Competency # 6 Search Library Lit - Citation Pearl Growing

My 'Citation Pearl Growing' search on 'Library Lit' started with 'metadata' within the last 12 months and I received 96 hits.
Narrowing my search by adding 'searching' I received 11 hits.
Finally, including 'multimedia' I obtained one hit.


Result: Miller, R. Multimedia Search Matures...but Not Without Growing Pains. EContent v. 30 no. 5 (June 2007) p. 32-7

Reproduction of the article is prohibited by copyright.

Competency # 6 Dialog - Specific Facet First

I chose ERIC as my DB in a Dialog search. My specific facet was "metadata digital image gps" and I received 0 hits.

Since Eric is a education based information system, the possibility of information related to GPS is very slim. I returned and dropped GPS from my search.

Results: Metadata (402)
Digital (4969)
Image (8635)
GPS (72)

Competency # 9 Internet

Live Science is a great website that utilizes various multimedia concepts to display image galleries, blogs, podcasts and articles related to the world of science. The topics include space, animals, health, environment, technology, history and strange news.

Live Science

Competency # 8 Multimedia

My thanks to J. Heath for including the link to Creative Commons Search where I found this video available for download with a disclaimer stating that is free. If it is found to be useful, they would like for a link to be included.

Link to site: http://search.creativecommons.org

This video was selected because it demonstrates how to build a maintainable image gallery.

Competency # 5 Tagging/Indexing/Cataloging

Tag Cloud for Teaching with Digital Images: Acquire, Analyze, Create, Communicate by Glenn L. Bull.

classroom activities(1) digital(1) digital images(1) EdTech(1) education(2) images(1) Instructional Materials(1) iste(1) literacy(1) location - home(1) location - office(1) methods(1) multimedia(1) non-fiction(1) te(1) teaching(1) technology

I selected this work because of my interest in working with images in the classroom. I spent the day as a substitute teacher this week in a sixth grade technology class. The students were working with images that were selected for inclusion in their yearbook. The students were able to crop photos and add captions. The work is exciting.

Teaching with Digital Images: Acquire, Analyze, Create, Communicate (Paperback) is available from Amazon.com. The author is Glen L. Bull

Amazon Key Phrases: visual think aloud, visual read aloud, logographic cues, Materials Needed, Content Standard, Movie Maker (more...)

http://www.librarything.com/tag/digital+images

Competency # 6 Successive Fraction

Query: What are existing indexing methods for images on the internet?

S1 (bucket or image)

S2 (metadata or tags)

S3 (index or digital)

Results using Academic Search Complete

S1 = 173,300

S1 + S2 = 274

S1 + S2 + S3 = 117

Results using Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts

S1 = 26,394

S1 + S2 = 146

S1 + S2 + S3 = 51

Academic Search Complete provided Higher Recall.

Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts provided Higher Precision.

Highly Pertinent Result from Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts

Title: Location, Location, Location.

Authors: Cardinal, David

Source: PC Magazine; 12/6/2005, Vol. 24 Issue 22, p112-45, 1p, 1c

Abstract: This article describes the process of geocoding, which involves placing or stamping location metadata into the header of one's camera JPEG image transmission tools. Thanks to rapidly growing demand, many tools are now available to help the user merge his off-the-shelf global positioning system (GPS) location data with his digicam images. If the user wants to go the GPS route, he needs a unit that supports recording a track log--essentially a list of locations he passed through--and a software utility that can match the timestamp on his images to the location information on the track log and then help him display and share the results. Before taking the photos, the user needs to make sure his GPS is set up correctly. Remember that the faster the user is traveling, the more frequently he will need track-log entries, since later he will be matching his photos to the approximate location by estimating from those log entries. It is a good idea to take a photo of the GPS displaying its time, so one can calibrate the camera time against the GPS time later.

Highly Pertinent Result from Academic Search Complete:

Title: Towards user-centered indexing in digital image collections.

Authors: Matusiak, Krystyna K.¹

Source: OCLC Systems & Services; 2006, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p283-298, 16p, 5bw

Abstract: Purpose - User-created metadata, often referred to as folksonomy or social classification, has received a considerable amount of attention in the digital library world. Social tagging is perceived as a tool for enhancing description of digital objects and providing a venue for user input and greater user engagement. This article seeks to examine the pros and cons of user-generated metadata in the context of digital image collections and compares it to professionally created metadata schema and controlled vocabulary tools. Design/methodology/approach - The article provides an overview of challenges to concept-based image indexing. It analyzes the characteristics of social classification and compares images described by users to a set of images indexed in a digital collection. Findings - The article finds that user-generated metadata vary in the level of description, accuracy, and consistency and do not provide a solution to the challenges of image indexing. On the other hand, they reflects user's language and can lead toward user-centered indexing and greater user engagement. Practical implications - Social tagging can be implemented as a supplement to professionally created metadata records to provide an opportunity for users to comment on images. Originality/value - The article introduces the idea of user-centered image indexing in digital collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Competency # 7 Social Networking – Second Life & Myspace

Second Life offers an opportunity to visit a world where no distance is too far to travel in the blink of an eye and the ability to redefine oneself is limited only by the imagination. Second Life is a virtual world where organizations, cultures and consortiums spring to life in the time it takes you to log out for lunch.

Info Island This Week - Happenings in Second Life

Competency # 6 Building Block search

Query: Are special libraries utilizing digital images for access to other cultures and ancient relics?

I chose the limiters of media, technology and photograph in order to focus on digital collections of images, as opposed to the written word. My limiters of special or virtual libraries were chosen so that they would provide results beyond academic or public libraries. The limiters of image, culture, relics or digital were chosen so that collections of diverse images would be retrieved.

LexisNexis power search

Search Criteria:

(media or technology or photograph)

and (special libraries or virtual libraries)

and (image or culture or relics or digital)

Sources: *Major World Publications

Dates: November 7, 2002 and November 7, 2007

171 hits

SCREEN BREAKS; TRAVEL CYBERSPACE; Second Life is a whole new universe being built out in cyberspace, a virtual world packed with people, places and things do, a place where anything and anyone is possible. Iain S Bruce goes online and travels to another dimension
The Sunday Herald, January 21, 2007, MAGAZINE; Pg. 16, 2285 words, Iain S Bruce

150 years ago, it took a clean pair of hands to gain entry to Melbourne's new temple of learning. Today, you need only be curious.
Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia), February 12, 2006 Sunday, EXTRA; Pg. 20, 2059 words, JANE SULLIVAN

Competency # 4 RSS Feed

Five RSS Feeds are connected to this Blog because they were all relevant and I liked them all!

The Digital Story

Continuous posts relevant to digital photography, music and videos. Technical issues are addressed and loads of tips and helpful information. The website contains podcasts, reader submitted photos and equipment reviews.

Digital Photography Review

News regarding digital photography news, product reviews and discussions. Sample photography galleries, database of products, buyers guide, and a database of digital camera features and specifications.

Live Science

Provocative, entertaining editorial and multimedia content related to the world of science and technology.

Info Island

Info Island is a global virtual community established by the Alliance Library System, a consortium of 253 Illinois libraries. The faculty are developing courses and research within Second Life.

Amazon Kindle

Kindle is wireless electronic paper, a device for reading books, newspapers or magazines. It is the size of a paperback with expandable memory, a private, virtual library.

Competency # 3 Podcast - Digital Story

I was very happy to find a Podcast on The Digital Story: "Build Your Workflow
It was a challenge finding my way there!

I initially searched Everyzing with keywords like images, myspace, collections, jpeg, and Taskmaster (software for indexing images). I found lots of podcasts, but not what I was looking for.

I met with success when I used the keywords "searchable collections" because, after all, that is the essence of the purpose of image collections = finding what you are looking for. I also needed to limit my search to Technology.

The Digital Story is loaded with good information There are weekly digital photography podcasts, photo tips, reader submitted photos, equipment reviews, jobs and more.

I subscribed to the RSS feed and the posts are listed in the column on the right side of this page.

Competency # 2 Another Blog - Artful Blogging

Web Sights: the art of blogging

My search for blogs about image collections continually led me to image collections suitable for addition to a blog! I searched via Google for image collections and found artcyclopedia. Then I went in search of blogs about it. A long way down the road I found "theblogart&architecture" site. Just what I was looking for! I hope Ms. Honigman stays connected to fun collections like this one, created by Anahata Katkin, which is a blog and also an image collection. It is fun and silly and creative and that's why I liked it.

The following excerpt was taken from the post discussing "Artful Blogging", located at theblogart&architechure, using this url:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/09/web_sights_the_art_of_blogging.html
The selected post is titled, "Web Sights: the art of Blogging." The author is Ana Finel Honigman

It should be no surprise that artists are among the bloggers with the most the decorative and dynamic personal websites. The surprise is that it has taken this long for blogging to be seen as a craft that is creative enough for its own specialized print publication.
The first issue of Artful Blogging consists of 144 pages pulling together profiles of more than 35 regular bloggers and their sites. The publisher's goal is to give dedicated bloggers their own beautifully designed, glossy 3D showcase for art that could otherwise be lost on the world wide web.
Artful Blogging has a dainty sounding title and focuses largely on the work of women whose websites have a crafty appearance (curly cursive font, floral patterns and personal confessions are all over the selected sites) but are often surprisingly sassy and fun to read. The bloggers post about their reading lists, interests and activities as artists, but often also as mothers, art teachers and diarists. Far from Wonkette, Washingtonienne, Opinionistas and other stiletto sharp Sex in the City-like urban bitch blogs, the blogs featured on Artful Blogger have a softer outlook and hippier sensibility, but often also a Steel Magnolia core. The American blogger Anahata Katkin posts collage-like images of Hindu Goddesses and writes about making a shell-mobile with her son, but then jokes about being too pale to drive her 4-wheel around Costa Rica without feeling like a "Gringa on the loose."


Ana Finel Honigman

Competency # 1 Blog Post

JKortidis LS5013 Information Storage & Retrieval

The purpose of this blog is to post my assignments for TWU Library Science 5013 Information Storage & Retrieval, Fall 2007. This blog will display my growing competency in Library 2.0 Technologies. My topic is digital images and virtual image collection libraries.

My name is Julie Kortidis and I am a MLS student at Texas Women's University in Denton, Texas. I received my BA from TWU in Business Adminstration. I am interested in virtual libraries and would like to work on website development for interaction with image collections.