University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Information and Library Science

INLS 235

Seminar in Digital Libraries

Spring 2003

Syllabus

Time and Place Instructor: Gary Marchionini

12:30-3:00 Wednesdays Email: march@ils.unc.edu

Room 208 Manning Hall Office 203 Manning Hall

Phone (919) 966-3611

Brief Course Description

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.

Course Materials

No textbook is required. Readings will be on reserve in the SILS Library or online, additional readings will be assigned as the semester progresses.

Assignments and Evaluation

Readings and class participation (25%), Reviews of DLs (25%), term project (50%)

Term Project

Review Template

Selected Digital Librarys and Resources

Tentative Schedule

Jan. 8 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. 15 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 http://www.stoa.org/guides/ for guides to photography/images, GPS coding, QTVR etc

Day 2 Notes

Jan 22. 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 29. 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. 5. No Class

Feb. 12. 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.

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 6 Notes

Feb 19. 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 7 Notes

Feb. 26. Interoperation & Metadata

Levels of interoperations: Hardware; Software; Content and metadata; Organization

Readings:

1. http://www-lis.gseis.ucla.edu/DL/UCLA_DL_Report.doc

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 8 Notes

March 5. Communities & Social informatics

DLs as social/political constructs

Project Updates

DL Reviews due

1. PIC: Kristen Bullard

2. Indiana U Music: Abe Crystal

3. DSpace: Butch Lazorchak

4. RLG: Marriage, Women & the Law: Susan Teague Rector

5. IDRC Library: Jesse Wilbur

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

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 9 Notes

March 10-14 Spring Break

March 19. Intellectual Property, licenses, and economics of DLs

DL Reviews

6. British Museum: Carmen Beard

7. Project Gutenberg: Andre Burton

8. U. Virginia Tibet DL: Todd Cooper

9. William Blake Archive: Michael Fernandez

10. Internet Resource Archive: David Roberts

11. NC Learn: Laura Bell

Day 10 Notes

March 26. No Class

Readings:

1. Paepcke, A., et al. (1999). Using distributed objects to build the Stanford digital library infobus. Computer, February 1999, 80-87.

Optional: Crespo, A. & Garcia-Molian, H. (1998). Archival storage for digital libraries. Proceedings of the ACM DL 1998. p. 69-78. See Figure 2. (ACM DL)

April 2. Architecture

The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/

Reviews

12. Indiana U DL: Anne Bauers

13. Everglades: Kristy Irvin

14. Biblioteque Nationale de France: Ana Moutinho

15. NY Public Library: Sarah Snow

16. State Hermitage Museum of Russia: Nan Wang

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 11 Notes

April 9. No Class

April 16. Evaluation

Reviews

17. Berkeley Sunsite: Shuang-lin Lee

18. NSDL: Jung Sun Oh

19. Pubmed Central: Dihui Lu

20. : Hetna Naik

21. Perseus DL: Juliet Rumble

Day 13 Notes

April 23. Practice and Trends