Is data compression what is being used or what is being reversed in the creation of high-definition DVDs like BluRay?
Possibly the best-written WikiTech article I’ve read yet for this class. Let’s keep it up!
Does anybody use Zip drives anymore? Is a zip drive the same thing as an external hard drive? I so totally remember wanting a zip drive badly in my tween years cause they had these sweet ads, but I can’t say I actually know anybody who got one, other than Carrie Bradshaw.
Thanks Aidan!!!ACRL
With YouTube and Blogger both owned by Google, it should now be easier than ever to get tech-savvy at your library. I can especially imagine teen services hopping
on this.Do you think in another 5 years that watching a series of YouTube videos will be a part of the summer reading program at your local library? I’m thinking back to the 2007 summer reading program especially, which involved kids playing detective (y'all remember—007 right?).
Data Compression
The DVD link I guessed at is here! Makes me wonder about laser disks. Do you remember them? They were vinyl-sized but made out of DVD material and played on what resembled a superhuge DVD player.
We had them in art class when I was in 6th grade to replace slides. The art teacher (hugz for Mr. Riskofski!) loved them, but was back to slides the next year for our lessons in art appreciation for some reason. *Ponder*Digital Library
This is a fantastic example of (and a well- and clearly-written explanation of) a fabulous cross-city collaboration. The reality of the difficulty of such a collaboration, though, came to life in the “Communication Challenges” section when the author said “A simple example is a cataloging discussion we once had regarding subject terms. Our museum friends tend to view their image collections as works of art with intrinsic value as a photograph. The academic archives tend to view their image collections for utilitarian purposes with minimal description, while the historical society’s practice has been to provide contextual information that not only describes the image, but informs the reader about the history and impact of an area or person depicted by the image.” I went and spent a few minutes on the site (a link to which was buried all the way down in the article’s references) and found it spiffy. Please to enjoy yourselves: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/.
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