lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The course aims:
• to provide students with knowledge and understanding on contemporary digital technology issues and practice
• to provide students with knowledge on digital library models and their implementation;
• to provide a conceptual framework for digital libraries, illustrating the contingency upon people, content and technologies.
Brief description of the course
The Course includes the following main units:
Unit 1. Basic concepts underlying a Digital Library Reference Model: A simple Reference Architecture, components of digital library, interoperability issues, & examples of implementation (Federation, GRID).
Unit 2. Information access: Data model for digital libraries, text retrieval, similarity-based multimedia object retrieval, querying, & relevance feedback. : Metadata and their standards (MARC, Dublin Core), communication standards (Z39.50, OAI-PMH), conceptual models and their representation (FRBR, RDF).
Unit 3. Information discovery: conceptual models and their represenation (FRBR, RDF), OAI model, OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, NISO OpenURL, Syndication feeds, Portals, SOA, & Web 2.0. Information representation and retrieval: representation of text, images, video, audio, text retrieval, content based image and video retrieval.
Unit 4. User interfaces: Personalization, multilingualism, visualization tools, virtual collections, & collaborative tools.
Unit 5. Additional services: security, authentication, authorization, intellectual property rights and DRM, selected reservation issues, access to scientific repositories for e-Science and e-Learning.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to utilise knowledge of digital library technologies and develop strategic approaches to digital library;
- understands the essence, aims and tasks of digital library management;
- is aware and has knowledge and skills to analyse technologies, software and procedures to provide access to digital libraries;
- has knowledge to make appropriate judgements on information architecture;
- is able to work with ethically problematic issues, following IPR and sensitive personal data protection;
- possesses critical thinking, individual work habits, ability to formulate research questions in the field of access to digital libraries and to find appropriate solutions.