Contact Information

Office: LI 029
Office Hours: 9-11am Thursdays and by appointment
Phone: 856-0707
email: jawalsh@indiana.edu
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Course Description

This course covers general digital library topics including:

organization, planning, project management
digital content (media types, standards, format-specific metadata)
general digital library metadata formats and standards
digital library technologies and systems
user-center design in digital libraries
digital preservation
current/future trends in digital libraries
institutional, societal, and professional issues/challenges facing digital libraries and their analog counterparts

Texts

Lesk, Michael. Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann, 2005. (Referred to as Lesk below.)

Witten, Ian H. and David Bainbridge. How to Build a Digital Library. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. (Referred to as Witten below.)

The above texts will be supplemented by online and reserve readings.

Assignments

Essays (45%)

Essays should be 500-750 words, in length, except the fourth essay, "Analysis of metadata in a digital library project," which should be a bit longer 750-1000 words. Please try to keep to the specified length. Longer is not better, and these papers should be clear and thorough, but also concise. All essays may, where relevant, be accompanied by screen shots, tables, or other graphics. All essays should be clearly organized with liberal use of headings and other "signposts."

Essay on a current digital library issue (10%); due 2006-09-12. Possible issues include: copyright, scholarly communication, institutional repositories, open access, professional/institutional transformation, Google Book Project / Open Content Alliance, etc.
Essay on text-based DL project(s) (10%); due 2006-09-26. The essay can take the form of a comparison of two projects/systems, an analysis of the usability of the site or of special or unique functionality, a critique of the project, or a proposal for enhancements or future directions. Other ideas are welcome, but the essay should not be simply and overview of a project; it must include some analysis, criticism, and/or new thinking.
Essay on non-text-based DL project(s) (10%); due 2006-10-03. See "Essay on text-based DL project(s)" above for further detail.
Analysis of metadata in a DL project (15%); due 2006-10-31.. Some questions you may ask in this analysis include: What metadata exists for the project? What metadata standards are used? Was metadata preexisting or generated/modified/enhanced as part of the project? How is metadata exposed to the user? and to other library systems (e.g., by OAI)? How does metadata drive or enhance the functionality of the project interface?

Final Project (45%)

preliminary proposal (3 pages) (10%); due 2006-10-24.
final project presentation (10%); due on 2006-11-28 or 2006-12-05.
final project (25%); due on 2006-12-12.

Participation (10%)

Students are expected to attend, to be prepared for, and to participate in all class meetings.

Letter Grade Definitions

All grades will be assigned according to the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Definitions of Letter Grades.

Schedule

Date	Topics	Readings
T 2006-08-29	Introductions Overview of Syllabus Concepts History Example programs & projects Personal Profiles
T 2006-09-05	No class. Professor Walsh will be attending the Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) conference.
T 2006-09-12	Digital Library Funding, Planning, Organization, & Staffing staffing content selection partnerships	Lesk. Ch. 1 "Evolution of Libraries." pp. 1-30. Lesk. Ch 11 "Intellectual Property Rights." pp. 293-319. United States. Library of Congress. Copyright Office. Copyright Office Basics. July 2006. 28 August 2006. <http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html> Brancolini, Kristine, Michelle Dalmau, and John A. Walsh. "Russian Periodical Index Digital Project (Letopis' zhurnal'nkyh statei, 1956-1975)." The Serials Librarian. 47.3 (2004): 59-78. (available online at: <http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2266170>). Greenstein, Daniel and Suzanne Thorin. The Digital Library: A Biography. Council on Library and Information Resources. December 2002. 31 August 2006. <http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html>. IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Museums. 28 August 2006. <http://www.imls.gov/pdf/2006_NLG.pdf>. IMLS National Leadership Grant (NLG) Project Planning Tutorial. 28 August 2006. <http://www.imls.gov/Project_Planning/>. NEH Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections. 25 May 2006. 28 August 2006. <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html>. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. National Information Standards Organization (NISO). 2004. 28 August 2006. <http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html>.
T 2006-09-19	Digital Content: Text general issues digitization processes & standards formats Unicode delivery systems metadata	Lesk. Ch. 2 "Text Documents." pp. 31-60. Witten. Ch. 4.1-4.3. pp. 131-184. Witten. Ch. 5.2. pp. 229-236. Browse TEI Guidelines at <http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/>. Browse EAD site at <http://www.loc.gov/ead/>.
T 2006-09-26	Digital Content: Image general issues digitization processes & standards formats delivery systems metadata	Lesk. Ch. 3 "Images of Pages." pp. 61-88. Lesk. Ch. 4.2-4.4. pp. 95-105. Witten. 4.5 "Representing Images." pp. 194-205. Witten. Ch. 5.5. pp. 261-266. Colet, Linda Serenson, et al. Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Research Libraries Group(RLG)/Digital Library Federation (DLF). July 2000. 28 August 2006. <http://www.rlg.org/legacy/visguides/>. "File Formats for Teaching and Learning: Raster Images Part I - Overview." November 2004. 28 August 2006. <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/tl_raster1.html>. "File Formats for Teaching and Learning: Vector Images Part I - Overview." November 2004. 28 August 2006. <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/vector/tl_vector1.html>. "Choosing a File Format." May 2006. 28 August 2006. <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/format.html>. "New Digital File Formats." 28 August 2006. <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/newfile.html>. VRA Core 3.0
T 2006-10-03	Digital Content: Time-Based Formats (Audio & Video) general issues digitization processes & standards formats delivery systems metadata	Lesk. Ch. 4.1. pp. 91-95. Lesk. Ch. 4.6-4.7. pp. 107-116. Witten. Ch. 4.6 "Representing Audio and Video." pp. 206-215.
T 2006-10-10	Digital Content: Multimedia	Rutledge, Lloyd. "Multimedia Standards: Building Blocks of the Web." IEEE Multimedia. <http://csdl.computer.org/dl/mags/mu/2001/03/u3013.htm>. McCannell, Steve. "Multimedia for the Masses." <http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/00/41/index4a.html?tw=authoring>. McDonough, Jerome. "Introduction to METS." <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2004/presentations/ppt-2000-html/j-mcdonough_files/v3_document.htm>. <METS>: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard: Primer and Reference Manual. <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSDocumentationdraft8.30.pdf>. pp. 1-14
T 2006-10-17	Metadata Guest Speaker: Jenn Riley, Metadata Librarian, IU Digital Library Program	Lesk. Ch. 5 "Knowledge Representation Schemes." pp. 117-152. Witten. Ch. 5.4 "Bibliographic Metadata." pp. 253-260. Witten. Ch. 5.6 "Extracting Metadata." pp. 266-279. Hillman, Diane. "Using Dublin Core." Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. 7 November 2005. 28 August 2006. <http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/>. "METS: An Overview & Tutorial." 24 May 2005. 28 August 2006. <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.v2.html>. "MODS Schema, & Documentation." 11 July 2006. 28 August 2006. <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/>. Dalmau, Michelle, Floyd, Randall, Jiao Dazhi and Jenn Riley. “Integrating Thesaurus Relationships into Search and Browse in an Online Photograph Collection.” Library Hi Tech 23. 3 (2005): 425-452. (available online at: <http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2252136>.)
T 2006-10-24	Fundamental Technologies & Standards Web: Apache, Tomcat, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript Z39.50 & SRU/SRW Data: XML & Relational Database Management Systems Programming Languages and Frameworks: Java, Perl, PHP	Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. and Lou Burnard. "A Gentle Introduction to XML." Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. May 2002. 28 August 2006. <http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines2/gentleintro.pdf>. Wiggin, Peter. "XHTML: The Clean Code Solution." O'Reilly Network. 28 April 2000. 28 August 2006. <http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/187>. Dumbill, Ed. "The Future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG." IBM developerWorks. 6 December 2005. 28 August 2006. <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-futhtml1/>. Dumbill, Ed. "The Future of HTML, Part 2: XHTML 2.0." IBM developerWorks. 25 January 2006. 28 August 2006. <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-futhtml2.html>. Chase, Nicholas. "The Web's Future: XHTML 2.0." IBM developerWorks. 1 September 2002. 28 August 2006. <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-xhtml/>. Dubois, Paul. MySQL. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2000. pp. 3-16. (will be placed on e-reserve). Witten. Ch. 8.5 "Protocols." pp. 426-433.
T 2006-10-31	Tying it all together: DL Systems/Frameworks/Infrastructures	XTF: http://xtf.sourceforge.net/ DLXS: http://www.dlxs.org FEDORA: http://www.fedora.info/ CONTENTdm: http://www.dimema.com/ Greenstone: http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library Witten, Ch. 6 and Ch. 7, pp. 283-392.
T 2006-11-07	Guest lectures by Ryan Scherle, Programmer/Analyst, and David Jiao, Programmer/Analyst, from the IU Digital Library Program. Professor Walsh will be attending the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) conference.	Explore the "Infrastructure Project" space on the Digital Library Program Wiki: <http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/display/INF/Infrastructure+Project>. Explore the METS Navigator site at: <http://metsnavigator.sourceforge.net/> and a sample collection that uses METS Navigator: <http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/general/pageturner/VAA3220>.
T 2006-11-14	User-Centered Design Guest Speaker: Michelle Dalmau, Digital Projects and Usability Librarian, IU Digital Library Program	Lesk. Ch. 7 "Usability and Retrieval Evaluation." pp. 185-216. Lesk. Ch. 8 "User Needs." pp. 217-232. Blandford, Ann, Suzette Keith, Iain Connell, Helen Edwards. "Analytical usability evaluation for digital libraries: a case study." Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. 2004. 28 August 2006. <http://csdl.computer.org/dl/proceedings/jcdl/2004/2493/00/24930027.pdf>. Notess, Mark and Inna Kouper and Maggie B. Swan. "Designing Effective Tasks for Digital Library User Tests: Lessons Learned." OCLC Systems & Services 21 (2005): 300-310. Available online at: <http://bert.lib.indiana.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm>. Bollen, J. and Luce, R. "Evaluation of digital library impact and user communities by analysis of usage patterns." D-Lib Magazine. 2002. 28 August 2006. <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june02/bollen/06bollen.html>. "E-Metrics: Measures for Electronic Resources." Association of Research Libraries. 8 May 2006. 28 August 2006. <http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/>.
T 2006-11-21	Digital Preservation Future Trends in Digital Libraries Google	Lesk. Ch. 9 "Collections and Preservation." pp. 233-260. Lesk. Ch. 14 "Future: Ubiquity, Diversity, Creativity, and Public Policy. Witten. Ch. 9 "Visions: Future, Past, and Present." pp. 443-476. Band, Jonathan. "The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate." 15 January 2006. 28 August 2006. <http://www.llrx.com/features/googlelibraryproject.htm>. Manjoo, Farhad. "Throwing Google at the book" Salon. 28 August 2006. <http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2005/11/09/google/index.html?pn=1>. Tennent, Roy. "Google Out of Print." Library Journal. 15 February 2005. 28 August 2006. <http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA502014.html>.
T 2006-11-28	Final Project Presentations
T 2006-12-05	Final Project Presentations
T 2006-12-12	Final projects due by 5pm.

SLIS L566: Digital Libraries: Fall Semester 2006

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