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Digital Libraries

NUS SoC, 2015/2016, Semester I, Discussion Room 6 (COM1 02-12) / Mondays 12:00-14:00

Last Updated: Monday, August 24, 2015 11:44:59 AM SGT - Course has been cancelled due to low enrolment. Many apologies for any inconvenience!

Syllabus

DateContentDeadlines
Week 1 (10 Aug)No class -- Public Holiday - National Day Make-up Holiday
Week 2 (17 Aug)No class -- Instructor Away
Week 3 (24 Aug)Orientation / Fundamentals of information retrieval: Course information, policies and scope, breadth of research encompassed by DLs. Document indexing, TF*IDF, Boolean retrieval model, Vector space model, Algebraic models of retrieval.
Week 4 (31 Aug)Storing information: Multimedia encodings: text (SGML, Unicode, TEI, XML), page images (CCITT FAX IV) images (JPEG, PNG, PS), video (MPEG), audio (MP3,WAV), synchronized media (SMIL).
  • Project proposal due
Week 5 (7 Sep)Classification: Traditional classification schemes (DDC, LCSH, MeSH), metadata types, Dublin core, Warwick framework.
Week 6 (14 Sep)DL policy, interoperability and access rights: Identifiers: Open Archives Initiative, metadata harvesting, OpenURL. DL economics and social policy and issues.
Bibliometrics and its applications: Laws of bibliometrics, Citations and references, Pagerank, HITS.
  • Wikipedia entries on survey topics due;
  • Class presentations on survey topics (1 of 2)
Recess Week
Week 7 (28 Sep)Information seeking: Reference interviews, Information seeking process, Anomalous state of knowledge.
  • Class presentations on survey topics (2 of 2)
Week 8 (5 Oct)User interfaces for querying and displaying documents: Survey of query (text, Venn, faceted metadata) and document displays (ranked list, Infocrystal, Table lens, tilebars)
Week 9 (12 Oct)Usage patterns in the DL: Usage mining. How DLs and web sites are used, and their relation to information seeking and HCI.
Week 10 (19 Oct)Evaluation: Traditional library evaluation, review of standard IR evaluation metrics.
Week 11 (26 Oct)DL services and New Media: Collaborative filtering, Recommender systems, Reputation schilling, Authorship attribution, Plagiarism detection, IM, Email, Blogs, RT Media
  • Exam on topics covered from Weeks 3 through 10.
Week 12 (2 Nov)Cyberinfrastructure and Scholarly Publication in the Future: Data intensive science and publishing.
Week 13 (9 Nov)Project Presentations:
  • Project write-ups due.
  • Each project to present in turn. Peers will also be judged on their questions.