CS 502 Computing Methods for Digital Libraries: Readings

CS 502
Computing Methods for Digital Libraries
Spring 2000

Readings and References

General Readings on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing

Books

Online Periodicals

Useful web sites

Examples of Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing

Cornell University

The rest of the world

Readings

Readings for discussion classes are to be studied in preparation for the classes on Wednesday evenings..

Week 1: Works and manifestations

Discussion class

Explore and be prepared to discuss the Online Periodicals and the Examples of Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing that are listed above.

Other readings

Chapter 3 of: IFLA Study group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, Functional requirements for bibliographic records : final report, 1998, http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf
N. Borenstein and N. Freed, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). Internet RFC 1521, September 1993. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1521.txt
William Y. Arms, Christophe Blanchi, Edward A. Overly, An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, February 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february97/cnri/02arms1.html

Week 2: Object models and identifiers

Discussion class

Karen Sollins and Larry Masinter, Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names. Internet RFC 1737, December 1994. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1737.txt
The Handle System. http://www.handle.net/
OCLC PURL Service. http://www.purl.org/
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system. http://www.doi.org/index.html

Other readings

Priscilla Caplan and William Y. Arms, Reference Linking for Journal Articles. D-Lib Magazine 5(7/8), July/August 1999. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july99/caplan/07caplan.html
Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach, Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking. D-Lib Magazine 5(4), April 1999. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/van_de_sompel/04van_de_sompel-pt1.html

Week 3: Text

Discussion class	Norman Walsh, A Technical Introduction to XML. 1998. http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/xml/ Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0. W3C Recommendation, REC-xml-19980210, 10 February 1998. http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
Other readings	A Gentle Introduction to SGML. Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3), Chapter 2, edited by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, 1994. http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/sgml/teip3sg/index.html

Week 4: Metadata representations

Discussion class	Extensible HTML version 1.0 Strict DTD, 1999. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd Lou Burnard, An Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative. Oxford University Computing Services, July 1995. http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/info/teij31/
Other readings	Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos, Cascading Style Sheets, level 1. W3C Recommendation 17 Dec 1996, revised 11 Jan 1999.http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1 Ron Daniel, Jr. and Carl Lagoze, Extending the Warwick Framework, From Metadata Containers to Active Digital Objects. D-Lib Magazine, November 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november97/daniel/11daniel.html

Week 5: Conversion

Discussion class

.John R. Stokes, Imaging Pictorial Collections at the Library of Congress. RLG DigiNews, 3(2), April 1999. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-2.html#feature
Caroline R. Arms, Getting the Picture: Observations from the Library of Congress on Providing Online Access to Pictorial Images. Library Trends, Vol 48, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 379-409. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/libt1999/libt1999.html

Other readings

Week 6: Information retrieval

Discussion class	W. Bruce Croft, What Do People Want from Information Retrieval? D-Lib Magazine, November 1995. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november95/11croft.html
Other readings	Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC). http://trec.nist.gov/

Week 7: Distributed information discovery

Week 8: Catalogs, indexes and search engines

Week 9: Descriptive metadata

Discussion class

Godfrey Rust, Metadata: The Right Approach. D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1998. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/rust/07rust.html
David Bearman, Eric Miller, Godfrey Rust, Jennifer Trant, Stuart Weibel, A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata. D-Lib Magazine, January 1999. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/bearman/01bearman.html

Other readings

OCLC, The Dublin Core: A Simple Content Description Model for Electronic Resources. http://purl.org/DC
Thomas Baker, Languages for Dublin Core, D-Lib Magazine, December 1998, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december98/12baker.html
Interoperability of Data in E-Commerce Systems (INDECS). http://www.indecs.org/
Clifford A. Lynch, The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard. D-Lib Magazine, April 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april97/04lynch.html

Week 10: Interoperability in information discovery

Discussion class	Andreas Paepcke, Chen-Chuan K.Chang, Terry Winograd, and Hector García-Molina, Interoperability for digital libraries worldwide. Communications of the ACM 41 (4): 33-42 April 1998. http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1998-41-4/p33-paepcke/
Other readings	Library of Congress Network Development & MARC Standards Office, The Z39.50 Document, http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/document.html

Week 11: User interfaces

Discussion class

Ben Shneiderman, Don Byrd and W. Bruce Croft, Clarifying search a user-interface framework for text searches. D-Lib Magazine,January 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/retrieval/01shneiderman.html
Aaron Redalen and Naomi Miller, Evaluating website modifications at the National Library of Medicine through search log analysis. D-Lib Magazine, 6(1), January 2000. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/redalen/01redalen.html

Other readings

Week 12: Repositories

Discussion class	William Y. Arms, Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library. D-Lib Magazine, July 1995. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07arms.html William Y. Arms, Christophe Blanchi, Edward A. Overly, An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, February 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february97/cnri/02arms1.html
Other readings	Sandra Payette, Christophe Blanchi, Carl Lagoze, Edward A. Overly, Interoperability for Digital Objects and Repositories: the Cornell/CNRI Experiments. D-Lib Magazine, May 1999. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may99/payette/05payette.html

Week 13: Access management

Discussion class	Clifford Lynch, A White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources. Coalition for Networked Information, Draft of April 14, 1998. http://www.cni.org/projects/authentication/authentication-wp.html
Other readings	William Y. Arms, Implementing Policies for Access Management. D-Lib Magazine, Feburary 1998. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february98/arms/02arms.html Mark Stefik, Trusted Systems. Scientific American, March 1997. http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397stefik.html

Week 14: Archives and preservation

Discussion class	Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations, Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information. Donald Waters and John Garrett (chairs), Research Libraries Group 1996, http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/index.html
Other readings	William Y. Arms, Preservation of scientific serials: three current examples. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 5: 2, December 1999. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/arms.html William Y. Arms, Economic models for open-access publishing. iMP, March 2000. http://www.cisp.org/imp/march_2000/03_00arms.htm

Discussion class	.
Other readings	MARC Field Guides. http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/marc/guidtoc.html

Discussion class	.CS 502 midterm examination. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cs502-sp00/midterm.html
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