Cavan M. McCarthy, Ph.D., Visiting Professor
School of Library and Information Science
The University of Iowa

Readings: Digital Library planning and creation
DIGITAL LIBRARIES COURSE, SPRING 2001

Arms, William Y. Information Retrieval and Descriptive Metadata. In: Arms, William Y. Digital Libraries. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; 2000; pp. 187-206 (Ch. 10). Z692.C65 A76 2000.

Beiser, Karl. Database driven web sites: Cold Fusion for web publishing. Database. 1997 Dec; 20(6):48-52. Cold Fusion: software for publishing databases on web; from Allaire Corp.

Beiser, Karl. Publishing text databases on the Web with Inmagic's DB/Text Webserver. Database. 1996 Dec; 19(6):45-50.

Besser, Howard. Getting the picture on image databases: the basics. Database. 1995 Apr/May; 18(2):12-19.

Burnett, Kathleen; Ng, Kwong Bor, and Park, Soyeon. A Comparison of the Two Traditions of Metadata Development. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 1999 Nov.; 50(13):1218-1223.

Chang, May. An electronic finding aid using Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD). Library Hi Tech. 2000; 18(1):15-27. REQUIRED READING MAR. 29.

D'Alessandro, Michael P. and others. Solutions to challenges facing a university digital library and press. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2000 May/June; 7(3):246-253. REQUIRED READING MAR. 22
http://www.vh.org/Welcome/ElectricDifferentialLab/Articles/JAMIAArticle.pdf

D'Alessandro, Michael P. and others. The Virtual Naval Hospital: Lessons Learned in Creating and Operating a Digital Health Sciences Library for Nomadic Patrons. D-Lib Magazine [Electronic Journal]. 1999 May; 5(5).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may99/05dalessandro.html

Dobson, Chris and Ernst, Carolyn. Selecting software for the digital library. EContent. 2000 Dec.; 23(6):27-32.

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description. 1999. Approx. 6 p.
http://purl.org/dc/documents/rec-dces-19990702.htm

Exner, Nina and Turner, Linda F. Examining XML: new concepts and possibilities in web authoring. Computers in Libraries. 1998 Nov./Dec.; 18(1). 5 p.
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov98/story2.htm

Harker, Karen R. Order out of chaos: using a web database to manage access to electronic journals: ColdFusion. Library Computing. 1999; 18(1):59-67. REQUIRED READING APR. 12.

Hill, Linda L. and others. Collection Metadata Solutions for Digital Library Applications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 1999 Nov.; 50(13):1169-1181.

Justie, Kevin. WEBrary: putting your in-house databases on the web. Library Computing. 1999; 18(2):118-129.

Kim, Hyun-Hee and Choi, Chang-Seok. XML: how it will be applied to digital library systems. Electronic Library. 2000; 18(3):183-189. REQUIRED READING APR. 5.

King, Nelson. Dealing dynamic data: the seven tools let you build interactive, data-based web sites. Internet World. 1997 Jul; 8(7):72-83.

Lagoze, Carl and Payette, Sandra. Metadata: principles, practices and challenges. In: Kenney, Anne R. and Rieger, Oya Y. Moving theory into practice : digital imaging for libraries and archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group; 2000; pp. 84-100. REQUIRED READING MAR. 8. Z681.3 .D53 K456 2000.

Marcinko, Randall. The legacies left us by database producers. Database. 1998 Jun / Jul; 21(3):49-58.

Micco, Mary. Subject authority control in the world of Internet. LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research. 1996 Sep; 6(3). Electronic journal; paper in two parts. http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/libre6n3/micco_1.html
http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/libre6n3/micco_2.html

Morgan, Eric Lease. Indexing, indexing, indexing: making it work for your library. Computers in Libraries. 1998 Jun.; 18(6):30-32. Four free softwares for indexing; REQUIRED READING APR. 19

Orr, Giles. Building a library web server on a budget. Library Software Review. 1998 Sep.; 17(3):171-176.

Perez, Ernest. GDIdb: getting your database on the web, with no big deal. Library Computing. 1999; 18(1):29-35.

Richardson, Robert. Searching for the right engine. Network Magazine. 1998 Jan; 13(1):70-73. Web site indexing software. U. Iowa Engineering Library

Smith, Alastair G. Search features of digital libraries. Information Research. 2000 Apr; 5(3). Electronic journal.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/paper73.html

Smith, Terence R. The meta-information environment of digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine. 1996 July/Aug.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/new/07smith.html

Stielow, Frederick. Creating a virtual library: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman; 1999. 184 p. (How-to-do-it manuals for librarians; no. 91). Z674.75.W67 C73 1999

Taylor, Arlene G. The organization of information. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited; 1999. Subjects: Information organization; Metadata. Z666.5 .T39 1999

University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center. Standards: SGML, XML, TEI, EAD, ISO etc.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standard.html

Weibel, S. The Dublin Core: A simple content description model for electronic resources. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. 1997; 24(1):9-11.

Weibel, Stuart; Godby, Jean; Miller, Eric, and Daniel, Ron. OCLC / NCSA Metadata workshop report. Dublin, OH: OCLC; 1995. 19 p.
http://www.oclc.org:5047/oclc/research/publications/weibel/metadata/dublin_core_report.html

XML and electronic publishing: special issue. Library Hi Tech. 2000; 18(1).
 

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