Information Technologies Profiles and
Curricula for Libraries
Parma, Italy, 13 – 14 October 2005
DELOS IT Education Activities
Maristella Agosti
Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova, Italy
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 R&D 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 R&D in digital libraryrelated 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
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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 2005
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the Summer School, students will have:
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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”
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