CS 502
Computing Methods for Digital Libraries
Spring 2000

Slides


Lecture 1
Introduction to digital libraries
Works and manifestations
 
Discussion 1
Examples of digital libraries and electronic journals
 
Lecture 2
The nomadic computing experiment
Object models
 
Lecture 3
Guest lecturer: John Saylor (web materials)
Survey
 
Discussion 2
Identifiers
 
Lecture 4
Identifiers and reference linking
 
Lecture 5
Text
 
Discussion 3
XML
 
Lecture 6
DTDs
 
Lecture 7
The Appearance of Text
 
Discussion 4
DTDs, the Text Encoding Initiative
 
Lecture 8
Representations of Metadata
 
Lecture 9
Guest lecture: Anne Kenney, Conversion to Digital Formats
 
Discussion 5
Conversion of Material for the American Memory Collections
 
Lecture 10
New Developments in XML: MathML, Namespaces, RDF
 
Lecture 11
Information Retrieval I
 
Discussion 6
Information Retrieval: User Requirements
 
Lecture 12
Information Retrieval II
 
Lecture 13
Descriptive Metadata I: cataloguing, classification, authority files
 
Lecture 14
Guest lecture: Carl Lagoze, Digital Library Architectures
 
Lecture 15
Guest lecture: Sugata Mukhopadhyay, Multimedia Digital Libraries
 
Discussion of midterm examination
 
Lecture 16
Web search engines
 
Lecture 17
Descriptive metadata: the Dublin Core
 
Discussion 7
Descriptive Metadata: Indecs and Dublin Core
 
Lecture 18
Descriptive metadata: metadata models
 
Lecture 19
Interoperability Z39.50
 
Discussion 8
Interoperability
 
Lecture 20
Multimedia digital libraries
 
Lecture 21
Usability and user interfaces
 
Discussion 9
User interfaces
 
Lecture 22
Web browsers
 
Lecture 23
Repositories
 
Discussion 10
Architecture of digital libraries
 
Lecture 24
Guest lecture: Sandra Payette, Extensible Digital Library Architecture
 
Lecture 25
Access management
 
Discussion 11
Group authorization
 
Lecture 26
Techniques of access management
 
Lecture 27
Preservation
 
Discussion 12
Preservation
 
Lecture 28
Current work in preservation

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