Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Week 10: Open URL
1. I searched on Google Scholar and found an article “Fingerprints of Global Warming on Wild Animals and Plants”.
2. I entered the information from my Google Scholar citation in the Citation Finder form. The Citation Finder then returns the same search result as that from the Google Scholar. When I changed one piece of info, I was still able to get the citation for this article. But it was inaccurate with the wrong metadata elements—with whatever I had altered, such as vol. issue, page, etc. I’m still confused about this. I noticed that people posted different search results on their blog. What is the cause of this great variation?
3. The following is the citation and the OpenURL in the text box. I don’t quite understand all the acronyms and parameters. But I can see that each citation element is embedded in the OpenURL. It has 3 components: the base URL of CSUF’s link resolver, an identifier for sfxit.com:citation as the OpenURL source (“origin-description”), and the article citation metadata (“object-description”).
"Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants." Nature 421.6918 (2003):57.
http://sfx.calstate.edu:9003/fullerton?ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&ctx_tim=2009-5-06T16%3A46%3A54PDT&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsfxit.com%3Acitation&rft.atitle=Fingerprints%20of%20global%20warming%20on%20wild%20animals%20and%20plants&rft.date=2003&rft.genre=article&rft.issn=0028-0836&rft.issue=6918&rft.jtitle=nature&rft.spage=57&rft.volume=421&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Aarticle&sfx.title_search=exact&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&url_ver=Z39.88-2004
Friday, May 8, 2009
Week 9: Wiki Wiki
But the same features that make wiki great also present a dark side. While a workplace wiki can be controlled by appointing an “editor-in-chief”, managing a large public wiki could be a challenge. Once content is out of control, quality problems would occur, such as wrong information, hacked entries, marketing entries, etc. Wikipedia is a wonderful source of information, but I use it only for quick reference. For important research, I’ll try to obtain info somewhere else.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Week 8: Cloud Computing
Friday, April 24, 2009
Week 7: Social Bookmarking and Tagging
Like any technology, social bookmarking has its share of shortcomings. This tag-based system has no standard set of keywords and can be subject to errors or ambiguity. I don’t particularly like sharing personal bookmarks with people I don’t know. Because I am concerned about privacy, I will make those bookmarks private so that they are only viewable by me.
I have a problem with my Delicious account. When I use Internet Explorer to add bookmarks, Delicious keeps asking me to log in. I wonder if anybody else also encounters this problem and knows how to fix it.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Week 6: Beyond Internet Explorer
I have Firefox on my office computer, and I downloaded and installed a Google toolbar—as required by this training program. I first installed Firefox on my home computer because IE crashed very often for no reason. Firefox definitely performs better than IE in this regard.
The two browsers both look very good. IE 7 thoughtfully offers more customization than in the past, such as the ability to add more search engines to its search field. Firefox's open-source status and myriad add-ons give it a community edge over IE 7. Firefox is very adaptable and customizable between all of its add-ons and themes. At this point, I am not very familiar with Firefox. For point-to-point comparison of these two browsers, I need more time to study their detailed features.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Week 5: Jing
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Week 4 Photo Sharing
We may upload, title, describe, tag, and organize library photos on Flickr to advertise our services, such as a virtual tour of library facility, a collection of photos showing the history of the Library, a gallery of our special collection items, etc.