Theoritcal vs Practical or it really is Monday
So not this week but the week before last I had to write a paper on if digital libraries can be called online archives. This is a paper that's due in a final draft at the end of the semester so I turned in something pretty rough.
My idea was that honestly, once you start looking at actual things on the web, both of those definitions end up rather meaningless since they're connected to older institutions. My professor didn't like it, he said that instead of using logic, I should have looked at it in terms of definitions or pure theory. I see what he wants, it just makes my head hurt.
I really like this professor most of the time, because he's really good at keeping us rooted in this is the theory and this is the reality. The other assignment for this class is we're creating a wiki of digital libraries that I need to do a lot of work on. This assignment and feedback just leaves me going huh. I feel like its sort of acknowledged that things change when you put them online, calling things by older names helps, but can get in the way. Also a little part of me feels bothered because I chose to interpret the assignment almost too closely and got into trouble.
Today has just been long. I spent it cataloging with a few people showing up, I rushed my lunch so I'm only now having proper tea. Tomorrow I don't have class so I can sleep in before doing work, but I'm going to spend part of the day in a cafe reading Charles de Lint. I was good and did get gas on the way home, so there's that. My dinner will be some odd cobbling together of things, but I'll figure it out.
In the meantime, anyone know any good soup recipes? I have one I'm going to try that's peanut and pumpkin, but its the season for it and I want more ideas.
My idea was that honestly, once you start looking at actual things on the web, both of those definitions end up rather meaningless since they're connected to older institutions. My professor didn't like it, he said that instead of using logic, I should have looked at it in terms of definitions or pure theory. I see what he wants, it just makes my head hurt.
I really like this professor most of the time, because he's really good at keeping us rooted in this is the theory and this is the reality. The other assignment for this class is we're creating a wiki of digital libraries that I need to do a lot of work on. This assignment and feedback just leaves me going huh. I feel like its sort of acknowledged that things change when you put them online, calling things by older names helps, but can get in the way. Also a little part of me feels bothered because I chose to interpret the assignment almost too closely and got into trouble.
Today has just been long. I spent it cataloging with a few people showing up, I rushed my lunch so I'm only now having proper tea. Tomorrow I don't have class so I can sleep in before doing work, but I'm going to spend part of the day in a cafe reading Charles de Lint. I was good and did get gas on the way home, so there's that. My dinner will be some odd cobbling together of things, but I'll figure it out.
In the meantime, anyone know any good soup recipes? I have one I'm going to try that's peanut and pumpkin, but its the season for it and I want more ideas.