{"id":41,"date":"2008-10-10T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caveatquaestor.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/10\/2670-week-7-actually"},"modified":"2008-10-10T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T21:14:00","slug":"2670-week-7-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2008\/10\/2670-week-7-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"[2670] Week &#8230; 7, actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Muddiest Point<\/strong>: My muddiest point from last week didn&#8217;t get answered.  Since it directly impacts the homework that&#8217;s due on Monday, I&#8217;d be really grateful if somebody could help me out:  <em>I&#8217;m not sure I understand what an attribute is in XML. We saw a schema and how to set an attribute up in it, but not how it would look in the XML that fit the schema. (Apologies for imprecise terminology.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading Response<\/strong>: I hadn&#8217;t thought all that hard about how beefy a web crawler would have to be, given the volume of information the Big Three search engines index.  Those are some mighty big numbers.  And, you know, now that I&#8217;m thinking about it, of <em>course<\/em> they could shut down an entire domain if they did not have politeness algorithms in place.  That they could shut down an entire country, I am still wrapping my head around.  (To be fair, I still picture them as little spiders that &#8220;grab&#8221; links and report back information to big servers.)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see any mention of ill-mannered search engines, who ignore robots.txt files; I&#8217;m curious how search engines other than Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft work.  Probably similarly, but with lower ethical standards (due to less public attention &#8230; or the need to get more of it?).<\/p>\n<p>It seems as though there&#8217;s quite a lot of research going on in the digital information retrieval area, particularly in multimedia.  I wish I were a better programmer; it sounds really interesting.   <\/p>\n<p>Really, I just wish everyone would just use metadata and be honest about it.<\/p>\n<p>In support of Honest Metadata, I present to you Eleanor Rubidium Chinchillington (who just goes by &#8220;Ella&#8221;): <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coralhess.com\/uploaded_images\/ella3-796174.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coralhess.com\/uploaded_images\/ella3-795691.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muddiest Point: My muddiest point from last week didn&#8217;t get answered. Since it directly impacts the homework that&#8217;s due on Monday, I&#8217;d be really grateful if somebody could help me out: I&#8217;m not sure I understand what an attribute is in XML. We saw a schema and how to set&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2008\/10\/2670-week-7-actually\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[2670] Week &#8230; 7, actually<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-librarianship","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}