PDF and HTML

PDF

PDF, which means Portable Document Format, is very useful file format for two-dimensional document types. It includes texts, images and fonts. It is developed by Adobe Systems in 1993. We usually use PDF format in our daily life for reading documents on computer and exchanging documents through virtual world.

We can use lots of applications to create PDF documents. Most used ones are:

Office 2007

OpenOffice

Adobe Acrobat

PDF machine

PDF creator

Foxit PDF Creator

PDF Studio

PDFedit

CorelDraw

Adobe Creative Suite

Also we can use some applications to read pdf documents.

Adobe Acrobat

Foxit PDF Reader

Cool PDF Reader

Portable PDF reader devices (some mobile phones)

There are some online websites that work with PDF, convert documents to PDF:

https://online.primopdf.com/

http://www.scribd.com/

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/

http://www.expresspdf.com/

For more information :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

PDF & HTML

Before discussing difference between PDF and HTML we should understand the HTML. HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. It’s a markup language which is used to create and format web pages, not for programming. In another words; HTML documents, which can be put on the internet, describe web pages.

While PDF deals with texts and images; in short contents, HTML usually deals with web pages by aiming to be published on the internet. The main difference between them is their purpose of usage. We noticed that PDF is a kind of document before. HTML is a device that we use to build web pages. In some senses they might work for same goals. For instance; if we read from web page which is written in the HTML, there won’t be any difference between reading PDF document and html document. But while we are reading PDF documents we can take notes and mark important sentences. We have relation with only the document which we read. On the contrary; we just read HTML documents and we interact some other contents like advertising and so on.

One another difference between PDF and HTML is their audience. Everybody can create, convert and read PDF documents easily by using simple applications. When it comes to HTML, it needs more ability to understanding how to write HTML documents. Programmers and web masters use HTML to build web pages productively.

Sources of Information on ART, DESIGN and ARCHITECTURE

Sources of Information on ART, DESIGN and ARCHITECTURE

Part 1.

I’m interested in the field of Visual Communication; especially in The Critics of Advertising as a graduate student in the Department of Graphic Design in Bilkent University. Therefore I did a little research for resources generalizing the field onto the Critics to Media Context.

The sources I have found are:

A.

Guides:

Curtiss, D. (1987). Introduction to visual literacy: a guide to the visual arts and communication. NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Abdullah, R. & Hübner, R. (2007). Pictograms, icons & signs: a guide to information graphics. London: Thames & Hudson.

Hartley, J. (2002). Communication, cultural and media studies: The key concepts. London: Routledge.

Mutlu, E. (2004). Guide to communication. (4^th ed.). Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat.

Real, M. R. (1996). Exploring media culture: a guide. London: Sage.

Levinson, P. (1999). Digital McLuhan: a guide to the information millennium. New York: Routledge.

Block, E. S. & Bracken, J. K. (1991).Communication and the mass media: a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Blum, E. & Wilhoit, F.G. (1990). Mass media bibliography: an annotated guide to books and journals for research and reference. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Sterling, C. H. (1984). Electronic media: a guide to trends in broadcasting and newer technologies, 1920-1983. New York: Praeger.

Hart, A. (1994). Understanding the media: a practical guide. London: Routledge.

Encyclopedias:

Donsbach, W. (Ed.). (2008). The international encyclopedia of communication. (Vols. 1-12). MA: Blackwell.

Jones, S. (2003). Encyclopedia of new media: an essential reference to communication. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Johnston, D. H., (Ed.). (2003). Encyclopedia of international media and communications. San Diego: Academic Press.

Durham, M. G. & Kellner, D. M., (Ed.). (2001). Media and cultural studies: keyworks. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Schement, J. R., (Ed.). (2002). Encyclopedia of communication and information. New York: Macmillan Reference.

Graphic Arts and Technical Foundation. (1998). The GATF encyclopedia of graphic communications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR.

Barnouw, E. (1989). International encyclopedia of communications. New York: Oxford University Press.

Clow, K. E. & Baack, D. (2005). Concise encyclopedia of advertising. New York: The Haworth Reference Press.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications. (2003). The Advertising age encyclopedia of advertising. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.

Dictionaries:

Watson, J. & Hill, A. (2006). Dictionary of media and communication studies. London: Hodder Arnold.

Art Silverblatt. (1997). Dictionary of media literacy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Weiner, R. (1990). Webster's New World dictionary of media and communications. New York: Webster's New World.

Ellmore, R. T. (1991). NTC's mass media dictionary. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co.

Handbooks:

Lievrouw, L. A. & Livingstone, S. (Ed.). (2002). Handbook of new media: social shaping and consequences of ICTs. London: Sage.

Leeuwen, T. V. & Jewitt, C. (Ed.). (2003). Handbook of visual analysis. London: Sage.

Swann, A. (1989). Communicating with rough visuals. Oxford: Phaidon.

I found following active printed journals which related to my interest field and put them in the table which shows their accessibility, scope of coverage and electronic versions.

Name of Journal	The scope of coverage	Where can be found?
Critical Studies in Media Communication	Critical Thinking; Mass Media & Communication	http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713597236~db=all
Visual Communication Quarterly	Communication Studies; Media & Communications	http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653708~db=all
Visual Studies	Visual Anthropology; Visual Arts; Visual Culture	http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713689928~db=all
Critical Quarterly	Cultural studies, poetry and fiction	http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0011-1562
Journal of Design History	Design history, studies of visual and material culture	http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/epp016v1
Image and Narrative	Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative	http://www.imageandnarrative.be/
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation		http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/
Continuum	Journal of Media & Cultural Studies	http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713411120~db=all
Popular Communication	The International Journal of Media and Culture	http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653693~db=all

B.

If you are student of Bilkent University and if you intend to look for those journals written above through Bilkent library you should notice that they are not available there. They can be accessed by The Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBIM: www.ulakbim.gov.tr/eng/cabim/catalog/)

C.

Some discussion portals through internet:

http://communitymedia.typepad.com/critical_focus/episodes/ - A Forum on media today.

http://medialens.org/ - Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.

Virtual libraries, archives:

http://www.sanalmuze.org/ - Virtual Museum Archive.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/onlinemedia.html/ - Online media collections.

http://ffh.films.com/ - Films for the humanities and sciences.

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html - New York Times article archive (1851-present).

http://adsoftheworld.com/ - Advertising archive.

http://www.archive.org/index.php - Digital library, cultural artifacts in digital form.

http://www.luerzersarchive.net - Advertising archive

http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/filmandmedia/ - The Washington University film & media archive.

http://archives.cbc.ca/ - CBC digital archive.

Part 2.

If you look for Susan Willis’s academic works, following findings can be useful for you.

In British Library:

Books:

http://searchbeta.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?ct=facet&fctN=facet_creator&fctV=Willis,+Susan,+1946-.&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&vl(197317282UI1)=all_items&mode=Basic&vl(197319763UI0)=any&fn=search&dum=true&frbg=&vid=BLVU1&ct=Next%20Page&indx=21&vl(freeText0)=susan%20willis

Articles in book :

http://searchbeta.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=BLL01006894797&indx=1&srt=rank&vl(freeText0)=Dissent%20from%20the%20homeland%20:%20essays%20after%20September%2011%20/%20edited%20by%20Stanley%20Hauerwas%20and%20Frank%20Lentricchia.&dum=true&vl(197317282UI1)=all_items&mode=Basic&vl(197319763UI0)=any&vid=BLVU1&ct=search&indx=1&frbg=&fn=search&tab=local_tab

In Harvard University Library:

The website of The Harvard University Library doesn’t allow me to copy the search result URL. But I have listed founded books below:

Willis, S. (1987). Specifying : black women writing the American experience.WI: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Willis, S. (1991). A primer for daily life. London: Routledge.

Willis, S. (2005). Portents of the real : a primer for post-9/11 America. London ; New York : Verso.

Willis, S. (Ed.). (2005). The world according to Disney. NC : Duke University Press.

Library of Congress:

http://www.loc.gov/fedsearch/metasearch/?cclquery=susan+willis&search_button=GO#query=("susan willis" and resourceType="Book, Periodical, Manuscript")&filter=pz:id=lcweb|catalog

Milli Kütüphane

http://mksun.mkutup.gov.tr/F/XVFI3ETIHS51EAUUVUP8U2S8NVQI3L3K39XHH2SKUDFI57TPGJ-02708?func=find-b&request=susan+willis&find_code=WRD&x=43&y=9&filter_code_1=WLN&filter_request_1=&filter_code_2=WYR&filter_request_2=&filter_code_3=WYR&filter_request_3=&filter_code_4=WMT&filter_request_4=

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Akademik+Arama&as_epq=willis+susan&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=willis+susan&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&hl=tr

SSCI

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/summary.do?qid=3&product=WOS&SID=2Cfi2OfLa34K3fj@GaJ&search_mode=AuthorFinder

AHCI

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/summary.do?qid=2&product=WOS&SID=2Cfi2OfLa34K3fj@GaJ&search_mode=AuthorFinder

Available books by Susan Willis on www.amazon.com are:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&field-keywords=&field-author="willis,+susan"&field-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-bin=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&field-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=31&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=8

The earliest one of her works is the article “Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in ‘The Bear’” which is published by Duke University Press in 1979.

Part 3.

A.

ARCHNET

Archnet is the international online database of architecture with a em. The website was launched in 2002 by the University of Texas in collaboration with Aga Khan Trust with Culture. It gives people the opportunity for accessing to resources of architecture, urban design and development. Users of Muslim countries can access freely. Some partners are from Turkey; Istanbul Technical University, Erciyes University and Middle East Technical University.

http://www.archnet.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchNet

ISdesigNet

ISdesigNet is the commercial magazine focused on residential interior design and architecture.

http://www.first-search.com/isdesignet.com.htm

http://www.sitelerhakkinda.com/wiki/isdesignet.com

http://www.arts.ac.uk/library/4846.htm

Arkitera

Arkitera is the architecture center that was established in 2000, in Turkey. It is an independent NGO (non-governmental organization) that deals with architectural issues. The center aims for developing architectural practices, protecting architecture culture and to improving the quality of architecture in Turkey.

http://www.arkitera.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkitera_Architecture_Center

B.

The contents of the Design section in last issue of Architectureweek are:

http://www.architectureweek.com/2009/1007/design.html

C.

The articles published in the latest issue of Building and Environment are:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235691%232009%23999559989%231092061%23FLA%23&_cdi=5691&_pubType=J&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=23fe84eb61617cb92c95ce65b02e9689

D.

The list of journals in the on-line Ulrich's database on architecture is:

The Ulrich’s database for periodicals needs registration for catalog search. Therefore you have to be a subscriber or a member of subscribed institutions. For instance; I’m student in Bilkent University and I can access to catalog search using my Bilkent account.

E.

Research databases that Bilkent University Library provide are:

http://library.bilkent.edu.tr/title2.html