INLS 235
Day 7
DL review presentation schedule:
1. One minute papers
Big point
Online reference provides anonymity and thus new possibilities
All that is certain in librarianship is change
Online reference adds convenience but not necessarily quality
There are a variety of approaches to online ref services
Questions
Will separate digital and physical libraries be better economics?
Can we imagine patrons asking questions via/about/with video?
Can we get virtual ref to the point where ref librarians can telecommute?
Why are natural language queries so interesting/useful?
Are people becoming more independent/capable with all the self serve services?
Any libs doing only online ref and do any outsource?
Why not put the customer service mgmt $ into hiring more people?
Are online ref transcripts saved and subject to Patriot act? [search proxies, exinformation]
When do we need ftf reference?
Do we really need the online ref since google does the easy stuff and the hard stuff needs ftf and time
Who actually uses online ref?
Chances for for-profit ref services?
Review template instructions?
2. A framework for thinking
about interoperation:
Standards Intermediaries Embedded Adaptabilty
Hardware (e.g., physical connectors, buses etc.)
Software
(e.g., Java virtual machine)
Information
Encoding format (e.g., ASCII, JPEG, PDF, etc.)
Scheme (e.g., data dictionary, metadata)
Organization
Communities (e.g., scholarly practices)
Legal entities (e.g., interagency cooperation)
The
technical view: Paepcke, A. et al., (1998). Interoperability for digital libraries worldwide. CACM, 41(4), 33-42. (ACM DL)
The
informational view :
Dublin
Core as a metadata scheme for web documents: Weibel
& Koch (2000). The Dublic Core
metadata initiative. D-Lib Magazine, 6(12).
OAI
as a way of working across different metadata archives: Lagoze, C. &
Van de Sompel, H. (2001). The Open Archives Initiative : Building a low-barrier interoperability
framework. Proceedings of JCDL 2001. p. 54-66.
3. Guest presentation: Hugh Cayless on metadata
4.
http://www-lis.gseis.ucla.edu/DL/UCLA_DL_Report.doc
5. One-minute paper
What was the main point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?