From the Course Objectives a key point is to prepare students to
discuss and explain the main issues relating to developing digital
libraries and related services. Toward that end, this unit will deal with
digital library efforts by ACM and by experts in numerical software,
and will explore the legal and conceptual issues relating to the
fundamental properties of digital media.
Other, specific objectives include being able to:
- define and explain digital library, and describe a
vision of its future in terms of possible scenarios for
two different groups;
- list three key challenges facing builders of digital libraries;
- prepare a draft proposal that could be submitted to
ACM Press Database and Electronic Products;
- discuss six characteristics of digital media that are likely to
lead to significant changes in future law about those media, and why;
- obtain mathematical software and information from netlib; and
- describe the main services, advantages, disadvantages, limitations,
and costs of netlib.