Class notes 20OCT08

VirtualBox - open source system virtualization

CIRES: Content Based Image REtrieval System

Music Retrieval by Content Demo

Class notes 14OCT08

• Midterm is 03NOV08 (I've already registered with DRS)
• First presentation about digital library project is also 03NOV08; ~5 minutes

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL)

Class notes 29 September 2008

1. Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/internet/web/xmlintro.htm
2. Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html
3. Extending you Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/extending-your-markup-an-xml-tutorial.html, or at http://xml.coverpages.org/BergholzTutorial.pdf
   
4. XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp

XML Attributes: http://www.w3schools.com/Xml/xml_attributes.asp
DTD Attributes: http://xmlfiles.com/dtd/dtd_attributes.asp
http://www.javacommerce.com/displaypage.jsp?name=element.sql&id=18238
www.w3.org/XML/
www.xml.com

Class notes - week 4

RE: Assignment 2: Yes, 3D objects OK. Picasa OK.
RE: Term project: ContentDM is OK if OK with group.

BUBL Catalogue of Internet Resources

Scorpion

The Scorpion Open Source project offers software that implements a system for automatically classifying Web-accessible text documents. Scorpion is intended for use by investigators who have a machine-readable subject classification scheme or thesaurus and wish to incorporate it into an automatic classification system.

CyberStacks

CyberStacks(sm) is a centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant World Wide Web (WWW) and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme. Resources are organized under one or more relevant Library of Congress class numbers and an associated publication format and subject description. The majority of resources incorporated within its collection are monographic or serial works, files, databases or search services. All of the selected resources in CyberStacks(sm) are full-text, hypertext, or, hypermedia, and of a research or scholarly nature.

Dublin Core

Using Dublin Core: The Elements

Mountain West Digital Library - a DL that uses Dublin Core

MODS - a derivative of MARC21 using XML - uses syntax instead of numbers

MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk

Social Bookmarking in Plain English video

DCMI Social Tagging Community

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