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LIBR 581: Digital Libraries – COURSE SYLLABUS

 

Program: Master of Library and Information Studies
Year: 2007/2008, term 1 September/December
Course Schedule: Monday, 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location:  FNS 40
Instructor:   Edie Rasmussen
Office location:   312-6190 Agronomy Road, TEF III (SLAIS)
Office phone:  (604)827-5486
Office hours:  Mondays 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
E-mail address: edie.rasmussen@ubc.ca
Course website address: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr581/07-08-wt1/index.htm

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Course Goal: The goal of this course is to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge required to understand the processes and techniques involved in creating, organizing, presenting, and using information in digital environments.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Identify and understand the major components of a digital library
• Identify and understand the current technologies associated with the development and implementation of digital libraries
• Identify and understand issues of the access to, organization of, and preservation of digital resources
• Apply a critical perspective in analyzing current digital library efforts
• Identify and understand the role, potential, and challenges of digital libraries in relation to societal needs and concerns

Course Topics:

Note: Design of this course has been revised to reflect the Framework for a Digital Library Curriculum (http://curric.dlib.vt.edu/DLcurric_images/ModuleDiagram.2007-04-19.pdf) developed by Virginia Tech and the University of North Carolina at Chapel under funding from the National Science Foundation.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Overview
• Digital libraries – definitions and examples
• History of digital libraries
• Digital objects – multimedia and text
• Collection development
• Digitization
• Harvesting
• Digital markup
• Knowledge representation
• Metadata
• Architectures and protocols
• User behaviour and interaction
• Usability
• DL services
• Search engines
• Digital reference
• Recommender systems
• Web publishing
• Preservation
• Sustainability
• DL management
• DL evaluation
• Legal issues (such as copyright)
• Cost and economic issues
• Social issues
• Future of DLs
• Education for DLs
• DL research initiatives

 

Prerequisites and/or Course Restrictions: LIBR 500, 501, 502; co-requisite LIBR 503

Format of the course: Lectures, Class Discussions, Individual and group presentations

Required and Recommended Reading:

This list includes both recommended and required readings. The readings in this list which are required prior to each class as preparation for class discussion (marked F ) are identified in the course schedule which follows. Additional readings may be added as the courses progresses.

Monographs:

W.Y. Arms. (2000). Digital libraries. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. [R]

[R] indicates an item on Reserve at Koerner Library

C. Borgman (2000). From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. [R]

The Digital Library Toolkit . (2003). 3rd ed. Sun Microsystems. 193 pp. Available at http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library_toolkit.pdf

R.D. Lankes, J.W. Collins III, and A.S. Kasowitz. (2000). Digital Reference Service in the New Millennium: Planning, Management, and Evaluation. New York : Neal Schuman. [R]

M. Lesk. (1997). Understanding Digital Libraries. 2 nd ed. Amsterdam : Elsevier. [R]

I.H. Witten and D. Bainbridge. (2002). How to Build a Digital Library. Amsterdam : Morgan Kaufmann. [R]

 

Web Sites:

 Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

“builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide.”

British Columbia International Digital Library. http://bcdlib.tc.ca/

A guide to collections, development and storage

Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cidl/index-e.html

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). http://www.cni.org/

“dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity”

Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/

“CLIR works to expand access to information, however record and preserved, as a public good. Through projects, programs and publications, CLIR works to maintain and improve access to information for generations to come.”

Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/

“ Activities center around strategic development of network-based information technologies, providing leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure.”

DigiCULT: Technology Challenges for Digital Culture. http://www.digicult.info/pages/index.php

“ to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage”

Digital Library Federation. http://www.diglib.org/

“a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic-information technologies to extend collections and services”

dLIST: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

“cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures. The dLIST vision is to serve as a dynamic archive in the Information Sciences, broadly understood, and positively impact and shape scholarly communication in our closely related fields.”

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. http://dublincore.org/

ePrints. http://www.eprints.org/

ePrints open source software for digital libraries

Greenstone Digital Library Software. http://www.greenstone.org/

IFLANET: IFLA Electronic Collections. http://www.ifla.org/II/

(Lists resources for Digital Libraries.)

Institute of Museum and Library Services.

“ IMLS is a federal grant-making agency that promotes leadership, innovation, and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's museums and libraries” http://www.imls.gov/index.shtm

NSF Digital Library Initiative Phase 2 http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/

Descriptions and links to digital library projects funded under NSF’s DLI1 and DLI2 funding programs.

Text Encoding Initiative. http://www.tei-c.org/

“TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent”

 

Journals

D-Lib Magazine . http://www.dlib.org/dlib.html

Journal of Digital Information . Available at http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

RLG DigiNews . http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

“ Web-based newsletter focused on issues of vital interest to managers of digital initiatives”

 

 Book Chapters

W.Y. Arms.(2000). Ch. 6: “Economic and legal issues”. In: Digital libraries. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. Pp. 99-121.

W.Y. Arms.(2000). Ch. 9: “Text”. In: Digital libraries. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. Pp. 163-185.

W.Y. Arms.(2000). Ch. 10: “Information retrieval and descriptive metadata”. In: Digital libraries. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. Pp. 187-206.

C. Borgman (2000). Chapter 2. “Is it digital or is it a library? Digital libraries and Information Infrastructure. In: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. Pp. 33-52.

*C. Borgman (2000). Chapter 5. “Why are digital libraries hard to use? Digital libraries and Information Infrastructure. In: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. Pp. 117-141.

*The Digital Library Toolkit . (2003). Chapter 1: “The questions (and possibly some answers)”. 3rd ed. Sun Microsystems. Pp. 3-28. Available at http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library_toolkit.pdf

* The Digital Library Toolkit . (2003). Chapter 9: “Future trends and research”. 3rd ed. Sun Microsystems. Pp. 119-145. Available at http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library_toolkit.pdf

* V. Hamilton (2004). Sustainability for digital libraries. Available at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00001930/

J. Janes (2000). “Why reference is about to change forever (but not completely). In: R.D. Lankes, J.W. Collins III, and A.S. Kasowitz. (2000). Digital Reference Service in the New Millennium: Planning, Management, and Evaluation. New York : Neal Schuman. pp. 13-24.

* M. Lesk. (2005). Ch. 3: “Images of pages”. In: Practical Digital Libraries: books, Bytes, and Bucks. San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann. Pp. 61-89.

* M. Lesk. (2005). Ch. 4: “Multimedia storage and access”. In: Practical Digital Libraries: books, Bytes, and Bucks. San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann. Pp. 91-115.

* M. Lesk. (2005). Ch. 9: “Economics”. In: Practical Digital Libraries: books, Bytes, and Bucks. San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann. Pp. 261-292.

* C. Lynch. (2003). “Colliding with the real world: Heresies and unexplored questions about audience, economics, and control of digital libraries”. In: Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (A. P. Bishop, N.A. Van House and B.P. Buttenfield, eds.) Cambridge , MA : MIT Press. Pp. 191-216.

K. Russell. (2002). “Libraries and digital preservation: Who is providing electronic access for tomorrow”. In: Libraries, the Internet, and Scholarship: Tools and Trends Converging (C.F. Thomas, ed.). New York ; Marcel Dekker. Pp. 1-30.

 

Journal and Web Articles

*W.Y. Arms, C. Blanchi, and E.A. Overly. (1997). An architecture for information in digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine, February 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february97/cnri/02arms1.html

*L. Bennett and M. Landoni (2005). E-books in academic libraries. Electronic Library 23(1): 9-16.

* J. Bollen and R. Luce. (2002). Evaluation of digital library impact and user communities by analysis of usage patterns. D-Lib Magazine 8(6) June 2002 . http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june02/bollen/06bollen.html

* Borgman, C.L.  (1999).  What are digital libraries?  Competing visions.  Information Processing & Management, 35(3), 227-243. 

C.L. Borgman.  (2000).  The premise and promise of the Global Information Infrastructure (Chapter 1 of From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure, published as a journal article).  First Monday: Peer reviewed journal on the Internet, 5(8).  http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_8/borgman/index.html

C.L. Borgman (2001). Where is the librarian in the digital library? Communications of the ACM 44(5): 66-67.

* M. Budhu and A. Coleman. (2002). The design and evaluation of interactivities in a digital library. D-Lib Magazine 8(11): November 2002. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/coleman/11coleman.html

* L. Cantara. (2005). METS: The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 40(3-4): 237-253.

* A. Coleman and J. Roback. (2005). Open access federation for library and information science. D-Lib Magazine 11(12): December 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/coleman/12coleman.html

*K. Coyle (2004). Rights management and digital library requirements. Ariadne, Issue 40, July 2004. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue40/coyle/

* G.G. Chowdhury (2002). Digital libraries and references services: present and future. Journal of Documentation 58(3): 258-283.

G.G. Chowdhury and S. Chowdhury (2002). An overview of the information retrieval features of twenty digital libraries. Program 34(4): 341-373.

* E. Duval et al. (2002). Metadata principles and practicalities. D-Lib Magazine 8(4): April 2002. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html

E. Fox et al. (2002). Toward a global digital library. D-Lib Magazine 8(11): October 2002. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/fox/10fox.html

*S. Giersch et al (2004). If you build it, will they come? Participant involvement in digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine 10(7/8): July/August 2004. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/giersch/07giersch.html

* S.M. Griffin (2005). Funding for digital libraries research: Past and present. D-Lib Magazine 11(7/8): July/august 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/griffin/07griffin.html

* T. Hammond, T. Hannay, B. Lund and J. Scott (2005). Social bookmarking tools (I). D-Lib Magazine 11(4): April 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

* M. Henty (2007). Ten major issues in providing a repository service in Australian libraries. D-Lib Magazine 13(5/6): May/June 2007. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/henty/05henty.html

*L.L. Hill et al. (2000). Alexandria Digital Library: User evaluation studies and system design. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(3); 246-259.

* A.R. Kenny , N.Y. McGovern, I.T. Martinez and L.J. Heidig. (2003). Google meets eBay: What academic librarians can learn from alternative information providers. . D-Lib Magazine 9(6): June 2003. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june03/kenney/06kenney.html

D.W. King et al. (2003). Patterns of journal use by faculty at three diverse universities. D-Lib Magazine 9(10). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october03/king/10king.html

* B.R. Kingma (2000). The costs of print, fiche, and digital access. D-Lib Magazine 6(2): February 2000. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/kingma/02kingma.html

R. Kling and E. Callahan. (2003). Electronic journals, the Internet, and scholarly communication. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) 37: 127-171.

*T.R. Kochtanek and K.K. Hein. (1999). Delphi study of digital libraries. Information Processing & Management 35: 245-254.

* B. Lavoie and L. Dempsey (2004). Thirteen ways of looking at… digital preservation. D-Lib Magazine 10(7/8), July/August 2004. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html

B. Lavoie, G. Henry and L. Dempsey (2006). A service framework for libraries. D-Lib Magazine 12(7/8): July/August 2006. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/lavoie/07lavoie.html

M. Lesk. (1997). US Digital library programs: What goals? http://lesk.com/mlesk/chum97/dli.html

*D.M. Levy. (2000). Digital libraries and the problem of purpose. D-Lib Magazine 6(1), January 2000. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01levy.html

*N. Lossau (2004). Search engine technology and digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine 10(6), June 2004. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/lossau/06lossau.html

*C. Lynch (2001). The battle to define the future of the book in the digital world. First Monday, 6(6): June 4, 2001 . http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/lynch/

*G. Marchionini and G. Geisler (2002). The Open Video Digital Library. D-Lib Magazine 8(12): December 2002. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/marchionini/12marchionini.html

A.T. McCray and M.E. Gallagher. (2001). Principles for digital library development. Communications of the ACM 44(5): 49-54.

W.H. Mischo. (2005). Digital libraries: Challenges and influential work. D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8), July/August 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html

* C. Oppenheim and D. Smithson. (1999). What is the hybrid library? Journal of Information Science 25(2): 97-112.

*J.T. Penka (2003). The technological challenges of digital reference: An overview. D-Lib Magazine, 9(2), February 2003. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february03/penka/02penka.html

*D.S.H. Rosenthal, T. Robertson, T. Lipkis, V. Reich, and S. Morabito. Requirements for digital preservation systems: a bottom-up approach. D-Lib Magazine 11(11): November 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/rosenthal/11rosenthal.html

C. Schwartz. (2000). Digital libraries: an overview. Journal of Academic Librarianship 26(4): 385-393.

* M. Smith et al. (2003). DSpace: An open source dynamic digital repository. D-Lib Magazine 9(1), January 2003. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html

T. Staples, R. Wayland and S Payette (2003). The Fedora project: An open-source digital object repository management system. D-Lib Magazine, 9(4), April 2003. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/staples/04staples.html

*E. Weig, K. Terry and K. Lybarger. (2007). Large scale digitization of oral history: A case study. D-Lib Magazine 13(5/6): May/June 2007. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/weig/05weig.html

*I.H. Witten, D. Bainbridge, S.J. Boddie. (2001). Greenstone Open-Source Digital Library Software. D-Lib Magazine 7(10): October 2001. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october01/witten/10witten.html

 

Conference Papers

* Y. Choi and E. Rasmussen (2006). “What Do Digital Librarians Do?”, In: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006: Opening Information Horizons, Chapel Hill , North Carolina , United States . Jun, 2006. 187 - 188. ACM. New York .

*I.H. Witten (2004). Digital library futuristics: Developing countries, universal access, and information for all. International Conference on Digital Libraries, 2, pp. 962-968, New Delhi , India , February . http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/papers/04-IHW-Digitallibraryfuturistics.pdf

 

Reports

* M.L. Brogan. (2006). Context and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library. Washington , DC : DLF. 290 pp. Available at: http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf106/dlf106.pdf

* J. Callan et al. (2003). Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries
Joint NSF-EU DELOS Working Group Report. Available at: http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/internationalprojects/working_group_reports/
personalisation.html

* Council on Library and Information Resources. (August 2001). Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums. Washington , DC : CLIR. 25 pp.

* Council on Library and Information Resources (2004). Access in the Future Tense. Washington , DC : April 2004. http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub126/pub126.pdf

* Denise Troll Covey. (2002). Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns . Washington , DC : CLIR. 99 pp. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub105/pub105.pdf

* Denise Troll Covey. (2005). Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books. Washington , DC : DLF, CLIR. 72 pp. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub134/pub134grey.pdf

*D. Greenstein and S. E. Thorin (2002). The Digital Library: A Biography. Washington , DC : CLIR. 75 pp. Available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html

* Library of Congress (2007). Technical Standards for Digital Conversion of Text and Graphic Materials (Last Updated 03/07/2007 ). http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/techStandards.pdf

*J. McDonald. Towards a Canadian Digital Information Strategy: A Review of Relevant International Initiatives. Version 2.0. March, 2006. 31 pp. Available at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cdis/012033-800-e.html

* J. McDonald and K. Shearer. (2006). Toward a Canadian Digital Information Strategy: Mapping the Current Situation in Canada . Version 2.0. January 31, 2006 . 59 pp. Available at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cdis/012033-700-e.htm

l *National Information Standards Organization (NISO). (2004a). A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 2 nd ed. Available at: http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html

* National Information Standards Organization (NISO) (2004b). Understanding Metadata. Available at: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf

 

Course Assignments, Due dates and Weight in relation to final course mark:

Assignment	Value	Due Date
Short Papers	20%	Sept. 24 October 15
Issues Paper	30%	October 29
Term Paper/Project	40%	November 29
Participation	10%

 

Course Schedule:

Date	Topic	Faculty/Guest	Reading/Assignment
Week 1 September 10	OVERVIEW Introduction to course Conceptual frameworks, theories, definitions History of digital libraries and library automation		Borgman (1999) Levy (2000) Kochtanek & Hein (1999) Oppenheim & Smithson (1999) Greenstein & Thorin (2002) Griffin (2005)
Week 2 September 17	DIGITAL OBJECTS Text resources Multimedia File formats, transformation, migration		Lesk (2005), Ch. 3 Lesk (2005) Ch. 4 Library of Congress (2007) Marchionini and Geisler (2002) McDonald (2006)
Week 3 September 24	COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT Collection development/ selection policies Digitization Harvesting Document and e-publishing presentation markup		Bennett and Landoni (2005) Brogan (2006) CLIR (2001) Digital Library Toolkit , Ch. 1 (2003) Lynch (2001) NISO (2004a) Weig et al (2007) Short Paper Due
Week 4 October 1	INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION Information architecture Metadata, cataloguing, metadata markup, metadata harvesting Ontologies, classification, categorization Subject description, vocabulary control, thesauri, terminologies Object description and organization for a specific domain		Cantara (2005) Duval et al (2002) Hammond et al (2005) NISO (2004b)
No Class October 11	Thanksgiving
Week 5 October 15	ARCHITECTURE Architecture overviews/models Applications Identifiers, handles, DOI, PURL Protocols Interoperability Security		Arms et al. (1997) Witten et al. (2001) Short paper due
Week 6 October 22 (ASIS&T)	USER BEHAVIOUR/ INTERACTIONS Information needs/ relevance Search strategy, information seeking behaviour, user modeling Sharing, networking, interchange Interaction design, information summarization and visualization, usability assessment		Bollen and Luce (2002) Borgman (2000), Ch. 5 Budhu and Coleman (2002) Covey (2002) Giersch et al (2004) Hill (2000) Kenny et al. (2003)
Week 7 October 29	SERVICES Search engines, IR, indexing methods Reference services Recommender systems Routing, community filtering Web publishing (e.g. wiki, rss, Moodle, etc.)		Callan et al. (2003) Chowdhury (2002) Lavoie, Henty and Dempsey (2006) Lossau (2004) Penka (2003) Issues Paper Due
Week 8 November 5	PRESERVATION Approaches to archiving and repository development Sustainability File formats, transformation, migration		CLIR (2004) Coleman and Robak (2005) Hamilton (2004) Henty (2007) Lavoie and Dempsey (2004) Rosenthal et al (2005) Smith et al. (2003 )
No Class November 12	Remembrance Day Holiday
Week 9 November 19 (Vienna)	MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION Project management DL case studies DL evaluation, user studies Bibliometrics, Webometrics Legal issues Cost/economic issues Social issues		Covey (2005) Coyle (2004) Kingma (2000) Lesk (2005), Ch. 9 Lynch (2003) McDonald and Shearer (2006) Witten (2004)
Week 10 November 26	DL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Future of DLs Education for DLs Conceptual framework, theories, definitions DL research initiatives		Choi and Rasmussen (2006) Digital Library Toolkit (2003). Ch. 9 Term Paper/Project Due

 

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Regular on-time attendance in class is an important and required part of this course. It is your responsibility to obtain from one of the other class members any handouts distributed and notes taken during sessions you miss.

Sudden unexpected problems arise for everyone (including myself), but I expect you to attend and be on time for class. Absences or repeated tardiness will result in a lower course mark or in a request from me that you drop the course. The size of an attendance-related course mark penalty will be determined by the instructor. If you ARE late for class (for whatever reason) please come into the classroom rather than waiting for the break.

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