Digital Libraries: Topical Outline

• Section 1. Foundations
  • Early visions, definitions, resources/references, projects
• Section 2. Search, Retrieval, Resource Discovery
  • Information storage and retrieval, Boolean vs. natural language, search engine tutorial
  • Indexing: Phrases, Thesauri (on web), Concepts
  • Federated search and harvesting, OAI, Crawlers/spiders
  • Integrating links and ratings, fusion
• Section 3. Multimedia, Representations
  • Text/audio/image/video/graphics/animation
  • Capture, Digitization, Compression
  • Standards, Interchange: JPEG, MPEG
  • Content-based retrieval, Playback (e.g., Real), QoS, SMIL
• Section 4. Architectures
  • Modular/componentized, Protocols
  • InfoBus (Stanford, Java), Mediators, Wrappers (TSIMMIS)
• Section 5. Interfaces
  • Workflow, Environments, Taxonomy of interface components, Visualization
  • Design, Usability testing
• Section 6. Metadata
  • Ontologies, RDF
  • MARC, Dublin Core, IMS
  • Mappings, Crosswalks
• Section 7. Electronic Publishing, SGML, XML
  • Authoring, Presenting, Rendering, Document Object Model (DOM)
  • Dual-publishing, Styles (XSL), eBooks (e.g., eBooks.com, eBooks Central, netLibrary)
  • Structure, Semi-structured information, Tagging/markup, Structure queries
• Section 8. Database Issues
  • Extending database technology
  • Structured and unstructured information
  • Multimedia databases, Link databases
  • Performance/replication/storage, e.g., Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI)
• Section 9. Agents
  • Distributed issues
  • Protocols, Negotiation
  • Webbots (automatic indexing)
• Section 10. Commerce, Economics, Publishers
  • Preservation and archives: DLF page, PADI (AU) page, Besser on moving images
  • Terms and conditions, Open collections, Self-archiving
  • Economic models, Micropayments
• Section 11. Intellectual Property Rights, Security
  • Legal issues, e.g., Gladney on digital preservation archiving and copyright
  • Copyright, Rights management
• Section 12. Social Issues
  • Cooperation and collaboration, Ratings, Annotation (PICS)
  • Educational applications (NSDL), Digital divide
  • Museums (AMICO), Cultural heritage, International concerns
  • Organizational acceptance/issues, Personalization

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