What some of us have talked about for a while is that what catalogers
and metadata engineers need to know is NOT how to program, but something
about what some people call "computational thinking" -- how to arrange a
problem so it can be solved by software, how to recognize what sort of
problems can be solved by software and what sorts are more difficult or
impossible.
But I have yet to find a good "curriculum" for that. It's taught in a
good computer science program along with learning how to program, but it
ought to be possible, Jeannette Wing and the other "comptuational
thinking" enthusiasts think, to teach it apart from programming entirely
too. But I don't know if there's a good curriculum available.
Jonathan
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Christine Schwartz wrote:
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>> I agree with MJ that studying XML is a good place to start. Practically all
>> the library metadata schemes use XML, so if you're going to transition into
>> a cataloger/metadata librarian you need to know XML.
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> I wrote an XML tutorial/workshop that may be of interest to the group. From the introduction:
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> XML is about distributing data and information
> unambiguously. Through this hands-on workshop you will
> learn: 1) what XML is, and 2) how it can be used to build
> library collections and faciliate library services in our
> globally networked environment.
>
> http://infomotions.com/musings/xml-in-libraries/
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> The tutorial/workshop comes with a bevy of examples, scripts, stylesheets, and sample data.
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Received on Mon Apr 19 2010 - 14:42:16 EDT