
I have to say that I'm still confused by the concept of DOI's. Unfortunately I read the Lynch article last...I feel like reading that one first would have perhaps made things a bit clearer. I understand the motivation behind developing a DOI system, in particular the concept of persistence. However, I do not necessarily how they would work. Lynch raised some good points that helped me to understand that this system is not yet fully fleshed out, and that was helpful. In particular the statement that "Today's standard browsers do not yet understand URNs and how to invoke resolvers to convert them to URLs, but hopefully this support will be forthcoming in the not too distant future."
I suppose one of the main things that confused me was the need for something similar to an ISBN for digital content. Perhaps (probably) I am over-simplifying things, but it seems to me that an ISBN or ISSN are necessary because large numbers of copies exist for printed works. For most digital content, only one or a small few copies exist and this/these can be accessed by multiple users concurrently. To be honest, I am not well versed in Intellectual Property or Copyright issues at all, and this is probably what is confusing me the most.
Another thing that stood out to me was the issue of not being able to learn an object's DOI unless the object carries it as a label. If I wanted to know the ISBN of a particular book, there are ways for me to find it by searching with other, known identifiers such as the title. It seems to me that there is a huge issue in general with the naming of web-based content. Digital files can be given filenames that could serve as some sort of searchable identifier, but in general web pages and sites that host digital content are haphazardly named and authoring information is inconsistently revealed, if at all.
Lesk and Arms Chapter 9 were straightforward and I do not really have much to say about them. In particular, Arms provided a good refresher for me on some concepts that I am somewhat familiar with, but could always learn more about!
I hope this was sufficient for this week's posting...
Muddiest Point - Week 3
I am still rather confused over the issue of using copyrighted materials for our term projects. It would be great if someone could go into detail about what types of materials are appropriate/ok to use and what are not...
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