University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Information and Library Science
INLS 210-89
Seminar in Digital Libraries
Syllabus
Room 214 Manning Hall Email: march@ils.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-3611
This seminar 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), critique a
variety of DLs, evaluate a DL of their choice, and produce a term project or
paper.
No textbook is required. Readings will be on reserve in the SILS
Library or online.
Term project, reviews of extant digital libraries, readings, and class participation.
Digital library (DL)
definitions and examples
Readings
Marchionini, G. Digital
Library Research & Development Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science http://ils.unc.edu/~march/digital_library_R_and_D.html
Marchionini, G. & Fox, E.
(1999). Progress toward digital
libraries: Augmentation through integration (Guest Editors’ Introduction). Information Processing & Management,
35(3), 219-225. (on G drive)
Assignment
American Front Porch www.afporch.org
Readings
http://ils.unc.edu/~march/sharium/ISDL.pdf
Feb. 7. Collection Development
User needs
Acquisition
Digitization
MetaLab www.metalab.unc.edu
Perseus www.perseus.tufts.edu
Readings:
Feb. 14. Multimedia Objects
Open Video Project http://openvideo.dsi.internet2.edu/
Readings: Wactlar, et at., (1999). Lessons learned
from building a terabyte digital video library. IEEE Computer, 32(2),
66-73.
Feb. 21. Indexing, Storage, Maintenance and
Access
Readings:
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. 28. Search and browsing services
See IDL prototypes (www.ils.unc.edu/idl)
Readings:
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
March 6. Reference, Instruction and other added values
Readings:
Lankes, D. (1998). The
virtual reference desk: Building human expertise into information systems. ASIS Annual Conference, p. 81-90.
March 20. Interoperation
Hardware; Software; Content
and metadata; Organization
Readings:
Paepcke, A. et al., (1998). Interoperability
for digital libraries worldwide. CACM, 41(4), 33-42. (ACM DL)
March 27. Economics, Communities & Social
informatics
Readings:
Social aspects of digital
libraries workshop report
www-lis.gseis.ucla.edu/DL/UCLA_DL_Report.doc
April 3. CHI)
Readings:
April 10. Design I
Readings:
April 17. Design II & Evaluation
Readings:
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.
April 24. Practice and Trends
Readings:
Assignment:
May 1. Project Presentations