January 12

Introduction and Definitions

Reading:

• Arms, W. Y. (2000). Digital Libraries. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Available from netLibrary. Chapter 1.

January 17

Project "Sales Pitches"

Guest speakers:

• Michelle Belden, for the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

• Bill Ferris, for the Southern Folklife Digital Archive

Reading:

• Borgman, C. L. (1999). What are Digital Libraries? Competing Visions. Information Processing & Management, 35(3), 227-243.

• Griffiths, J.-M. (1998). Why the Web is Not a Library. In B. L. Hawkins & P. Battin (Eds.), The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources and Association of American Universities.

January 19

Collection Development: Acquisition & Digitization

Reading:

• Khoo, M. (2001). Community design of DLESE’s collections review policy: A technological frames analysis. Proceedings of JCDL 2001. pp. 157-164.

• Bergmark, D. (2002). Collection synthesis. Proceedings of JCDL 2002. pp. 253-262.

Architecture

Reading:

• Arms, W. Y. (1995). Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library. D-Lib Magazine, 1(1).

Popular Digital Library Platforms

Reading:

• DSpace System Documentation. Read the Functional Overview section only.

• Fedora Open Source Repository Software: White Paper.

• Something about Greenstone, TBA

Institutional Repositories

Guest speaker: Paul Conway, Director of Digital Asset Initiatives at Duke

Reading:

• Lynch, C. A. (2003) Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age. ARL Bimonthly Report, 226, 1-7.

• Lavoie, B., & Dempsey, L. (2004). Thirteen Ways of Looking at... Digital Preservation. D-Lib Magazine, 10(7/8).

Metadata

Reading:

• Weibel, Stuart. (1995). Metadata: The Foundations of Resource Description. D-Lib Magazine, 1(1).

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Using Dublin Core.

Evaluation

Reading:

• Marchionini, G. (2000). Evaluating Digital Libraries: A Longitudinal and Multifaceted View. Library Trends, 49(2), 304-333.

Reading:

• US General Services Administration. Summary of Section 508 Standards.

• World Wide Web Consortium. Introduction to Web Accessibility, and Essential Components of Web Accessibility.

• Jakob Nielsen. Accessibility Is Not Enough, and How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation.

DL Review Presentations

Presenting: Jessica Harvey, Ric Simmons, Lorraine Eakin, Carl Harris

Due: DL Reviews

Interoperability, OAI-PMH, & Harvesting

Reading:

• Arms, W. Y., et al. (2002). A Spectrum of Interoperability: The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL. D-Lib Magazine, 8(1).

• Lagoze, C. & Van de Sompel, H. (2001). The Open Archives Initiative: Building a Low-Barrier Interoperability Framework. Proceedings of JCDL 2001. pp. 54-62.
• Metadata Preparation for the Gateway to Educational Materials.

DL Review Presentations

Presenting: Ellen Whisler, Larry Gavin, Lara Handler, Alison Waldenberg, Kari Kozak

Presentation: Thornton Staples, Director, Digital Libraries Research and Development at the University of Virginia, will speak about Fedora

Meet in Student Union, room 3411

DL Review Presentations

Presenting: Kevin Clair, Mary Katherine Barnes, Larry Taylor, Jennifer Townes

Guest speaker: Natasha Smith, Head of the Digitization Services Section

Reading:

• Read about Documenting the American South, browse its collections, look at its educational resources, and generally spend some time surfing.

DL Review Presentations

Presenting: Gary Hausman, Emily Riley, Josiah Drewry, Marcos Rodriguez

Communities & Social Informatics

Reading:

• Pomerantz, J., & Marchionini, G. (submitted). The Digital Library as Place. Journal of Documentation.

• Kilker, J., & Gay, G. K. (1998). The Social Construction of a Digital Library: A Case Study Examining Implications for Evaluation. Information Technology and Libraries, 17(2), 60-70.

Spring Break: No class

Spring Break: No class

The Sharium

Reading:

• Marchionini, G. & Fox, E. (1999). Editorial: Progress toward digital libraries: Augmentation through integration (Guest Editors’ Introduction). Information Processing & Management, 35(3), 219-225.

• Marchionini, G. (1999). Augmenting Library Services: Toward the Sharium.

• Jones, P. (2001). Open(source)ing the doors for contributor-run digital libraries. Communications of the ACM, 44(5), 45-6.

Guest speaker: Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio

Reading:

• Jones, P. (2005). Strategies and Technologies of Sharing in Contributor-Run Archives. Library Trends, 53(4).

TBA

Open Fill-in-the-blank

Reading:

• Willinsky, J. (2005). The unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access, and open science. First Monday, 10(8).

Personal Digital Collections

Guest speaker: Kristina Spurgin, SILS Ph.D. student

Reading:

• Beagrie, Neil. (2005). Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections. D-Lib Magazine, 11(6).

Economics

Due: DL Checkpoint Writeup

Reading:

• Sairamesh, J., Nikolaou, C., Ferguson, D., & Yemini, Y. (1996). Economic Framework for Pricing and Charging in Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, 2(2).

• Montgomery, C. H. (2000). Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations. D-Lib Magazine, 6(10).

Collections of Multimedia Objects

Guest speaker: Ron Brown, SILS Ph.D. student

Reading:

• Marchionini, G. & Geisler, G. (2002). The Open Video Digital Library. D-Lib Magazine, 8(12).

• Wactlar, H. D., et al. (1999). Lessons learned from building a terabyte digital video library. IEEE Computer, 32(2), 66-73.

Reference, Instruction, and Other Services

Reading:

• Pomerantz, J. (2003). Integrating Digital Reference Service into the Digital Library Environment. In R. D. Lankes, S. Nicholson & A. Goodrum (Eds.), The Digital Reference Research Agenda (pp. 23-47). Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.

• Moen, William E. (2000). Resource Discovery Using Z39.50: Promise and Reality. Invited paper for the Library of Congress' Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the new Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web, November 2000.

Reading:

• Council on Library and Information Resources. (2001). Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums.

• Smith, A. (2003). Issues in sustainability: Creating value for online users. First Monday, 8(5).

Reading:

• Lavoie, B., & Dempsey, L. (2004). Thirteen Ways of Looking at... Digital Preservation. D-Lib Magazine, 10(7/8).

• Jantz, R., & Giarlo, M. J. (2005). Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories. D-Lib Magazine, 11(6).

• Garrett, J., & Waters, D. (1996). Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information. The Commission on Preservation and Access and The Research Libraries Group, Inc. Read the Introduction & Summary and Recommendations sections.

Trends & the Future of Digital Libraries

Reading:

• Marchionini, G. (2003, June 15-17). Managing Transitions in Information Spaces: Roles for Cyberinfrastrucuture. Paper presented at the NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop, Chatham, MA.

• Lynch, C. (2003, June 15-17). Reflections Towards the Development of a “Post-DL” Research Agenda. Paper presented at the NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop, Chatham, MA.

• Marcum, D. (2003). Requirements for the Future Digital Library. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29(5), 276-279.

Project Presentations

Reading:

• TBA, as appropriate to the projects

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