Saturday, November 20, 2010

Reading Notes for 11/22/2010

David Hawking , Web Search Engines: Part 1 and Part 2 IEEE Computer, June 2006.

    This information is vital in understanding how to tackle various threats to the PC.  As librarians, I was wondering if there is anything that we can do more than a simple virus scan.  What else we can do as information professionals in order to contribute to the war on various Trojans? 

2) Shreeves, S. L., Habing, T. O., Hagedorn, K., & Young, J. A. (2005). Current developments and future trends for the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting. Library Trends, 53(4), 576-589: http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/609/Shreeves_CurrentFutureTrends.pdf?sequence=2

I learned from this article how OAI-PMH will allow users to search many catalogs and repositories simultaneously. However, the different metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies used in the harvested catalogs and repositories could be the main barrier.  However, the expansions made on OAI-PMH gives a new hope for overcoming these barriers using a consistent approach. 

3) MICHAEL K. BERGMAN. “The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value” http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html
 
      I learned from this article how much we are missing out when we conduct our searches via Google.  That’s why librarians should further understand and implement Deep Web, such as searching electronic resources for patrons. However, I think that Google Scholar somewhat allows librarians and users to search the web as well as scholarly electronic resources in the same time. But still the user needs access to these electronic resources via library account as these resources needs subscription fees to be accessed.


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