must move towards a model with comprehensive mobile access to online services
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IMT122 Reading List Supplementary Reading Week 03 How it all works Topic 03 IMT122
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The Internet of Things. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEbMV295Kk&feature=youtube_gdata_player How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes. (2009). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc&feature=youtube_gdata_player How Bittorrent works. (2007). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66BV2pIjfBM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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the Library may look to harness the potential of these technologies to break away from the traditional broadcast-only website presence and move towards two-way conversations between the Library and its users, or conversations between the users themselves
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the key objectives stated in the Information Technology Strategic Plan 2012-2015 include Online Presence and supporting “the needs of our users for easy discovery of, access to, and engagement with our services, collections and other information resources in the digital environment”
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Putting Library resources into the hands of users in their lounge rooms reflects a deeper understanding of the need to move beyond the desire to follow our users and instead reach out to them to “take them some place new
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building both infrastructure and a culture of engagement will pave the way to more efficiently and effectively meeting that need in the future
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Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
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Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
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Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
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Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
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Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
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Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing of development work, administrative models, and potential for partial cost-recovery
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Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes. Identify
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Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) content
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developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications in general
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Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
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Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
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Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
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Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
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Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
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Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
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Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
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Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
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Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
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Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
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Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
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Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
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Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
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Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes
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Investigate infrastructure and resourcing requirements for digital recording and distribution to ensure the long-term sustainability of online broadcast activity
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Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
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Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) conten
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developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications
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Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes
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Before we began our work on the Commons on Flickr, some museum colleagues were concerned that engaging with the Flickr community would increase workloads greatly. While the monitoring of the site does take some work, the value gained via the users has far outweighed any extra effort. In some cases, users have dated images for us.
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In subsequent use of the Flickr API, we appropriated tags users had added to our images, and now include them in our own collection database website (OPAC). We also retrieved geo-location data added to our images for use in third party apps like Sepiatown and Layar.
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So consider the questions above not in the context of should we or shouldn't we put our data online (via an API or otherwise) but rather in the context of managing expectations of the data's uptake.
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several important things which had to happen before we could provide a public web API. The first was the need to determine the licence status of our content.
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The drive to open up the licensing of our content came when, on a tour we conducted of the Museum's collection storage facilities for some Wikipedian
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This prompted Seb Chan to make the changes required to make our online collection documentation available under a mix of Creative Commons licences. (Chan, April 2009)
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Opening up the licensing had another benefit: it meant that we had already cleared one hurdle in the path to creating an API.
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The Government 2.0 Taskforce (http://gov2.net.au/about/) was the driver leading us to take the next step.
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"increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to promote transparency, innovation and value adding to government information"
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The great thing about this use is that it exposes the Museum and its collection to the academic sector, enlightening them regarding potential career options in the cultural sector.
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I will briefly mention some of the technical aspects of the API now for those interested. In line with industry best practice the Powerhouse Museum is moving more and more to open-source based hosting and so we chose a Linux platform for serving the API
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Images are served from the cloud as we had already moved them there for our OPAC, to reduce outgoing bandwidth from the Museum's network.
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Once we had the API up and running, we realised it would not be too much work to make a WordPress plug-in which allowed bloggers to add objects from our collection to their blogs or blog posts. Once built, this was tested internally on our own blogs. Then in early 2011 we added it to the WordPress plugin directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerhouse-museum-collection-image-grid/
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It is also worth noting that since the API requests usually do not generate pages that are rendered in a browser it is not possible to embed Google Analytics tracking scripts in the API's output.
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y requiring people to sign up using a valid email address before requesting an API key we are able to track API use back to individuals or organisations.
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Concerns that people would use the API inappropriately were dealt with by adding a limit to the number of requests per hour each key can generate
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An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software program
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Dearnley, L. (2011). Repreogramming the museum. In Museums and the Web 2011 : Proceedings. Presented at the Museums and the Web 2011, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. Retrieved from http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/papers/reprogramming_the_museum
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The Safer Internet Group brings together a diverse group of stakeholders who all share the goal of developing the Internet as a platform for education, communication and economic activity.
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Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that Internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online, while ensuring that the benefits of the open Internet are available to all Australians.
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Safer Internet Group (2009) 5 Point Plan. Retrieved from http://www.saferinternetgroup.org/5pointplan.html (The Australian Library and Information Association is one of the members of the Safer Internet Group)
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Companies and information: The leaky corporation | The Economist - 0 views
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the WikiLeaks threat and the persistent leaking of other supposedly confidential corporate information have brought an important issue to the fore.
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Companies are creating an ever-growing pile of digital information, from product designs to employees' e-mails.
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Much of this information would do little damage if it seeped into the outside world; some of it, indeed, might well do some good. But some could also be valuable to competitors—or simply embarrassing—and needs to be protected. Companies therefore have to decide what they should try to keep to themselves and how best to secure it.
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To be able to work better with data, employees often transfer them into spreadsheets and other types of files that are easier to manipulate—but also easier to lose control of.
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“bells in the dark”. False records—made-up pieces of e-mail, say—are spread around the network. Because they are false, no one should gain access to them. If somebody does, an alarm is triggered
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In the corporate world, to limit the channels through which data can escape, some companies do not allow employees to bring their own gear to work or to use memory sticks or certain online services.
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Transparency is not just a natural inclination but a necessity, says Mitchell Baker, who chairs the foundation. If Mozilla kept its cards close to the chest, its global community of developers would not and could not help write the program. So it keeps secrets to a minimum: employees' personal information, data that business partners do not want made public and security issues in its software.
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IMT122 Reading List Supplementary Reading Week 04 Google Search Topic 04 IMT122 How Google works
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Web-based academic search engines such as CiteSeer(X), Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search and SciPlore have introduced a new era of search for academic articles.
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With classic digital libraries, researchers have no influence on getting their articles indexed. They either have published in a publication indexed by a digital library, and then their article is available in that digital library, or they have not
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citation counts obtained from Google Scholar are sometimes used to evaluate the impact of articles and their authors.
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Citation counts are commonly used to evaluate the impact and performance of researchers and their articles.
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Nowadays, citation counts from Web-based academic search engines are also used for impact evaluations.
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Most academic search engines offer features such as showing articles cited by an article, or showing related articles to a given article. Citation spam could bring more articles from manipulating researchers onto more of these lists.
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It is apparent that a citation from a PowerPoint presentation or thesis proposal has less value than a citation in a peer reviewed academic article. However, Google does not distinguish on its website between these different origins of citations[8].
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Google Scholar indexes Wikipedia articles when the article is available as PDF on a third party website.
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That means, again, that not all citations on Google Scholar are what we call ‘full-value’ citations.
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As long as Google Scholar applies only very rudimentary or no mechanisms to detect and prevent spam, citation counts should be used with care to evaluate articles’ and researchers’ impact.
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However, Google Scholar is a Web-based academic search engine and as with all Web-based search engines, the linked content should not be trusted blindly.
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imt122 Supplementary Reading Other Resources Libraries Technologies Cloud cloud computing Computing works research
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We experienced freedom to explore alternate avenues, to innovate, to take risks in ways that would have been difficult under the direct control of a district council.
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patrons made it clear that while they appreciated that computers were a necessary part of a modern library, they did not consider them the most important part.
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Our overall objective was to source a library system which: could be installed before Y2K complications immobilised us, was economical, in terms of both initial purchase and future license and maintenance support fees, ran effectively and fast by dial-up modem on an ordinary telephone line, used up-to-the minute technologies, looked good, and was easy for both staff and public to use, took advantage of new technology to permit members to access our catalogue and their own records from home, and let us link easily to other sources of information – other databases and the Internet. If we could achieve all of these objectives, we’d be well on the way to an excellent service.
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"How hard can it be" Katipo staff wondered, "to write a library system that uses Internet technology?" Well, not very, as it turned out.
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Koha would thus be available to anyone who wanted to try it and had the technical expertise to implement it.
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fairly confident that we already had a high level of IT competence right through the staff, a high level of understanding of what our current system did and did not do.
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ensure the software writers did not miss any key points in their fundamental understanding of the way libraries work.
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The programming we commissioned cost us about 40% of the purchase price of an average turn-key solution.
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Open source projects only survive if a community builds up around the product to ensure its continual improvement. Koha is stronger than ever now, supported by active developers (programmers) and users (librarians)
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There are a range of support options available for Koha, both free and paid, and this has contributed to the overall strength of the Koha project.
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Vendors like Anant, Biblibre, ByWater, Calyx, Catalyst, inLibro, IndServe, Katipo, KohaAloha, LibLime, LibSoul, NCHC, OSSLabs, PakLAG, PTFS, Sabinet, Strategic Data, Tamil and Turo Technology take the code and sell support around the product, develop add-ons and enhancements for their clients and then contribute these back to the project under the terms of the GPL license.
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FRBR [5] arrangement, although of course it wasn’t called that 10 years ago, it was just a logical way for us to arrange the catalogue. A single bibliographic record essentially described the intellectual content, then a bunch of group records were attached, each one representing a specific imprint or publication.
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The release of Koha 3.0 in late 2008 brought Koha completely into the web 2.0 age and all that entails. We are reconciled to taking a small step back for now, but the FRBR logic is around and RDA should see us back where want to be in a year or so – but with all the very exciting features and opportunities that Koha 3 has now.
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In the early days, the Koha list appeared to have been dominated by programmers but I have noticed a lot more librarians participating now
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"Adopt technology that keeps data open and free, abandon[ing] technology that does not." The time is right for OSS.
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For more information about Koha and how it was developed, see: Ransom, J., Cormack, C., & Blake, R. (2009). How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source. Code4Lib Journal, (7). Retrieved from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638
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Week 11 Topic 10 IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Essential Reading Social Media & the Information Professional Policy Social Media
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“Social Media.” includes community created content sites like Blogs, Forums, Flickr, YouTube, Wikis, Social Networks, Twitter and other content sharing sites.
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When you use social media your behaviour and content is not only a reflection of you but also of (our) Library.
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Social Media Do’s Be Professional – Talk the way you would talk to real people in professional situations. Be Courteous – Be sure to listen & ask questions. Be Accurate – Check your facts before you post and provide supporting sources if necessary. Be Useful – Add content because you have something interesting to say, not for the sake of regular posting. Be Intelligent – Provide some value. Don’t talk down. Offer insight. Be Conversational – Avoid overly pedantic or “composed” language. Don’t be afraid to bring in your own personality. Be Non-confrontational – If you disagree, do so respectfully Be Prompt – If you need to moderate or respond to a comment do so as quickly as possible Be Identifiable – Use your real name and do not post anonymously. Be Transparent – Disclose that you work for the library if this is relevant and be honest & truthful. Social Media Don’ts Don’t Share Secrets –If you aren’t sure you can disclose something, just don’t do it. Think about privacy, confidentiality and permission to use other people’s content. Don’t Bad Mouth – Keep the language clean & avoid slamming people or companies. Don’t Complain – If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Don’t do Stupid Things – If it doesn’t help the Library or our community, don’t do it. Don’t Defame – Show everyone respect. Don’t Forget your day job –Social Media can consume you so don’t forget your other duties. Moderate, balanced use is essential.
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Greenhill, K., & Fay, J. (2010, September 10). A social media policy for a one branch public library. Librarians Matter. Retrieved October 1, 2010, from http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2010/09/10/a-social-media-policy-for-a-one-branch-public-library/
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Office of the Auditor General for Western Australia. (2011). Information Systems Audit Report: Summary. Perth, Western Australia. Retrieved from http://www.audit.wa.gov.au/reports/pdfreports/insert2011_04.pdf
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PURL. If one of your machines gets taken out, you can edit the PURL to keep your link working, and shorten it for good measure.
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IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Week 06 Topic 06 Supplementary Reading Databases Libraries
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If you want to retrieve that information, you can use a script to tell the computer to organize the information in a particular way. This is called parsing
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Structured Text As you climb the data food chain, complex systems get developed to organize information.
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Mark-up: Marked information is data that has marks or signals to let a computer distinguish one type of data from the other.
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An array: An array is a type of variable that includes a list used by computer programs for later manipulation.
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An object: Explaining objects in full requires that someone read up on object-oriented programming.
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Tree-based Structures Tree-based structures, or cluster models are a subset of “structured text” data storage models.
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The Relational Model The relational model is better than a tree-model when your dataset is large and complicated. The way it works is, instead of thinking in terms of “parents, siblings and children,” you think in term of relationships.
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the “Primary Key.” This means that every data object (such as a library) has a way of identifying itself in a unique way
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a “Foreign Key.” The Foreign key is a way to associate one dataset (eg. libraries) with another dataset (eg. library branches, hospitals or businesses).
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In more complicated relationships (called the Many-to-Many relationship), you might have to create a third table to associate two entities.
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TEXT/XML Based Text files can be organized in such a way as to accommodate some of the benefits of the relational model.
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SQL/Binary-based Databases The more common relational database type is a piece of software running on a server, rather than a set of text files. They are generally accessed using a standard language called SQL (Structure Query Language), or more specifically SQL as supported by a popular scripting language like PHP, Python or Java.
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Almost any major web application will have a combination of all these types of data storage methods!
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Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium
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Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web.
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Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals.
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Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights.