Cognitive Principles for Information Management:
The Principles of Mnemonic Associative Knowledge
I specifically liked the section on "Failures of Memory." I consider myself to have one of the worst memories of anyone I know because the second I get side-tracked by something I'll quickly forget what I was supposed to be doing or whatever someone just told me. I found it interesting that some researchers believe that memories are in fact permanent, it's the re-activation and re-call of those memories that is difficult. I completely agree with memory performance being affected by what state of mind you are in when the experience occurs. For instance when someone asks me to do something for them while I'm typing up this reading response, 10 minutes later I might not have any clue what they asked me about. However, I can remember every shot, every swing, and every putt from the day's earlier round of golf. I think it's because you concentrate so hard on the task at hand (golfing) that you clearly remember the entire experience later on in the day.
Categories and Concepts Crash Course:
I really enjoyed Aristotle's list of 10 "Categories." That was very interesting to me and a few of which confused me a bit. One that confused me was "Relation e.g. double, half" Was this saying like "half of a pizza" for example? I guess that one category kind of confused me and I would like to get that cleared up.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Reading Response 6
Bernstein & Haas Article -- Information Integration in the Enterprise
In Bernstein and Haas' article I was very interested in learning about different types of Info-Integration tools and to see which ones I liked the most. I'd have to say Document Management caught my eye immediately because I can relate a lot of what I read to what I do everyday for SILS working at the help desk. We continually have spreadsheets for toner stock, documents on wireless printing instructions, and slide show tutorials for using certain programs that we need to put on our web pages for students/faculty to access. We've also gone through the process of combining documents much like Bernstein and Haas' example of a financial analysis.
This type of indexing and organization has enabled us at the help desk to help students/faculty quicker while also providing ourselves with much faster access to anything we need while on the job. It's very cool to see how these certain tools are something that I've been doing everyday at work and not even realized.
In Bernstein and Haas' article I was very interested in learning about different types of Info-Integration tools and to see which ones I liked the most. I'd have to say Document Management caught my eye immediately because I can relate a lot of what I read to what I do everyday for SILS working at the help desk. We continually have spreadsheets for toner stock, documents on wireless printing instructions, and slide show tutorials for using certain programs that we need to put on our web pages for students/faculty to access. We've also gone through the process of combining documents much like Bernstein and Haas' example of a financial analysis.
This type of indexing and organization has enabled us at the help desk to help students/faculty quicker while also providing ourselves with much faster access to anything we need while on the job. It's very cool to see how these certain tools are something that I've been doing everyday at work and not even realized.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Reading Response 5
Svenonius Chapter 7
The most interesting portion of this reading in my opinion dealt with the importance of a document's "location." I found it kind of confusing that the location of a document in Svenonius' opinion, is the most crucial piece of information towards obtaining the document. I would have thought the actual name of the document or title would be more important but maybe I'm reading it all the wrong way. I still can see what Elaine is trying to point out and maybe I'm just being a little stubborn about it.
Another interesting part of the chapter dealt with the problems of Internet Addresses when accessing documents. As an IS major and someone who deals constantly with computers and web design I could understand the negatives in having a certain address or URL for documents and the problems that arise once that address is changed or altered. It definitely brings up multiple issues, but the thought of URN's (Uniform Resource Names) is an awesome idea. I really hope to see something like that in the future. I can't count how many times I've looked up an old .pdf file just to see a broken link.
The most interesting portion of this reading in my opinion dealt with the importance of a document's "location." I found it kind of confusing that the location of a document in Svenonius' opinion, is the most crucial piece of information towards obtaining the document. I would have thought the actual name of the document or title would be more important but maybe I'm reading it all the wrong way. I still can see what Elaine is trying to point out and maybe I'm just being a little stubborn about it.
Another interesting part of the chapter dealt with the problems of Internet Addresses when accessing documents. As an IS major and someone who deals constantly with computers and web design I could understand the negatives in having a certain address or URL for documents and the problems that arise once that address is changed or altered. It definitely brings up multiple issues, but the thought of URN's (Uniform Resource Names) is an awesome idea. I really hope to see something like that in the future. I can't count how many times I've looked up an old .pdf file just to see a broken link.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Reading Response 4
Svenonius Chapter 5
I personally enjoyed the section on Accuracy and its discussion of how title pages are basically the best way of specifying entities if you were using books as an example of an entity. I especially liked Blackburn's quote saying "It is I believe one of the laws of bibliography that catalog titles should be copies of the title pages of books." Usually it's difficult for me to pick apart Svenonius' writing because her vocabulary is a lot broader than mine but at the same time I feel like she adds sentences/quotes like this to provide a helping hand and put things in more simpler terms. In my opinion when I'm searching through catalogs or online databases for books, the title is easily the best attribute to focus on when dealing with a certain topic/subject that interests you. I liked the idea of title pages being a magnet and collecting all the "iron fillings" that relate to it.
Jacob/Shaw Reading
Within this reading I found myself breaking down the section on categorization the most. I completely agree with Markmans statement that categorization is the fundamental cognitive mechanism that simplifies the individual's interaction with the environment. I believe that figuring out the differences and similarities in entities is something that is so crucial in creating new knowledge. Without placing things into their own categories you'd be doing a disjustice to the uniqueness in everything that surrounds us each and every day. It's basically like what Medin says when he states that "the only case in which categorization would not be useful is where all individuals are treated alike." As we all know, this is something that will not happen anytime soon in today's culture, therefore it is still important to continually categorize individuals and other forms of entities.
I personally enjoyed the section on Accuracy and its discussion of how title pages are basically the best way of specifying entities if you were using books as an example of an entity. I especially liked Blackburn's quote saying "It is I believe one of the laws of bibliography that catalog titles should be copies of the title pages of books." Usually it's difficult for me to pick apart Svenonius' writing because her vocabulary is a lot broader than mine but at the same time I feel like she adds sentences/quotes like this to provide a helping hand and put things in more simpler terms. In my opinion when I'm searching through catalogs or online databases for books, the title is easily the best attribute to focus on when dealing with a certain topic/subject that interests you. I liked the idea of title pages being a magnet and collecting all the "iron fillings" that relate to it.
Jacob/Shaw Reading
Within this reading I found myself breaking down the section on categorization the most. I completely agree with Markmans statement that categorization is the fundamental cognitive mechanism that simplifies the individual's interaction with the environment. I believe that figuring out the differences and similarities in entities is something that is so crucial in creating new knowledge. Without placing things into their own categories you'd be doing a disjustice to the uniqueness in everything that surrounds us each and every day. It's basically like what Medin says when he states that "the only case in which categorization would not be useful is where all individuals are treated alike." As we all know, this is something that will not happen anytime soon in today's culture, therefore it is still important to continually categorize individuals and other forms of entities.
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