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SLIS-5715-002-Fall2006-week3

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SLIS 5715.002

9.12.06


 

__note to self:__ print out new reading list (see email)

 

Week 3

  • ASIST conference
  • next week, meeting in room next door; guest speaker Beth Stevens
  • received additional readings (start with "Usability Challenges...")

 

Assignments

  • be reading blog(s)
  • articles (list of three)
    • one is to present on Oct 3rd (5-10 min.)
      • pick one related to your interests
      • scholarly
      • brief summary: author, affiliation/background (research), where they study/work, why is the article significant to the field, why is it important to this class, likes/dislikes

 

Note:

  • 10/10 Week 7 of Syllabus: metadata
  • 10/17 (following week): is when readings are due
  • (Elise will send an email about it)

 

Reading Discussion

  • first seven articles on reading list
  • outlining the history of digital libraries
  • Clifford Lynch; great ability for predictions in this field
    • last 4 years, he's been very concerned with preservation
  • CNI, Coalition for Networked Information
  • discuss: what applies now, what might apply in the future?

 

"Going Digital..." (1995)

  • not as concerned with preservation
  • saw digital libraries as digital-only; separate from physical libraries/collections
  • does acknowledge that not all things translate digitally
  • and that paper is unlikely to go away
  • attempts to catalog the (entire) Internet: failed
    • not a cohesive collection
    • transient info on websites: how do you catalog varying info?
  • concerns that the internet would mean less patrons
    • now, patrons connect from home
  • concerns about less collaboration (physically isolated)
    • you can collaborate online without being restricted by location
  • collaboration between librarians and computer scientists

 

"Automated Digital Libraries..." (2000)

  • different aspect of digital libraries: service
  • government funding (big issue in several articles); the impetus for research
  • precision (librarian) vs. recall (search engine)
  • Internet Archive -- check it out
    • bookmobile: printing books out (downloaded) on location for patrons
  • bibliographic measure (citation analysis)
  • automatic extraction of metadata
    • check out Informedia
    • Virage (talking about necessity for good algorithms)
      • video extraction software
      • face recognition
      • a lot of this type of thing used in England
  • considerations of cost: staffing, computing power

 

"What are Digital Libraries?" (1999)

  • distinction between views:
    • researchers: content-oriented (digital collection)
    • librarians: service-oriented (virtual library)
  • cites several definitions for "digital library"
  • aspects of digital libraries:
    • electronic resources
    • virtual reference
  • actual products versus our needs
    • discussed computer scientists vs. librarians, vendor concerns ($), usability, products pushed on us that we then have to make work, etc.
  • digital libraries are communities: need researchers, comp.sci., librarians, etc.
  • one definition of digital library: service, architecture, info resources/databases, IR tools
  • p. 234: the user is noticably absent from this equation
  • problems of terminology & definitions

 

"DL: Challenges & Influential Work" (2005)

  • federated search
  • quoted Clifford Lynch, p.2
    • difference between digital collections and providing digital library services
  • p.3, features like CSS, full-text articles, OpenURLs are now (2006) commonplace

 

"Viewpoint Analysis" (?)

  • three different views:
    • organizational
    • technical
      • interoperability (collaborative information, portability to another application)
    • user
      • technology/organizations are irrelevant
      • hence, desire for / expectation of federated search ability
      • layout and stylistic conventions
  • evaluation
    • "give a group of users tasks to carry out within that library"

 

"Where Do We Go From Here?" (2005)

  • everyone has a digital collection of some kind: "personal information management"
  • thoughts on Google digitizing major research libraries...
  • he thinks that funding for digital library research is at an end (was big from 1994 - 2004)
    • less funding for research, more for actual projects (based on content)

(re-read article with link that Elise emails us; missing pages)

 

Our Definition of Digital Libraries

 

DL 2006

  • collection
  • organized (cataloged/metadata)
  • user-friendly interface
  • possibly services
    • preferences
      • user set of records (favorites/preferences)
      • type/level of display
      • offer selections for casual vs. power users
      • visual browsing (as an option), like KartOO
    • technical help (system)
    • search terms
    • suggestion box
    • related terms/items
  • probably part of an institution (available to members); hidden fees
    • would you pay if you weren't a member?
    • level of service varies according to:
    • whether or not you're a member
    • whether or not you're physically at an institutional location
  • device
  • levels of information (output choices)
  • user-friendly metadata
  • ADA-compliant access (check with W3C Bobby)
  • document type notation

 

DL 2006+

  • eternal preservation
    • migration
  • personal digital library
    • all one thing--integrated everything (mashups & federated searching)
    • what happens to privacy? (AOL search term flub)
    • who will be in charge?

 

(my personal use of the term "digital library:" a blanket term that encompasses both digital collections (collections of all-digital resources) and virtual libraries (libraries that are completely online, which also provide services))


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