DATE	ASSIGNMENT
August 28	Introductions, Course Setup & Key Concepts A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections: http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html (Optional) Why Digitize? "What do you do with a million books"by Gregory Crane (Diglib Magazine March, 2006) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html "Digital Collections, Digital Libraries, and the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Materials," by Clifford Lynch (First Monday, volume 7, issue 5) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/lynch/index.html “The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson (Wired, Oct. 2004) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html?pg=1&topic=tail&topic_set Handbook for Digital Projects, section 2 “Overview: Rationale for Digitization and Preservation.” http://www.nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/ii.htm (pp. 15 – 29)
September 4	Project Planning: Selection Guidelines vs. Guidance for Digital Imaging: The Opportunity Before Us. Anne Kenney. Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference. Keynote Address: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/kenney.html NC ECHO Guidelines for Digitization - Project Planning: http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/planning.htm Selection Selection Guidelines for Preservation. Janet Gertz, Director for Preservation, Columbia University, US: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/gertz.html Guidance for Selecting Materials for Digitisation. Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, University College, London, UK: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/492/1/paul_ayris3.pdf SAMPLE SELECTION CRITERIA - Scan through Library of Congress, "Selection Criteria for Preservation Digital Reformatting" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presselection.html) University of California, "Selection Criteria for Digitization" http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/cdc/pag/digselec.html Harvard University, "Selection for Digitization: a Decision-Making Matrix" http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/matrix.html National Agricultural Library, "Selection Criteria and Guidelines" (http://www.nal.usda.gov/preserve/selectcriteria.shtml) Oxford University, "Decision Matrices and Workflows"  (Appendix B) (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/report.html) National Library of Australia Digitisation Policy, 2000-2004. (http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/digitisation.html)
September 11	Project Planning: Documentation & Metadata Metadata Introduction to Metadata, http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/ Introduction (1 pp.) Setting the Stage (10 pp.) Metadata and the World Wide Web (17 pp.) Crosswalks: The Path to Universal Access? (8 pp.) "Understanding Metadata" [PDF] http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf Standards Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com) Proposed Digital Imaging Standards and Best Practices: Indiana LSTA Digitization Project: http://www.in.gov/library/files/dig_imgst.pdf LAB: Grant Writing IMLS National Leadership Grants: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/nationalLeadership.shtm
September 18	Project Management NC ECHO - Guidelines for Digitization: Chapter 9, Project Management. http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/management.htm  “A Study into the Effect of Digitization Projects on the Management & Stability of Historic Photograph Collections” by Veronica Davis-Perkins, et al., (ECDL 2005). http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~pc/publications/2005/ECDLpreprint.pdf :: OPTIONAL :: Handbook for Digital Projects; Section 8: Vendor Relations. http://www.nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/viii.htm RLG Guidelines for Creating a Request for Proposal For Digital Imaging Services. http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/digimgtools/RFPGuidelines.pdf Lab Materials Scanning Instructions: Line Drawings / Photographs / Newspaper Images / Text
September 25	Digital Asset Management NINCH Guide to Good Practice: XIII. Digital Asset Management: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/XIII/ Current Practices in Digital Asset Management (through page 23): http://www.internet2.edu/arts/files/digital-asset-management(v09).pdf RLG DigiNews, Volume 10, Number 6 Special Issue: Managing Digital Assets in US Museums. http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/07/10/0000068924/viewer/file1.html (please read the entire issue) WGBH Digital Asset Management Project Information: http://daminfo.wgbh.org/wgbh.html Lab Materials - Beginning Photoshop Brown University - Introduction to Photoshop - https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/CISDOC/Photoshop+Introduction+Tutorial Extropia - Introduction to Adobe Photoshop - http://www.extropia.com/tutorials/photoshop/toc.html
October 2	Rights Management Section 5 in Handbook for Digital Projects, “Overview of Legal Issues for Digitization” http://www.nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/v.htm (pp. 74 – 92) (18 pgs) “Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States” http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/ “Library Digitization Projects and Copyright.” http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm Notice that this is a multi-part article. Inside Google Booksearch: US Copyright Renewal Records Become Available. http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyright-renewal-records-available.html Optional: “Digitizing Special Collections: Your ‘Deed of Gift Form’ Said What?” http://www.hurstassociates.com/NYLA.ppt “A Guide to Deed of Gifts” http://www.archivists.org/catalog/deed_of_gift.asp "Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age." http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/pritcher/02pritcher.html :: Lab Materials - Advanced Photoshop :: CBT Cafe - Photoshop: Creating Your Own Actions: http://www.cbtcafe.com/photoshop/ACTIONS/index.html CBT Cafe - Photoshop: Batch Processes: http://www.cbtcafe.com/photoshop/batch/batch.html Wired - HowTo Wiki: Batch Processes in Photoshop: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Batch_Process_Images_in_Photoshop
October 9	Images / Text Images: Handbook for Digital Projects, Chapter 6: “Technical Primer” (pp. 93 – 111) http://www.nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/vi.htm Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial: Chapter 6B: Technical Infrastructure: Image Creation (http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/technical/technicalB-01.html) Handbook for Digital Projects, Section 7: Guidelines from Case Studies “Working with Photographs” http://www.nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/vii.htm#2 “Digitization of Maps and Other Oversize Documents” http://www.nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/vii.htm#4 UVA Electronic Text Center: Archival Digital Image Creation. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/specscan.html Text A Gentle Introduction to the TEI Markup Language: http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P4/html/SG.html UVA Text and Image Scanning Services: Text Scanning – Some Examples: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/scan-train.html Lab Materials MikroTek (makers of Abbyy Finereader) - How to OCR Tutorial (PDF on page...) http://www.microtekusa.com/tutorial-OCR.html W3C XML Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp (This page through "XML Parser")
October 16	Non-Text Materials Digital Audio Best Practices, version 2.0, Colorado Digitization Program, Nov. 2005 (40 pp.), http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital-audio-bp.pdf NINCH Guide to Good Practice. Chapter 7. Audio / Video Capture & Management. http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/VII/ “Planning An Audio Preservation Transfer Project” http://www.safesoundarchive.com/PDF/AudioPreservProjectPlanning.pdf (6 pp.) Jason Molin's Audio Digitization Page: http://www.jasonmolin.net/projects/audio_digitization/ :: Optional :: Digital Recording: Here to Stay. (5 pp.) http://www.ttctranscriptions.com/Digitalvsanalog.html The Holy Grail of Digital Recording. (7 pp.) http://www.ttctranscriptions.com/DigitalRecordingHolyGrail.html Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections: Sound (Audio): (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/sound.shtml)
October 23	Discussion :: Web 2.0 and Digital Initiatives What is Web 2.0? ~Tim O'Reilly http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html Key Difference in Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, Graham Cormode and Balachander Krishnamundi. First Monday 13 (6), June 2008. http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2125/1972 JISC Technology and Standards Watch, "What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education" http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf Clay Shirky, "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus." http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html Andy Oram. "In search of the micro-elites" O'Reilly Blog: http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/11/in-search-of-microelites-how-t.html
October 30	NO CLASS
November 6	Discussion :: Mass Digitization Projects (Google Books) Jeffrey Toobin, "Google's Moon Shot: The Quest for the Universal Library." New Yorker, Feb 7, 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/05/070205fa_fact_toobin?printable=true Jonathan V. Last, "Google and Its Enemies: The much-hyped project to digitize 32 million books sounds like a good idea. Why are so many people taking shots at it?" 12/10/2007, Volume 013, Issue 13. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=14431&R=11621278FA "Inheritance and Loss? A Brief Survey of Google Books" by Paul Duguid (First Monday Vol. 12, Issue 8) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/duguid/index.html Peter Brantley, "The Google Exchange," http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/the_google_exch.html Robert Townsend, "Google Books, Is It Good for History?" http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2007/0709/0709vie1.cfm Dan Cohen, "Google Books: Champagne or Sour Grapes?" http://www.dancohen.org/2007/08/16/google-books-champagne-or-sour-grapes/
November 13	Discussion :: Alternative Forms of Access (Open Access) Publishing: FM Publishing: http://www.federatedmedia.net/about/index & Blog: http://blog.federatedmedia.net/ Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/ & Blog: http://lulublog.com/ Andrew Savikas, "Amazon gets demanding with Print on Demand Publishers." O'Reilly Blog. http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/03/amazon-gets-demanding-with-print-on-demand-publishers.html Scholarly Communication Herbert Van de Sompel. "Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve" DLib Magazine. September 2004. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september04/vandesompel/09vandesompel.html Ithica University. University Publishing In A Digital Age. July 26, 2007. http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/Ithaka%20University%20Publishing%20Report.pdf Princeton University, Symposium, The Future of Scholarly Communication. [Please read all postings to this blog] http://citp.princeton.edu/symposium/?cat=4, especially: Paul DiMaggio, "Thinking in Terms of Organization in a World of Networks." http://citp.princeton.edu/symposium/?p=17 Michael Jensen, "The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 15, 2007. [http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i41/41b00601.htm]
November 20 2 Discussions! 2 Sets of Questions!	Discussion :: Future of Collecting Institutions Library 2.0 Robert Darnton, "Library in the New Age," http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century. (2008)., CLIR Reports. Washington, D.C.: CLIR. Retrieved August 17, 2008, from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf. Please read Part 1; and the essays by Abby Smith and Lee Zia. OpenLibrary.org: Leveraging Digital Technologies to Provide Open, Universal Access to Books http://about.scriblio.net/scribbles/70 Academic Library and Research in the 21st Century: Linking Practice and Research http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/cites/index.cgi?cite=07-18-09-03.xml (if you are on campus, the link on this page will take you to a full text version of the article) Library 2.0 Service for the Next-Generation Library http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html Beth Jefferson on the Bibliocommons: http://odyssey2007.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/beth-jefferson-on-the-bibliocommons/ Museums 2.0 Why Click! Is My Hero: What Museum Innovation Looks Like: http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-click-is-my-hero-what-museum.html Click! http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/ Museum 2.0: Relativism, Multiculturalism, and Myth: New Stories About Modern Museums: http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/06/relativism-multiculturalism-and-myth.html Remixing Exhibits: Constructing Participatory Narratives With On-Line Tools To Augment Museum Experiences Matthew Fisher, Night Kitchen Interactive, and Beth A. Twiss-Garrity: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/fisher/fisher.html Flickr Commons: http://flickr.com/commons Discussion :: Imact of Digitizaton on Traditional Communication Models Reading NEA Report: To Read or Not to Read: http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.PDF Matt Kirschenbaum, How Reading is Being Re-Imagined. [Blackboard] Caleb Crain, "Twilight of the Books," New Yorker. December 24, 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/12/24/071224crat_atlarge_crain Nick Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Atlantic Monthly, August 2008. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google Clay Shirky, "Why Abundance is a Good Thing: A Reply to Nick Carr" Brittanica Blog, August 2008. http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/07/why-abundance-is-good-a-reply-to-nick-carr/ Journalism Ethan Zuckerman, "APs Ethnography of News Consumption" http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/08/09/aps-ethnography-of-news-consumption/ please read the entire blog posting, as well as look over "A New Model for News: Studying the Deep Structure of Young Adult News Consumption" http://ap.org/newmodel.pdf, which was referenced in the blog entry Center For Citizen Media Blog: http://citmedia.org/blog/ Scott Karp, "How Newsrooms Throw Away Value by Not LInking to Sources on the Web." http://publishing2.com/2008/08/07/how-newsrooms-throw-away-value-by-not-linking-to-sources-on-the-web/
November 27	Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4	No Class: Grant Proposals DUE on Blackboard Friday December 5 @ Midnight
December 8	(Monday) - Grant Proposal Presentations - 10AM - 12PM

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