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Notes from today, and reading and blogging assignments for Thursday, April 25

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed the rationale for documentation and citation, as well as the “link rot” phenomenon and various aspects of documentation from the Hauptman article. Slides from today are available here. On Thursday we will continue our discussion on documentation … Continue reading →

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Notes from today 4/11, and assignments for Tuesday 4/16

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed the evaluation of sources in any format and how to evaluate. Slides from today are available here. In class we crowdsourced criteria for evaluation using sync.in and put together a checklist of the best criteria, arriving at … Continue reading →

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Notes from today (4/9) and reading/blogging homework for Thursday 4/11

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we wrapped up the Finding Information and Media section of the course with a discussion on finding articles in library databases. Slides from today are available here. Some library databases that I recommend (some of which we searched in … Continue reading →

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Notes from today (4/4) and reading and writing assignments for Tuesday, April 9

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed how to find information in library catalogs. Your searches in class should have produced some results — be sure you document your findings somehow, in EasyBib or another citation manager, by email or text message, or by … Continue reading →

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Notes from today (3/21) and reading and blogging assignments for Thursday, April 4

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today’s topic was advanced internet searching. You all had the opportunity to search for (and hopefully find!) scholarly information sources on your research topics. You may have used Google scholar, or perhaps tried another online archive of scholarly sources; Badke … Continue reading →

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4 important parts of a search engine

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Bryan

If we want to find specified information in a database, the most common method to use would be the search engine, otherwise known as an information retrieval (IR) system. Examples of search engines include Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Blekko, and many … Continue reading →

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Badke: Ch.2 Taking Charge

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Jovi

Badke said ” plan your research as a strategy rather than as a mad dash through libraries and databases”. This statement will help me stay calm and own my reasearch.  The way I interpret a working knowledge is studying research … Continue reading →

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Liddy: How a Search Engine Works

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Jovi

I know the Internet, but not about the ‘intranet’. I know the prefix ‘intra’ has to do with ‘within’ a noun, in this case, the Web. Isn’t a finding engine and a search engine the same thing essentially? Document processors … Continue reading →

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Rising Folksonomies

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Bryan

Folksonomy is frequently prevalent nowadays, considering masses of people are on social media websites. The classic use, basically, of folksonomy, is for users create their own set of tags to classify their entries or photos. ‘Facebook’ is the most trending … Continue reading →

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Notes from today (3/7) and reading/blogging assignments for Tuesday, March 12

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed metadata – data about data – as well as taxonomies and folksonomies. Slides from today are available here. If you’re still slightly puzzled by the concepts of metadata and controlled vocabularies, review Badke chapter 4 — it … Continue reading →

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