• Assigning SLIS Web server accounts and probably digital library accounts (if available).
• What is a digital library; what is not a digital library;
• Different views and definitions of digital libraries;
• Causes for different communities working on digital libraries;
• Overview of issues involved in building digital libraries;
• Digital library projects, initiatives and standards.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 1, Evolution of Libraries.
• Borgman, C. L., 1999. What are digital Libraries -- Competing Visions, Information Processing & Management, 35(3), 227-243. (Available online at LSU Libraries.)
• Bush, V., 1945. As We May Think. The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), 101-108. Link.
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2001. Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge - Report to the President. PDF.
• Griffin, S. M., 1998. NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective. D-Lib Magazine (July/August). Link.

Featured software: Adobe Acrobat

Useful Resources

• Lesk, Chapter 12, A World Tour of Digital Libraries.
• Witten, Chapter 1, Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2, Preliminaries.
• Arms, Chapter 1, Introduction and Background.
• Borgman, Christine. From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. Chapters 1-2.
• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 1, Digital libraries in context
• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 1, Introduction
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 1, Digital libraries: definition and characteristics
  • Chapter 2, Features of some digital libraries (may be useful for H1, H2, & H3.)
  • Chapter 3, Digital library research
• Theng, Yin-Leng & Foo, Schubert (ed.), 2005. Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific, Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D47 2005)
  • Chapter 1, Servey and history of digital liibrary development in the Asia Pacific
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 1, The growth of the role of librarians and information officers in digital libraries
  • Chapter 2, The tao of the digital library: a digital library without a librarian?
• Deegan, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 1, Digital futures in current contexts
• Deegan, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 9, Digital librarians: new roles for the information age
• Harum, Susan & Twidale, Michael (eds.), 2000. Successes & Failures of Digital Libraries. (Papers presented at the 35th Annual Clinic on Library Application of Data Processing, 3/22-24, 1998.) (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.S83 2000)
  • NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective
  • Update on the Nerworked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation
  • Processing and Access Issues for Full-Text Journals
  • Federated Search of Scientific Literature: A Retrospective on the Illinois Digital Library Project
  • From Usability to Use: Measuring Success of Testbeds in the Real World
  • Semantic Issues for Digital Libraries
  • Technology Transfer in a Public University
  • A Publisher's Perspective: More Successes than Failures
  • Lessons Learned from Full-Text Journals at OCLC
  • The Future of Annotation in a Digital (Paper) World
  • Give Me Documents or Give Me Death: A Millennial Meditation on Documents and Libraries
• Malone, Cheryl, Lee, Michael & Moses, James, 2000. Creating the Digital Library. A special report from Primary Reseach Group. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.M34 2000) (May be useful for H1, H2, & H3.)
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Columbia University Libraries
  • Chapter 2: University of California Libraries
  • Chapter 3: Cornell University Library
  • Chapter 4: Yale University Library
  • Chapter 5: NOAA Central Library
  • Chapter 6: Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library
  • Chapter 7: Microsoft Corporation
  • Chapter 8: The National Science Foundation
  • Chapter 9: The Library of Congress
  • Chapter 10: Crozer-Chester Medical Center Library
  • Chapter 11: Carle Foundation Medical Library
  • Chapter 12: Botsford General Hospital Library & Internet Services
  • Chapter 13: University Health Network (Toroton)
  • Chapter 14: The Boulder Public Library System
  • Chapter 15: Publishers and Digital Libraries
• McCarthy, Cavan, 2004. Digital Libraries. In: Bidgoli, Hossein. The Internet encyclopedia. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons; 2004; pp. 505-525 (Vol. 1, A-F). (Middleton Reference TK5105.875.I57 I5466 2004)
• Kuny, T. & Cleveland, G., 1996. The Digital Library: Myths and Challenges. PDF.
• Definition of Digital Libraries, Simmons College, Link.
• Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space. PDF.
• Norris, Michele, 2004. NPR: The future of libraries in the Digital Age (All Things Considered, Dec. 14, 2004) Link.
• Levy, D.M., 2000. Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose. D-Lib Magazine, 6(1), January 2000. Link.
• Leonardo et al., 2007. Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries, D-Lib Magazine, March/April, 2007. Link.
• Wattenberg, F., 1998. A National Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education. D-Lib Magazine, 4(9). Link.
• Greenstein, Daniel and Thorin, Suzanne, 2006. The Digital Library: A Biography. Council on Library and Information Resources. 31 August 2006. Link.
• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. National Information Standards Organization (NISO). 3rd Edition. December 2007. PDF. Background info: Link.
• Akst, D., 2003. The digital library: It's future has arrived. Carnegie Reporter. Link.
• Gary Cleveland, Gary, 1998. Digital Libraries: Definitions, Issues and Challenges. IFLANET, March, 1998. Link.
• Candela et al., 2007. Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, 13(3/4), March/April 2007. Link.
• APaepcke, ndreas, Garcia-Molina, Hector, Wesley, Rebecca, 2005. Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative. D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8), July/August 2005. Link.
• Arms, William Y., 2000. Automated Digital Libraries, How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? D-Lib Magazine 6(7/8), July/August 2000. Link.
• Schwartz, C., 2000. Digital libraries: an overview. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26(6): 385-393. (Available online at LSU Libraries.)
• Levy, D. M., 2000. Digital libraries and the problem of purpose. D-Lib Magazine, 6(1), January 2000. Link.

  The following readings are about digital library initiatives and projects:

• Arms, Chapter 4, Innovation and Research.
• Mischo, W. H., 2005. Digital Libraries: Challenges and influential work. D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2005. Link.
• Dunn, Jon W., Donald Byrd, Mark Notess, Jenn Riley, and Ryan Scherle. Variations2: retrieving and using music in an academic setting. Communications of the ACM, 49(8), pp. 53-58. Link.
• NSF Digital Library Initiative DLI2 and International projects
  • Communications of ACM, 38(4), 1995.(Special issue on Digital Libraries)
  • Communications of ACM, 41(4), 1998 (Special issue on Digital Libraries)
  • IEEE Computer, May, 1996 (Special issue on Digital Libraries)
  • IEEE Computer, February 1999 (Special issue on Digital Libraries)
• Library of Congress Launches Effort to Create World Digital Library, November 22, 2005. Link.
• Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project (December 20, 2004)
  • The Infinite Library (May 2005). Link.
  • Google's Digital Library of Alexandria (August 13, 2006) Link.
• Explore the "Infrastructure Project" space on the Digital Library Program Wiki: Link.
• Explore the METS Navigator site at: http://metsnavigator.sourceforge.net/ and a sample collection that uses METS Navigator: Link.
• Read Introducing EPrints 3 and watch short QuickTime video clips at Link.
• Europeana (Pan-European digital library)

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• general issues;
• digitization processes and standards;
• formats;
• delivery systems;
• metadata.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 3, Images of Pages.
• Witten, Section 4.5, Representing images (pp. 194-205); Section 5.5, Metadata for images and multimedia (pp. 261-266).
• Smith, Abby. (1999). Why Digitize? Washington, DC: Council on Library & Information Resources. Link.
• Colet, Linda Serenson, et al., 2000. Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Research Libraries Group(RLG)/Digital Library Federation (DLF). July 2000. Link.
  Note: some of the links are already rotten. This is a very good alternative Website: Introduction to Imaging.
• Choosing a File Format for Digital Still Images. May 2006. Link.

Featured software: Adobe Photoshop.

Useful Resources

• BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices version 2.0, June 2008, PDF.
• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 9, Case Studies (May be useful for H1, H2, & H3)
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 5, Collection management
  • Chapter 6, Digitization
• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 10, Case studies
• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 2, Acquisition and digitization
  • Chapter 3, Building collections
• Deegan, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 2, Why digitize?
  • Chapter 3, Developing collections in the digital world
• Hughes, Lorna M., 2004. Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager. London: Facet Publishing.
  • Chapter 1, Why digitize? The costs and benefits of digitization
  • Chapter 2, Selecting materials for digitization
  • Chapter 4, Project management and the institutional framework
  • Chapter 5, The importance of collaboration
  • Chapter 6, Project planning and funding
  • Chapter 7, Managing a digitization project
  • Chapter 10, Digitization of text and images
• Lee, Stuart D., 2001. Digital Imaging: A Practial Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.
  • Chapter 1, Where do you start? The digitization project
  • Chapter 2, What are you digitizing? Instigatin, selection, and assessment
  • Chapter 3, How to digitize?
  • Chapter 4, What are the next steps? Preparation and digitization
  • Chapter 5, What else is needed? Cataloguing, delivery and completion
• Koelling, Jill Marie, 2004. Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
  • Chapter 1, A digital glossary
  • Chapter 2, Questions to ask before starting a digital project
  • Chapter 3, Ethics and copyright
  • Chapter 4, Project management
  • Chapter 5, Technical specifications: establishing benchmarks
  • Chapter 6, Choosing equipment
  • Chapter 7, How to track digital image files: metadata and databases
  • Chapter 8, Revealing history: image enhancement as a research tool
• Kenney, Anne R. & Rieger, Oya Y., 2000. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Mountain View, CA: Research Library Group.
  • Chapter 1, Introduction: moving theory into practice
  • Chapter 2, Selection for digital conversion
  • Chapter 3, Digital benchmarking for conversion and access
  • Chapter 4, Establishing a quality control program
  • Chapter 5, Metadata: principles, practices, and challenges
  • Chapter 6, Enhancing access to digital image collections: system building and image processing
  • Chapter 7, Image management systems and Web dilivery
  • Chapter 8, Projects to programs: developing a digital preservation policy
  • Chapter 9, Projects to programs: mainstreaming digital imaging initiatives
• Reese, Terry Jr. & Banerjee, Kyle, 2008. Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.R44 2008)
  • Chapter 1, Planning a digital repository
  • Chapter 2, Acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content
• File Formats for Teaching and Learning: Raster Images Part I - Overview. November 2004. Link.
• File Formats for Teaching and Learning: Vector Images Part I - Overview. November 2004. Link.
• New Digital File Formats. 28 August 2006. Link.
• VRA Core 4.0. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• general issues about text and books;
• digitization processes and standards;
• formats;
• Unicode;
• delivery systems;
• metatada.

Required Readings

• Leak, Chapter 2, Text Documents.
• Arms, Chapter 9, Text
• Witten, Chapter 2, Preliminaries, pp. 39-76.
• Witten, Chapter 4, Documents, Section 4.1-4.3, (pp. 131-184???).
• Browse TEI Guidelines (TEI P4), Section 1.

• An EAD document (use Firefox)
• EAD DTD

Featured software: OmniPage Pro.

Useful Resources

• A Gentle Introduction to XML. Link.
• Browse EAD Web site.
• Hughes, Lorna M., 2004. Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager. London: Facet Publishing.
  • Chapter 10, Digitization of text and images
• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 3, Digital information sources

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• general issues;
• digitization processes and standards;
• formats;
• delivery systems;
• metadata;

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 4, Multimedia storage and retrieval.
• Witten, Section 4.6, Representing Audio and Video, pp. 206-215.
• Ubois, Jeff, 2005. New approaches to television archiving. First Monday, 10(3), 2005 March. Link.
• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials: VII. Audio/Video Capture and Management
• Leak, Chapter 6, Distribution.

Featured software: Luna Insight.

Useful Resources

• Rutledge, Lloyd. Multimedia Standards: Building Blocks of the Web. IEEE Multimedia. Link.
• Murphyt, William, 1997. Television/Video Preservation 1997: A Report on the Current State of American Television and Video Preservation, p. xi, at http://www.loc.gov/film/tvstudy.html.
• Media Matters, LLC, 2004. Digital Video Preservation Report of the Dance Heritage Coalition, DOC.
• Chisholm, Duncan, Gibson, Chris, Hunter, Jeff, Pearce, Andrew, and Smith, Cathy, 2004. Archiving Interactive Digital Television. Link.
• Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 2004. Acquisition and Deposit of Unpublished Audio and Audiovisual Transmission Programs, Federal Register, 69(206), 26 October 2004, pp. 62411. Link.
• Hughes, Lorna M., 2004. Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager. London: Facet Publishing.
  • Chapter 8, Digitization of rare and fragile materials
  • Chapter 9, Digitization of audio and moving image collections

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• metadata for representing and organizing digital objects
• basic elements of Dublin Core for digital objects
• functionalities of the major comonents of XML
• creating simple XML documents for describing digital objects

Required Readings

• Witten, Section 2.2, Bibliographic Organization; Section 5.2, XML; Section 5.4, Bibliographic Metadata; Section 5.6, Extracting Metadata.
• Arms, Chapter 10, Information retrieval and descriptive metadata.
• Gill et al., 2008. Introduction to Metadata, Online Edition, Version 3.0. Link. (click the link on its left navigation pane)
• METS: An Overview & Tutorial. 13 September 2006. Link.

Featured software: Xmetal, eXist.

Useful Resources

• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 4, Standards and interoperability
• Kenney, Anne R. & Rieger, Oya Y., 2000. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Mountain View, CA: Research Library Group.
  • Chapter 5, Metadata: principles, practices, and challenges
• Deegan, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 5, Resource discovery, description and use
• Reese, Terry Jr. & Banerjee, Kyle, 2008. Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.R44 2008)
  • Chapter 5, Metadata formats
  • Chapter 6, Sharing data: metadata harvesting and distribution
• Bryan, Martin, 1997. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Link.
• NISO, 2004. Understanding Metadata. PDF.
• Hillman, Diane, 2005. Using Dublin Core. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. 7 November 2005. Link.
• Berners-Lee, Tim, Hendler, James, and Lassila, Ora, 2001. The Semantic Web. Link.
• Ogbuji, Uche, 2004. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. Link.
• Bergholz, Andre, 2000. Extending you Markup: a XML tutorial. IEEE Internet Computing, July/August, 2000. PDF.
• Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J., 2000. Introduction to Metadata, pathways to Digital Information: 1: Setting the Stage. PDF.
• Weibel, Stuart L., 2005. Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building, D-Lib Magazine, 11 (7/8). Link.
• MODS Schema, & Documentation. 24 October 2006. Link.
• Lynch, Clifford A., 2001. Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative. ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 217 (2001): 1-9. Link.
• Day, Michael, 1999. Metadata for Images: Emerging Practice and Standards. Link.
• Sperberg-McQueen, Michael and Lou Burnard. A Gentle Introduction to XML. from the TEI Guidelines. Browse TEI Guidelines at http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/. Browse EAD site at http://www.loc.gov/ead/.
• Morgan, Eric, 2004. Getting Start with XML: A Workshop for Librarians. Link.
• XML Tutorial. Link.
• MARCXML - MARC 21 XML Schema. Link.
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Link.
• MODS - Metadata Object Description Schema. Link.
• Library of Congress, 2005. Metadata Basics: A Cataloger's Learning Workshop. Link.
• NSDL, NSDL_DC Metadata Guidelines. Link.
• Tillett, Barbara, 2004. What is FRBR? A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe (Download PDF from the link here).
• Miller, Eric, 1998. An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework (RDF), D-Lib Magazine, May 1998. Link.
• Dalmau, Michelle, Floyd, Randall, Jiao Dazhi and Jenn Riley, 2005. Integrating Thesaurus Relationships into Search and Browse in an Online Photograph Collection. Library Hi Tech 23(3), 2005: 425-452. PDF. (online paper also available from LSU Libraries.)
• Open Archives Initiative. Link.
• Joshua Tauberer, Joshua, 2006. What is RDF? Link.
• Official Page of RDF at W3C. http://www.w3c.org/RDF/.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• digital objects and DOI;
• representation of digital objects;
• major components of digital libraries;
• ideas behind various digital library architecture;
• SOA and digital libraries;
• Digital library software;
• contentDM tutorial.

Required Readings

• Arms, Chapter 12, Object Models, Identifiers, and Structural Metadata.
• Erickson, John, 2003. Digital Object Identifier, In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2003. PDF.
• Arms, W. Y., 1995. Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library. D-Lib Magazine, 1(1). Link.
• Suleman, Hussein and Fox, Edward A., 2001. A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries, D-Lib Magazine, 7(12). Link.
• For CONTENTdm, visit this link. and read the topics under ``About'' on the left pane.

Featured software: CONTENTdm.

Useful Resources

• Arms, Chapter 11: Distributed Information Discovery
• Arms, Chapter 2, or "An Overview of World Wide Web" Link.
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 4, Digital library design
• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 5, Organizing access to digital information sources
• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 8, Technology and infrastructure
  • Chapter 9, Standards and interoperability
• Theng, Yin-Leng & Foo, Schubert (ed.), 2005. Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific, Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D47)
  Section II: Design Architecture and Systems
  • Chapter 2, Design architecture: an introduction and overview
  • Chapter 3, Development of Indonesia's national digital library network
  • Chapter 4, Dynamic metadata management system for digital archives: design and construction
  • Chapter 5, Information filtering and personalization services
    Section III: Implementation Issues and Challenges:
  • Chapter 6, Implementation of next generation digital libraries
  • Chapter 7, Using multi-documetn summarization to facilitate semi-structured literature retrieval: a case study in consumer healthcare
  • Chapter 8, KEA: practical automatic keyphrase extraction
  • Chapter 9, Cross-lingual informatoin retrieval: challenge in multilingual libraries
  • Chapter 10, Evolving tool support for digital librarians
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 16, A document information system within the university: from the project's conception to its installation
• Reese, Terry Jr. & Banerjee, Kyle, 2008. Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.R44 2008)
  • Chapter 3, Choosing a repository architecture
  • Chapter 4, General purpose technologies useful for digital repositories
• Deegan, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 6, Developing and designing systems for sharing digital resources
• McCarthy, Cavan, 2006. Digital library structure and software. In: Marshall, Stewart; Taylor, Wallace, and Yu, Xing Huo (eds.) Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference; 2006; pp. 193-198. NetLibrary Link.
• Staples, Thornton, Ross Wayland, and Sandra Payette, 2003. The Fedora Project: An open-source digital object repository management system. D-Lib Magazine, 9(4). Link.
• Visit DSpace homepage at http://www.dspace.org/ and read 9 About DSpace under New to DSpace on the top left pane.
• Ian H. Witten and David Bainbridge, A brief history of the Greenstone Digital Library Software, Link.
• Lagoze et al., 2005. What is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway? D-Lib Magazine, Nov. 2005. Link.
• da, Yves Petinot, C. Lee Giles, V. Bhatnagar, Pradeep B. Teregow, Hui Han, & Isaac G. Councill, 2004. A Service-Oriented Architecture for Digital Libraries. PDF.
• Lynch, Clifford, 1997. Identifiers and Their Role In Networked Information Applications. ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions 194. PDF.
• Kahn, R., & Wilensky, R., 1995. A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services. Link.
• Savanur, Kiran P & Nagaraj, M. N. Design and Implement of Digital Library: An Overview. PDF.
• Lavoie et al., 2006. A Service Framework for Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, July/August, 2006. Link.
• The Work and Vision of Work Package 1: Digital Library Architecture. Link.
• Paskin, Norman, 2003. DOI: A 2003 Progress Report. D-Lib Magazine, June, 2003. Link.
• Paskin, Norman, 1999. DOI: Current Status and Outlook. D-Lib Magazine, May, 1999. Link.
• Rodger J. McNab, Ian H. Witten, Stefan J. Boddie, 1997. A Distributed Digital Library Architecture Incorporating Different Index Styles. Advances in Digital Libraries. PDF.
• Marcos Andre & Goncalves, Robert K. France and Edward A. Fox., 2001. MARIAN: Flexible Interoperability for Federated Digital Libraries. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: [Proc. of] 5th European Conference, ECDL-01 (Darmstadt, Germany: 4-9 Sept. 2001) Springer, 2001, pp. 173-186. PDF.
• McDonough, Jerome. Introduction to METS. Link.
• Sun, Sam, Lannom, Larry, and Boesch, Brian, 2003. Handle System Overview, Link.
• NSDL, 2004. NSDL Core Library Architecture: An Overview. PDF.
• California Digital Library, 2007. CDL Guides for Digital Objects. Link.
• Arms et al., 1997. An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, Feb. 1997. Link.
• Manduca, Cathryn A., Fox, Sean, and Iverson, Ellen R., 2006. Digital Library as Network and Community Center. D-Lib Magazine, Dec. 2006. Link.
• Brogan, M., 2006. Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (DLF Report, November 2006). Link.
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard: Primer and Reference Manual. PDF. pp. 1-14.
• Daniel et al., 1998. A Metadata Architecture for Digital Libraries. Link.
• MODELS - MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services. Link.
• Payette, Sandra, Blanchi, Christophe, Lagoze, Carl, Overly, Edward A., 1999. Interoperability for Digital Objects and Repositories, The Cornell/CNRI Experiments, D-Lib Magazine, 5(5), May 1999, Link. (Read interoperability and extensibility).
• Kahn, Robert E. and Cerf, Vinton G., What is the Internet (And What Makes It Work), prepared at the request of the Internet Policy Institute, December 1999. Link.
• Schek, Hans & Turker, Can. 2004. The Work and Vision of Work Package 1: Digital Library Architecture. DELOS Newsletter, October 2004. Link.
• Internet Pioneers. Link.
• Fedora architecture. Link.
• Staples, 2003. The Fedora Project - An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System. Link.
• DSpace. Link.
• Smith et al., 2003. DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository. D-Lib Magazine, January, 2003. Link.
• Greeenstone. Link.
• MediaWiki. Link>.
• Drupal content management platform. Link.
• Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (Simile). Link.
• Universal Document Naming Systems: Links. Link.
• Rhyno, Art, 2004. Open Source Relational Databases for Digital Libraries. In: Rhyno, Art. Using open source systems for digital libraries. Westport, Conn.; London: Libraries Unlimited; 2004; Chapter 5, pp. 59-67. ZA4080.R48 2004.

• knowledge representation schemes,
• content organization.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 5, Knowledge representation schemes.
• Smith, A. (2001). Strategies for Building Digitized Collections. Link.
• NISO, 2007. Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. PDF.
• Hodge, G. (2000). Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files. Link.

Featured software: Greenstone.

Useful Resources

• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 4, Cataloging and classification
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 7, Information organization
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 9, Using facets to classify and access digital resources: proposal and example
  • Chapter 10, Digital libraries: the publication of legal documents online within the info-mediation service
  • Chapter 11, What scholarly and pedagogic material is available online for the virtual user within French universities?
  • Chapter 12, The Revel@Nice Project: the creation and prospects of a pioneering site of online periodicals and journals
  • Chapter 14, Digital collections in libraries: development and continuity
• Kenyon, Ralph E. Jr. 2004. Organizing Knowledge (an end user's view). Link.
• NKOS - Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services. Link.
• Atkinson, R., 1996. Library functions, scholarly communication, and the foundation of the digital library: laying claim to the control zone. Library Quarterly, 66(3), 239-265. (available online at LSU Libraries.)
• Carl Logoze, Carl and Fielding, David, 1998. Defining Collections in Distributed Digital Libraries. Link.
• Heath et al., 2003. Emerging tools for evaluating digital library services: Conceptual adaptations of LibQUAL+ and CAPM. Journal of Digital Information, 4(2), June, 2003. Link.
• Pepper, Steve. The TAO of Topic Maps. Link.
• DAML+OIL (March 2001) Reference Description. Link.
• Library of Congress. Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers. Link.
• Digital Libraries - Online Publications, Exhibits, Documents & Journals. Link.
• Wrightson, Ann, 2001. Topic maps and Knowledge Representations. Link.
• SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System, Link.
• Arms, C., and Arms, W., 2004. Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World. In Metadata in Practice, edited by D. Hillmann and E. Westbrooks, ALA Editions. Link.
• DLF, 2004. Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• user-centered design;
• search and access interfaces;
• usability;
• evaluation of digital libraries.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 7, Usability and retrieval evaluation.
• Arms, Chapter 8, User interfaces and usability.
• Blandford, Ann, Keith, Suzette, Connell, Iain, and Edwards, Helen, 2004. Analytical usability evaluation for digital libraries: a case study. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. [PDF at MDX] [PDF at IEEE].
• Notess, Mark and Inna Kouper and Maggie B. Swan, 2005. Designing Effective Tasks for Digital Library User Tests: Lessons Learned." OCLC Systems & Services 21: 300-310. [Link] (Also available online at LSU Libraries: http://www.lib.lsu.edu.)

Featured software: open source software.

Useful Resources

• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 6, Interface design
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 8, Information access and user interfaces
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing.
  • Chapter 13, Digital library evaluation
• Theng, Yin-Leng & Foo, Schubert (ed.), 2005. Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific, Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D47)
  
  Section V: Users and Usability
  • Chapter 15, Usability of digital libraries in a multicultural environment
  • Chapter 16, Cross-cultural design and usability of a digital library supporting acess to Maori cultural heritage resources
  • Chapter 17, From GeogDL to PAPER: the evolution of an educational digital library
  • Chapter 18, Designing a music digital library: discovering what people really want
  • Chapter 19, Quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the Singapore National Library Board's digital library
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 7, Stakes and prospects of heuristic visualization for OPAC use
  • Chapter 8, 3D interaction for digital libraries
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 13, Evaluating the use and uses of digital journal libraries
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
• Bollen, J. and Luce, R., 2002. Evaluation of digital library impact and user communities by analysis of usage patterns. D-Lib Magazine. 2002. Link.
• E-Metrics: Measures for Electronic Resources. Association of Research Libraries. 9 Nov. 2007. 28. Link.
• Kling, Rob and Elliott, Margaret, 1994. Digital Library Design for Usability. Link.
• Saracevic, Tefko, 2004. Evaluation of digital libraries: An overview. PDF.
• Sheiderman, Ben and Plaisant, Catherine, 2005. Designing the User Interfaces (4ed). Chapter 1. A good introduction about usability and its application in human computer interaction.
• Arko, R. A., Ginger, K. M., Kastens, K. A., and Weatherley, J., 2006. Using Annotations to add value to a digital library for education. D-lib Magazine, May, 2006. Link.
• Bates, Marcia J., 2002. The cascade of interactions in the digital library interface. Information Processing & Management, 38(3), 381-400. (available online at LSU Libraries and ACM DL.)
• Manduca, C. A., Iverson, E. R., and Fox, S., 2005. Influencing user behavior through digital library design. D-lib Magazine, May, 2005. Link.
• House et al., 1996. User-centered iterative design for digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine, Feb. 1996. Link.
• Twidale, Michael B. and Nichols, David M., 1998. A survey of applications of CSCW for Digital Libraries: Link.
• An Atlas of Cyberspace--Information Space Maps. Link.
• Krebs, V., 2008. The Social Life of Books, Link.
• National Research Council, 1996. More than Screen Deep: Toward Every-Citizen Interfaces to the Nation's Information Infrastructure. (Read at least the Executive Summary). (eBook available online at LSU Libraries.)
• Marchionini, Gary, Plaisant, Chtherine, and Komlodi, Anita. The people in digital libraries: multifaceted approaches to assessing needs and impact. PDF.
• Sheiderman, Ben and Plaisant, Catherine, 2005. Designing the User Interfaces (4ed). Chapter 14. An introduction about search interface and infomation visualization.
• Sheiderman, Ben and Plaisant, Catherine, 2005. Designing the User Interfaces (4ed). Chapter 2. An excellent introduction about some basic theories, guidelines and principles of designing a good interface.

• evaluate various retrieval methods developed in DL;
• examine various approaches for meta-search and federate search in DL;

Required Readings

• Arms, Chapter 9: Distributed Information Discovery (Interoperability, Federated digital libraries)
• Smith, A. G., 2000. Search features of digital libraries. Information Research, 5(3). Link.
• Martin, R. S., 2003. Reaching across Library Boundaries. In: Emerging Visions for Access in the Twenty-first Century Library. (CLIR report &CDL Conference Proceedings). PDF.
• Miller, Todd, 2004. Federated Searching: Put It in Its Place. Library Journal, April 15, 2004. (Available from LSU Libraries Library Science Databases.)

Featured software: Olive.

Useful Resources

• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 7, Searching and browsing
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 9, Information retrieval in digital libraries
• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 5, Access
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 6, Accessing library catalogs in the age of digital libraries and search engines: gaps, disruptions and transformation?
• Reese, Terry Jr. & Banerjee, Kyle, 2008. Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.R44 2008)
  • Chapter 7, Federated searching of repositories
  • Chapter 8, Access management
• Deegan, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 7, Portals and personalization: mechanism for end-user access
• Paepcke, A., 1996. Digital Libraries: Searching Is Not Enough. D-Lib Magazine, May 1996. Link.
• The Truth About Federated Searching. Information Today, October 2003. Link.
• Lynch, Clifford A., 1997. The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard, Part 1: A Strategic View of its Past, Present, and Future. D-Lib Magazine, April 1997. Link.
• Hawking, David, 2006. Web Search Engines: Part 1 and Part 2. IEEE Computer, June 2006. [Part 1 Link] [Part 2 Link].
• Henzinger, M. et al., 2002. challenges in Web Search Engines. ACM SIGIR 2002. In ACM DL.
• Schart, Bruce R., 1997. Information Retreival in Digital Libraries, Science, 275. PDF.
• Lawrence, Steve & Giles, C. Lee, 1999. Searching the Web: General and Scientific Information Access, IEEE Communications, 3791. Link.
• Lossau, Norbert, 2004. Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet. D-Lib Magazine, 10(6), June 2004. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• new challenges in digital preservation;
• basic strategies for digital preservation;
• OAIS model for preservation;
• purposes and functions of preservation metadata.
• digital repositories and digital archives.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 9, Collections and preservations.
• Lynch, C. A., 2003. Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age. ARL: A Bimonthly Report, No.226, February, 2003. Link.
• Friedlander, Amy, 2002. National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program - Expectations, Realities, Choices and Progress to Date. D-Lib Magazine, April 2002. Link.
• Hedstrom, Margaret, 2002. Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation. PDF.

Featured systems: Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETDs), VALET.

Useful Resources

• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 12, Preservation
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 10, Digital archiving and preservation
• Deean, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 8, Preservation
• McCarthy, Cavan, 2006. Digital Libraries: Security and Preservation Considerations. In: The Handbook of Information Security, edited by Hossein Bidgoli. Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons; 2006. Vol. 1, Key Concepts, Infrastructure, Standards, and Protocols, pp. 49-76. (Middleton Reference TK5105.59 .H35 2006)
• Jones, Maggie, and Beagrie, Neil, 2001. Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook. (Introduction and Digital Preservation sections.) Link.
• Lavoie, Brian F., 2004. The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide. PDF.
• Jantz, R. & Giarlo, M. J., 2005. Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories. D-Lib Magazine, June 2005. Link.
• Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, An RLG-OCLC Report. May 2002. PDF.
• Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI), National Library of Australia. Link.
• Cornell University Library, 2007. Digital Preservation Tutorial. Link.
• Rothenberg, Jeff, 1999. Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Information. PDF.
• UNESCO, 2003. Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage. PDF.
• Lesk, M.E., 1997. How much information is there? Link.
• Digital Collections, Digital Libraries and the digitization of cultural heritage information. First Monday, May 2002. Link.
• Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving (CLIR report, April, 2002). Link.
• Rothenberg, Jeff, 1998. Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation. CLIR Report. Link.
• Library Preservation at Harvard. Link.
• Digital Library Federation's Digital Preservation. Link.
• Library of Congress, Digital Preservation. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• social life of documents;
• social impacts of DL, social issues in designing and developing DL;
• access management: elements, issues, technologies,
• models for making DLs sustainable,
• long term implications related to the issue of access vs ownership.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 10, Economics.
• Arms, Chapters 5, People, Organizations and Change.
• Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul. 1995. The Social Life of Documents. Link or PDF.
• UCLA, 1996. Social Aspects of Digital Libraries. The final report of UCLA-NSF Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Workshop. Link (final report in html or doc).

Featured System: MediaWiki.org.

Useful Resources

• Arms, William, 1998. Implementing Policies for Access Management, D-Lib Magazine, February 1998. Link.
• Arms, Chapters 6, Economics. Link.
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 12, Social, economic and legal issues
• Deegan, Marilyn & Tanner, Simon (eds.), 2002. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D44 2002)
  • Chapter 4, The economic factors
• Buckland, Michael, 1997. What is a "Document"? JASIS, 48(9):804-809. Link.
• Digital library security. Link.
• Arms, William Y., 2005. A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library, D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8), July/August 2005. Link.
• Nunberg, Geoffrey, 1993. The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. Link.
• Roush, Wade, 2005. The Infinite Library: Does Google's plan to digitize millions of print books spell the death of libraries; or their rebirth? MIT Technology Review, May 2005. Link.
• Gladney, H. M. and Lotspiech, J. B., 1997. Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users Assuring Convenient Security and Data Quality. D-Lib Magazine, May 1997. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• Users' needs,
• Digital librarians,
• Long tail,
• Use and impact .

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 8, user needs
• Coleman, A. & Sumner, T., 2004. Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future. Journal of Digital Information, 5(3), Link.
• Dempsey, L., 2006. Libraries and the long tail. D-Lib Magazine, April, 2006. Link.
• Choi, Y. & Rasmussen, E., 2006. What do digital librarians do? JCDL, 2006. (Available in IEEE XPlore (at least works on LSU computers) and ACM DL (I will post it on Moodle).

Featured system: Drupal (an open source content management platform).

Useful Resources

• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 14, Digital libraries and the information profession
• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 8, Practical issues
• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T46)
  • Chapter 6, Public service
  • Chapter 7, Organization and staffing
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 8, Information access and user interfaces
  • Chapter 11, Digital library services
• Theng, Yin-Leng & Foo, Schubert (ed.), 2005. Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific, Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D47)
  Section IV: Use and Impact
  
  • Chapter 11, Digital libraries and society: new perspectives on information and dissemination
  • Chapter 12, Sharing digital knowledge with end-users: case study of the International Rice Research Institute Library and Documentation Service in the Philippines
  • Chapter 13, Multimedia digital library and intellectual property
  • Chapter 14, Digital libraries as learning environments for youths
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 3, The reader faced with a digital library: the experience of the Pasteur Institute
  • Chapter 4, University students' information strategies: from institutional expectations to real uses
  • Chapter 5, The digital spirit: digital libraries and democracy
  • Chapter 15. Ergonomic standards and the uses of digital libraries
• Covey, Denise, 2002. Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns. CLIR, 105. PDF.
• The Long Tail (Wikipedia). Link.
• Choi, Y. & Rasmussen, E., 2006. What is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians. D-Lin Magazine, Sept. 2006. Link.
• Marion, Linda, 2001. Digital Librarian, Cybrarian, or Librarian with Specialized Skills: Who Will Staff Digital Libraries? Crossing the Divide: Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Denver, Colorado, March 15-18, 2001, pp143-149. PDF.
• Hastings, K. & Tennant, R., 1996. How to Build a Digital Librarian. D-Lib Magazine, November 1996. Link.
• Steele, Colin. & Guha, M., 1999. Staffing the Digital Library in the 21st Century. Link.
• Tennant, R., 1998. The Most Important Management Decision: Hiring Staff for the New Millennium. Library Journal, February 15, 1998. Link.
• Tennant, R., 2002. Digital Libraries - The Digital Librarian Shortage. Library Journal, March 15, 2002. Link.
• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 2, Digital libraires: users and services

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• copyright issues in DLs;
• controversial nature of privacy;
• balance between privacy protection and the desire of building better systems;
• major achievements in the past 10 years;
• Web 2.0 and Library 2.0;
• digital libraries and learning;
• directions of the development of DLs in the next 10 years;
• Final review.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 11, Intellectual properties.
• Lesk, Chapter 14, Future: ubiquity, diversity, creativity, and public policy.
• McDermott, R., 1999. Why information technology inspired but cannot deliver knowledge management; California Management Review, 41(3), 103-118 Summer 1999. PDF (or search the Web)
• Lynch, Clifford, 2005. Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries, D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8). Link.

Featured system: Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (Simile).

Useful Resources

• Hughes, Lorna M., 2004. Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager. London: Facet Publishing.
  • Chapter 3, Intellectual property, copyright, and other legal issues.
• Tennant, Roy, 2004. Managing the Digital Library, New York: Reed Press.
  • Chapter 11, Copyright and intellectual property rights
  • Chapter 13, Current awareness
• Koelling, Jill Marie, 2004. Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
  • Chapter 3, Ethics and copyright
• Lee, Stuart D., 2001. Digital Imaging: A Practial Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.
  • Chapter 5, What else is needed? Cataloguing, delivery and completion
• Arms, William, 2001. Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property. D-Lib Magazine, 7(2), February 2001. Link.
• Chowdhury, Gobinda & Chowdhury, Sudatta, 2003. Introduction to Digital Libraries, London: Facet Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.C46)
  • Chapter 15, Trends in digital library research adn development
• Theng, Yin-Leng & Foo, Schubert (ed.), 2005. Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific, Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.D47)
  • Chapter 20, A snapshot of digital library development: the way forward in the Asia Pacific
• Papy, Fabrice (ed.), 2008. Digital Libraries. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE Ltd. (Middleton Stacks ZA 4080 D53 2008)
  • Chapter 17, Do libraries have a future in academia?
• Reese, Terry Jr. & Banerjee, Kyle, 2008. Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.R44 2008)
  • Chapter 9, Planning for the future
  • Chapter 10, Conclusions
• Stiglitz, Joseph E., 2005. Intellectual-property rights and wrongs, Daily Times, Aug19, 2005. Link.
• Harper, Georgia, 2004. Copyright in the Digital Library. Link.
• Larsen, R. L. and Wactlar, H. D., 2003. Knowledge Loss in Information, final report of NSF Workshop on research directions for digital libraries. PDF.
• Jacobson, J., 1997. The Last Book. IBM System Journal, 36(3). Link.
• Web-Based Education Commission, 2000. The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice. Washington, D.C. Link.
• Digital Rights Management and the Breakdowns of Social Norms. First Monday, 8(11), November 2003. Link.
• Digital Rights Management. Link.
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003). Link.
• Besek, June, 2003. Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment. Link.
• Hoorn, E. and Graaf, M. van der, 2006. Copyright issues in Open Access Research Journals. D-Lib Magazine, Feb. 2006. Link.
• Cohen, Julie E. 2003. The Law and Technology of Digital Rights Management: DRM and Privacy. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 18 (Spring 2003):575-617. PDF.
• Ray, Philip, 1995. Transitions in Intellectual Property for Digital Libraries. Link.
• Indiana University Digital Music Library Project, 2003. Copyright Law for the Digital Library: A Bibliography. PDF.
• U.S. Copyright Office, 1998. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. PDF.
• WIPO, Intellectual Property Digital Library, Link.
• Wellcome Trust, 2008. Position statement in support of open and unrestricted access to published research. Link.
• Google wins first round in Digital Library Dispute (December 2006). Link.
• Senator Sam Brownback, 2003. Consumers, Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Awareness Act of 2003. PDF.
• Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J. & Lassila, O., 2001. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, 284(5), 34-43. PDF.
• Soto, Patricia Soto, 1998. Text Mining: Beyond Searching Technology. Link.
• Lucas, Marty, 2000. Mining in Textual Mountains. Link.
• Information Extraction
• Hearst, Marti, A., 1999. Untangling Text Data Mining. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Maryland, June 20-26, 1999 (invited paper). Link.
• Mueller, James L., 2003. Talking Books Go Digital Link.
• DigitalBookIndex - provides access to more than 74,000 eBooks. Link.
• Library for the Information Age: Link1, Link2.
• Tanner, Simon, 2003. Economic Factors of Managing Digital Content and Establishing Digital Libraries. Journal of Digital Information, 4(2). Link.
• Griffin, Stephen M., 2005. Funding for Digital Libraries Research: Past and Present. D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8). Link.
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee: Panel on Digital Libraries, 2001. Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge, PITAC, February 2001. PDF.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.