Week 13 Require Readings

http://www.noplacetohide.net/
This is from the Center for Investigative Reporting, which did a radio and television documentary on the use of intelligence gathering on citizens by the government. It has a variety of interviews from the documentary. It is also a book by Robert J. O'Harrow, Jr. The existence of the networks to track people and their purchases doesn't surprise me. When you get a credit report to buy a car, or rent an apartment your landlord can see every credit card, student loan, or late payment. I wanted to listen to the documentary but it was only in Real Audio format and I don't have the Real Audio player installed on my computer. If you have a public blog, myspace, facebook or any other social networking site, its no longer astonishing to find out employers will look for these when hiring new employees, or that they may be used for data mining.
The website did not note the last time it was updated.

http://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/#introduction
Total (Terrorism) Infromation Awareness (TIA) Last update in 2005.
This is about system that would collect informaiton on citizens without any prior reason or wrongdoing. It wouldn't give people the right to be left alone. It would have housed peoples medical records, to their gait, and would have been able to recognize a persons face from a distance. The government cut the funding for this data mining program in2003. The article points out that it doesn't mean they have stopped producing this kind of database.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ywG5M_NQ - This video is no longer avaliable due to a copyright violation.

Discussion Topic Readings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ywG5M_NQ - Is Privacy Dead?

Possible to protect privacy and security at the same time. One example is using the "naked' x-ray machine by projecting the contraband on a sexless manaquin. I thought it was interesting the point he made that people want to control their exposure and not their privacy. Even with the use of cameras, I know recently it was a hot topic in Pittsburgh. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07178/797429-53.stm
Here is a link from a local blog on the project: http://pittsblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/pittsburgh-panopticon.html

Final Post

I believe I have my 10 required readings, 10 muddiest points, and my 10 comments on other classmates' blogs. I have enjoyed keeping this blog. However, I noticed that when I was doing the readings and writing the blogs . . . I would travel to other websites. Readings that should have taken less time suddenly took more time to read. I recently listened to the NPR broadcast that kind of explained why it might be taking me longer to get readings done while on the internet. Here is a link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95524385

Week 11 Comments

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Muddiest Point Week 10

I have a question about controlled vocabulary, I realize this might be a little off topic. When a term in a controlled vocabulary is changed, do the indexers use a find and replace to update the term in the indexed documents? If a new term is added, is it possible to go back through a database and add the new term to other documents it might describe without rereading every document?

Not a muddy point, but a comment on Yahoo's old style of categories that was mentioned in class. . . I can remember in late 90's I had submitted a website to Yahoo's search engine. If I remember correctly, I had to select the subjects it fell under.

Assignment 6

Here is the link to my website:

http://www.pitt.edu/~jasst282/

Muddiest Point Week 9

When an XML document is not well formed, what happens? Do you get an error message that lets you know what element might have been left out?

Required Readings Week 11

Here is a link to the PA Digital Library.
http://padl.pitt.edu/index.php/index

Dewy Meets Turing
In this article the advantages gained by the computer science (CS) field and the library science (LS) world are discussed. These were a direct result of the National Science Foundations launch of the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI). The DLI changed the way we use digital resources.

CS were able to impact the daily lives of library users, such as moving the card catalog from the shelf to the web. This has led to instant access/locateability of resources from around the world. It has also led to information being published at a greater speed. Instead of the lag between a scholarly article being accepted for publication and published being a year, it can now be published instantly.

Libraries thought they would be able to gain funding for these projects because of the DLI. However, they ended up feeling like the computer science field used all of the grants.

There were problems between the CS and LS fields. CS couldn't understand the importance of fields for metadata. They thought a simple search algorithm would take care of the problem.

Digital Libraries
This article describes the growth of digital libraries and the sources for funding. A major accomplishment of the DLI is the creation of standards in digital libraries. This program also had a hand in creating Google and the Open Archives Initiative for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

The project at Illinois involved the use of scholarly journals on the web. Current online journals still use some of the innovations that came out of the project.

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure fo Scholarship in the Digital Age.

Universities are now keeping a repository of works authors publish. MIT developed open source software for repositories of papers, which lowers the cost of producing this type of database.

The author has concerns that policy might make placing information into the repository more work. However, these depositories will perhaps create standards for preservable formats, identifiers, and Rights Documentation and management.

When searching for a journal article that Pitt might not have, I never thought to look at the institution where a author works. I often searched to see if they had a web page.