Curriculum on Digital Libraries

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Contents 1 Collaborative Research: Curriculum Development: Digital Libraries 2 Module Development 2.1 Curriculum Framework (Including Links to Specific Modules) 2.2 Versions of the Curriculum Framework Developed by VT/UNC Project 2.3 Module Template 2.4 DL Syllabi Analyses 2.5 Others 3 Project Publications and Links 3.1 Journal 3.2 Conference Papers / Posters 3.3 Book Chapters 3.4 Presentations 3.5 Project Reports 3.6 Project Links

[edit] Collaborative Research: Curriculum Development: Digital Libraries

The project was originally funded for 1/1/2006 - 12/31/2008. This was extended until 12/31/2009.

• Project Team at VT:
  • PI: Edward A. Fox (fox@vt.edu)
  • GRA: Seungwon Yang (seungwon@vt.edu)
  • REU: John Ewers (jewers@vt.edu)

• Project Team at UNC-CH:
  • PI: Barbara M. Wildemuth (wildem@ils.unc.edu)
  • Co-PI: Jeffrey Pomerantz (pomerantz@unc.edu)
  • GRA: Sanghee Oh (shoh@email.unc.edu)

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. IIS-0535057 (VT) and IIS-0535060 (UNC-CH).

[edit] Module Development

[edit] Curriculum Framework (Including Links to Specific Modules)

Core Topics	Sub Topics
1. Overview	1-a (10-c): Conceptual frameworks, models, theories, definitions	1-b: History of digital libraries, and library automation
2. Digital Objects	2-a: Text resources 2-b: Multimedia 2-b(1): Images	2-c (8-d): File formats, transformation, migration
3. Collection Development	3-a: Collection development/selection policies 3-b: Digitization 3-c: Harvesting	3-d: Document and e-publishing/presentation markup 3-e (7-e): Web(push) publishing 3-f: Crawling
4. Info/Knowledge Organization	4-a: Information architecture (e.g., hypertext, hypermedia) 4-b: Metadata 4-c: Ontologies, Classification, Categorization	4-d: Subject description, vocabulary control, thesauri, teminologies 4-e: Object description and organization for a specific domain
5. Architecture	5-a: Architecture overview 5-b: Application software 5-c: Identifiers, handlers, DOI, PURL	5-d: Protocols 5-e: Interoperability 5-f: Security
6. User Behavior/Interactions	6-a: Info needs, relevance 6-b: Online info seeking behavior and search strategy	6-c: Sharing, networking, interchange (e.g., social) 6-d: Interaction design, usability assessment 6-e: Info summerization and visualization
7. Services	7-a: Indexing and searching 7-a(1): Image retrieval 7-b: Reference services 7-c: Recommender systems	7-d: Routing, community filtering 7-e (3-e): Web (push) Publishing 7-f (3-f): Crawling 7-g: Personalization
8: Preservation	8-a: Preservation 8-b: Web archiving	8-c: Sustainability 8-d (2-c): File formats, transformation, migration
9: Management and Evaluation	9-a: Project management 9-b: DL case studies 9-c: DL evaluation, user studies 9-d: Bibliometrics, Webometrics	9-e: Intellectual property 9-f: Cost/economic issues 9-g: Social issues
10: DL Education and research	10-a: Future of DLs 10-b: Education for digital librarians	10-c (1-a): Conceptual framework, theories, definitions 10-d: DL research initiatives

[edit] Versions of the Curriculum Framework Developed by VT/UNC Project

• Framework for DL Curriculum (08/23/2008)
• Framework for DL Curriculum (09/16/2007)
• 10-Module Diagram
• 9-Module Diagram
• The Original 19-Module Set

[edit] Module Template

• Template (since Aug. 27, 2007)
• Template (before Aug. 27, 2007)

[edit] DL Syllabi Analyses

• Computer Science DL Syllabi Reading Analysis: Resources for "Digital Library Education in Computer Science Programs, Pomerantz et al.", JCDL'07.
• Library and Information Science DL Syllabi Reading Analysis

[edit] Others

• DL Educational Taxonomy

[edit] Project Publications and Links

[edit] Journal

• Pomerantz, J., Abbas, J., & Mostafa, J. (2009). Teaching Digital Library Concepts Using Digital Library Applications. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 10(1), 1-13.

• Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E. A., & Wildemuth, B. (2006). The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs. D-Lib Magazine, 12(11). Supplementary material: Book_list, Journal_Article_list, Journal_list.

• Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. M., Oh, S., Yang, S., & Fox, E. A. (2006). Briefing: Digital libraries curriculum development. D-Lib Magazine 12(7/8).

[edit] Conference Papers / Posters

• Wildemuth, B.M, Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E.A. (2009). I-School as a Natural Home for Digital Libraries Education. Poster presented at iConference, February 8-11, 2009.Poster

• Wildemuth, B.M., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E.A. (2009). The Variety of Ways in Which Instructors Implement a Modular Digital Library Curriculum. Poster presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, June 15-19, 2009. Poster

• Yang, S., Levy, J., Miller, K., Pomerantz, J.P., Oh, S., Wildemuth, B.M., Fox, E.A. (2008). Two approaches to enhance the education for ETDs: Developing educational modules and migrating the ETD Guide into a community wiki. Paper presented at ETD 2008: The 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Aberdeen Scotland, June 4-7, 2008.Paper

• Yang, S., Wildemuth, B. Kim, S., Murthy, U., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S. & Fox, E. A. (2007). Further Development of a Digital Library Curriculum: Evaluation Approaches and New Tools. The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 10-13, 2007. Paper, Presentation Slides

• Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Wildemuth, B., Yang, S. & Fox, E. A. (2007). Digital Library Education in Computer Science Programs. The 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 18-23.Paper

• Yang, S., Oh, S., Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B., & Fox, E. A. (2007). Improving Education and Understanding of NDLTD. The 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007. Paper, Presentation Slides

• Abbas, j., Kim, K.-S., Wildemuth, B. M., Choi, Y., Mostafa, J., Brancolini, K., Pomerantz, J., Clobridge, A. (2006). Education for Digital Librarianship: Employer's Needs and How They Can Be Addressed. Panel presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, TX. Abstract

• Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B., Fox, E. A., & Yang, S. (2006). Curriculum Development for Digital Libraries. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp. 175-184). New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Paper in ACM DL, Powerpoint presentation, JCDL 2006 Conference site

• Yang, S., Fox, E. A., Wildemuth, B., Pomerantz, J., & Oh, S. (2006)Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development for Digital Library Education. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (pp. 61-70). Paper published by Springer Berlin, Slides are attached under 'Presentation slides', ICADL 2006 Conference site

[edit] Book Chapters

• Yang, S., Fox, E., Wildemuth, B., Pomerantz, J., & Oh, S. (2009). Core Topics in Digital Library Education . In Theng, Foo, Goh, and Na (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development and Impact (pp.493-505). IGI Global.

• Yang, S., Fox, E., Wildemuth, B., Pomerantz, J., & Oh, S. (2006). Digital library education, curricula, modules, and resources. In Encyclopedia of Digital Libraries. Proposal accepted in 2006.

[edit] Presentations

• Pomerantz, J. (2008). Designing, Developing, and Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Digital Library Curriculum. In J. Selthofer, T. Aparac-Jelušić & M. Krtalić (Eds.), Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2008 (pp. 143-148). Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia: Faculty of Philosophy, University J. J. Strossmayer and Rutgers University.Presentation Slides

• Wildemuth, B., & Fox, E. A. (2008). Preliminary Results from Field Testing of DL Curriculum Modules. JCDL Workshop: Education for Digital Stewardship: Librarians, Archivists or Curators? Pittsburge, PA, June 16-20. Presentation Slides

• Wildemuth, B.M. (2007). Bringing your library into view. Presented at Jinonice Monday's, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University, October 1, 2007. Presentation Slides

[edit] Project Reports

• NSF Reports: proposal, abstract, 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year report, highlights (VT, UNC)

• Project Progress Report : August 11, 2006
• Project overview at UNC-CH : Slides for advisory board meeting at UNC-CH - June 14, 2006
• Project introduction at ETD '06 : Presentation in Quebec, Canada - June 10, 2006
• Project overview - VT : Slides for advisory board meeting at VT - May 1, 2006

[edit] Project Links

• Project Main Page
• Digital Library Curriculum WIKI homepage (password-protected)
• Project Progress Diary
• FAQ link
• NSF proposal
• NSF abstract
• NSF 1st year report
• NSF 2nd year report
• NSF 3rd year report