INF 385S Digital Library Principles and Development

Resources

Only the readings in the first section below are required, but you might find some of the other resources on this page useful in supplementing what we cover in class and in helping you complete the course assignments.

Required Readings

All required readings, except for the Lesk book, are available from publicly-accessible links or as PDFs in the course EReserves page.

Baca, Murtha (Ed.). (1998). "Introduction to metadata: Pathways to digital information. Version 2." Los Angeles, CA: Getty Information Institute. Available at: http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/index.html. [Read at least the "Setting the Stage" and "Metadata and the World Wide Web" sections.]
Besek, June M. (2003). "Copyright issues relevant to the creation of a digital archive: A preliminary assessment." Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub112abst.html.
Besser, Howard. (2002). "The next stage: Moving from isolated digital collections to interoperable digital libraries." First Monday, 7(6). Available at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/besser/index.html.
Borgman, C. L., Leazer, G. H., Gilliland-Swetland, A., Millwood, K., Champeny, L., Finley, J., and Smart, L. J. (2004). "How geography professors select materials for classroom lectures: implications for the design of digital libraries." In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Tuscon, AZ, USA, June 07 11, 2004). JCDL '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 179-185.
Brancolini, Kristine R., Dunn, Jon W. , and Walsh, John A. (2000). "Digital Star Dust: The Hoagy Carmichael Collection at Indiana University." First Monday, June 5, 2000. Available at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/brancolini/index.html.
Buckland, Michael K. (1997) "What is a 'Document?'" JASIST 48(9): 804-809.
Bush, V. (1945). "As we may think." Atlantic Monthly, 176, 1, 101-108.
Chang, M., Leggett, J. J., Furuta, R., Kerne, A., Williams, J. P., Burns, S. A., and Bias, R. G. (2004). "Collection understanding." In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Tuscon, AZ, USA, June 07 11, 2004). JCDL '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 334-342.
Chapman, Stephen. (2004). "Managing Digitization." Chapter 2 in Techniques for Creating Sustainable Digital Collections, Library Technology Reports, Sep/Oct2004, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p13-21.
Choi, Y. and Rasmussen, E. (2006). "What do digital librarians do." In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 187-188.
Christel, M & Conescu, R. (2005). "Addressing the challenge of visual information access from digital image and video libraries." In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL '05, June 7-11, 2005, Denver, CO.
Covey, Denise Troll. (2002). "Usage and usability assessment: Library practices and concerns." Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub105abst.html. [skim]
Crane, G., Chavez, R. F., Mahoney, A., Milbank, T. L., Rydberg-Cox, J. A., Smith, D. A., and Wulfman, C. E. (2001). "Drudgery and deep thought." Commun. ACM 44, 5 (May. 2001), 34-40.
Crane, G., Smith, D. A., and Wulfman, C. E. (2001). "Building a hypertextual digital library in the humanities: a case study on London." In Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Roanoke, Virginia, United States). JCDL '01. ACM Press, New York, NY, 426-434.
Crane, G., Wulfman, C. (2003). "Towards a cultural heritage digital library." In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Houston, Texas, May 27 31, 2003). International Conference on Digital Libraries. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 75-86.
Cunningham, S. and Masoodian, M. (2006). "Looking for a picture: an analysis of everyday image information searching." In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 198-199.
Dillon, A. (2002) "HCI and the technologies of information." In: J. Carroll (ed.) HCI and the Millennium: New York: ACM Press/Addison Wesley, 457-474.
Furuta, R., Marshall, C. C., Shipman, F. M., and Leggett, J. J. (1996). "Physical objects in the digital library." In Proceedings of the First ACM international Conference on Digital Libraries (Bethesda, Maryland, United States, March 20 23, 1996). E. A. Fox and G. Marchionini, Eds. DL '96. ACM Press, New York, NY, 109-115.
Gronbak, K., Rohde, A., Sundararajah, B., and Bech-Petersen, S. (2006). "InfoGallery: informative art services for physical library spaces." In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 21-30.
Lee, H. and Smeaton, A.F. (2002). "Designing the User Interface for the Físchlár Digital Video Library." J. Digital Info. 2(4), Available at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/jodi-53/57
Lesk, Michael. (2005). Understanding Digital Libraries. (2nd Edition) San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Levy, D. M. and Marshall, C. C. 1995. "Going digital: a look at assumptions underlying digital libraries." Commun. ACM 38, 4 (Apr. 1995), 77-84.
Lynch, Clifford. (2005). "Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries." D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch/07lynch.html
McCray, A. T. and Gallagher, M. E. (2001). "Principles for digital library development." Commun. ACM 44, 5 (May. 2001), 48-54.
Nair, Saji S. & Jeevan, VKJ. (2004). "A brief overview of metadata formats." DESIDOC bulletin of information technology, 24(4), 3-11.
Palmer, C. L., Zavalina, O. L., and Mustafoff, M. (2007). "Trends in metadata practices: a longitudinal study of collection federation." In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Digital Libraries (Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18 - 23, 2007). JCDL '07. ACM, New York, NY, 386-395.
Schwartz, Candy. (2000). "Digital libraries: An overview." Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26, 385-394.
Trant, Jennifer. (2006). "Social Classification And Folksonomy In Art Museums: Early Data From The Steve.Museum Tagger Prototype." 17th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, (Austin, TX, November 4, 2006).
Villano, Matt. (2005). "'Opening' a Digital Library." Campus Technology, Sept. 1, 2005.
Witten, I. H. and Bainbridge, D. (2007). "A retrospective look at Greenstone: lessons from the first decade." In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Digital Libraries (Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18 - 23, 2007). JCDL '07. ACM, New York, NY, 147-156.
Yee, K., Swearingen, K., Li, K., and Hearst, M. (2003). "Faceted metadata for image search and browsing." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, April 05 10, 2003). CHI '03. ACM Press, New York, NY, 401-408.
Yu, Y., Stamberger, J. A., Manoharan, A., and Paepcke, A. (2006). "EcoPod: a mobile tool for community based biodiversity collection building." In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 244-253.

Digital Library Resources

Good places to find digital library articles and information:

ACM Digital Library: Full text of every article ever published by ACM, including the annual ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Available through the UT Library with your UT EID
D-Lib Magazine: Monthly electronic publication with many years of digital library related scholarly articles. Freely available at: http://www.dlib.org/
The Council on Library and Information Resources' "CLIR Reports" available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/index.html
Texas A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

Supplemental Textbooks

The books below provide other useful in-depth perspectives on digital libraries and are available in the electronic NetLibrary accessible through the UT Library (thus they require a UT EID).

Arms, William Y. (2000). Digital libraries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bishop, Ann P., Van House, Nancy A., Buttenfield, Barbara Pfeil. (2003). Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation. Cambridge, Mass MIT Press.
Borgman, Christine L. (2000). From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: Access to information in the networked world. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Witten, Ian H., & Bainbridge, David. (2003). How to build a digital library. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann.

Topic Resources

The resources below provide good supplemental information for the topics covered in this course.

Digital Library History and Future

Greenstein, Daniel, & Thorin, Suzanne E. (2002). "The digital library: A biography." Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html.
Lougee, Wendy Pradt. (2002). "Diffuse libraries: Emergent roles for the research library in the digital age." Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub108abst.html.
Smith, Abby (Ed.). (2003). "New model scholarship: How will it survive." Washington, DC: DLF & CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html.

Digital Library Planning and Development

National Information Standards Organization's "A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections"
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants Project Planning Tutorial.
Smith, Abby (Ed.). (2001). "Building and sustaining digital collections: Models for libraries and museums." Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub100abst.html.

Metadata

Duval, E., Hodgins, W., Sutton, S., Weibel, S. L. (2002). "Metadata Principles and Practicalities." D-Lib Magazine, 8 (4).
UT Libraries "Metadata Information and Resources"

Object Management

The Digital Object Identifier System.

Preservation and Archiving

Besser, H. (2000). "Digital Longevity." In Handbook for digital projects: A management tool for preservation and access, M. Skitts (Ed.). Andover, Massachusetts: Northeast Document Conservation Center.
"Building a national strategy for preservation: Issues in digital media archiving." (2002). Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html.
Lazinger, Susan S. (2001). Digital preservation and metadata: History, theory, practice. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Waters, D. (2002). "Good archives make good scholars: Reflections on recent steps toward the archiving of digital information." Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub107/waters.html

Funding, Marketing, and Sustainability

Chapman, Steve. (2004). Techniques for creating sustainable digital collections. Library Technology Reports, 40(5).
Tanner, Simon and Marilyn Deegan. "Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage." A HEDS Report on behalf of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. June 2002. Available at: http://heds.herts.ac.uk/mellon/charging_models.html
Zorich, Diane M. (2003). "A survey of digital cultural heritage initiatives and their sustainability concerns." Washington, DC: CLIR. Available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub118abst.html.

Intellectual Property

Georgia Harper's Crash Course in Copyright
Russell, Carrie (Ed.). (2004). Complete copyright: An everyday guide for librarians. Chicago, IL: ALA.

Related Technologies

Courtney, N. (2007). Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's User. Libraries Unlimited Inc.
Rhyno, Art. (2004). Using open source systems for digital libraries. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.