Schedule - INF 385S - Fall 2018
This is the schedule
Date | Topic | Materials (evolving reading list) | In-class activities | Assignments | Project |
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Sept 4 | Introductions | Syllabus | Syllabus overview |
| Start thinking about project teams (groups of three-ish) |
Sept 11 | A tour of Digital Collections | 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 | Describe your personal digital collection and articulate your management activities. |
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Sept 18 | Historical Narrative | 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) |
| Assignment 1: Digital Collection immersion | Finalize project teams, email instructor group member names |
Sept 25 | Digital Objects and Identifiers | 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/)
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Oct 2 | Metadata and Standards | 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)
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Oct 9 (not in class) | Infrastructure and repositories | Sections 1,2,3 onyl – Goncalves, et al., Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S): A Formal Model for Digital Libraries. (http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.1145/984321.984325) DSpace System Documentation. DSpace - Functional Overview. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Functional+Overview Duraspace. Fedora Tutorial. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora Moore, Rajasekar, and Wan, Data Grids, Digital Libraries, and Persistent Archives: An Integrated Approach to Sharing, Publishing, and Archiving Data (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1398012/) |
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| Project preliminary proposals |
Oct 16 | Interoperability and Crosswalks | 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 |
| Assignment 2: Multi-schema metadata creation |
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Oct 23 |
| --- Cancelled class due to instructor's health — |
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Oct 30 | 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 In-class activity: |
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Nov 6 | 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 |
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Nov 13 | File formats | 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 | Jessica Trelogan, UTL. | Assignment 3: Retrieve Web metadata |
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Nov 20 | 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 |
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Nov 27 | User interfaces | 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"
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Dec 4 | Evaluation, project presentations, and wrap-up | Ten challenges to building digital libraries, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/cbedl.html
| Anjum Khurshid, Co-director, "BioMedical Data Hub", DellMed |
| Project demonstration and design documents |
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