CS 502 Readings

CS 502
Architecture of Web Information Systems and Digital Libraries
Spring 2002

Readings and References

General Readings on Digital Libraries and Distributed Information

Books

William Y. Arms, Digital Libraries. MIT Press, 2000. ISBN=0262011808
Christine L. Borgman, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure : Access to Information in the Networked World. MIT Press, 2000. ISBN=026202473X
Tim Berners-Lee, et. al., Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, Harper, 2000. ISBN=006251587X.
Michael Lesk, Practical Digital Libraries : Books, Bytes, and Bucks. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. ISBN=1558604596
Gerard Salton, Dynamic Information and Library Proecessing, Prentice-Hall, 1975, ISBN=0132213257
Elaine Svenonius, The intellectual foundation of information organization, MIT Press, 2000, ISBN=0262194333

Online Periodicals

Ariadne, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
D-Lib Magazine, http://www.dlib.org/
Journal of Electronic Publishing, http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/
Journal of Digital Information, http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
RLG DigiNews, http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

Useful web sites

Coalition for Networked Information, http://www.cni.org/
Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.ietf.org/
NSF Digital Libraries Initiative, http://dli2.nsf.gov.
W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium, http://www.w3.org/

Examples of Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing

Cornell University

Cornell University Library Gateway, http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/
CS/Physics/Math ePrint archvie, http://arxiv.org.
Hein-on-line legal research library, http://heinonline.org.
Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School), http://www.law.cornell.edu/

The rest of the world

The ACM Digital Library, http://www.acm.org/dl/
The Alexandria Digital Library (University of California, San Diego), http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
American Memory (Library of Congress), http://memory.loc.gov
The IEEE Explore System, http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore/ (after January 2000)
JSTOR (Journal Storage), http://www.jstor.org/
HighWire Press (Stanford University), http://www.highwire.org/
Netlib (University of Tennessee), http://www.netlib.org/
Perseus (Tufts University), http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
ResearchIndex (NEC), http://researchindex.org/

Readings

Most lectures in the syllabus have assigned readings that students are expected to study in preparation for the discussion section immediately following the lecture.

Part I. The ends of the spectrum - libraries and the web

Jan. 22	President's Information Technology Advisory Committee: Panel on Digital Libraries, Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge, PITAC February 2001. http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/pitac/pitac-dl-9feb01.pdf.
Jan. 24	Library Bill of Rights, American Library Association, http://www.wvmccd.cc.ca.us/wvc/library/rights.html. Keystone Principles, ARL/OCLC Strategic Issues Forum 1999, http://www.arl.org/newsltr/207/keystone.html Yale University Library, Departments & Staff Directory, http://130.132.146.110/directory/. Simple ARL Ranking, http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/newarl/list.html.
Jan. 29	Bush, V. 1945. As We May Think. In: “Atlantic Monthly” http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/vbush-all.shtml Gromov, G. R., History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History, http://www.netvalley.com/intval1.html. (There are nine successive pages in this story) Berners-Lee, T. 1989, Information Management: A Proposal, http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

Part II. Documents, content, and data

Jan. 31	IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, Chapter 3 "Entities", http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf. Buckland, M., What is a "document"?, in "Journal of the American Society of Information Science", September 1997, http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html.
Feb. 5	Karen Sollins and Larry Masinter, Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names. Internet RFC 1737, December 1994. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1737.txt van der Werf-Davelaar, Titia. 12 March 1999. Identification, location and versioning of web-resources. http://www.kb.nl/coop/donor/rapporten/URI.html Sun, S and Lannom, L., Handle System Overview, http://www.handle.net/overview-current.html. OCLC PURL Service. http://www.purl.org/
Feb. 7	A Gentle Introduction to SGML. Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3), Chapter 2, edited by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, 1994. (sections 1-3) , http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/sgml/teip3sg/index.html Walsh, N., A Technical Introduction to XML, XML.com, 1998, http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html XHTML School, (7 chapters), http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp.
Feb. 12	T. Bray, D. Hollander, and A. Layman, Namespaces in XML, W3C REC-xml-names-19990114, January 14 1999. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/. T. Wilson, XSLT and XPath Tutorial, http://www.vbxml.com/xsl/tutorials/intro/default.asp.
Feb 14	D. Fallside, XML Schema Part 0: Primer, W3C 2001, http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/. R. Kahn and R. Wilensky, A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, Working Paper cnri.dlib/tn95-01, 1995. http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/k-w.html. T. Staples and R. Wayland, Virginia Dons FEDORA, D-Lib, 2000, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/staples/07staples.html.

Part III. Metadata: data about data

Feb. 19	Betty Furie, Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine Readable Cataloging, Library of Congress (Parts 1-6), http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/um01to06.html. MARBI, The MARC 21 Formats: Background and Principles, Library of Congress, http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/96principl.html D. Levy, “Cataloging in the Digital Order,” presented at The Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 1995. http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/papers/levy/levy.html#RTFToC8.
Feb 21	S. Weibel, C. Lagoze, An Element Set to Support Resource Discovery, 1997, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/jodl.html. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1, Reference Description, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. C. Lagoze, C. Lynch, R. Daniel Jr., The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Aggregating Sets of Metadata, Cornell CS TR, http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/Dienst/Repository/2.0/Body/ncstrl.cornell/TR96-1593/html
Feb. 26	Dublin Core Qualifiers, http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/11/dcmes-qualifiers/ C. Lagoze, Keeping Dublin Core Simple: Cross Domain Discovery or Research Description?, January 2001, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/lagoze/01lagoze.html. C. Lagoze and J. Hunter, The ABC Ontology and Model, November 2001, http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Lagoze/.
Feb. 28	E. Miller, An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework, May 1998, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification, W3C, 1999, http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/ T. Berners-Lee, et. al., The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001, http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html.

Part IV. Information Discovery

Mar. 5	W.B. Croft, What Do People Want from Information Retrieval?, D-Lib, 1995, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november95/11croft.html. S. Brin and L. Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Search Engine, 1998, http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
Mar. 7	J. Kahan, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Eric Prud'Hommeaux, Ralph R. Swick, Annotea: An Open RDF Infrastructure for Shared Web Annotations, WWW10, http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/488/index.html C. Lagoze and J. Hunter, The ABC Ontology and Model, November 2001, http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Lagoze/. Annotated DAML+OIL Ontology Markup, March 2001, W3C, http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil-walkthru.html
Mar. 12	C. A. Lynch, The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard; Part I: A Strategic View of Its Past, Present and Future, D-Lib Magazine, April, 1997, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april97/04lynch.html A. Paepcke, et. al., Search Middleware and the Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol, D-Lib Magazine, 5 (3), 2000, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/paepcke/03paepcke.html
Mar. 14	S. R. Kumar, et. al., The web as a graph, presented at Nineteenth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, Dallas, 2000, http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/290635.html. A. Heydon and M. Najork, A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler, World Wide Web, December, 1999, http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/mercator/papers/www/paper.html

Part V. Interoperability

Mar. 26

V. Kluev, Compiling Document Collections from the Internet, SIGIR Forum, 2000, http://www.acm.org/sigir/forum/F2000/Kluev00.pdf
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom, Focused Crawling: a New Approach to Topic-specific Web Resource Discovery, 1999, WWW8, http://www8.org/w8-papers/5a-search-query/crawling/index.html
D. Bergmark, Collection Synthesis, 2002, http://mercator.comm.nsdlib.org/CollectionBuilding/bergmark-paper.pdf

Mar. 28

A. Paepcke, et. al., Interoperability for Digital Libraries Worldwide, Communications of the ACM, 1998 http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/119879.html.
Lagoze, et. al, Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital Library for Science Edituation, January 2002, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0201025
C. Lagoze and H. Van de Sompel, The Open Archives Initiative: Building a low-barrier interoperability framework, presented at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, VA, 2001, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/oai-final.pdf

Part VI. Rights Management

Apr. 2

Charles C. Mann, "Who will own your next good idea?", Atlantic Monthly, September, 1998, <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98sep/copy.htm>
Jeff Howe, "Licensed to Bill," Wired Magazine <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.10/drm.html>

Apr. 4

ContentGuard Inc., The Need for a Rights Language,, Technical White Paper Version 1.0, 201. http://www.xrml.org/reference/TheNeedForARightsLanguage.pdf.
S. Payette and C. Lagoze, Policy-Enforcing, Policy-Carrying Digital Objects, presented at Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Lisbon, Portugal, 2000, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/payette-ecdl2000-draft.ps.

Part VII. Longevity

Apr. 9

M. Lesk, “Books into Bytes,” Scientific American, March, 1997, http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/sciam97/sciam97.html
S. Zacharek, '"Double Fold"' by Nicholson Baker', Salon, April 2001, http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/27/baker/.

Apr. 11

Rothenberg, J. Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation, Council on Library and Information Resources, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html
B. Kahle, Archiving the Internet, Scientific American, March, 1997, http://www.archive.org/sciam_article.html.
A. Kenney, et. al, Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources, D-Lib, 2002, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/kenney/01kenney.html

Part VIII. Special Digital Libraries

Apr. 16	P. Hoschka, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification, World Wide Web Consortium, April 1998. http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/PR-smil-19980409 J. Hunter and S. Little, Building and Indexing a Distributed Multimedia Presentation Archive using SMIL, 2001, http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/jane-hunter/ECDL01/ECDL01.html
Apr. 18	NO CLASS
Apr. 23	G. Janee, J. Frew, "The ADEPT Digital Library Architecture", JCDL 2002, http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/archive/2002/jcdl-adept.pdf. L. Hill, J. Frew, and Q. Zheng, “Geographic Names: The Implementation of a Gazetteer in a Georeferenced Digital Library,” D-Lib Magazine, 5 (1), 1999. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/hill/01hill.html

Part IX. Scholarly Communication

Apr. 25

To Publish and Perish, Policy Perspecitives, 7 (4), 1998. http://www.arl.org/scomm/pew/pewrept.html
Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing, 2000 http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html.
S. Harnad, Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals, D-Lib Magazine, 5 (12), 1999. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html.

Apr. 30

P. Caplan and W. Y. Arms, Reference Linking for Journal Articles, D-Lib Magazine, July/August, 1999, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july99/caplan/07caplan.html.
H. Van de Sompel, O. Beit-Arie, Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Framework Using the OpenURL Framework, D-Lib, 2002, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/vandesompel/03vandesompel.html.
S. Lawrence, K. Bollacker, and C. L. Giles, Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing, IEEE Computer, 32 (6), pp. 67-71, 1999. http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/aci-computer98/aci-computer99.html

Part X. Wrap Up

May 2

President's Information Technology Advisory Committee: Panel on Digital Libraries, Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge, PITAC February 2001. http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/pitac/pitac-dl-9feb01.pdf.
Waters, D.J. 1998. What are digital libraries? Council on Library and Information Resources. In: Issues, No. 4. http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues04.html

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