CS6604 - Digital Libraries - Syllabus

General Information

Course Name: Digital Libraries
Course Number: CS 6604
Index Number: 5340
Location: McB 218
Textbook: Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes & Bucks, by Michael Lesk, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1997, ISBN 1-55860-459-6
Time: Tue/Thu 2-3:15pm
URL: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs6604/

Class sessions:
Classes will consist of any of a number of activities such as
- exploration of WWW materials especially from DLI sites, and related demonstrations
- lecture and discussion
- participation in the IBM Renaissance Digital Library meeting Oct. 20-22
- presentations of projects
Listserv:
All students are expected to subscribe and participate in a listserv, cs6604dl-l, which has email address cs6604dl-l@listserv.vt.edu; see first further details.
Projects:
Groups of students in this class, with some help from students in UH 3004, will work to prepare a proposal and prototype demonstrations of research on digital libraries.
Publications:
Exceptional projects may lead to submissions to ACM Digital Libraries'98.
Quizzes:
Upon completing a chapter of the textbook, students should take an online (WWW) quiz using the QUIZIT system. Successful completion of a quiz is worth 2 points, and results from receiving a grade of 90% or higher on any of the first, second or third version of each part of that quiz.
Reading:
During the semester, according to the calendar, each of the chapters of the textbook should be read and studied.
Usability studies:
There will be a number of usability studies of digital libraries carried out in which participants will be needed. You will be expected to spend up to 4 hours (for 4 points) as a subject in one or more of those studies.