I hesitate to recommend books in this field, because it is changing so
quickly. However, here are a few interesting historical and reasonably
current books that you might find interesting.
The best new results in the area of online information are published in these
web-accessible journals.
The subject of the course is a dynamic area. Most of the material in
the course is the result of research and implementation over the past 3-5 years.
Fortunately almost all of this work is available through papers on the
open-source Web. Readings are assigned for each week's discussion section
as listed in the schedule below. The content in each week's section is
linked to that presented in coincident lectures, listed in the
syllabus.
Students are expected to approach each week's readings critically. Are
the ideas sound? What are the alternatives and trade-offs? How
well do the ideas fit into the larger information context? What are the
barriers to success: technical, social, legal, and economic. Weekly sections
are meant to be a forum for discussing these critical reactions, driven by
student participation and NOT by instructor or teaching assistant presentations.
The amount of section participation and the degree to which it represents
critical evaluation of the readings is an important criteria of
grading.
| Date |
Topic and Readings |
Section 1
1/30 |
From libraries to the Web: points on a spectrum
- V. F. Bush, "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly, July,
1945.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
- C. L. Borgman, "The invisible library: Paradox of the global
information infrastructure," Library Trends, 51 (4), pp. 652,
2003. (accessible through CUL library catalog)
- T. Berners-Lee, Information Management: A Proposal, 1989
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
|
Section 2
2/06 |
Bibliographic and Information Systems and Theory
|
Section 3
2/16 |
Cataloging and Identifiers
- H. Van de Sompel and O. Beit-Arie, "Open Linking in the Scholarly
Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework," D-Lib
Magazine, 7 (3), 2001. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/vandesompel/03vandesompel.html
- International DOI Foundation, "Appendix 2 The Handle
System," in The doi> Handbook: IDF, 2003. http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/appendix_2.html.
- D. Levy, "Cataloging in the Digital Order," presented at The
Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital
Libraries, 1995. http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/papers/levy/levy.html
- T. A. Phelps and R. Wilensky, "Robust Intra-document
Locations," presented at 9th World Wide Web Conference, Amsterdam,
1999. http://www9.org/w9cdrom/312/312.html
|
Section 4
2/20 |
Metadata: Issues and Simple Answers
|
Section 5
2/23 |
Document Models
- T. Staples, R. Wayland, and S. Payette, “The Fedora Project,” D-Lib
Magazine, 9 (4), 2003.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/staples/04staples.html.
- K. Maly, M. L. Nelson, and M. Zubair, “Smart Objects, Dumb Archives: A
User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework,” D-Lib Magazine, March,
1999.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march99/maly/03maly.html
- T. A. Phelps and R. Wilensky, “The Multivalent Browser: A Platform for
New Ideas,” presented at Document Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001.
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/Research/PlatformForNewIdeas.pdf
|
Section 6
3/8 |
Semantic Web
- T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, and O. Lassila, “The Semantic Web,”
Scientific American(50), May, 2001.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
- J. Hendler, “Agents and the Semantic Web,” IEEE Intelligent Systems,
16 (2), pp. 30-37, 2001. (Electronic Access through CUL catalog).
- C. Lagoze and J. Hunter, "The ABC Ontology and Model," Journal of
Digital Information, 2 (2), 2001.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Lagoze/
|
Section 7
3/12 |
Applying the Semantic Web
- R. Davis, "What is a Knowledge Representation?," AI
Magazine, 14 (1), pp. 17-33, 1993. http://medg.lcs.mit.edu/ftp/psz/k-rep.html.
- D. Quan, D. Huynh, and D. Karger, "Haystack: A Platform for
Authoring End User Semantic Web Applications," presented at 2nd
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), Sanibel Island,
Florida, 2003. http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/papers/iswc2003-haystack.pdf.
- A. Faaborg and C. Lagoze, "Semantic Browsing," in Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2769. Trondheim, Norway: Springer-Verlag,
2003, pp. 70-81. (Available through library gateway)
|
Section 8
4/2 |
Web Scale Information Analysis
- S. Brin and L. Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual
Search Engine, 1998, http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
- S. R. Kumar, et. al., The web as a graph, presented at
Nineteenth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database
Systems, Dallas, 2000, http://www.almaden.ibm.com/webfountain/resources/TheWebasaGraph.pdf
- A. Heydon and M. Najork, A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler,
World Wide Web, December, 1999, http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/mercator/papers/www/paper.html
|
Section 9
4/9 |
Longevity of Digital Information
- Joint Research Libraries Group/Commission on Preservation and Access
Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, “Preserving Digital
Information: Final Report and Recommendations,” Commission on Preservation
and Access Research Libraries Group, Washington, DC May 1996.
ftp://ftp.rlg.org/pub/archtf/final-report.pdf. (Read only pages 1-20)
- B. Kahle, “Preserving the Internet,” Scientific American, 276 (3),
March, 1997. (Available through library gateway)
- S. Granger, “Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy,” D-Lib
Magazine, 6 (10), 2000.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/granger/10granger.html
|
Section 10
4/14 |
Scholarly Publishing
- S. Thorin, “Global Changes in Scholarly Communication,” Association of
Research Libraries, Washington, DC 2003.
http://www.arl.org/scomm/disciplines/Thorin.pdf.
- R. Crow, The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position
Paper, 2002
http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html.
- S. Hitchcock, D. Bergmark, T. Brody, C. Gutteridge, L. Carr, W. Hall,
C. Lagoze, and S. Harnad, “Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward,” D-Lib
Magazine, 8 (10), 2002.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/hitchcock/10hitchcock.html
|
Section 11
4/21 |
Rights Management
|
Section 12
4/30 |
Trust and Reputation
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