INLS 235
Day 9
1. One minute papers
Big point
Collaboration is a key ingredient of information management; Hotbed as sharium
There are so many different visions of DLs
Annotation is valuable and publishable
Lots of jobs that require DL skills; DLs require multiple skill sets; where to get them all?
Questions
How does collaborative functions affect policy?
Humanities DLs? [Perseus, Stoa]
Jobs in DLs for non-programmers and/or administrators?
Who are the target uses (and most frequent users) of DLs?
Would DLs look different today if librarians had been involved from the start? [many were]
How long should the final project be?
Why is not Suda a DL?
DLs seem to be driven by content
rather than user needs—how is this different than PLs?
2. Economics in DLs
In DLs, the infrastructure is a much larger part of your ‘collection’ [Sairamesh et al]
Quality of service a factor in pricing
Agent price negotiation practical?
Consider costs at Drexel [Montgomery] unc Elsevier alone about $1.5M and rising
3. DL presentations
Maureen McClarnon http://www.wnyc.com/books
Hazel Brown Himalayan Digital Library http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/
Jean Ferguson Digital Library of the National Library of
4. One-minute paper
What was the main point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?