Information Technologies Profiles and Curricula for Libraries Parma, Italy, 13 14 October 2005 DELOS

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Information Technologies Profiles and Curricula
for LibrariesParma, Italy, 13 14 October
2005DELOS IT Education Activities

• Maristella Agosti
• Department of Information Engineering
• University of Padova, Italy

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DELOS IT Education Activities

• Outline
• Education activities conducted in the context of
  the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital
  Libraries of the 5th and 6th Framework Programs
  of the European Commission
• Emerging directions for future activities to be
  conducted in a coherent way with research
  directions of the DELOS Network

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1st DELOS ISDL 2001

• 1st DELOS Int. Summer School on Digital Library
  Technologies
• 9-13 July 2001, Pisa, Italy (director M. Agosti)
• Main purpose foster research and understanding
  in the fundamental technologies underlying the
  Digital Libraries field.
• Directed towards members of the research
  community in the wide sense, that is, graduate
  students, young researchers and professionals
  involved in RD in DL-related areas, representing
  both the information technology scientist, the
  industrial communities (e.g. electronic
  publishing, broadcasting, software industry) and
  the user communities interested in Digital
  Libraries technologies (libraries, archives,
  museums).
• No qualifications or prerequisites were
  necessary, but recommended a basic knowledge of
  information and database management, Internet and
  Web applications.
• Lecturers leading researchers, from both the US
  and Europe.

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1st DELOS ISDL 2001

• Multimedia Digital Collections, Carl Lagoze
  (Cornell Univ)
• New Models for Scholarly Dissemination, Robert
  Wilensky (Univ of California, Berkeley)
• Architectures and Open Access, William Y. Arms
  (Cornell Univ)
• IR models and methods, metadata, and evaluation,
  Norbert Fuhr (Univ. of Dortmund)
• Online Information Access from Handheld Devices,
  Andreas Paepcke (Stanford University)
• Cross-language Retrieval - Carol Peters (CNR-IEI)
  
• Text Categorization and Information Filtering,
  Fabrizio Sebastiani (CNR-IEI)
• Video DLs, Howard Wactlar (Carnegie Mellon
  University)
• Libraries in the digital world, Elizabeth Lyon
  (UKOLN)

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2nd DELOS ISDL 2002

• 2nd Int. Summer School on Digital Library
  Technologies ISDL 2002, Pisa, Italy
• 8-12 July 2002 (director C. Thanos)
• Focus on Digital Library applications, i.e.,
  exploitation of Digital Library technologies in
  several application domains
• Each lecture was devoted to a presentation of a
  Digital Library application in a specific
  application
• The one-week intensive course consisted of nine
  half-day lectures sessions, i.e. discussions in
  smaller groups on specific topics of common
  interest, with the participation of the
  lecturers.

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2nd DELOS ISDL 2002

• Introduction, Gary Marchionini, Univ of North
  Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Metadata, Thomas Baker, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Geospatial Digital Libraries, Terry Smith, Univ.
  of California at Santa Barbara
• Digital Libraries in Health Applications, Judith
  Klavans, Columbia University
• Digital Music Libraries, Jon Dunn, Indiana
  University, USA
• Digital Libraries in the Humanities, Gregory
  Crane, Tufts Univ.
• Digital Libraries of Spoken Documents, Dean
  Rehberger, Michigan State Univ.
• Preservation, Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow,
  Scotland
• Video Digital Libraries Scott Stevens, Carnegie
  Mellon University

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3rd DELOS ISDL 2004

• 3rd DELOS Int. Summer School on Digital Library
  Technologies
• ISDL 2004 - 6-10 September 2004, Pisa, Italy
• (under the direction of Tiziana Catarci and
  Yannis Ioannidis)
• The main purpose of the school was to foster
  research and understanding in the area of
• User-Centred design for Digital Libraries.
• The school was directed towards members of the
  research community in the wide sense, i.e.
  graduate students and young researchers and
  professionals involved in RD in digital
  library-related areas. The participants
  represented mostly the academic computer science
  community, with the other participants coming
  from the industry and the user communities
  interested in Digital Libraries technologies
  (libraries, archives and museums).

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3rd DELOS ISDL 2004

• Perspectives on digital repositories, Helen Tibbo
  
• Information overload need for personalised
  system behaviour, Yannis Ioannidis
• Changes in the ways users search for information,
  Barry Smyth
• Requirements for a cultural-oriented system
  designer with respect to making it accessible,
  Pier Luigi Feliciati
• Changing role of museums from plain repositories
  to resource centres, Maria Economou
• User needs within the current social framework
  with discussion on relevant standard technologies
  (i.e., UML, Z39.50, SOAP, XML, RDF), Rudi
  Schmiede, Stephan Koernig and Wolfgang Meier
• User interaction design (understanding users,
  scenarios, navigation, screen layout, physical
  devices, colour use), Alan Dix

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4th DELOS ISDL 2005

• 4th DELOS Int. Summer School on Digital Library
  Technologies ISDL 2005
• 6-11 June 2005, Sophia Antipolis , France
• (co-directors Hans Hofman and Seamus Ross)
• Focus
• digital preservation challenges in the context
  of the digital library
• ISDL 2005 was sponsored by the UK Digital
  Curation Centre (DCC)
• Digital library seen as
• the infrastructure, policies and procedures,
  and organisational, political and economic
  mechanisms necessary to enable access to and
  preservation of digital content.

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4th DELOS ISDL 2005

• Digital Curation in Digital Libraries, Anne
  Kenney, Cornell University
• Categories, Uses and Challenges of Metadata and
  Process Documentation, Michael Day, UKOLN and the
  DCC
• Workflow and Workflow Modelling, Stephan
  Heuscher, iKeep AG, Digital Archives Services
• Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting
  Preservation Methods, Andreas Rauber, Vienna
  University of Technology and Hans Hofman National
  Archives of the Netherlands)
• Managing Ingest Handling, Documenting, and
  Automating, Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard,
  Staatsbibliotek Denmark
• Role of Registries and Representation
  Information, David Giaretta, DCC
• Methodologies of Selection and Appraisal, Ross
  Harvey, Charles Sturt University
• Digital Libraries as Persistent Collections of
  Autonomous Objects, Manfred Thaller, University
  of Cologne
• Question and Answer Session, Panel Hans Hofman

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4th DELOS ISDL 2005Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the Summer School, students will
  have
• gained an appreciation of the issues surrounding
  digital preservation within the context of
  digital library development and management
• developed a coherent and practical understanding
  of activities surrounding digital preservation
• gained experience with workflow modelling, and
  metadata definition
• acquired an appreciation of the approaches to
  selecting and appraising potential digital
  acquisitions
• become familiar with the OAIS model and gained a
  knowledge of the approaches to repository design
  and deployment
• a working knowledge of the issues surrounding
  audit and certification of digital repositories
• a working knowledge of the techniques and
  practices that underlie digital curation
• develop a firm understanding of the issues of
  authenticity, integrity, and reliability in
  relation to digital libraries and
• considered how digital curation and preservation
  requirements can be integrated into approaches to
  digital library development.

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Future of ISDL

• 2006 two ISDL?
• Under development
• New edition on digital preservation challenges in
  the context of the digital library
• A new subject Audio-Visual DL