CS 502 Computing Methods for Digital Libraries: Calendar

CS 502 : Computing Methods for Digital Libraries

Spring 2001 -- Monday, Wednsday, Friday 02:30 - 03:20 PM

Professor Herbert Van de Sompel

3 Credit Hours

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Course Structure

The course consists of:
- 2 Lectures per week. PowerPoint slides will be made available for each lecture. The slides will be linked from this page.
- Weekly Personal Readings. Most readings are available on the Web and will be linked from this page. Occasionaly, additional readings may be distributed in paper format in class.
- 1 Lab per week. Labs will be in a room equiped with computers. Depending on the nature of the Lab, PowerPoint slides may be made available via a link from this page. The nature of the Lab can vary from week to week and can include:
  - a pop-quiz in which students will be polled on their understanding of the readings;
  - guided hands-on work on topics covered in previous lectures;
  - an in-depth exploration of an issue covered in a previous Lecture;
  - a guest lecture;
- 4 Assignments.
- Mid-term examination.
- Final examination

Course Schedule

`Legend`
`22`	`Lecture in Thurston 203, Mon & Wed 02:30 - 03:20 PM`
`26`	`Lab in Rhodes 471, Fri 02:30 - 03:20 PM`
`19`	`Spring break`
`25`	`Office Hours in Rhodes 426, Tue 04:00 - 05:00 PM or Thu 10:00 - 11:00 AM`
`17`	`Assignment is due by 12:00 PM`
`14`	Final Examination

`January 2001`
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Course Content

Week 1. Digital Libraries: Intro Part 1
Lecture 1 - 01/22	What is a Digital Library?
Lecture 2 - 01/24	A Library Automation perspective on Digital Libraries
Lab 01/26	Library Gateways. Guest: John Saylor [confirmed]
Readings	Koehler, W.R. 1999. Digital Libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence. In: Information Research, Vol 4 Issue 4. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/paper60.html Waters, D.J. 1998. What are digital libraries? Council on Library and Information Resources. In: Issues, No. 4. http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues04.html Hughes, C.A. 2000. Information Services for Higher Education A New Competitive Space. In: D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 6, iss. 12. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/hughes/12hughes.html Bush, V. 1945. As We May Think. In: “Atlantic Monthly” http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/vbush-all.shtml
Slides	lecture 1 - 01/22 lecture 2 - 01/24 (also some notes available) guest lecture by John Saylor

Week 2. Digital Libraries: Intro Part 2
Lecture 2 - 01/29	A Library Automation perspective on Digital Libraries (continued) .
Lecture 3 - 01/31	Some bibliographic concepts
Lab 02/02	Pop Quiz on the Vannevar Bush paper of Week 1. On-line exploration of Library Gateways
Readings	Chapter 3 "Entities" 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
Slides	lecture 01/29, see lecture 2 - 01/24 (also some notes available) lecture 3 - 01/31 lab 02/02

Week 3. Digital Libraries: Intro Part 3
Lecture 4 - 02/05	Some Web concepts
Lecture 5 - 02/07	A Research Perspective on Digital Libraries
Lab 02/09	Pop Quiz on the Readings of Week 2. On-line exploration of Digital Libraries.

Readings	Kahn, R. & Wilensky, R. 1995. A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services http://WWW.CNRI.Reston.VA.US/home/cstr/arch/k-w.html Arms, W.Y. 1995. Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library. In: D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07arms.html
Slides	lecture 4 - 02/05 lecture 5 - 02/07 lab 02/09

Week 4. Populating Digital Libraries
Lecture 6 - 02/12	Models for populating Digital Libraries -- Data acquisition models
Lecture Kenney - 02/14	Digitization. Guest: Anne Kenney [confirmed]
Lab 02/16	Pop Quiz on the Readings of Week 3. Continuation of Lecture 02/12 Data types of objects that populate Digital Libraries
assignment #1 due 02/17
Readings	Lesk, M. 1997. Books into Bytes. In: Scientific American, March 1997. http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/sciam97/sciam97.html Van de Sompel, H. & Krichel, T. & Neslon, M. & others. 2000. The UPS Prototype: An experimental End-user service across E-Print archives. In: D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-ups/02vandesompel-ups.html
Slides	lecture 6 - 02/12 guest lecture by Anne Kenney lab 02/16

Week 5. Services and identifiers in Digital Libraries
Lecture Arms - 02/19	The Handle System. Guest: Professor W. Y. Arms [confirmed]
Lecture 7 - 02/21	Identifiers/Names as crucial components for the provision of Services
Lab 02/23	Identifiers in Digital Library Services
Readings	Sun, Sam X. & Lannom L. August 2000. Handle system overview. http://www.handle.net/overview-current.html van der Werf-Davelaar, Titia. 12 March 1999. Identification, location and versioning of web-resources. http://www.kb.nl/coop/donor/rapporten/URI.html
Slides	guest lecture by William Y. Arms lecture 7 - 02/21 lab 02/23

Week 6. Text, Part 1
Lecture 02/26	NO LECTURE
Lecture 8 - 02/28	Character Encodings
Lecture 9 - 03/02	Text Mark-Up Languages, Text Mark-up with XML
Readings	The Unicode Standard: a technical introduction http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html
Slides	lecture 8 - 02/28 lecture 9 - 03/02

Week 7. Text, Part 2
Lecture 10 - 03/05	XML DTD
Lecture 11 - 03/07	XML Namespaces, XML Schema, XSLT
Lab 03/09	Mid-term examination
Readings	XML Schema. Part 0: Primer. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
Slides	lecture 10 - 03/05 lecture 11 - 03/07

Week 8. Metadata, Part 1
Lecture 12 - 03/12	Why Metadata? Also featuring MARC as the oldtimer of the metadata formats. With a contribution by auditing student Adam Chandler.
Lecture 03/14
Lab 03/16	No Lab
Readings	Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging. Part I to XII at http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/ 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
Slides	lecture 12 - 03/12 & guest Adam Chandler

Spring Break
03/17 - 03/25	Spring Break

Week 9. Scholarly Communication
Lecture 13 - 03/26	Systems for scholarly communication. Part 1
Reading 03/28	Reading of XML Schema Primer http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
Lecture 13 - 03/30	Systems for scholarly communication. Part 2
assignment #2 due 03/31
Readings	Pew Higher Education Roundtable. 1998. To publish or perish. Policy Perspectives 1998 vol 7 no 4. http://www.arl.org/scomm/pew/pewrept.html Principles for emerging systems of scholarly communication. 2000. http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.htm
Slides	lecture 13 - 03/26 and 03/30

Week 10. Interoperability, Part 1
Lecture Lagoze - 04/02	Modular metadata concepts. Guest: Carl Lagoze
Colloqium 04/03	Creating a global knowledge network -- Paul Ginsparg -- Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lecture 14 - 04/04	Interoperability for discovery: Z39.50, SDLIP, OAI
Lab 04/06	Pop Quiz on MARC (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/) and Readings of Week 9. Interoperability for discovery: the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol
Readings	Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze (editors). 2001. The Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.htm Andreas Paepcke and others. Search Middleware and the Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol. D-Lib Magazine March 2000. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/paepcke/03paepcke.html
Slides	guest Carl Lagoze lecture 14 - 04/04 lab 04/06 & some supporting OAI slides

Week 11. Interoperability, Part 2
Lecture 15 & 16 - 04/09	Reference Linking, Extended Services, Open Linking
Lecture 15 & 16 - 04/11	Interoperability for Reference Linking: the OpenURL framework
Lab 04/13	Exploring context-sensitive linking
Readings	Van de Sompel, Herbert and Patrick Hochstenbach.Reference Linking in a Hybrid Libary Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking. 1999. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/van_de_sompel/04van_de_sompel-pt1.html Van de Sompel, Herbert and Beit-Arie, Oren. Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework. 2001. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/vandesompel/03vandesompel.html
Slides	lecture 15 & 16 - 04/09 and 04/11 lab 04/13

Week 12. Repositories
Presentations 04/16	Presentations related to Assignment 2 (XSL, OCR-ing of musical scores, ...)
Lecture Payette - 04/18	FEDORA Architecture. Guest: Sandy Payette [confirmed]
Lecture Nelson - 04/20	SODA Architecture. Guest: Michael Nelson in Upson Hall Room B17 [confirmed]
Readings	Payette, Sandra and Carl Lagoze, "Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture," ECDL98, Heraklion, Crete, September 21-23, 1998, Springer, 1998, (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 1513). http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/papers/ecdl98/fedora.html Michael Nelson and Kurt Maly. Smart Objects and Open Archives. 2001. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february01/nelson/02nelson.html
Slides	guest Sandy Payette guest Michael Nelson

Week 13: Access Management
Lecture Lynch - 04/23	Authenticity of Digital Objects. Guest: Clifford Lynch via teleconference in Stocking Hall Room 240 [confirmed]
Lecture 17 - 04/25	Overview of Access Management
Lab 04/27	Pop Quiz for all on Readings of Week 11. Catch-up Pop Quiz for those that have missed a Quiz. Quiz will be on the Readings of Week 12. Authentication and Authorization in a Distributed Environment
Readings	Clifford Lynch. Authenticity and Integrity in the Digital Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of the Central Role of Trust. In: CLIR reports no. 92. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/lynch.html Clifford Lynch.Canonicalization: A Fundamental Tool to Facilitate Preservation and Management of Digital Information. 1999. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september99/09lynch.html
Slides	lecture 17 - 04/23 lab 04/27

Week 14: Archives and Preservation
Lecture 18 - 04/30	An architecture for cross-organizational access management
Lecture 18 - 05/02	An architecture for cross-organizational access management (continued)
Lab 05/04	Current Thinking on Digital Preservation. Guest: Oya Rieger in Upson Hall B17 [confirmed]
assignment #3 due 05/05
Readings	David Millman. Cross-Organizational Access Management. 1999. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november99/millman/11millman.html
Slides	lecture 18 - 04/30 & 05/02 guest Oya Rieger

Final Examination
5/14 from 12 PM - 3 PM	Final Examination in Rhodes 471
	Open computer Multiple choice on post spring break readings Questions on: Post spring break lectures and readings Issues that have been highlighted throughout the course: Identifiers XML / XML Schema Interoperability KWF library gateways

Herbert Van de Sompel

Course Structure

Course Schedule

Course Content

Week 1. Digital Libraries: Intro Part 1

Week 2. Digital Libraries: Intro Part 2

Week 3. Digital Libraries: Intro Part 3

Week 4. Populating Digital Libraries

Week 5. Services and identifiers in Digital Libraries

Week 6. Text, Part 1

Week 7. Text, Part 2

Week 8. Metadata, Part 1

Spring Break

Week 9. Scholarly Communication

Week 10. Interoperability, Part 1

Week 11. Interoperability, Part 2

Week 12. Repositories

Week 13: Access Management

Week 14: Archives and Preservation

Final Examination