ASSIGN 1 READINGS: SEARCHING THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Reading assignments for Part 1 of the course will provide information and guidance on the following topics:
- Introduction to using the World Wide Web
- Introduction to using and comparing different types of WWW search tools
- Guidelines for evaluating information resources
- Introduction to the HTML markup language for tagging web documents
Weeks 1 and 2: 28 Aug--4 Sept: Links to WWW readings:
From the 190 Course Reader: Section 1: Searching the Web
- Internet resources from the Teaching Library (Moffitt Library), UC Berkeley. Complete this section by Thurs 4 Sept.
- Understanding and comparing Web search tools from the Bush Library, Hamline University Website. Comparing Web search tools
Particularly take note of:
- Eagan and Bender. Spiders, worms and crawlers from Untangling the Web. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/untangle/eagan.html
- Notess, Greg. Comparing Web search engines. http://www.imt.net/~notess/compeng.htm
- Rating Internet search engines http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/internet/search/sub1.html#rating
Complete these three readings by: Thurs 4 Sept.
- Singh and Lidsky. All-out search.
- Dong. Search engines on the WWW.
- Mitchell and Mooney. Infomine
Week 3: 9 - 11 Sept:
From the 190 Course Reader:Section 1: Searching the Web Complete these two readings by: Tues 9 Sept.To read on the World Wide Web:
- Lynch. Searching the Internet.
- Desai. Supporting discovery in virtual libraries
- Evaluating Information
Tillman, Hope N.Evaluating quality on the Net.From a paper presented at Computers in Libraries Conference, February 1996. http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html
Learning basic HTML Tagging for completion of Assignment 1
The following resources contain information on learning and using HTML to create web pages.
Complete by: 16 Sept
- Basic HTML tags from the UCB Library Sunsite
- Stephen Wilson's World Wide Web Design Guide: Chapter 2: HTML and Formatting Fundamentals, p. 29-79.