Tutorial 4: Information Resources on the Web

Question 1

blog

Answer 1

A frequently updated Web site that expresses the opinions of the author(s), with frequently updated content that is focused on a specific topic or category of information. Also called a Weblog or Web log. WEB 189, WEB 262

Question 2

bricks and clicks

Answer 2

Companies that use both a physical store and the Web to sell their products and services. WEB 459

Question 3

city guide

Answer 3

A Web site that provides information on hotels, restaurants, entertainment, cultural activities, and other things to do in a destination city. WEB 185

Question 4

cloud

Answer 4

A group of technologies and services that provide computing over the Internet so people can interact with programs and data using any device that can access the Internet, including computers, tablets, and smartphones. WEB 232

Question 5

demodulation

Answer 5

The process of converting an analog signal to a digital signal. WEB A21

Question 6

digital object identifier (DOI)

Answer 6

A unique alphanumeric identifier that identifies digital intellectual content and provide a persistent link to its location as long as the content exists somewhere on the Internet. WEB 216

Question 7

digital rights management (DRM)

Answer 7

A system of encoding that restricts the copying, use, or conversion to other formats of the contents of digital files. WEB 231

Question 8

intellectual property

Answer 8

All creations of the human mind, such as original ideas and creative works presented in a form that can be shared or that others can recreate, emulate, or manufacture. WEB 210

Question 9

megabyte (MB)

Answer 9

A unit of measure for file sizes; it is 1,048,576 bytes or 8,388,608 bits. WEB A21

Question 10

multimedia

Answer 10

Anything you can see or hear, including text, pictures, audio/sound, videos, films, or animations. WEB 228

Question 11

news aggregation

Answer 11

Web site A Web site that collects and displays content from a variety of online news sources, including wire services, print media, broadcast outlets, and even blogs, and displays it in one place. WEB 190

Question 12

plagiarism

Answer 12

Use of material (whether it is in the public domain or is protected by copyright) without crediting the source of that material. WEB 214

Question 13

portal site

Answer 13

A Web site that provides a gateway or entry to other sites on the Web. WEB 222

Question 14

public domain

Answer 14

Copyrighted works or works that are eligible for copyright protection whose copyrights have expired or been relinquished voluntarily by the copyright owner. Anyone can copy text, images, and other items in the public domain without obtaining permission. WEB 211

Question 15

stock image

Answer 15

A professional photograph, line drawing, or other graphic that is available for purchase and can be sold to multiple customers. WEB 228

Question 16

streaming transmission

Answer 16

A technique for transferring sound and video files on the Web in which a Web server sends the first part of a file to a Web browser or media player program, which uncompresses and plays the file immediately, and while the first part of the file plays, the server is sending the next segment of the file. WEB 232

Question 17

video

Answer 17

Content that has a progression of visual images and can include audio as well. WEB 232

Question 18

virtual library

Answer 18

A Web site that provides online access to library information services. WEB 222

Question 19

Wave format (WAV)

Answer 19

A file format jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM that stores digitized audio waveform information at a user-specified sampling rate and plays on any Windows computer that supports sound. WEB 230

Question 20

white pages directory

Answer 20

A Web site you use to locate people, and obtain their postal address, phone number, and email address. WEB 185

Question 21

wiki

Answer 21

A Web site that is designed to allow multiple users to contribute new content and edit existing content, often anonymously. WEB 189

Question 22

wire service

Answer 22

An organization that hires reporters to gather and write news stories, which it then distributes to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, Web sites, and other organizations that pay a fee to the wire service (also called a press agency or news service). WEB 193

Question 23

yellow pages directory

Answer 23

A Web site that provides information about businesses, such as a description, address, phone number, Web site address, and reviews. WEB 185