UH3004 DL, Fall 1997 --- Lecture 970915

Administration:

• Be sure you have applied for a video account and are on the listserv.
• Become familiar with HyperNews, accessible from our home 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 9/22, be sure you have settled on a project and contacted the CS6604 project group your will join, if applicable.

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