A markup language is an artificial language that uses a set of annotations to text that give information about the structure of the text or how it must be displayed. There are more than one markup language but, probably, the most popular ones are the HTML and the XML because of their massive use in the World Wide Web. Both of them have its origin in the SGML but after analysing them we can find some differences:
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Third debate in the Moodle forum
Published 28 December, 2008 IST , Littera Leave a CommentTags: HTML, Markup language, Moodle, W3C, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, XHTML, XML
Web content, in depth
Published 28 December, 2008 IST , Littera Leave a CommentTags: Content, HTML, Louis Rosenfeld, Media, Peter Morville, Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Web content, Web content development, XML
When we talk about content we are referring to a piece of information that, for any reason, is valuable for users and that could be delivered by different media such as the Internet, books, television, audio CD’s, or even live events like conferences, presentations or expositions.
Today, however, we are going to focus and put the stress on the accurate analysis of the Web content and its development. First of all, let’s define what we should understand by Web content development. We call Web content development to the process of researching, gathering and editing information for publication on Web sites. Web site content may consist of texts, graphics, pictures, movies… distributed by a hypertext protocol server, and viewed by a Web browser. Surprisingly, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, two important information architecture researchers, also include in the Web content the future applications of the Web that do not exist right now.
Second debate in the Moodle forum
Published 27 December, 2008 IST , Littera Leave a CommentTags: communication, Hypermedia, Information, Literature, Moodle, Orality, Ted Nelson, Walter J. Ong
Human communication has suffered a constant evolution along the millenniums. When we study this process, the first idea that we should remark is the oral transmission of information. This ability is one of the most important characteristics of human race, allowing us to difference ourselves from animals and share knowledge in order to evolve.
According to Walter J. Ong we could distinguish two types of orality; the primary orality, which makes reference to the verbal expression among members of a society without written literature; and secondary orality, which referes to the oral transmission in societies with written literature and printing knowledge.
Hypermedia, what are we talking about?
Published 27 December, 2008 IST , Littera Leave a CommentTags: Andrew Lippman, Audio, Contents, Electronic literature, hyperlinks, Hypermedia, Interactivity, Media players, MIT, Ted Nelson, Text, Video
The term hypermedia was used for the first time in the book No More Teacher’s Dirty Looks by Ted Nelson in the year 1965. We call hypermedia to the procedures to design contents including texts, videos, audios, maps… that are able to interact with the user. That is the main and most important characteristic of the hypermedia.
The first hypermedia work that we have a record of is the Aspen Movie Map, a tool developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by a team working with Andrew Lippman in 1978 and that allowed users to take a virtual tour through the city of Aspen, Colorado. But the most modern hypermedia have been delivered, mainly, via electronic pages, using a wide range of systems including Media players, web browsers and, of course, stand-alone applications. However, when we think of hypermedia works we are not exclusively referring to computer applications, a Dvd, for instance, is a good example of hypermedia.
Orality and writing, human communication step by step
Published 27 December, 2008 IST , Littera Leave a CommentTags: Audio/visual technologies, communication, Electronic literature, Marshall McLuhan, N. Katherine Hayles, Orality, Phonetic alphabets, Pictograms, Primary orality, Residual orality, Secondary orality, Walter J. Ong, Writing
Human communication has suffered a constant evolution along the millenniums. When we study this process, the first idea that we should remark is the oral transmission of information. This ability is one of the most important characteristics of human race, allowing us to difference ourselves from animals and share knowledge in order to evolve.
According to professor Walter J. Ong we could distinguish different types of orality; the ‘primary orality’, which refers to the verbal expression among members of a society without written literature; the ‘residual orality’, which refers to the verbal expression in cultures that have had a previous contact with writing and print, but have not completely ‘interiorized’ the use of these technologies in their daily lives, because, in the opinion of Marshall McLuhan, another important communications theorist, as a culture interiorizes the tools of literacy, the ‘residual orality’ diminishes; finally, we find in the electronic age the ‘secondary orality’, which displaces written words with audio/visual technologies.
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