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CS 6242 - Digital Libraries NUS SoC, 2011/2012, Semester I COM2 01-08 (TR9) / Mondays 12:00-14:00

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Note: this run of the class has finished in 2011. Please visit the current website for the 2015 class.
Last updated: Sat Aug 13 11:18:47 SGT 2011 - Updated for office hours

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Module Description (excerpted from the bulletin): This module is targeted to graduate students of computer science and information systems wishing to understand the issues in building, using and maintaining large volumes of knowledge in digital libraries. Fundamentals of modern information retrieval is assumed. The course will focus on how such information retrieval technology operationalises traditional information finding skills of the librarian/cataloger/archivist, organised around 5S framework for digital library education. Areas within digital libraries that will be covered include collection development, knowledge organisation, DL architecture, user behavior, services, preservation, management and evaluation and DL education and research. Students will round out their knowledge with case studies of how different disciplines (e.g. music, arts, medicine and law) impose different search, usability and maintenance requirements on the digital library.

This semester, your instructor will try to arrange guest lectures from publishers Elsevier and World Scientific on topics related to our coursework.

Course Characteristics:

• Modular credits: 4.
• Prerequisites: CS2010 Data Structures and Algorithms II or its equivalent. Exceptions to these pre-requisites can be made on a case-by-case basis only. See instructor for details.
• Instructor: Min-Yen KAN, <kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg>. Office: AS6 05-12 (x1885). Office hours Mondays, 12-2pm (right after class), or by appointment. Emails to me as a default are assumed to be public, and my replies and your anonymized email will likely be posted to IVLE. Please let me know if you do not want the contents of your email posted; I will be happy to honor your requests.
  
• Workload: (2-0-0-6-2) 2 lecture hours, 6 hours for assignments, and 2 hours preparation per week.
• Textbooks:
  • Witten and Bainbridge (2009) How to Build a Digital Library. 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann. Available as an e-book in NUS Libraries. You may download a copy from the library or from the IVLE workbin.
    [ Amazon ] [ NUS Libraries ]
  • Hey, Tansley and Tolle (2009) The Fourth Paradigm. Microsoft. This text is open access. You may download a copy from Microsoft, here.
    [ From Microsoft ]
  • Lesk (2004) Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann. Available as an e-book in NUS Libraries. You may download a copy from the library or from the IVLE workbin.
    [ Amazon ] [ NUS Libraries ]
• Final Exam: 29 Nov 2011, Morning

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