“Information exists in the messy middle.” (Rosenfeld and Morville, 2007) This is the essence of DITA. Information technology and architecture enables and makes use of data and knowledge. (Lecture materials)
Blogs are proliferating as a core digital communication used to organize and publish information. They are Web 2.0 technology, not static 1.0 Websites. Facebook can be viewed as a shared mini-blog platform where users do not move between URLs. It is assumed that users filter through blogs that are “credible versus rubbish”, and the rubbish thereby becomes irrelevant, therefore the democratic nature of Web 2.0. (Lecture materials) But blogs can be used by influential propagandists as well, e.g. lies spread about Obama being born in Kenya. Does democracy always get it right?
Setting up the blog was challenging because many programming languages and file formats are used. I hope to use the labeling system efficiently but can't see an option to create a robust labeling system in advance, which is frustrating. Tags are imperative to make your blog interesting and give it an ‘identity’, but tags also have to be useful for the end reader. My blog is targeted to friends/family, colleagues, and prospective employers and tags will be listed alongside for users to sort by interest. In essence is it is an online diary of my personal learning and self-discovery as I embark on a new career.
The UNIX form of information access is the foundation of information storage: the skeleton, the backbone of the “house of knowledge and information storage and access”. (Lecture materials) I had no dexterity at using the system. I know what it is, but I can’t use it. I went to http://www.city.ac.uk/tsg/unix/DoingMore.pdf and it is clear that I will not regularly command a computer through UNIX.
Certain keywords are fascinating: Graphical Information, Presentation of Representation (CSS), Information Retrieval (Google), Applications Development (JavaScript), Wikis, trackbacks (particularly cool), blogroll, Archive including Label/Tag List, Syndication (includes RSS feeds – rich site summary feeds in XML for tracking blogs). I subscribed to Google Reader. The feeds are overwhelming – must filter with keywords.
The purpose of DITA is to understand all the methods and tools available for CREATING/FINDING/ORGANISING digital information. There are industry standards and rules and teachable conventional systems. I did not know this before DITA.
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