DATE	ASSIGNMENT
January 18	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)
January 25	Project Planning: Selection / Documentation / Standards 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 1. 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://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html SAMPLE SELECTION CRITERIA - Scan through Library of Congress, "Selection Criteria for Preservation Digital Reformatting" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presselection.html) Columbia University, "Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects" http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria.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://preserve.nal.usda.gov:8300/projects/criteria.htm) 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)
February 1	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.) Library of Congress: METS Overview and Tutorial (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.v2.htm) (OPTIONAL) Research Libraries Group. Automatic Exposure: Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20462&Printable=1&Article_ID=1676) 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.statelib.lib.in.us/www/isl/diglibin/Digstandard3-24-04.pdf LAB: Grant Writing IMLS National Leadership Grants: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/nationalLeadership.shtm
February 8 Grant Writing Proposal Due	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.rlg.org/preserv/RFPGuidelines.pdf Lab Materials Scanning Instructions: Line Drawings / Photographs / Newspaper Images / Text
February 15	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://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20999 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
February 22	No Class @ Conference (Individual Research Project Due February 25 )
February 29	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/training/copyrightterm.pdf (4 pages) “Library Digitization Projects and Copyright.” http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm Notice that this is a multi-part article. 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 Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues. http://www.virtuallymissouri.org/guidelines/copyright_rev2.pdf "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/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_ name=batch_process_images_in_photoshop;action=display;category=Play
March 7	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/Sample_Manuals/mueller-index.htm 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")
March 14 :: SPRING BREAK ::
March 21	Non-Text Materials Digital Audio Best Practices, version 2.0, Colorado Digitization Program, Nov. 2005 (40 pp.), http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/audio/documents/cdp_dabpv2_1.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)
March 28	Mass Digitization Projects - Google Books Project [Discussion] "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/
April 4	Future of Reading [Discussion] NEA Report: To Read or Not to Read: http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html Matt Kirschenbaum, How Reading is Being Re-Imagined. http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=fgprwfnh32l7d3thj18vh3jz79k9f6fw Dan Cohen: Review of "To Read or Not to Read." http://www.dancohen.org/2008/01/10/the-digital-critique-of-to-read-or-not-to-read/ Caleb Crain, "Twilight of the Books," New Yorker. December 24, 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/12/24/071224crat_atlarge_crain
April 11	Scholarly Communication [Discussion] 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/ and http://citp.princeton.edu/symposium/?paged=2, 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 :: Optional :: Clifford Lynch. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, February 2003. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml 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 Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication: Survey Findings from the University Of California [August 2007] (Executive Summary and Summary of Findings). http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/responses/materials/OSC-survey-summaries-20070828.pdf University of California: Office of Scholarly Communication. "Regain Control of Scholarly Communication." http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/home/regain_control.html Ellen Duranceau. Retaining Copyrights to Increase Research Impact: Online Tutorial http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/retaining-copyrights/705/
April 18	Library 2.0 [Discussion] --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 --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 --Two Blog entries by Peter Brantley (President RLG) *Libraries Re-Shaping: http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/09/09/libraries_re_shaping * Libraries and Steel: http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/03/10/libraries_and_steel
April 25	Expertise and Authority in Web 2.0 [Discussion] Organization and Authority "Long player" Rough Type Blog, Nick Carr. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/long_player.php "New Freedom Destroys Old Culture: A Response to Nick Carr. Clay Shirky, Many 2 Many Blog. http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/08/01/ new_freedom_destroys_old_culture_a_response_to_nick_carr.php Cult of the Expert : Andrew Keen. "The Second Generation of the Internet has Arrived. It's Worse Than You Think." Weekly Standard 2/15/2006. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/714fjczq.asp David Weinberger & Andrew Keen: "Full Text: Keen Vs. Weinberger." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118460229729267677.html Andrew Keen & Emily Bell: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/take_two/2007/08/andrew_keen_v_emily_bell.html Amateurs. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orchid/amateurs.html
May 2	Grant Proposal Presentations

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