1、Digital Library Curriculum Development: Enhancing Education and Comprehension of NDLTD Edward A. Fox, Seungwon Yang, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Jeffrey Pomerantz ETD 2006, Quebec Canada,NDLTD Goals,For Students: Gain knowledge and skills for the Information Age Richer communication (digital information,
2、multimedia, ) For Universities: Easy way to enter the digital library field and benefit thereby For the World: Global digital library large, useful, many services,Curriculum Development Project,Collaborative Research launched by:- Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech- School of Information
3、and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Three year (2006 - 2008) funded project Partly help achieving NDLTD goals,Project Teams/NSF Grant,Project Team at VT (IIS-0535057): PI: Dr. Edward A. Fox (foxvt.edu) GRA: Seungwon Yang (seungwonvt.edu) Project Team at UNC-CH (IIS-0535060
4、): Co-PI: Dr. Barbara Wildemuth (wildemils.unc.edu) Co-PI: Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz (pomerantzunc.edu) GRA: Sanghee Oh (shohemail.unc.edu),Project links,Homepagehttp:/curric.dlib.vt.edu/DLcurric.html- overview, other links, progress diary, news & interviews Project progress diaryhttp:/tuppence.dlib.vt.
5、edu/blogs/index.php?blog=2- discussion summaries, meeting pictures, events, announcements,News and Interviews,WVTF Public Radio: Morning Edition, “Interview with Dr.Fox“ January 30, 2006 VT Collegiate Times article January 26, 2006 UNC Gazette article January 25, 2006 Virginia Tech Computer Science
6、Department News article January 23, 2006 Virginia Tech News article January 20, 2006,Development / Evaluation Plan January 2006 December 2008,Project Timeline,What we do:,Identify, develop and test educational DL modules, guided by - Experts and international collaborators- Computing Curriculum 2001
7、 6, 7 - 5S framework 1,2,3,4(Ex) Module revision in 3/27/06- Analysis of DL course syllabi(Ex) UNC-CH is collecting DL syllabiVT collected syllabi from DELOS member institutions in Europe- Development of module template,Experts / Advisory board members,Selected International Collaborators,India Dr.
8、Arun Kumar Chakraborty Bose Institute, Kolkata, India BrazilDr. Ricardo da Silva Torres State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil,What we do:,Identify, develop and test educational DL modules, guided by - Experts and international collaborators- Computing Curriculum 2001 6,7 - 5S framework
9、1,2,3,4(Ex) Module revision in 3/27/06- Analysis of DL course syllabi(Ex) UNC-CH is collecting DL syllabiVT collected syllabi from DELOS member institutions in Europe- Development of module template,What we do:,Identify, develop and test educational DL modules, guided by - Experts and international
10、collaborators- Computing Curriculum 2001 6,7- 5S framework 1,2,3,4 (Ex) Module revision in 3/27/06- Analysis of DL course syllabi(Ex) UNC-CH is collecting DL syllabiVT collected syllabi from DELOS member institutions in Europe- Development of module template,5S Framework,Developed by Digital Library
11、 Research Laboratory (DLRL) at Virginia Tech Strong foundation for DL module development Captures entities and medium involved in DLs. The five Ss- streams, structures, spaces, scenarios, societies,“Streams” - All types of contents(as well as communications and flows over networks, or into sensors,
12、or sense perceptions) “Structures”- Organizational schemes (including data structures, databases, and knowledge representations),5S Framework,5S Framework,“Spaces” - 2D and 3D interfaces, GIS data, representations of documents and queries. “Scenarios” - System states and events, but also can represe
13、nt situations of use by human users (or machineprocesses, yielding services or transformations of data). “Societies” - Both software “service managers” and fairly generic “actors” who could be (collaborating) human (users).,5S Examples,DL Topics in 19 Modules (original),Module Revision in 3/27/06 Or
14、ganized using 5S framework,STREAM Collection Development Digitization Document and E-publishing Markup Harvesting Digital objects/Composites/Packages Text Resources Multimedia streams/structures, Captures/representation, Compression/coding Content-based analysis, Multimedia indexing Multimedia prese
15、ntation rendering STRUCTURE Metadata, Cataloging, Author submission Thesauri, Ontologies, Classification, Categorization Bibliographic information, Bibliometrics, Citations Architecture (agents, buses, wrappers/mediators), Interoperability,Module Revision 06/01/06,SPACE Spaces (conceptual, geographi
16、c, 2/3D, VR) Storage Repositories, Archives SENARIOS Services (searching, linking, browsing, etc.) Info needs, Relevance, Evaluation, Effectiveness Search & search strategy, Info seeking behavior, User modeling, Feedback Routing, Filtering, Community filtering Sharing, Networking, Interchange Info s
17、ummarization, Visualization Archiving and preservation integrity (ILS) SOCIETIES Intellectual property rights management, Privacy, Protection (watermarking) (ILS) Social issues / Future DLs,What we will do:,Each module will include - Topics- Lesson plan- Concept maps- Recommended reading list - Demo
18、s / online resources- Exercises and quizzesThe first will be developed during this summer,What we will do:,Course Development (summer 2006)- 1-semester and 2-semester courses will be based on the developed modules Courses and modules will be- Evaluated by experts- Pilot-tested in CS and LIS courses
19、by the U.S. institutions and our international collaborators in India (Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty) and Brazil (Dr. Ricardo da Silva Torres).,Dissemination Efforts,Ascertaining Priority Topics,Weve manually classified and analyzed publications using 9-Modules(revised):,Distribution of Conference Pape
20、rs across Module Topics,Analysis Results: Total of 543 proceedings:Most popular topics were architecture (module 4) and services (module 6),Distribution of D-Lib Magazine Articles across Module Topics,Analysis Results: Total of 521 articles:Most popular topics were architecture (module 4), services
21、(module 6) and social issues (module 9),Distribution of Session Titles across Module Topics,Analysis Results: Total of 264 session titles (JCDL, ECDL, ICADL):Most popular topic was services (module 6) followed by architecture (module 4),What we do:,Identify, develop and test educational DL modules,
22、guided by - Experts and international collaborators- Computing Curriculum 2001 - 5S framework (Ex) Module revision in 3/27/06- Analysis of DL course syllabi(Ex) UNC-CH is collecting DL syllabiVT collected syllabi from DELOS member institutions in Europe- Development of module template,Resource Analy
23、sis - European DL course syllabi -,DL-related course syllabi were collected from- DELOS member institutions (Austria, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, and Germany) English resources (reference papers, textbooks, online demo) were retrieved from the syllabi and organized into tabl
24、es. We will expand this effort to include courses in the U.S., Asia, and Oceania.,Example,DL-related courses, and their resources (selected),Example,Top 20 recommended books/textbooks list (selected),Example,Reference paper list (selected),Example,Online documents list (selected),Links to Resources
25、Excel files can be downloaded from the links below.,Taxonomy Development: - By examining the syllabi and current DL courses, we developed a Taxonomy of DL Educational Resources,Taxonomy of DL Educational Resources,Textbook on DLs,PI Fox, along with co-author Gonalves, is preparing a textbook on DLs
26、based on 5S This work will rely on the 5S framework to ensure that it provides integrated coverage of the many concepts related to DLs Fox and Gonalves are focused on a book for teaching as well as reference,Textbook Outline,Ch. 1. Introduction (Motivation, Synopsis) Part 1 The “Ss” Ch. 2: Streams C
27、h. 3: Structures Ch. 4: Spaces Ch. 5: Scenarios Ch. 6: Societies,Textbook Outline,Part 2 Higher DL Constructs Ch. 7: Collections Ch. 8: Catalogs Ch. 9: Repositories and Archives Ch. 10: Services Ch. 11: Systems Ch. 12: Case Studies,Textbook Outline,Part 3 Advanced Topics Ch. 13: Quality Ch. 14: Inte
28、gration Ch. 15: How to build a digital library Ch. 16: Research Challenges, Future Perspectives Appendix A: Mathematical preliminaries B: Formal Definitions: Ss C: Formal Definitions: DL terms, Minimal DL D: Formal Definitions: Archeological DL E: Glossary of terms, mappings,What we do:,Identify, de
29、velop and test educational DL modules, guided by - Experts and international collaborators- Computing Curriculum 2001 6,7- 5S framework 1,2,3,4 (Ex) Module revision in 3/27/06- Analysis of DL course syllabi(Ex) UNC-CH is collecting DL syllabiVT collected syllabi from DELOS member institutions in Eur
30、ope- Development of module template,Module Template,Module Design is based on the resources below and the UNCs module template1 Yue-Ling Wong, Jennifer Burg, and Leah McCoy, “Integrated Digital Media Curriculum Development Project” Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-034
31、0969, from Jan 2004 - Dec 2006. The project homepage URL is http:/digitalmedia.wfu.edu/project/digital-media-curriculum-development/textbased-index.html 2 Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew, “Fundamentals of Multimedia” at http:/www.cs.sfu.ca/mmbook/ 3 Multimedia Systems course website, Department of compu
32、ter science at University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. URL: http:/www.csc.uvic.ca/courses/spring2004/csc/461-561.html,Module Template,VT Template + UNC Template - June 2, 2006 (draft)1. Module name 2. Learning objectives 3. Level of effort required (in-class and out-of-class time required
33、for students) 4. Prerequisite knowledge required (completion optional),Module Template,5. Relationships with other modules 6. 5S characteristics of the module 7. Introductory remedial instruction (completion optional: intended to address the prerequisite knowledge/skills required) 8. Resources (text
34、books, required and optional readings for instructors and students) Plan A: this section includes resources of all topics in a module,Module Template,9. Body of knowledge (Theory + Practice) Topics might be skipped or studied in different orders Topic 1 Theories and background knowledge of the topic
35、 Learning activities - Presentation slides - Interactive demo Resources- Textbooks (relevant parts might be marked with SI tool)- Reference papers (relevant parts might be marked with SI tool)- Advanced reading- WorksheetsTopic 2 . Topic 3 .,Module Template,10. Concept map (created by students) 11.
36、Exercises / Learning activities 12. Evaluation of learning outcomes 13. Glossary 14. Useful links,Summary,Identify, develop and test educational DL modules, guided by - Experts and international collaborators- Computing Curriculum 2001 - 5S framework (Ex) Module revision in 3/27/06- Analysis of DL c
37、ourse syllabi(Ex) UNC-CH is collecting DL syllabiVT collected syllabi from DELOS member institutions in Europe- Development of module template,Conclusions,We hope that this project, DL curriculum development, would help achieving NDLTD goals benefitting students, universities and the world.NDLTD Goa
38、ls: For Students: Gain knowledge and skills for the Information Age Richer communication (digital information, multimedia, ) For Universities: Easy way to enter the digital library field and benefit thereby For the World: Global digital library large, useful, many services,References,1 M. Gonalves,
39、E. Fox, L. Watson, and N. Kipp, “Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S): A Formal Model for Digital Libraries,” ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 22, pp. 270-312, 2004.2 M. A. Gonalves, “Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, and Societies (5S): A Formal Digital Library
40、Framework and Its Applications,” Computer Science Doctoral Dissertation. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech, 2004, 161 pages. http:/scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12052004-135923/unrestricted/MarcosDissertation.pdf3 M. A. Gonalves and E. A. Fox, “5SL - A Language for Declarative Specification an
41、d Generation of Digital Libraries,” in Proc. JCDL2002, Second ACM / IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 14-18, G. Marchionini, Ed. Portland, Oregon, USA: ACM, 2002, pp. 263-272.,References,4 Q. Zhu, “5SGraph: A Modeling Tool for Digital Libraries,” Department of Computer Science MS t
42、hesis. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech, 2002. http:/scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11272002-21053 5 NDLTD, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. available at http:/www.ndltd.org, 2006 6 CC2001, “Computing Curricula 2001: Computer Science (IEEE Computer Society and Association for
43、 Computing Machinery Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula),” Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), vol. 1, 2001. http:/doi.acm.org/10.1145/384274.384275 7 CC2001, “Computing Curricula 2001 (Web Site),” vol. 2004: ACM and IEEE-CS, 2001. http:/puter.org/education/cc2001,Thank you!,Extras,
