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DITA Blog: Lecture 5: DITA - XML - eXtensible Markup Language
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Monday, 26 October 2009. Lecture 5: DITA - XML - eXtensible Markup Language. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a set of rules defining information with semantic mark-up tags. Users can define their own tags to develop special mark-up languages. A benefit was that it became an alternative to creating multiple tags. Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) is another form of markup and used to define angled brackets “ ”. HTML uses this as its metadata. Types of markup are. Unlike HTML, XML must be wel...
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DITA Blog: Lecture 2: DITA - Text/HTML
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Monday, 5 October 2009. Lecture 2: DITA - Text/HTML. During this weeks DITA lecture, the lecturer Richard Butterworth introduced “Digital Representations, text/html”. Data is stored in binary (1’s and 0’s), due to computers only knowing two states, “on” or “off”. “Base 2” systems are used to help computers implement binary more easily. Applications connect with files via file extensions such as, .txt files relate to Notepad. Mappings are used to helpmatch bytes in files. This is done by:. The aim for our...
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DITA Blog: 11/01/2009 - 12/01/2009
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Monday, 30 November 2009. Lecture 9: DITA - Applications Development (Client side programming). I have been asked to demonstrate and develop a JavaScript application that links appropriate sections of the BBC website based on two inputs. The first input allows users to choose either “news” or “sport” the second input is based on the choice of the first. Statement is code that needs to choose a path, requiring parameters that contain variables and evaluated with the “case” command. Statements declare vari...
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DITA Blog: 12/01/2009 - 01/01/2010
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Monday, 14 December 2009. DITA - References and Resources. Lecture 1: DITA - Blog Introduction. MacFarlane, A., Jones, S., Butterworth, R. and Dykes, J. (2009), City University London, INM348: Digital Information Technologies and Architectures, Session 01: Introduction to the module - Blogs, Lecture 01: Blogs. Blogger - Create a blog, Accessed on: 28th September 2009, from: https:/ www.blogger.com/start. Lecture 2: DITA - Text/HTML. Lecture 3: DITA - The Internet and WWW. Butterworth, R. and Dykes, J...
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DITA Blog: DITA - References and Resources
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Monday, 14 December 2009. DITA - References and Resources. Lecture 1: DITA - Blog Introduction. MacFarlane, A., Jones, S., Butterworth, R. and Dykes, J. (2009), City University London, INM348: Digital Information Technologies and Architectures, Session 01: Introduction to the module - Blogs, Lecture 01: Blogs. Blogger - Create a blog, Accessed on: 28th September 2009, from: https:/ www.blogger.com/start. Lecture 2: DITA - Text/HTML. Lecture 3: DITA - The Internet and WWW. Butterworth, R. and Dykes, J...
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DITA Blog: Lecture 7: DITA - Relational Databases
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Monday, 16 November 2009. Lecture 7: DITA - Relational Databases. Databases are tables with data stored in them. Tables represent real-world entities such as, a criminal record database. Databases consist of rows and columns. Rows represent individual data entities. E.g., tables representing companies, each row correspond to a single company. Columns represent properties of these entities such as, company ID. Database Management Systems (DBMS) are used in applications, centralising and storing large data...
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DITA Blog: Lecture 6: DITA - Markup and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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Monday, 9 November 2009. Lecture 6: DITA - Markup and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Cascading Style Sheets describe presentation semantics of a webpage within mark-up languages. Enables browsers to present in different ways and search information easier. CSS applies to any XML document such as, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). CSS separates content of a document from its presentation, including elements such as, layout, background colour and font. December 1996. Since then, levels 2 and 3 were released.
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DITA Blog: Lecture 9: DITA - Applications Development (Client side programming)
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Monday, 30 November 2009. Lecture 9: DITA - Applications Development (Client side programming). I have been asked to demonstrate and develop a JavaScript application that links appropriate sections of the BBC website based on two inputs. The first input allows users to choose either “news” or “sport” the second input is based on the choice of the first. Statement is code that needs to choose a path, requiring parameters that contain variables and evaluated with the “case” command. Statements declare vari...
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DITA Blog: 09/01/2009 - 10/01/2009
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Monday, 28 September 2009. Lecture 1: DITA - Blog Introduction. For the duration of this module (Digital Information, Technologies and Architecture), the course looks at Information Technology, but focuses more within the “Information” aspect. Andy Macfarlane (the lecturer for this week) introduced us to definitions relating to the module and the basic concepts of blogs 1. Ls –tl : Show all files within a directory and orders them according to the time of creation. Https:/ www.blogger.com/start.
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DITA Blog: Lecture 8: DITA - Information Retrieval
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Monday, 23 November 2009. Lecture 8: DITA - Information Retrieval. Information retrieval refers to capturing data relevant to user requirements. Searching terms in a search engine, it is likely, information retrieved is wrong, whereas, if information you look for is in a database, data is structured (usually in alphabetical order) and relevant data will be shown. 8221;, removing “stemming. Although there are other search technologies, Google can give more information. E.g., searching about Ja...Lecture 8...
