Week 13 Muddiest Point

My question is about the Shibboleth AA Process - the concept sounds ideal, but doesn't all that checking and routing back and forth also have security concerns, as well as potential overload of the network resources involved?

Week 12 - Muddiest Point

What type of software is required to provide RSS feeds? Is this usually part of a web hosting service or do most institutions administer it internally?

Week Eleven Muddiest Point

Are library staff building respositories themselves using DSpace? Maybe it just looks complex on the diagram, but it seems there would have to be an ITS staff dedicated to the library for that purpose.

Week 10 - Muddiest Point

I'm still uncertain about the differences between centralized and distributed indexes--why doesn't the distributed index have to harvest metadata?

Week 9 Muddiest Point

I was more clear on why XML is a better markup language after our lecture. However, I am still unclear on if it is necessary to create it from scratch as we did in the example--don't most people use a tool to generate it?

Week 8 Muddiest Point

If there was no class do we need a muddiest point entry? Why didn't LIS 2600 have class because of break but LIS 2000 did?

Week 7 Muddiest Point

I'm a little confused when discussing wireless. I understand that radio waves are used for the transmission so no wires are needed, but you also used the term protcol to describe Bluetooth. I think of protocol as a list of specifications. Does the protocol specify that the communication is via radio waves--and does the device itself produce the radio waves?

Week 4 Muddiest Point

I was pretty clear on everything this week so my question is actually just curiosity. How/Why did the ILS developers decide to use open source databases?

Week 3 Muddiest Point

What exactly is a compiler? I understand the interpreter concept but I'm unclear on what a compiler does.

Week 2 Muddiest Point

What is the purpose of having more than one level of cache memory? For example, my computer label on the front says 1MB L2 cache. So clearly I have Level 1 and Level 2, but why is it separated in more than one level?

Muddiest Point

For me the muddiest point was trying to understand if I have to comment on others' blogs or if this is optional. The material itself I'm getting and I finally have accessing the articles through the library mastered.

I had thumb surgery last Thursday and it is really hampering my typing speed. Not to mention I was out of commission a lot of the weekend. My next posts won't be so last minute.