Schedule - INF 385S - Fall 2018

Syllabus

Syllabus overview
Introductions
Getting involved in digital library activities

Data Wrangling: The Challenging Journey from the Wild to the Lake (http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper2.pdf)

Guatemalan National Police Archive Under Threat (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatemala/2018-08-13/guatemala-police-archive-under-threat)

AHPN web site at UT Austin (https://ahpn.lib.utexas.edu)

Less talk, more rock: automated organization of community-contributed collections of concert videos (https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/citation.cfm?id=1526752) – access via UT libraries

David Levy, Catherine C. Marshall. Going Digital: A Look at the Assumptions Underlying Digital Libraries (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=205346)

Christine L. Borgman. "What are Digital Libraries? Competing Visions." Information Processing and Management: an International Journal. Volume 35, Number 3 (https://works.bepress.com/borgman/204/)

Clifford Lynch. Where do we go from here? The next decade for Digital Libraries (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch/07lynch.html)

Maria Zemankova. Slides from JCDL 2016 Keynote address (Canvas)

Sarah Glasser, Broken Links and Failed Access (https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/viewFile/5490/6734)

Kahn and Wilensky, A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services  (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/k-w.html)

Duerr, et al., On the utility of identification schemes for digital earth science data: an assessment and recommendations (https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12145-011-0083-6.pdf)

Heath and Bizer, Linked Data - Chapters 1-4 only (http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/)

In-class activity:

http://www.igsn.org/resources

Anne J. Gilliland. Introduction to Metadata: Setting the Stage (http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/intrometadata/setting.html)

Jenn Riley, Understanding Metadata (https://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/17446/Understanding%20Metadata.pdf) --appendix contains pointers to several metadata standards documents and projects to watch 

Corey Doctorow, MetaCrap (https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm)

Elings and Waibel, Metadata for All (http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1628/1543)

Reference and in-class activity:
https://github.com/dcmi/repository/blob/master/mediawiki_wiki/User_Guide/Creating_Metadata.md

https://pro.dp.la/hubs/metadata-application-profile

Open Archives Forum. OAI-PMH Tutorial. (https://web.archive.org/web/20171122095939/http://www.oaforum.org:80/tutorial/english/intro.htm)

OAI-ORE Primer (https://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/primer)

David Tarrant, Ben O'Steen, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock, Neil Jefferies and Leslie Carr. Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications. (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1062)

Quix, et al., Metadata Extraction and Management in Data Lakes With GEMMS (https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/article/viewFile/csimq.2016-9.04/896)

In-class activity: 

Retrieve data from an OAI-compliant repository

--- Cancelled class due to instructor's health — 

Data Aggregations

Halevy, et al, Managing Google's data lake: an overview of the Goods system. (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8e14/57b63dab8f80a7257670709d9d196640481e.pdf)

Mark A. Matienzo and Amy Rudersdorf. The Digital Public Library of America Ingestion Ecosystem: Lessons Learned After One Year of Large-Scale Collaborative Metadata Aggregation. DC2014. http://dcevents.dublincore.org/public/dc-docs/2014-Master.pdf

Lisa Gregory and Stephanie Williams. On Being a Hub: Some Details behind Providing Metadata for the Digital Public Library of America. DLIB 7/2014. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july14/gregory/07gregory.html

Charles, et al., Achieving interoperability between the CARARE schema for monuments and sites and the Europeana Data Model (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1306/1306.2869.pdf)

Reference:

Doerr, et al, The Europeana Data Model
Issac, The EDM Primer

In-class activity:
Retrieving DPLA data

Research data

Knowledge Infrastructures in Science: Data, Diversity, and Digital Libraries, https://works.bepress.com/borgman/371/

Jim Gray's Fourth Paradigm and the construction of the Scientific Record by Cliff Lynch. Chapter (pg 177-183) in: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Fourth_Paradigm.pdf

Data Management Primer from DataONE: https://www.dataone.org/sites/all/documents/DataONE_BP_Primer_020212.pdf

Texas Data Repository user guide (special emphasis on evaluating data and data dictionary) https://texasdigitallibrary.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TDRUD/pages/287965260/User+Guide

Sustainability of Digital Formats, https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/sustain/sustain.shtml

Canvas, Witten - sections 4.1 and 4.2

Fundamental concepts of images, https://www.scantips.com/basics01.html

Image File Formats - JPG, TIF, PNG, GIF - Which to use? (opening page only), https://www.scantips.com/basics09.html

Policies and Scholarly Communication

Canvas, Lesk chapters 10 and 11

Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors Guild v. Google, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2102542

All Aboard: Toward a Machine-Friendly Scholarly Communication System, chapter (pages 193-199) in https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Fourth_Paradigm.pdf

Explorations of a Very-large-screen Digital Library Interface

Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections

International Children's Digital Library (Try out the browsing interface as well as the book reader interface)

Megan Firestone, St Edwards. "Brewery and Brewing Archive" 

Ten challenges to building digital libraries, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/cbedl.html