LIS 538 Digital Libraries
Course Schedule and Reading List - Winter 2018
Readings below marked with “[in eClass]” can be found within the “Readings in eClass” section of our eClass web site. These are provided to you in accordance with the University of Alberta's "Use of Copyright Materials Policy.” Other readings and materials are accessible via the University of Alberta Libraries and/or by following the links included.
Week 1 (Jan 11)
Introduction to digital libraries
- Familiarize yourself with our LIS 538 eClass site, course outline, additional course information, this schedule, and other introductory materials.
- Pomerantz, J., & Marchionini, G. (2007). The digital library as place. Journal of Documentation, 63(4), 505–533. https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410710758995
- Lankes, R. D. (2012). Digital libraries as platforms. Visiting lecture, Florence, Italy Digital Library Learning (DILL) program. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/46666125 [27 min]
Week 2 (Jan 18)
History, definitions, and types of digital libraries
- Bearman, D. A. (2007). Digital libraries. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 41, 223–272. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2007.1440410112
- Borgman, C. L. (1999). What are digital libraries? Competing visions. Information Processing and Management, 35(3), 227–243. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4573(98)00059-4
Week 3 (Jan 25)
Digital library architecture and technology
- Candela, L., Castelli, D., Pagano, P., Thanos, C., Ioannidis, Y., Koutrika, G., … Schuldt., H. (2007). Setting the foundations of digital libraries: The DELOS manifesto. D-Lib Magazine, 13(3/4). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march07/castelli/03castelli.html
- Goh, D. H.-L., Chua, A., Khoo, D. A., Khoo, E. B.-H., Mak, E. B.-T., & Ng, M. W.-M. (2006). A checklist for evaluating open source digital library software. Online Information Review, 30(4), 360-379. https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520610686283
- In preparation for class activities, choose two of the following examples of digital library architecture and technology to briefly review:
- DSpace repository: http://www.dspace.org/sites/dspace.org/files/media/DSpace%20Diagram_0.pdf and http://dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html (focus on Figures 1 and 2 in the latter)
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - hub model: https://dp.la/info/hubs/
- Cornell Reference Architecture for Distributed Digital Libraries (CRADDL): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november98/lagoze/11lagoze.html (focus on Figure 1 and the accompanying discussion in Section 2)
- (US) National Science Digital Library Architecture: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0201025.pdf (focus on Figure 1 and the accompanying discussion in the “Overview of the Architecture” section)
- Fedora repository: http://dlib.org/dlib/april03/staples/04staples.html (focus primarily on Figures 1 and 3 and the accompanying text)
Week 4 (Feb 1)
Digital content and collections
- Lynch, C. (2013, June 24). Ebooks in 2013. American Libraries digital supplement: Digital content: What’s next? Retrieved from https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2013/ 06/24/ebooks-in-2013/
- Sennyey, P., Ross, L., & Mills, C. (2009). Exploring the future of academic libraries: A definitional approach. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 35(3), 252–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2009.03.003
- National Information Standards Organization Framework Working Group. (2007). A framework of guidance for building good digital collections (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: NISO. Retrieved from http://www.niso.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/framework3.pdf. [Review pp. 4-62 this week, with particular focus on pp. 4-25. A class activity will expand on this.]
Week 5 (Feb 8)
Digitization
A1: Critical Paper on Digital Libraries due at 12 noon
- Conway, P. (2010). Preservation in the age of Google: Digitization, digital preservation, and dilemmas. Library Quarterly, 80(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1086/648463
- Coyle, K. (2006). Mass digitization of books. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32(6), 641-645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2006.08.002
- Optionally, you can read more about Google Books and the Open Content Alliance, as discussed by Coyle, in the following article: Leetaur, K. (2008). Mass book digitization: The deeper story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance. First Monday, 13(10). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2101/2037
- Morgan, K., & Proffitt, M. (2017). Advancing the national digital platform: The state of digitization in US public and state libraries [Report]. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2017/oclcresearch-advancing-the-national-digital-platform-2017.pdf
Week 6 (Feb 15)
Digital repositories
- Williams, A. (2015). Participation, collaboration, and community building in digital repositories. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 39(3/4), 368-376. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/598451
- Salo, D. (2010). Retooling libraries for the data challenge. Ariadne, 64. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/salo
- Trimble, L., Dearborn, D., Zaraiskaya, T., Burpee, J., Barsky, E., Sahadath, C., … Gertler, M. (2017). Across Canada, across disciplines: Research data management practices and needs in the social sciences and humanities. Conference paper presented at IASSIST 2017: Data in the middle: The common language of research, May 26, 2017, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0348075
Week 7 (Feb 22)
NO CLASS - Winter Term Reading Week
Week 8 (Mar 1)
Digital library evaluation
A2: Digital Repository Exploration due at 12 noon
- Fuhr, N., Tsakona, G., Aalberg, T., Agosti, M., Hansen, P., Kapidakis, S., ... Sølvberg, I. (2008). Evaluation of digital libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 8(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-007-0011-z
- Xie, H. (2006). Evaluation of digital libraries: Criteria and problems from users’ perspectives. Library and Information Science Research, 28(3), 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2006.06.002
Week 9 (Mar 8)
Information organization and representation
- Gilliland, A. J. (2016). Setting the stage. In Baca, M. (Ed.), Introduction to metadata (3rd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute. Retrieved from https://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata/setting-the-stage/
- National Information Standards Organization Framework Working Group. (2007). A framework of guidance for building good digital collections (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: NISO. Retrieved from http://www.niso.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/framework3.pdf. Review pp. 63-85 this week.
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. (2012). Dublin Core metadata element set, version 1.1: Reference description. http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
Week 10 (Mar 15)
Digital library software (lab)
A3: Evaluation of an Operational Digital Library due at 12 noon
- Rath, L. (2016). Omeka.net as a librarian-led digital humanities meeting place. New Library World, 117(3/4), 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/NLW-09-2015-0070
Week 11 (Mar 22)
Digital preservation
- Rosenthal, D. S. H., & Vargas, D. L. (2013). Distributed digital preservation in the cloud. International Journal of Digital Curation, 8(1), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.2218/ ijdc.v8i1.248
- Becker, C., Kulovits, H., Guttenbrunner, M., Strodl, S., Rauber, A., & Hofman, H. (2009). Systematic planning for digital preservation: Evaluating potential strategies and building preservation plans. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 10(4), 133-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-009-0057-1
- Magistad, M. K. (Host). (2017, February 23). Badass librarians of the Internet Archive [Audio podcast]. Whose century is it? Ideas, trends, and twists shaping the 21st century. Minneapolis, MN: Public Radio International. Retrieved from https://www.pri.org/programs/whose-century-it/badass-librarians-internet-archive [43 min]
Week 12 (Mar 29)
Digital library interfaces and usability
- Borgman, C. L. (2003). Designing digital libraries for usability. In A. P. Bishop, N. A. Van House, & B. P. Buttenfield (Eds.), Digital library use: Social practice in design and evaluation (pp. 85–118). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [in eClass]
- Hariri, N., & Norouzi, Y. (2011). Determining evaluation criteria for digital libraries’ user interface: A review. The Electronic Library, 29(5), 698-722. https://doi.org/10.1108/02640471111177116
- Buchanan, S., & Salako, A. (2009). Evaluating the usability and usefulness of a digital library. Library Review, 58(9), 638-651. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530910997928
Week 13 (Apr 5)
Digital library building
- Class time this week is devoted to your group project. Please use the three hours to work on your final group assignment, A4: Building a Digital Library. You may use the classroom (3-01), Henderson Hall, or other on- or off-campus space as you see fit, but you are expected to work on your group project as a team and be present together for the three hours of class time. As your instructor I will be present on the third floor of Rutherford South during 1 - 4pm should you have questions or need additional help.
Week 14 (Apr 12)
Information access and retrieval; wrapping up
A4: Building a Digital Library due at 12 noon
Discussion and Participation Self-Reflection due Fri Apr 13, 12 noon
- Rasmussen, E. (2004). Information retrieval challenges for digital libraries. In Z. Chen, H. Chen, Q. Miao, Y. Fu, E. Fox, & E. Lim (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 3334. Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization (IACDL 2004, pp. 95-103). Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30544-6_10
- Burke, M. (2009). The semantic web and the digital library. Aslib Proceedings, 61(3), 316-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012530910959844