Digital collections

Details


Course title: Digital collections

 

Instructor: Associate professor Radovan Vrana, PhD

 

ECTS credits: 5

 

Course language: Croatian

 

Semester: 5th

 

Status: Compulsory

 

Form of Instruction: Lectures and seminars

 

Prerequisites: none

 

Examination: Written + student paper

 

Course objective: This course is and introduction to topics on development and management of digital collections.

 

Course description:

 

  • Introduction - basic concepts and terms (paper / digital paradigm)
  • Definitions, History of development of digital collections
  • Digital collection content types
  • Digital collection development methods
  • Digital collection content type formats
  • Metadata
  • Digital collection objects description
  • Digital collection objects linking
  • Digital collection user interfaces
  • Digital collection content access in networked environment
  • Digital collection preservation
  • Digital collection evaluation
  • Digital collection use, examples of good practice

 

 

Reading list:

  1. Developing sustainable digital libraries: socio-technical perspectives. New York : Information science reference, 2010.
  2. Handbook of research on digital libraries : design, development, and impact. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, 2009.
  3. Chowdhury, G.G.; Chowdhury, Sudatta. Introduction to digital libraries. London : Facet publishing, 2003.
  4. Borgman, Christine L. Od Gutenbergova izuma do globalnog informacijskog povezivanja : pristup informaciji u umreženom svijetu. Lokve : Naklada Benja ; Zadar : Gradska knjižnica Zadar , 2002
  5. Lesk, Michael. Understanding digital libraries. San Francisco : Morgan Kaufman, 2005.

 

Recommende reading:

 

  1. Manžuch, Zinaida. Monitoring digitisation : lessons from previous experiences. // Journal of Documentation 65, 5(2009), 768-796.
  2. Tedd, Lucy A.; Large Andrew. Digital libraries : principles and practice in a global environment. München : K.G. Saur, 2005.
  3. Arms, William Y. Digital libraries. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2000.
  4. Buckland, Michael. Preoblikovanje knjižničnih službi i usluga : program. Lokve : Naklada Benja ; Rijeka : Gradska kjnižnica, 2000.
  5. Yakel, Elizabeth. Digital assets for the next millennium. // OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 20, 3(2004), 102-105.
  6. Teper, Jennifer Hain; Emily F. Shaw. Planning for Preservation During Mass Digitization Projects. // Libraries and the Academy 11, 2(2011), 717-739.