INLS 235
Seminar in Digital Libraries
Spring 2004
Syllabus
Time and Place: 12:30-3:15 Wednesdays Room 307 Manning Hall
Instructor: Gary Marchionini; Email: march@ils.unc.edu 203
Manning Hall Phone (919) 966-3611
Brief Course Description
This course will address research and development issues in digital libraries,
including: collection development and digitization; mixed mode holdings; access
strategies and interfaces; metadata and interoperability; economic and social
policies such as intellectual property and equity; technologically enabled,
global communities; and management and evaluation. Students will read and discuss
documents (paper and electronic), evaluate a DL of their choice, and produce
a term project or paper.
Course Materials
No textbook is required. All readings (except some optional) are online (most
in the ACM DL available through UNC Libraries), additional readings will be
assigned as the semester progresses.
Assignments and Evaluation
Readings and class participation (25%), Review of DLs (25%), term project (50%)
Tentative Schedule
Jan. 7 Introduction and Definitions
Digital library (DL) definitions and examples
Readings
1. Marchionini, G. & Fox, E. (1999). Progress toward digital libraries:
Augmentation through integration (Guest Editors’ Introduction). Information
Processing & Management, 35(3), 219-225. (www.ils.unc.edu/~march/IP&M_intro.pdf)
2. Marchionini, G. http://ils.unc.edu/~march/sharium/ISDL.pdf
3. Jones, P. Open(Source)ing the doors for contributor-run digital libraries
CACM 44(5), 45-6. (ACM DL)
Optional: Goh, D. & Leggett, J. (2000). Patron-augmented digital libraries. Proceedings of ACM DL 2000. 153-163. (ACM DL)
Optional: Marchionini, G. Digital Library Research & Development Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science http://ils.unc.edu/~march/digital_library_R_and_D.html
Assignments:
Term Project
DL reviews
Jan. 14 The Sharium Concept
The Sharium concept
Ibiblio and contributor run DLs www.ibiblio.org
Readings
1. Khoo, M. (2001). Community design of DLESE’s collections review policy:
A technological frames analysis. Proceedings of JCDL 2001. p. 157-164. (ACM
DL)
2. Bergmark, D. (2002). Collection synthesis. Proceedings of JCDL 2002. p. 253-262.
(ACM DL)
See Stoa http://www.stoa.org/guides/ for guides to photography/images, GPS coding, QTVR etc
Jan 21. Collection Development and
Acquisitions/Digitization
User needs
Acquisition
Digitization
Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
Perseus www.perseus.tufts.edu
Project Brainstorming
Readings:
1. Wactlar, et at., (1999). Lessons learned from building a terabyte digital
video library. IEEE Computer, 32(2), 66-73.
2. Smeaton, A., Murphy, N., O’Connor, N., Marliw, S., Lee, H., McDonald,
K., Browne, P. & Ye, J. (2001). The Fischlar digital video system: A digital
library of broadcast TV programmes. Proceedings of JCDL 2002, p 312-13. (ACM
DL)
Optional: Myers, B., Casares, J., Stevens, S., Dabbish, L., Yocum, D., &
Corbett, A. (2001). A multi-view intelligent editor for digital video libraries.
Proceedings of JCDL 2001 p. 106-115. (ACM DL).
Jan 28. Multimedia Objects
Open Video Project http://open-video.org
Readings:
1. Bruza, P., McArthuer, R., & Dennis, S. (2000). Interactive Internet search
: Keyword, directory, and query reformulation mechanisms compared. Proceedings
of ACM SIGIR 2000, p, 280-287. (ACM DL)
2. Marchionini, G., Plaisant, C., & Komlodi, A. (1998). Interfaces and tools
for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. Information Processing
& Management, 34(5), 535-555.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/~march/ipm_lc.pdf
Optional: Prager, J., Brown, E., & Coden, A. (2000). Question-answering
by predictive annotation. Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2000. p. 184-191. (ACM DL)
Optional: Croft, B., Cook, R. and Wilder, D., "Providing Government Information
on the Internet: Experiences with THOMAS," in Proceedings of the Digital
Libraries Conference DL'95, Austin, TX. June 10-12, 1995, pp. 19-24.
Feb. 4. Indexing, Search and browsing services—toward
usable
DLs
Information retrieval theory and practice
User-centered DL design
Project Commitments
Readings:
1. Lankes, D. (1998). The virtual reference desk: Building human expertise into
information systems. ASIS Annual Conference, p. 81-90.
See also: http://www.vrd.org/Workshop/WhitePaper.PDF
Optional: Kan, M. & Klavans, J. (2002). Using librarian techniques in automatic text summarization for information retrieval. Proceedings of JCDL 2002. p. 36-45. (ACM DL)
Feb. 11. Reference, Instruction and other added
values
The Humans in DLs
Readings:
1. Paepcke, A. et al., (1998). Interoperability for digital libraries worldwide.
CACM, 41(4), 33-42. (ACM DL)
2. Lagoze, C. & Van de Sompel, H. (2001). The Open Archives Initiative:
Building a low-barrier interoperability framework. Proceedings of JCDL 2001.
p. 54-66. (ACM DL)
3. Weibel, Stuart L., Traugott Koch. "The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative:
Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions." DLib Magazine, December,
2000.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/weibel/12weibel.html
Optional: Bishop, A.P.; & Star, S.L. (1996). Social informatics for digital library use and infrastructure. In. M.E. Williams (ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 31. Medford, NJ; Information Today, pp. 301-401.
Feb. 25. Communities & Social informatics
DLs as social/political constructs
Project Updates
DL Reviews due
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2
3
4
5
Readings:
1. Sairamesh, J., Nikolaou, C., Ferguson, D., & Yemini, Y. (1996). Economic
framework for pricing and charging in digital libraries. Dlib Magazine, February,
1996. www.dilbi.org/dlib/february96/forth/02sairamesh.html
Hansen, C. (2000). Measuring the impact of an electronic journal collection on library costs. Dlib Magazine, October, 2000 6(10). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/montgomery/10montgomery.html
Optional: MacKie-Mason, J., Riveros, J., Bonn, M., & Lougee, W. (1999).
A report on the PEAK Experiment. Usage and economic behavior. DLib Magazine,
July/August, 1999. www.dlib.org/dlib/july99/mackie-mason/07mackie-mason.html
Optional: Besser, H. & Yamashita, R. The Social and Economic Implications
of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/
March 3. Intellectual Property, licenses, and economics of
DLs
Toward hybrid libraries
DL Reviews
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7
8
9
10
March 17. Architecture
The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/
Reviews
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12
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15
Readings:
1. Entlich, R., Garson, L., Lesk, M., Normore, L. Olsen, J. & Weibel, S.
Testing a digital library: User response to the CORE Project, Library Hi Tech,
14(4), 99-118, 1996.
2. Marchionini, G. Evaluating Digital Libraries: A Longitudinal and Multifaceted
View Library Trends, Fall 2000 vol 49(2), p. 304-333. http://ils.unc.edu/~march/perseus/lib-trends-final.pdf
March 24. Evaluation
Reviews
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March 31. Practice and Trends
Reviews
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25
April 7. No Class
April 14. Digital library
‘workplaces’
Reviews and start of project presentations
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April 21 Project Presentations