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%)

DL Review Template

Term Project Description

Example DLs and Resources

Completed Templates

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

Day 1 Notes

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

Day 2 Notes

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).

Day 3 Notes

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.

Day 4 Notes

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)

Day 5 Notes

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

Day 6 Notes

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.

Day 7 Notes

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/

Day 8 Notes

March 3. Intellectual Property, licenses, and economics of DLs
Toward hybrid libraries

DL Reviews
6
7
8
9
10

Day 9 Notes

March 17. Architecture
The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/

Reviews
11
12
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14
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

Day 10 Notes

March 24. Evaluation

Reviews
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Day 11 Notes

March 31. Practice and Trends

Reviews
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25

Day 12 Notes

April 7. No Class

April 14. Digital library ‘workplaces’
Reviews and start of project presentations
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30

April 21 Project Presentations