A couple of links surfaced recently. They are about doing research and tutorials for using the Internet.They are worth keeping track of. Internet Research Tips – How To Use The Web To Research A Topic “Searching the web seems like an easy prospect. Take, for example, the person searching who wants to learn how to […]
Tagged researching, searching, tutorialsOnline Collections and Presentation (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) The American Folklife Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections. We create our own online presentations on various topics and the American Memory project provides additional online access to selected collections. Online content may include audio samples of music and stories, […]
Tagged american folklife center, free, library of congress, multimedia, musicThere is a fundamental difference searching for non-text items compared to searching for text items such as documents and other Web pages. The difference is not in the techniques we use, but since we usually use text for our searches when we search for non-text items, our search is based on secondary information, often descriptive […]
Tagged metadata, non-text, search, searchingThe first two links deal with open access to information. The first is a presented as a parable that tells of an inventor who has a great idea and develops it into a product. However, the truckers, the ones who control the distribution lines will not agree to distribute it unless the inventor signs over […]
Here are a couple of sites that seem useful when searching for images. Exalead Image Search Discover the most innovative image search engine in the world: almost 2 billion images with totally exclusive filtering features. (tags: photos iamge search searchengine) Pixsy | search millions of images and videos Search sites where others upload images (tags: […]
You can’t avoid it. The hardware and software technology that supports the Web makes it relatively easy and quite natural to make information in all sorts of formats – text, images, audio, video – available. With a high speed connection to the Internet you can experience all these formats quite easily. Virtually all the news […]
Tagged multimedia, resourcesHow to Get Free College Education Online | eHow.com Information is now readily available and exchangeable faster than ever before, mostly due to the Internet. This instant sharing of knowledge has changed people’s lives, and whatever it is you want to learn about is just a mouse click away. Online schools are profiting from this […]
Tagged courseware, ipod, tutorialsIf something can be digitized, put into some digital format, then it is likely to be available on the Web. So it is reasonable to expect be able to access photos, still images, audio recordings, and video. Almost all of the music we listen to, and almost all of the pictures and videos we take […]
Tagged multimedia, searchign and researching, webWhile doing some research for an upcoming book I took a look at some resources dealing with open courseware and multimedia sites that can be used for learning. I admit that I was impressed with the richness of the resources available. The ‘free U’ is available. This is so much better than educational TV I […]
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Search Distance
In thinking about how metadata is used necessarily in searching for most non-text items, a related concept of how far we are from what we seek in a search. In some cases all we can use is metadata. For example when we search for an image, We cannot present an image to a search engine […]
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