A couple of odds and ends

The link within the syllabus to one of the Week 2 readings didn't work, so I had to get there through another route: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/MS1999/Chapter2.html. The article provided a brief introduction to the birth of the internet, which I had already read about, but it also clarified a few of the finer points regarding the particulars of the internet, such as the difference between IP and TCP and how these protocols work together to send packets. I was interested in the sidebar about the relatively early formation of the Los Alamos E-Print Archives, since it sounds like such a seamless way for researchers themselves to contribute to a digital library without having to make any adjustments for format, protocol, or tools. Its use of an open archive format, wherein the authors retain copyright of their materials, makes good sense and seems an interesting precursor to the World Wide Web as we now know it.

In other LIS 2670 news, I didn't see an assignment uploading tool within CourseWeb for this class, so I emailed my first brief essay to the professor, and I also hosted a copy of the file via Google Docs, just to be sure. It can be accessed at
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfddpdf6_2fhffsfcx.