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Looking into Infinity: Using the Deep Web as a Pedagogical Tool Erik Radio etradio1@gmail.com LOEX 2014 Grand Rapids, MI
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Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist, around 1818 http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/index.php/19th_Century.html
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What is the Deep Web? “...a mysterious El Dorado of content wealth, rich beyond measure when compared to ordinary fare delivered by search engines such as Google.” - Spencer, B. (2007). Harnessing the deep web: A practical plan for locating free specialty databases on the web. Reference Services Review, 35(1), 71-83.
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What is the Deep Web? “Not only its estimated size is hundreds of times larger than that of the surface web, but also it provides users with high quality information.” - Zheng, Q., Wu, Z., Cheng, X., Jiang, L., & Liu, J. (2013). Learning to Crawl the Deep Web. Information Systems, 38(6), 801-819. doi:10.1016/j.is.2013.02.001
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Piet Mondrian, Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow. 1937-42 http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4057&pag e_number=17&template_id=1&sort_order=1
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Willem de Kooning, …Whose Name was Writ in Water, 1975 http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/997
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Piet Mondrian, Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow. 1937-42 http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4057&pag e_number=17&template_id=1&sort_order=1
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Search Engines: A Very Brief Overview Web Crawlers Indexing Retrieval Display
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www.henrirousseau.net
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Deep Web Barriers Isolation Paywalls & Permissions Metadata Granularity Dynamic Pages
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Every Search Engine creates its own Deep Web.
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Authority is Constructed and Contextual
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19 terabytes in the Surface Web 7,500 terabytes in the Deep Web c. 2001 Bergman, M. The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value. Taking License. 7(1)
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Finding the Deep Web Access Points – Ephemeral in Nature – www.deepweblibrary.wordpress.com Search Engines! Deep Web
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Searching the Deep Web Abandon Google Query Structures Modify Google Queries to a few keywords – Sound familiar? Deep Web = Library Resources
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Teaching the Deep Web Method 1: Workshop – Search Engines in the Internet Landscape Failures to Indexing Brainstorming – Introduce Deep Web – Restructuring Queries – Demonstrate Deep Web Engines Open Searching Assess
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Teaching the Deep Web Method 2: Embedded – Integrate into standard instructional sessions Introduce the Deep Web Contextualize Searching Search Isn’t Simple Search is Strategic
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Devine, Jane,Egger-Sider, Francine. (2009) Going beyond Google : the Invisible Web in learning and teaching. New York : Neal- Schuman Publishers, Inc. Devine, Jane,Egger-Sider, Francine. (2014) Going beyond Google again : Strategies for using and teaching the Invisible Web. Chicago: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.
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Pedagogical Goals Inform students on the information landscape – Broad and Complex How Search Engines Work – Mostly Not Magic Reinforce Search Strategies – Query Structures Library as Deep Web Engine
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THANKS! www.deepweblibrary.wordpress.com etradio1@gmail.com
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