LIS 462 - Outline

This is the course outline for Fall semester 2008. In this course, more than any other, the schedule is very fluid. New topics will crop up, and the topics listed below will need to move around to accommodate student schedules. That's what the "spaceholders" are for. Check back often.

Note: Yom Kippur falls on October 8-9 and Sukkot runs from October 13-20 - please be sure to have any planned work done before the holy days, and make arrangements for someone to take notes in class.

September 4

Introduction; Resources; Discussion of Assignments 1 & 2; Definitions; History; Planning our own DL; Visit to Simmons Archives (11:30)

September 11

Preliminary examination of a few best-developed digital library projects; Repositories, archives, libraries; Digital objects
First DL committee meeting

September 18

Digital library architecture; Metadata; Resource digitization and preservation
DL committee meeting

September 25

Rights management: Copyright and licensing
Student presentations - Assignment 1: Open source software, Open Archives Initiative, Digital rights management, Music; Manuscripts
DL committee meeting

October 2

Rights management: authentication and security
Student presentations - Assignment 1: Video, 3-D, Institutional repositories, METS
DL committee meeting

October 9

The user interface; Maura Marx (Open Content Alliance)
Student presentations - Assignment 2: Calisphere, Sudan, Worthington
DL committee meeting

October 16

Evaluation and usability
Student presentations - Assignment 2: American Journeys, OCP, Digital Past, Documenting the American South, U Wisconsin
DL committee meeting

October 23

Interoperability
Student presentations - Assignment 2: ICDL, Gallica, Maine, New South Voices
DL committee meeting

October 30

No meeting (ASIS&T annual conference)

November 6

Visit to BPL (arrive at 9:30 sharp, then at 10:45 we go back to Simmons and reconvene at 11:30 for last hour of class)
DL committee meeting

November 13

11:30 - Guest speaker Greg Crane (Perseus, Tufts)
DL committee meeting

November 20

Usability testing for our DL
DL committee meeting

December 4

Digital library research fronts
DL committee meeting; Preparation for vernissage

December 11

Wrap up; DL presentation and celebration

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