Honors 3004 - Digital Libraries - Syllabus

General Information

• Course Name: Digital Libraries
• Course Number: UH 3004
• Index Number: 9092
• Location: McB 104c
• Textbook: Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes & Bucks, by Michael Lesk, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1997, ISBN 1-55860-459-6
• Time: Mon 3 - 4:50pm
• URL: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~h3004fox/

Organization

• 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 courseware extensions
  • presentations of projects
  • videoconference sessions with digital library experts at other locations
• Courseware extensions:
  To help others learn about digital libraries, the instructor prepared courseware will be extended by groups (of 2-3 students).
• Listserv:
  All students are expected to subscribe and participate in a listserv, uh3004dl-l, which has email address uh3004dl-l@listserv.vt.edu; see first further details.
• Projects:
  The CS6604 class on digital libraries will work to prepare a proposal and prototype demonstrations of research on digital libraries. Each Honors 3004 student will participate in one of the CS6604 teams for this purpose, and be evaluated based on contributions (e.g., brainstorming, literature review, editing) to that team. See project grading guidelines for CS6604 to see how they are assessed. Your grading will follow similar guidelines but will be worked out through a contract with the instructor.
• 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 80% 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 8 hours (for 8 points) as a subject in one or more of those studies.

Grading

• 30%: Participation in project effort with CS6604 students
• 30%: Courseware extensions for WWW
• 24%: Successful completion of quizzes (based mainly on textbook)
• 8%: Participation in usability studies
• 8%: Class and listserv participation (quality, quantity)