My Organic Glossary
Your Lists 
You can keep your lists together if you sign up or login when you allready have an account. 
- Track
- Filter
My Organic Glossary
export
| * | folksonomy | Folksonomies (from volk-sonomy) are categories, tags or key words chosen by writers and used by readers to facilitate and optimize Internet searches. deli.cio.us, Flickr, Wordpress, Google Docs and Facebook are tag-based systems that construct a community-based ontology using RDF metadata and personal networks. The communal virtual archives is flooded with unending torrents of digital data and users need high performance search devices to optimize search engine results. | noun | |
| * | blog | A blog or weblog, according to pro-blogger Jonathan Yang, is a series of entries (posts) arranged in reverse chronological order. An entry may be just text, or enhanced with images or video and audio clips. Blogs are by nature highly interactive as authors often allow readers to leave comments and maintain blogrolls of their own favourite blogs (Yang 2006:3) . According to the authors of www.folksonomy.org “Blogging is a mutual, symbiotic relationship between bloggers and readers.” Actually, WordPress which is one of my favourite blog servers, allows authors to create either pages, which are linear or posts which are presented with the most recent entry at the top. Blogs like WordPress and Blogger also allow for widgets which increases the connectivity and interactivity of sites. | noun | |
| * | civil society | Civil Society “is defined by Gramsci as the integral social system outside of the state and economic production but integral to both. Civil society is the originating ground of new social movements, religions, identity politics and ‘grassroots’ organisations, all of which debate the reigning ideological consensus or hegemony. However, civil society itself is permeated and colonised by state intervention through, for example, the welfare state and its limbs in the form of various voluntary organisations. Civil society is thus separable only theoretically as a complex set of private interests, estates and corporate, community organisations (Shields 1997).” | concept | |
| * | ethnoclassification | Star (1996) used the term ethnoclassification in reference to the work of her research group who were exploring the convergence of the sociology of science and the sociology of work with digital libraries. Their work, as ethnographers in a way, involved tracing the web backwards by observing how readers routinely adopt and adapt formal classification schemes with their own personal everyday classification systems in their local work spaces, filing cabinets, computer desktops, web browsers, and group-level software. See Star, Susan Leigh. 1996. “Slouching toward Infrastructure.” Digital Libraries Conference Workshop. Illinois Research Group on Classification. Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois. | noun | |
| * | semantic web | The semantic web is a giant network that extrapolates meaning and order by annotating Web-based documents for easy location with Resource Description Framework (RDF) language which can be generated automatically through complex, logical algorithms with a Google-like semantic web crawler or by individual authors who annotate existing documents in RDF, OWL, etc. manually or by using visual tools (Iskold 2007) as offered by their blog servers such as Wordpress. Since 1997 researchers have been investigating Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the semantic web as a layer of scalable vector graphics that describes concepts and relationships, following strict rules of logic on top of the current web in which information is expressed in a language understood by computers. "The purpose of the semantic web is to enable computers to "understand" semantics the way humans do. Equipped with this "understanding," computers will theoretically be able solve problems that are out of reach today." Iskold describes the classical semantic web bottom-up scenario as attempting to create meanings by advocating "the creation of ontologies, which describe hierarchical relationships between things. [. . .] By combining entities and relationships and expressing all content on the web in such a way, the result would be a giant network, or, the semantic web." This giant network that extrapolates meaning and order by producing RDF which can be generated automatically through complex algorithms with a Google-like semantic web crawler or by individual authors who annotate existing documents in RDF, OWL, etc. using visual tools (Iskold 2007) as offered by their blog servers such as Wordpress. | ||
| * | URI Uniform Resource Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)'s and Uniform Resource Locators (URL)'s are the threads holding the Web together (Swartz, A. and Hendler 2001). | ||
| * | XML Extensible Markup Language | Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a language that anyone can use to prepare text for the Web. | ||
| * | RDF Resource Description Framework | Resource Description Framework (RDF) Wordpress codex describes RDF as "A language used to describe the locations of resources on the web. WordPress can produce output in RDF format that describes the locations of posts. Like RSS, RDF is used for content syndication." | ||
| * | memory work | The premise for memory work or travail de memoire is that history is not memory. We try to represent the past in the present through memory, history and the archives. As Paul Ricoeur argued, memory alone is fallible.[2] Historical accounts are always partial and potentially misrepresent since historians do not work with bare, uninterpreted facts. Historians construct and use archives that contain traces of the past. However, historians and librarians determine which traces are preserved and stored. This is an interpretive activity. Historians pose questions to which the archives responds leading them to “facts that can be asserted in singular, discrete propositions that usually include dates, places, proper names, and verbs of action or condition”.[3] Individuals remember events and experiences some of which they share with a collective. Through mutual reconstruction and recounting collective memory is reconstructed. Individuals are born into familial discourse which already provides a backdrop of communal memories against which individual memories are shaped. A group's communal memory becomes its common knowledge which creates a social bond, a sense of belonging and identity. Professional historians attempt to corroborate, correct, or refute collective memory. Memory work then entails adding an ethical component which acknowledges the responsibility towards revisiting distorted histories thereby decreasing the risk of social exclusion and increasing the possibility of social cohesion of at-risk groups. The concept of memory-work as distinguished from history-as-memory finds a textbook case in the Vichy Syndrome as described by Russo.[4] His title uses medical lexicon to refer to history-memory as dependent on working consciously with unconscious memories to revise accounts of history. This calls for an expanded archive that includes the "oral and popular tradition" [5] as well as the written traditions normally associated with the archives. | ||
| * | EndNote Bibliographic Database | “EndNoteWeb “is the most functional of the web-based reference management tools. You can save references from websites such as PubMed, tag the references with keywords, create bibliographies, or Cite While You Write in MS Word. You can access your library from any computer with an internet connection. It is available because the university leases access to Web of Science, which is owned by the same company as EndNoteWeb. You cannot store a PDF or other document in EndNoteWeb (Denison 2007) .” | ||
| * | Zotero | Zotero is an add-on to Mozilla Firefox 2.0 that must be installed on your computer. Using Zotero, you can saves references from websites such as PubMed, store pdfs, or other files with references, tag the references with keywords, and create bibliographic citations in APA style to copy and paste into papers. You can export your library in RIS format for importing into EndNoteWeb or EndNote X or Reference Manager to format a paper in another bibliographic style, such as AMA style (Denison 2007) .” | ||
| * | CiteULike | CiteULike allows users to save references from websites such as PubMed, tag the references with keywords, save a copy of a pdf, and share your library with other CiteULike users or copy references from their libraries to your library. You can access your library from any computer with an internet connection. CiteULike has limited output options. Your CiteULike library can be exported in RIS format, then imported into EndNoteWeb or EndNote X or Reference Manager to format a paper in a specific bibliographic style, such as AMA style (Denison 2007) .” | ||
| [ v ] | [ v ] | [ v ] |
X
Publish:
This feature will be soon available as part of BloxDB