Littera Deusto

Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

ORALITY AND LITERACY

29 de enero, 2007 |

       Human communication has been evolving form oral, contunuing with literacy, to digital communication. Each media or mean is not better than the other but different ways of communication.
        There is a variety of differences between each media which are  the orality, the scripture or literacy and the digital media:
         – Orality has been analysed […]

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Carnival

28 de enero, 2007 |

The origins of Carnival are unclear, but most agree that it started as a pagan celebration in ancient Romeor Greece. Carnival balls were exported from Italy in the late nineteenth century and had their golden age in the 1930s.
In Brazil, Carnival rules the country for four days a year, it happens at the peak of […]

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ZABORRA ETA PAZIENTZIA, GAINEZKA

28 de enero, 2007 |

Azpeitiko Enparan Kaleko bizilagunen haserrea sortu du aste honetan lur azpiko zaborrontzien egoerak.
Izan ere, Gabonen ondoren zaborrak gainezka egin zuen eta jendeak kanpoan uzten zituen zaborrez betetako poltsak. Kaleei zikin usaina nabari zitzaien eta baitagarbitzeko eta dena jasotzeko beharra ere.
Langileen oporraldiek eta guztion  kontsumo inkonszienteak eragin zuen hau gertatzea.
Azkenean, denok geureari ekin genionean, hustu zituzten […]

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data,metadata,content and meta content

26 de enero, 2007 |

DATA: data files are the files that store the database information, whereas other files, such as index files and data dictionaries, store administrative information, known as metadata.
METADATA:  DATA about data. metata describes you howd when anda by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is fomatted. Metadat is essential for understanding […]

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WEB 2.0

19 de enero, 2007 |

La Web 2.0 es la representación de la evolución de las aplicaciones tradicionales hacia aplicaciones web enfocadas al usuario final. El Web 2.0 es una actitud y no una tecnología.
Al principio, el web era un entorno era estatico, con pagina en HTML en las que se daban myu pocas actulizaciones.La Web 2.0 es la transición que se […]

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Group E – Metadata & Metacontents

15 de enero, 2007 |

A piece of information -for example the number 16086364- given out of a context is meaningless. It is necessary something more about that data in order to understand that the content represents one individual’s ID card, and that is what we call metadata. This concept of metadata is very interesting in a variety of fields […]

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Group E – Orality, Literacy and Hypertext

13 de diciembre, 2006 |

Since Ancient Times, relationships among human beings have evolved at the same time their ways of communication were undergoing into deep changes.
First, information was transmitted orally by the tribes as a matter of culture and supervivence. When the peoples were able to write their knowledge down, a new Era started. Nowadays, […]

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Group E – The characteristics of Web 2.0

13 de diciembre, 2006 |

The concept of Web 2.0 by O’Reilly Media is defined as a participation-platform, while the Web 1.0 was described as an information-source.
This new way of understanding the Internet may exhibit some basic characteristics:

It allows users to use applications entirely through Web browsers.
These users own the data of the site and exercise control over it.
It […]

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