CS6604 DL, Fall 1997 --- Lecture 970911

Administration:

• Be sure you have applied for a video account.
• Be sure you are on the listserv and have sent in the survey at the bottom of the listserv page.
• Be sure you are entered in the QUIZIT system, have an ID and password, and have taken the trial (Fox01) quiz from the Taking a new quiz page. Then, as in news, try the first quiz for chapters 1 and 8.
• By Monday 9/15, be sure you or your group have sent the instructor an email msg indicating what project you will undertake. Ask the instructor for help if you are not sure yet.

What is "digital library"?

• See UCLA workshop, 2nd par. of Abstract, just before the Introduction, and the 2 bullets after the first 4 paragraphs, along with subsequent discussion. See also 3 scenarios related to the information life cycle:
  1. Artists
  2. Business Records as Artifacts
  3. Health-Information Systems
• See IITA workskop, Definitions and Roles of Digital Libraries
• See DL'95 paper "Digital Libraries: Issues and Architectures" online which compares physical and digital libraries and then discusses a functional definition.
• See DL'94 paper "Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements: Report from a March 1994 Workshop" online, especially par. 2 of the section "What is a Digital Library?". See also the PDF file.

CS1604 Information:

• Text File Formats section
• Graphic Formats section
• Hypermedia & Multimedia section

Figures from other Courses

• CS4624 figures
• CS5604 figures

Image DL Projects:

• Red Sage D-Lib article
• TULIP home page