UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – MILWAUKEE

SCHOOL OF Information Studies

Digital Libraries

682 Fall 2011

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Instructor:Iris Xie, Professor

Office: Bolton Hall Rm530

Phone:229-6835Fax:229-6699

Email:

Office Hours: By Appointment

Teaching Assistant:Ed Benoit

Office: Bolton Hall Rm581

Phone:229-3492Fax:229-6699

Email:

Office Hours: By appointment

Course Description:An interdisciplinary study of fundamental issues, problems and approaches to the creation and maintenance of digital libraries. Emphasizes the new approaches and techniques of collection building, organization, storage, and access of digital material and the evaluation of digital projects.

Prerequisite: Junior standing

Objectives:This course will enable students to:

  • Understand the evolution, nature and different contexts of digital libraries
  • Gain competencies with varied techniques for collection building
  • Understand the strength and limitations of current approaches in organizing digital materials
  • Become familiar with the technologies for storing, delivering and disseminating digital materials in networked environment
  • Evaluate digital libraries by applying various usability and performance criteria
  • Explore social and economic issues of digital libraries and explore the limitation and trend of future digital libraries

Communication:Students will use the D2L site created for this class to view class slides, presentations, discussion and communicate class related questions and suggestions to the professor and classmates.

Method:Lecture/Discussion/Hands-on Exercises/Reading

If you are a student of special need, feel free to contact the instructor.

Required Textbook:Lesk, M. (2004). Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Course Schedule and required readings

Week 1 Introduction, syllabus review, and what are digital libraries?

Required readings

Lesk, M. (2004). Chapter 1: Evolution of libraries & Chapter 13: Scope of digital libraries. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 1-30, 361-374). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Bearman, D. (2007). Digital libraries. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 41: 223-263

Additional readings

Kahle, B. (2008). Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library. TED Partner Series. Retrieved from:

Candela, L. et al. (2007). Setting the foundations of digital libraries: The DELOS Manifesto. D-Lib Magazine, 13 (3/4). Retrieved from

Kresh, D. (Ed) (2007). The Whole Digital Library Handbook. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Chapter 1, Definitions.

Week 2 Digital library initiatives and international projects

Required readings

Cathro, W., Ball, R., & Savenije, B. (2009). Digital library economics: International perspectives. In Baker, D & Evans, W. (Eds.), Digital Library Economics: An academic perspective (pp. 119-159). Oxford, UK: Chandos.

Lesk, M. (2004). Chapter 12: A world tour of digital libraries. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp.321-360). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Digital Libraries Initiative site (UIUC)

Summaries of projects

http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm

CarnegieMellonUniversity

Informedia Digital Video Library

http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu

David Rumsey Map Collection

Europeana

European Information Society i2010 Initiative

The Library of Congress

American Memory Project

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

The Internet Archive

Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library

http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/gerhart/MPDL/Pages/Home.aspx

NASA Images

Polona National Digital Library

Rare Book Room

The Universal Digital Library

The University of Waikato

The New Zealand Digital Library

Virtually Missouri

http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/

Wisconsin Heritage Online

World Digital Library

Week 3 Digitalization: Forms and processes

Rebecca Hall from SOIS on image optimization

Required readings

Lesk, M. (2004).Chapter 2: Text documents & Chapter 3: Images of pages. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 31-90). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Landon, G. V. (2009). Toward Digitizing All Forms of Documentation. D-Lib Magazine, 15(3). Retrieved from:

Kenney, Anne R. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. Retrieved from:http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/toc.html

Digital Imaging: Imaging and imagebases (comprehensive resources on imaging). StanfordUniversity. Retrieved from:http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/imaging/

Besser, H. Introduction to Imaging. Getty Research Institute.Retrieved from:

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introimages/index.html

Week 4 Collection development

Required readings

Chowdhury, G.G. & Chowdhury, S. (2003). Chapter 5: Collection management. In Introduction to Digital Libraries (pp. 89-102). London: Facet Publishing.

Additional readings

Saha, N.C., Debnath, K., & Das, T.K. (2010). Implications of selection & collection policies for e-resources: With special reference to Visva-Bharati Library. INFLIBNET Convention Proceedings, PLANNER 2010. Retrieved from:

Dalbello, M. (2009). Cultural dimensions of digital library development, part II: The cultures of innovation in five European national libraries (narratives of development). The Library Quarterly 79(1): 1-72.

Dempster, S. & Grout, C. (2009). Digitisation: Trends in the economics of retro-conversion. In Baker, D & Evans, W. (Eds.), Digital Library Economics: An academic perspective (pp. 177-191). Oxford, UK: Chandos.

World Digital Library. (2009). World Digital Library Content Selection Guidelines. Retrieved from:

University of South Carolina, University Libraries Digital Collections (2008). Selection criteria for digital projects. Retrieved from: http://library.sc.edu/digital/dacselect.html

Murray, K., & Philips, M. (2007). Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials. Presented atDigCCurr2007, an international symposium on Digital Curation, April 18-20, 2007. Retrieved from:

http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/murrayPhillips_paper_9-3.pdf

National Information Standards Organization. (2007). A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 3rd Edition.

Week 5 Techniques and technologies for multimedia storage and access

Required readings

Lesk, M. (2004).Chapter 4: Multimedia storage and retrieval. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 91-116). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Neumayer, R. & Rauber, A. (2009). Map-based user interfaces for music information retrieval.. In Then, Y.-L., Foo, S., Goh, D., & Na, J.-C. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact (pp. 321-329). Hersey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Casey, M.A., Veltkamp, R., Goto, M., Leman, M., Rhodes, C., & Slaney, M. (2008). Content-based music information retrieval: Current directions and future challenges. Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(4): 668-696.

Enser, P.G.B. (2008). Visual Image Retrieval. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 42(1):1-42.

Enser, P. (2008). The evolution of visual information retrieval. Journal of Information Science, 34(4): 531-546.

Frank, J., Lidy, T., Peiszer, E., Genswaider, R., & Rauber, A. (2008). Ambient music experience in real and virtual worlds using audio similarity. In Proceedings of SAME ’08, Vancouver: ACM. Retrieved from:

The Informedia Project.

http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/

Variation 3 – An Integrated Digital Library and Learning System for the Music Community

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/variations3/index.html

Digital Projects and Developing Technologies in Music & Media – University of Washington Libraries

http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/projects.html

Week 6 Organizing digital materials: metadata standards

Required readings

Lesk, M. (2004).Chapter 5: Knowledge representation schemes. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 117-152). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

The Dublin Core Home Page:

Additional readings

Witten, I.H., Bainbridge, D., & Nichols, D.M. (2010). Chapter 6: Metadata: Elements of organization. In How to Build a Digital Library (pp. 285-339), 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann.

Chudamani, K.S., & Nagarathna, H.C. (2009). Metadata Interoperability. In Then, Y.-L., Foo, S., Goh, D., & Na, J.-C. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact (pp. 122-130). Hersey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Turvey-Welch, M.R. (2009). Metadata Systems 2004-2006.Association for Library Collections & Technical Services.

Baca, M., Gilliland, A.J., Gill, T., Woodley, M.S., & Whalen, M. (2008). Introduction to Metadata: Online Edition, Version 3.0. Los Angeles, CA: The J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved June 16, 2011 from:http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/intrometadata/index.html

Gartner, R. (2008). Metadata for digital libraries: State of the art and future directions. JISC Technology & Standards Watch. Retrieved from:

Week 7 Interface designand evaluation

Required readings

Lesk, M. (2004).Chapter 7: Usability and retrieval evaluation.In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 185-216). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Witten, I.H., Bainbridge, D., & Nichols, D.M. (2010). Chapter 3: Presentation: User interfaces. In How to Build a Digital Library (pp. 73-126), 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann.

Buchanan, S. (2009). Evaluating the usability and usefulness of a digital library. Library Review 58(9): 638-651.

Jeng, J. (2009). Usability evaluation of digital library. In Theng, Y.-L., Foo, S., Goh, D., & Na, J.-C., (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact (pp. 278-86). IGI Global.

Comeaux, D. J. (2008). Usability Studies and User-centered Design in Digital Libraries. Journal of Web Librarianship, 2(2):457-475.

Week 8 Digital archiving and preservation

Required readings

Harvey, R. (2010). Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman. Chapter 13, Preserving Data.

Lesk, M. (2004).Chapter 9: Collections and preservations. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 233-260). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Conservation Online: Resources for conservation professionals. Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries. http://palimpsest.stanford.edu

Dow, E. (2009). Chapter 8: The future curators, archivists and digital collections. In Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository (pp. 137-144). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Strodl, S., Becker, C., & Rauber, A. (2009). Digital preservation. In Then, Y.-L., Foo, S., Goh, D., & Na, J.-C. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact (pp. 431-440). Hersey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Kresh, D. (Ed) (2007). The Whole Digital Library Handbook. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Chapter 7, Preservation.

Moss, M. (2008). Chapter 4: Opening Pandora’s Box: What is an archive in the digital environment? In What are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader (pp. 71-87). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Ross, S.(2007). Digital preservation, archival science and methodological foundations for digital libraries. Keynote address at the 11th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Budapest (September 17, 2007).

Pymm, B.(2006). Building collections for all time: The issue of significance. AARL 37(1), 61-73. Retrieved from:

Week 9 Access issues: information retrieval and reference services

Required readings

Lesk, M. (2004).Chapter 8: User needs. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 217-232). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Geeson, R. (2011). Virtual advice services. In Dale, P, Beard, J., & Holland, M., University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments (pp. 87-103). Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

Dollah, W.A.K.W., & Singh, D. (2009). Reference services in digital environment. In Then, Y.-L., Foo, S., Goh, D., & Na, J.-C. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact (pp. 412-420). Hersey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Buckland, M.K. (2008). Reference library service in the digital environment. Library & Information Science Research, 30(2): 81-85.

Liu, J. (2008). Digital library and digital reference service: integration and mutual complementarity. Policy Futures in Education, 6(1): 59-76. Retrieved from:

Nicholson, S. & Lankes, R.D. (2007). The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) project. Reference and User Services Quarterly 46(3): 45-59.

Week 10 Social, economic and legal issues in managing digital libraries

Kathy Bowes from E-Reserve., Golda Meir Library

Required readings

Lesk, M. (2004).Chapter 10: Economics & Chapter 11: Intellectual property rights. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 261-320). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/

Look, H. & Wise, A. (2009). The economics of copyright. In Baker, D & Evans, W. (Eds.), Digital Library Economics: An academic perspective (pp. 265-289). Oxford, UK: Chandos.

Dalbello, M. (2008). Cultural Dimensions of Digital Library Development, Part I: Theory and Methodological Framework for a Comparative Study of the Cultures of Innovation in Five European National Libraries. The Library Quarterly, 78(4): 355-395.

Eschenfelder, K. R. (2008). Every library’s nightmare? Digital rights management, use restrictions, and licensed scholarly digital resources. College and Research Libraries, 69(3): 205-225.

Hirtle, P. B. (2008). Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status. D-Lib Magazine, 14(7)

http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/10884/6/Copyright_renewal_final.pdf

Samuels, E. (2002). The Illustrated Story of Copyright. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. Online edition available at

Week 11 Evaluation of digital libraries

Required readings

Saracevic, T. (2009). Introduction: The framework for digital library evaluation. In Tsakonas, G. & Papatheodorou, C. (Eds.), Evaluation of Digital Libraries: An insight into useful applications and methods (pp. 1-13). Oxford, UK: Chandos Publishing.

Additional readings

Zhang, Y. (2010). Developing a holistic model for digital library evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1): 88-110.

Monopoli, M. (2009). Examining how end users use and perceive digital libraries: A qualitative approach. In Tsakonas, G. & Papatheodorou, C. (Eds.), Evaluation of Digital Libraries: An insight into useful applications and methods (pp. 235-252). Oxford, UK: Chandos Publishing.

Xie, H. (2008). Users’ evaluation of digital libraries (DLs): Their uses, their criteria, and their assessment. Information Processing & Management, 44(3): 1346-1373.

Fuhr, N. et al. (2007). Evaluation of Digital Libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 8(1): 21-38. Retrieved from:

Week 12 Thanksgiving and Group work

Week 13 Digital libraries: e-books, social media, profession, problems, limitations, and trends for the future

Required readings

Kresh, D. (Ed) (2007). The Whole Digital Library Handbook. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Chapter 5, Tools.

Vassiliou, M. & Rowley, J. (2008). Progressing the definition of “e-book.” Library Hi Tech 26(3): 35-368.

Lesk, M. (2004). Chapter 6: Distribution & Chapter 14: Future: Ubiquity, diversity, creativity, and public policy. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 153-184, 375-386). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Additional readings

Landoni, M. (2011). E-Books in digital libraries. In Iglezakis, I., Synodinou, T., & Kapidakis, S. (Eds.), E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues (pp. 131-140). IGI Global.

Chakraborty, A. K. (2010). Web 2.0 and social web approaches to digital libraries. In Ashraf, T., Sharma, J., & Gulati, P. A. (Eds.), Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives (pp. 108-132). IGI Global.

Chowdhury, G. (2010). From digital libraries to digital preservation research: the importance of users and context. Journal of Documentation, 66(2): 207-223.

Hazan, S. (2010). When is a library not a library? In Verheul, I., Tammaro, A.M., & Witt, S. (Eds.), Digital Library Futures: User Perspectives and Institutional Strategies (pp. 61-78). Germany: De Gruyter Saur.

Verheul, I. (2010). The digital library futures conference and the future of digital libraries within IFLA. IFLA Journal, 36(1): 74-84.

van der Velde, W. & Ernst, O. (2009). The future of eBooks? Will print disappear? An end-user perspective. Library Hi Tech 27 (4): 570-583.

Warren, J. W. (2009). Innovation and the future of e-books. The International Journal of the Book 6(1): 83-93. Retrieved from:

Library of Congress (2008). For the common good: The Library of Congress Flickr pilot project. Retrieved from: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf

Kresh, D. (Ed) (2007). The Whole Digital Library Handbook. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Chapter 8, The Future.

Pomerantz, J. & Marchionini, G. (2007). The digital library as place. The Journal of Documentation, 63(4): 505-533.

Week 14 & 15 Final project testing (Dec. 5-7) and presentations (Dec. 7-14)

Course Requirements and Evaluation

The following lists of course assignments under 2, 3 and 4 will be due by the 11:59 pm (your local time) on the due date in the D2L dropbox.

  1. Readings

For each week, students must read the items listed under required readings. Additionally, students should read at least two of the items listed under additional readings. This arrangement allows students the opportunity to explore one or more topics in-depth within a subject area.

2. Hands-on Exercises

Points

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Start Date

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Due

Digitize, compress, and edit images

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12/100

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Sep. 19

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Sep. 25

Analyze digital collection

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14/100

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Sep. 26

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Oct. 2

Create multimedia file

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12/100

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Oct. 3

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Oct. 9

Create metadata

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12/100

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Oct. 10

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Oct. 16

Create collection for CONTENTdm

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25/100

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Oct. 17

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Oct. 30

Design Dreamweaver interface

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25/100

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Oct. 31

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Nov. 13

Detailed instructions and requirements will be distributed in class.

3. Evaluate an existing digital library project

Students need to develop a set of evaluation criteria to evaluate an existing digital library project. (Due on Nov. 20)

Detailed instructions and requirements will be distributed in class.

4. Final Project

Students form their own project teams to create a digital library.Each team will create a digital collection, organize it for access, and design an interface for it. Students will make a formal presentation of their projects to the class at the end of the semester. Students should include in their presentation a discussion of how the digital library will be accessed and managed. If a student decides to work on the final project by himself or herself, that is also acceptable.

All projects must be sufficiently justified and approved in advance by the instructor. A plan for the evaluation of the usefulness and effectiveness of the digital library must be included with each project, although students are not expected to actually conduct the evaluation research in this course. (Due on Dec. 14)

Detailed instructions and requirements will be distributed in class.

5. Class discussion

Participation in class discussion is expected of all students. Such discussions will analyze, criticize and synthesize the readings, lectures and relevant experiences. Students need to view/read the slides and video lectures as well as the readings for each week before you participate in the discussion. You also need to read other students’ postings.

Students are encouraged to communicate with the instructor and other students within the framework of online courseware. Participation is an important part of the learning experience and is a factor in assessing class performance.

Requirements for participation

To get full credits for class participation, each student needs to participate in at least twice but no more than four times in the specific forum. You can post four times in the forum, but your credits will be deducted if you post more than four times unless you are requested to answer questions by your classmates or the instructor.

More important, each student needs to read/view the required readings, class slides, audio lectures, and other students’ postings, before posting his/her messages.

Instructions for constructing messages

To get full credits for class participation, the quality of the message each student posts on the Bulletin Board is also considered. To make the discussion more efficient, each message you post on the forum is limited to 500 words. More important, you need to relate the content to your own context, experiences, and readings.

Due Date

Each week’s forums will be locked (you can view the forum, but cannot post any messages) at noon the Monday (at 12:00 pm central time) after that week.

Submission of Assignments:

Written assignments are due on the specified date. Grades will be reduced for late papers (one full grade for each week or part thereof). Written assignments are to be typed, preferably word-processed. Papers are to be double-spaced using a 12-point font with 1 inch margins. You may not resubmit work that has already been used in fulfillment of the requirement of this or any other course. Rules of academic conduct require that you not use the work of others without clearly indicating it as such. Academic misconduct may result in a lowered grade, no credit for a given assignment, or removal from the course.