LIS 759: Digital Libraries - Dominican University

There are no required texts. For each class, there will be a selection of readings that students will be expected to read BEFORE class; class discussion will be based upon the assigned readings and the day’s presentation. Key Resources: Cornell University Library. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html. Information Management Resource Kit. “Digital Libraries, Repositories and Documents.” Available online at http://www.imarkgroup.org/moduledescription_en.asp?id=111 Library Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology. “Digital Projects Guide.” Available online at http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digproj/projguide.html. Northeast Document Conservation Center. “Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access.” Andover, MA: 2000. Available online at http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digitalhandbook/dman.pdf Sitts, Maxine K., ed. (2000). Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. 1st edition. Andover, MA. Northeast Document Conservation Center. Available online at http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digitalhandbook/dman.pdf (“NDCC”) Sun Microsystems. The Digital Library Toolkit. 3rd edition. Available at http://www.vsa-­software.com/ils655/library/digital_library_toolkit.pdfWashington State Library. Digital Library Best Practices. Available online at http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/best.htm. Additional Resources: Articles and Websites as assigned per class meeting (see online schedule). Periodicals -­‐ Digital Libraries and Information D-­‐Lib Magazine: http://www.dlib.org NOTE: The Ready Reference section will be very useful for this course. IMLS Primary Source: http://www.imls.gov/news/source.shtm Journal of Digital Information: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu

Some Digital Library Projects 1. Art Institute of Chicago, Special & Digital Collections: http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections 2. California Digital Library: http://www.cdlib.org Online Archive of California – http://www.oac.cdlib.org Calisphere – K-­‐12 -­‐ http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu 3. CARLI Digital Collections: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu 4. Chopin Early Editions: http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu 5. Civil Rights Digital Library: http://crdl.usg.edu 6. Cornell Library Digital Collections: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu 7. DePaul University Digital Collections: http://library.depaul.edu/collections/digicollections.aspx 8. Digital History, The University of Houston : http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu 9. Duke University: Rare Books, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library: http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/index.html 10. Five Colleges Archives and Manuscripts Project -­‐ http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/about.html 11. The Hermitage Museum: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html 12. Historic Pittsburgh: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh 13. Illinois Digital Archives: http://www.idaillinois.org 14. IMLS Digital Collections and Content: http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu (interface to IMLS grant projects in digitization) 15. International Children's Digital Library http://en.childrenslibrary.org 16. J. Paul Getty Museum: http://www.getty.edu/museum 17. Library of Congress American Memory Project: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html 18. Nebraska State Historical Society, especially “Revealing History.” http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-­‐arch/research/photos/digital/history.htm 19. New Jersey Digital Highway : http://www.njdigitalhighway.org 20. New York Public Library Digital Gallery: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm 21. NLNZ: Kilbirnie-­‐Lyall Bay Community Centre Oral History Project: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/collections/digital-­‐collections 22. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collections: http://www.sfmoma.org/collections/collections_overview.html 23. Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century : http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19 24. “Turning the Pages” online gallery: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html 25. UVA Library Electronic Text Collections: The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu 26. University of Washington Digital Collections: http://content.lib.washington.edu 27. Virtual Motor City: Images from the Detroit News: http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/image/image-­‐idx?c=vmc;page=index

Assignments PointsDueExercises: 4 @ 10 points each:Digital Library Analysis and Review 10 Sept 12Project timeline (group) 10 Oct 17Metadata practice 10 Nov 7Basecamp work 10 Dec 5Project Plan (group) 10 Oct 17Research Paper(Topic must be approved by 9/26) 20 October 31CONTENTdm Group Project 15 November 28 or December 5Group Presentation of Project 5Peer review of group members 5Participation and Engagement 5TOTAL 100 points Assignments may be submitted on paper or electronically (by email as an attachment) and are due by the close of class on each due date. Late assignments will not be accepted beyond two days of the due date; grades will be reduced 10% per day late. Grading: A 94 -­‐100 % C+ 74-­‐77 % A-­‐ 90 – 93 % C 70-­‐73 % B+ 86 – 89 % C-­‐ 65-­‐69% B 82 – 85 % F 0-­‐64% B-­‐ 78 – 81 % See also the GSLIS Grading Policy posted on Blackboard in the Course Documents section. Expectations Students are expected to attend class, read the assigned texts, participate in class discussions, participate on the course Blackboard site, and complete in-­‐class and homework assignments in the timeframes stated. Academic Honesty and Integrity:

"All students of the GSLIS are expected to observe high standards of academic honesty and integrity. Any student whose conduct violates such standards may be subject to disciplinary action as determined by due process." (GSLIS Bulletin, p. 23) Plagiarism is unacceptable and will result in project failure. Systematic plagiarism will result in course failure. See Purdue University's "Avoiding Plagiarism" at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html if you feel unsure about what is and is not considered acceptable behavior when using other people's words and ideas. Course Calendar: Date Topic Focus Readings and Assignments Week #1 August 29, 2012 Week #2 September 5, 2012 • Course introduction: Syllabus, student expectations. • Digital libraries -­‐ context, concepts, definitions; what makes a good digital collection/library? • Review and discussion of some existing digital library projects. • In-­‐class activity • The history of digital libraries and some issues concerning digital libraries • In-­‐class activity Digital Library Federation "A working definition of digital library [1998]" http://www.diglib.org/about/dldefinition.htm Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK); Unit 1 “Concepts and Definitions.” Available via Blackboard. Seadle, M. amd Greifeneder, E., Defining a digital library, Library Hi-­‐Tech, 2007, 25(2), 169-­‐173. (pdf in Blackboard) Carr, Nicholas. "The Library of Utopia" Technology Review (May/June 2012. Available online at http://www.technologyreview.com/web/40210/ The Digital Library: A Biography by Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne E. Thorin. Available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html.Smith, Abby. “Why Digitize?” Available online at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-­‐smith/reports/pub80-­‐smith/pub80.pdf Sun Microsystems. Digital Library Toolkit, Chapters 1 and 2 Week #3 September 12, 2012 • Project Management Basics Basecamp software. See http://basecamp.com/ Horwath, Jenn Anne. "How Do We Manage? Project Management in Libraries: An Investigation" Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 7(1)(2012) Available online at http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/1802 NDCC, Chapter III. Available online at http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digitalhandbook/dman.pdf. Revels, Ira. “Managing Digital Projects.” American Libraries, 3/10/10. Available online at http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/03102010/managing-­‐

Week #4 September 19, 2012 Week #5 September 26, 2012 • Usability, interface design, search and retrieval • Digital Collection Management Systems digital-­‐projects. Washington State Library. Digital Library Best Practices. “Project Management.” Available online at http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/projectmgmt/index.htm Zhang, Allison, and Don Gourley. Creating Digital Collections: A Practical Guide. Selected reading. Manduca, CA et al. “Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences.” D-­‐Lib Magazine (May 2005), Volume 11 Number5. Available online at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may05/fox/05fox.html Experiment with interface access -­‐ search/browse/retrieval for text based digital content in: Open-­‐Access Text Archive -­‐ http://www.archive.org/details/texts Google Books -­‐ http://books.google.com/books Open Library -­‐ http://openlibrary.org/ GPO Access -­‐ http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ Emerging interface access Surface computing as an input device -­‐ http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/4217348 (watch the video) http://www.microsoft.com/surface/whatissurface.aspx Dickson, Maggie. “CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software and End-­‐User Efficacy.” Journal of Web Librarianship; 2008, Vol. 2 Issue 2/3, p339-­‐379, 41p IMARK Unit 6: Example of Digital Library Software: Greenstone. Kucsma, Jason, Kevin Reiss, and Angela Sidman. Using Omeka to Build Digital Collections: The METRO Case Study. D-­‐Lib Magazine, April, 2010. Available online at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/kucsma/03kucsma.html. Week #6 October 3, 2012 Week #7 October 10, 2012 Week #8 October 17, 2012 • CONTENTdm CONTENTdm installation and training / practice Group planning (No class meeting) Intellectual property; preservation and sustainability Group planning sessions on or off campus; no formal meeting. Set up your project on the class Basecamp software; include project tasks and timeline. Minow, Mary. "Library Digitization Projects and Copyright" LLRX.com (28 June 2002. Available online at http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm . NDCC, Chapters V and IX. Available online at http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digitalhandbook/dman.pdf Troll Covey, D. Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open

Access to Books, Digital Library Federation (2005). Available online at http://old.diglib.org/pubs/dlf105/dlf105.htm. Washington State Library. Digital Library Best Practices. “Project Management.” Available online at http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/projectmgmt/index.htm Week #9 October 24, 2012 Technical issues: Text and Images; General conversion considerations Selection issues: Cornell: Digitization Chain Higgins, Silke. “Cataloging Images Using CONTENTdm.” PNLA Quarterly. Winter, 2012. Available via Crown databases. Library Technology Service, Harvard University Information Technology. : Digital Projects Guide. Available online at http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digproj/projguide_tab4.html. “Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial.” Cornell University. Available online at http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/ NDCC, Chapter IV. Van der Knijff. JPEG 2000 for Long-­‐term Preservation: JP2 as a Preservation Format D-­‐Lib Magazine, June, 2011. Available online at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may11/vanderknijff/05vanderknijff.html Week #10 October 31, 2012 Technical issues: Metadata and Standards Washington State Library: Digital Best Practices: Technology. Available online at http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/techindex.htm. Metadata: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collections, Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata -­‐ http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-­prod/contentdm/guidelines_for_metadata.pdf“Digital Projects: Metadata.” Library Technology Service, Harvard University Information Technology. Available online at http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/digproj/metadata.html. “Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial.” Section 5: Metadata. Cornell University. Available online at http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/metadata/metadata-­‐01.html Digital Library Toolkit, Chapter 7 Standards: IMARK Unit 7 “Database Management Systems” Zhang, A. B., & Gourley, D. (2008). The complete digitization process and workflow management (chapter 8). Creating Digital Collections, A practical guide (pp. 113-­‐123).

Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) Digital Collections Production Center (DCPC) Guidebook -­‐ http://www.wrlc.org/dcpc/documents/dcpcguidebook.pdf WRLC ALADIN components – http://www.wrlc.org/diglib/cns Week #11 November 7, 2012 Week #12 November 14, 2012 Week #13 November 28, 2012 Week #14 December 5, 2012 Week #15 December 12, 2012 Project work in class Project work in class Presentations Presentations / Discussion of future issues Designated Exam period (No exam; no class.)