It almost had me. I thought for sure I was going to finally understand an article I had to read. But that warm fuzzy feeling only lasted so long. Databases are apparently far more complex than I thought, but now I do realize that if I were meant to know and understand the different models of it all, I would be one of the tech guys and not a teacher/librarian. I know I use databases at work, but I guess I never took the time to think over what type they were, or even that they could lock me out. I'm going to have to give my tech guys a high five tomorrow for understanding all of this.
I lasted a little longer with the metadata article. I found this article to leave me with mixed feelings. First, I tend to lose track of everything I am reading when things are listed in sentences, especially sentences of such length. I did, however, find the tables handy. I tend to understand topics much better if I am given the name, definition and an example.
The first thought that I had while reading this article was if it was not complete in 1999, is it close to being complete in 2008? I had also started to really lose interest in reading at this point, but had noted that the graphs/trees were definitely more helpful than all the letters that I didn't understand.
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