Wednesday, December 23, 2009

11. References and resources

My blog URL: http://www.spangis.blogspot.com/

DITA website exercise:  http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~abhp645

Javascript exercise:  http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~abhp645/javascript.html

References:

Belkin, NJ, Oddy, RN and Brooks, HM (1982) ASK for Information Retrieval part 1. Journal of Documentation 38(2) p61-71. http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~belkin/articles/Belkin%20ASK%20p1.pdf [2.62Mb] [accessed 23 December 2009]

Brin, S and Page, L (1998) The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. Proceedings of the 7th World Wide Web Conference http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf [accessed 23 December 2009]

Day, M (2001) Metadata in a nutshell. Information Europe 6(2), p 11. Draft available online: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/nutshell [accessed 23 December 2009]

Meyer, E (2000) What Makes CSS So Great? O’Reillynet http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/07/21/magazine/css_intro.html?page=1 [accessed 23 December 2009]

Morville, P and Rosenfeld, L (2007) Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O’Reilly.

Oliver, S (2008) How the Semantic Web Will Change Information Management: Three Predictions
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/3327 [accessed 23 December 2009]

University College London (2008) Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future – A Ciber briefing paper http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/downloads/ggexecutive.pdf [1.7Mb][accessed 23 December 2009]

Resources:

Archives Hub http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/arch/ead.shtml - Encoded Archival Description (EAD) [accessed 23 December 2009]

Bibliography and referencing packages http://www.endnote.com/ and http://www.refworks.com/ [accessed 23 December 2009]

CERN http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/WebWork-en.html - How the web works [accessed 23 December 2009]

Copyright free images from  http://www.copyrightfreephotos.com/ and http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ [accessed 23 December 2009]

CSS Zen Garden http://www.csszengarden.com/ - Samples of cascading style sheets [accessed 23 December 2009]

DARPA and the Internet Revolution by Mitch Waldrop http://www.darpa.mil/Docs/Internet_Development_200807180909255.pdf - History of the Internet [accessed 23 December 2009]

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative http://dublincore.org/ [accessed 23 December 2009]

Google Search Operators http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html [accessed 23 December 2009]

InfoDesign (2004) http://www.informationdesign.org/special/wurman_interview.htm - Interview with Richard Saul Wurman [accessed 23 December 2009]

Meyerweb http://meyerweb.com/eric/css - CSS resources from Eric Meyer’s website [accessed 23 December 2009]

Midomi http://www.midomi.com/ - Search for music using your voice by humming or singing [accessed 23 December 2009]

My IP Number http://www.myipnumber.com/ - Find out your Internet Protocol address/number [accessed 23 December 2009]

National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/selecting-file-formats.pdf - Digital preservation guidance: selecting file formats for long term preservation [accessed 23 December 2009]

Opera http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-tables/ - 2008 figures showing how many websites use table layout [accessed 23 December 2009]

Problem Site http://www.theproblemsite.com/codes/binary.asp - Text to binary encoder [accessed 23 December 2009]

RNIB http://www.rnib.org.uk/PROFESSIONALS/WEBACCESSIBILITY/Pages/web_accessibility.aspx - web accessibility guide [accessed 23 December 2009]

Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/2168031 - Explains how search engines work [accessed 23 December 2009]

Technical dictionary http://dictionary.zdnet.com/ and http://www.techterms.com/ [accessed 23 December 2009]

W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee - Biography of Sir Tim Berners-Lee [accessed 23 December 2009]

W3C http://www.w3.org/2001/sw - Interviews with Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web [accessed 23 December 2009]

W3C http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_input+with_options - CSS validator [accessed 23 December 2009]

Web building tutorials and tips including HTML, XML and Javascript http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://www.webmonkey.com/ [accessed 23 December 2009]

Web Design Practices http://www.webdesignpractices.com/navigation/facets.html - Faceted classification as found in shopping websites [accessed 23 December 2009]

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFmSlFojIw - Binary in 60 seconds [accessed 23 December 2009]

Zetoc http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ - British Library database of journals and conference proceedings [accessed 23 December 2009]