Monday, February 10 2014DTC 356

First Order

“A Geography of Knowledge”

Physical objects can only be in one place at a time

Forced choice

Problems of Scale

What happens when you get more books than will fit on the shelf?

What happens when you have too many shoes to fit in your closet?

What happens when you can’t remember what you put in the boxes in your garage?

Second Order

Making a list helps solve problems of scale

Inventory

Tables, records, fields

Text

Scholarly Databasesinformation in silos

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What is Scholarship?

Independently verifiable results requires independent verification

Epistolary Scholarship

Oldenberg and the Royal Society / Journal de Scavans

Journals & Disciplines

People studying the same things published in the same journals

As scholarship grew, disciplines built around these journals

When it scaled up: we got academic databases (People read all the journals in a discipline and created a searchable database of that scholarship.)

Sample Record(see the entire record)

Searching a Scholarly DB

Once you know the fields in the record, you can find what you need.

Full-text searching wasn’t available at first. (Only search what is in the record.)

Indexing and Abstracting

Searching a DB

Field Searching

Controlled Vocabulary

Citation Analysis

Search Operators: (Boolean, Wildcard, Truncation, etc.)

Search Strategy Project

3 parts:

1500 word analysis of a WSU library database

500 word search narrative

Media guide to using the database

Assignment Instructions