Class: 8 September 2008

Administrative stuff

• Readings notes and submission deadline
• Pre-class reading, so week 3 Friday 11:59pm submit week 4 reading notes in the blog,
• No need to send email
• Muddiest Points, and submission deadline
• Post-class muddiest points, so week 3 Friday 11:59pm submit week 3 muddiest points. If you do not have, you can just say I do not have.

Term Project

• Task:
  
• Propose, plan and develop a prototype digital collection, using Open Source software (e.g., Greenstone, DSpace, Fedora, Ruby on Rails).

• Requirements:
• Address the need of a group of real users
  
• Include at least three collections and at least one other media format in addition to text (minimally 25 documents total).

European Library Treasures Web Exhibition
-This might be helpful for my History of Ireland course....

About DSpace
-See also DSpace Visual Diagram (PDF)

FEDORA
-Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture

NCSTRL
-Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library

Open Archival Institute

FreeLib - Peer to Peer Digital Library Project

Grid computing & digital libraries

• Beowulf.org

• “The Benefits of Grid Networks--Digital Libraries” By Roy Tennant — March 15, 2005 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA509610.html

• Lorcan Dempsey's weblog “WorldCat in your pocket” http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000544.html
  

“Hyperdatabases: An Infrastructure for the Information Space.” http://www.springerlink.com/content/dg2uxvpnj3k3cec2/

Digital Libraries that use Greenstone:

• http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library
• http://www.greenstone.org/examples

Digital Library that uses DSpace