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<title>Writing Project 1: Annotated Bibliographies</title>
<author xml:id="your_id_here">Chi Mo</author>
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<problem_stmt>
<!--problem statement here--> Information Science is basically about how to manage
information and make the information to be used in a better way. Computer science
classes which I have to take, gives<note type="instructor">give</note> me the solving
problems<note type="instructor">problem solving</note> skills in a logical way. In
other words, Information Science helps things “make more sense”. What I found not making
sense is that most of street parking in Boston are 2-hour limit parking. Even if you
find a street parking spot, it’s normally a 2-hour limit parking. It’s not enough for
visiting a friend, traveling around the city or having a meal in a popular restaurant.
What can you do in the city within 2 hours? All the parking space near Huntington Ave
are 2-hour parking, if you have a class right after another class, 2 hours won’t be
enough and you don’t have time to move your car. A ticket would appear on your car. The
only place that have 4-hour parking is Ruggles Street near West Village, but we are
sharing that street with Wentworth. I know that school has parking garages for students
and staffs. I started to drive to class occasionally, on the first day of this summer, I
thought there should be fewer students on campus so I drove on the first day of class.
It took me 10 minutes to park the car that I didn’t need to move it every 2 hours. But
if I want to park in the garage for Summer2 Day Parking only, it’s going to cost me
$230, which only four days a week that I have to come to school. 2-hour limit in Boston
is not a reasonable time for parking. If you stay in the city for couples of years, you
would know that it’s hard to park with enough time not only around Boston University in
Allston but also Harvard and MIT in Cambridge. Thus, I think all the 2-hour limit
parking around universities should be changed into 4-hour parking or universities should
lower the price of parking.<note type="instructor">I agree this is a worthy problem, but
how does Info Science help you address this problem? It should come through in your
sources, but also be mentioned here why an Info Science approach is
appropriate.</note></problem_stmt>
<citation n="1" style="APA"><author n="1">Inglis, J.</author>(2015),<title level="a"
>Technology Can Help Solve Parking Problems</title><title level="w">Frontier
Group</title>. Retrieved from http://www.frontiergroup.org/blogs/blog
/fg/technology-can-help-solve-parking-problems</citation>
<annotation>
<background type="source">
<q>The city, however, is not managing the supply well. It can be done.</q><note
type="instructor">maybe a sentence to introduce this quote</note>When parking
issue become a non-ignoring problem not only in Boston but also in a lot of big
cities, people start to think a better way to solve the problem.</background>
<summary type="general"> The article states parking issues in different
neighborhoods<note type="instructor">in Boston? In the U.S.?</note>. To solve
this problem, some city, such as San Francisco, started to real-time monitor the
parking available spots. This technology helps people know where can they park so
that they won’t waste time on finding a parking spot. </summary>
<relevance type="value_stmt"> In the article, it says that people get frustrating<note
type="instructor">frustrated</note> when they can’t find a parking spot. Which
is exactly how I feel when I drive to school. The point of using technology is a
good way to solve a real world problem.</relevance>
<relevance type="application"> As a Information Science student, I not only need to
develop a technology like this but also need to think how to use technology to solve
a problem like this.<note type="instructor">I agree, how does this source help you
do that?</note>
</relevance>
</annotation>
<citation n="2" style="APA"><author n="1">Mcmorrow, P.</author>(2014),<title level="a"
>Boston’s parking solution is not more parking</title><title level="w">Boston
Global</title>. Retrieved from https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion
/2014/04/15/boston-parking-solution-not-more-parking/fXh0u6PejrBTW6L1LfyF8K/story.html</citation>
<annotation>
<background type="source"> The article was written at the time that a developer
wants<note type="instructor">wanted</note> to build a 62 apartments condo, with
52 parking spots. </background>
<summary type="general"> However, it was denied by Roxbury residents. They think the
developer should turn the whole building into a parking garage. What will happen
next is that it’s harder to drive in Boston and harder to park. <q>One of the
biggest mistakes municipalities make is requiring too much parking. </q>
</summary>
<summary type="interpretation">The demand of parking is way too much than it has right
now. If the solution is to build more and more parking garage, it’s not going to
work.</summary>
<relevance type="value_stmt">However, in the other word, if the government make the
public transportation more convenience, there would be fewer people driving.<note
type="instructor">OK, so what does that mean for your problem? How does this
help you think about your problem topically or
methodologically?</note></relevance>
</annotation>
<citation n="3" style="APA"><author n="1">Conti, K.</author>(2014),<title level="a"
>ommunities make changes to improve parking</title><title level="w">Boston
Global</title>. Retrieved from https://www.bostonglobe.com
/metro/regionals/south/2014/07/12/solution-parking-problems-suburban-centers-may-not-more-parking/oShdB1f44
xiXdjvtnnWj3H/story.html</citation>
<annotation>
<background type="source"> Parking in the city is always a problem for people especially
for those who live in big cities.<note type="instructor">I'm unsure if this is
background information about the source or author, it reads more like a part of
summary</note>
</background>
<summary type="interpretation">
<q>A parking study found that between on-street spots and municipal lots, Dedham
Square actually had plenty of parking, but it was not being managed
properly.</q> But the good thing is that the community is making changes to
improve that. At least the community is trying to make it better by making some of
the parking spots first 15 minutes free and using electronic pay station instead of
the meters. </summary>
<relevance type="value_stmt">It looks like there are not lack of parking space but need
a good management.</relevance>
<relevance type="application"> For example, parking near Northeastern University is not
managed well. It’s hard for a person to get something done within 2 hours around
school. If the meters’ limit can be changed into 4 hours, there should be less
complaints.<note type="instructor">does this article help you get tools for
managing parking better?</note>
</relevance>
</annotation>
<citation n="4" style="APA"><author n="1">Doyle, P.</author>(2012),<title level="a">Why
Parking in Boston Should Be More Expensive</title><title level="w">Boston
Magazine</title>. Retrieved from
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/10/the-take-parking-in-boston/</citation>
<annotation>
<background type="source"> Parking in Boston is such a big problem that according to the
article,<q>as bad as driving is in Boston, it’s a dream compared with the
parking.</q><note type="instructor">again, I don't think this is
background</note>
</background>
<summary type="interpretation"> Compared with other cities, parking fee in Boston is not
so correct. People like to park on the street, like me, is because it’s much cheaper
than a garage. I pay $1.25/H for street parking but $12/h in garage. However, in
other major cities like Chicago or DC, citizens pay more to street parking than
garage.</summary>
<relevance type="application"> Also, increasing the T fare is not helping the parking
problem. I pay 5/day for street parking if I drive to school but 5/day for T with
doubled time. If we can increase the street parking fee and decrease the garage
parking as well as T fare, the parking problem is Boston shouldn’t be as terrible as
now. </relevance>
</annotation>
<citation n="5" style="APA"><author n="1">Barter, P.</author>(2013)<title level="a">"Cars
are parked 95% of the time". Let's check!</title>
<title level="w">Reinventing Parking</title>. Retrieved from
http://www.reinventingparking.org/2013/02/ cars-are-parked-95-of-time-lets-check.html </citation>
<annotation>
<background type="author"> The author is a person who cares about everything related
with parking. I took a glance at his Google+ profile, all the articles and journals
are about parking. </background>
<background type="source">This article shows the author's one research on
parking.</background>
<summary type="approach"> The reason that people care a lot and complaint a lot about
the parking is that most of time, the car is parked. When the owner is at home, at
work, or shopping, the car need to be parked. According to the article<q>Since there
are 168 hours in a week, the typical UK car is parked 96.5% of the time - even
higher than Shoup's US estimate!</q></summary>
<relevance type="application"> The author collected a lot of data and made them into
understandable numbers of percentage. One of the most important things of
information science is to deal with data. As an information science student, I need
to know how to collect data, manage raw data and make it into useful
information.<note type="instructor">right, but be specific; does this give you
concrete steps to take in order to collect the pertinent
data?</note></relevance>
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<p>There is a lot going right here. Specifically, I think you do a good job of summarizing the sources. The issue I see is in making claims about relevance. It is often unclear exactly how the source helps you approach the problem, except in a very general way. Where will you get data? What kind of data is important for you? What kinds of models will help you understand and solve the parking problem? Part of this is making a clear case why an Info Science approach is appropriate for this problem; for example, if you simply want all the meters to be 4-hours, then that seems like a problem that a political organizer could undertake--starting a petition or filing paperwork with the city. Why would this problem need an Info Scientist?</p>
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