CS 5244 - Digital Libraries NUS SoC, 2006/2007, Semester I Tuesday evenings, 18:30-20:30, LT 34

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We will be using the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) for forum discussions, announcements, and other temporally-sensitive materials. Basic course administration, lecture and tutorial notes will be available on this publicly-accessible webpage.

Course Calendar

See the syllabus page for class notes and topic covered -- this schedule will show the most up-to-date schedule for the class. I will try to announce any changes in class scheduling through IVLE.

Module Description: This module is targeted to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students who wish to understand real-world issues in building, using and maintaining large volumes of information in digital libraries. The course will extend the notion of digital libraries to encompass technologies suitable for the world wide web.

Fundamentals of modern information retrieval will first be taught, with a particular focus on how this fundamental technology is merged with traditional information finding skills of the librarian / cataloger / archivist.

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.

Course Characteristics:

• Modular credits: 4.
• Prerequisites:
  • CS 2103 Software Engineering is required for the course.
  • Knowledge of CS 5246 Text processing on the web, CS 3240 Human computer interaction, IT 1003 Information Systems Applications, CS 2102 Database systems are also encouraged, but not required.
  • This course does require programming competency and some familiarity with the Unix/Linux environment in its assignments. You are not required to have this knowledge as a prerequisite, but you will need to pick up some programming skills during the course.
• Teaching Staff: Min-Yen Kan, kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg. Office: S15 05-05 (x1885). Office hours Tuesdays 5:00-6:30 pm (before class, starting on Week 3). Emails to me as a default are assumed to be public, and my replies and your anonymized email will 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 lecture hours, 8 hours preparation per week. Occasional tutorials may be offered on subjects. Past lectures have been webcasted and archived. This semester's lectures will not be archived. See IVLE or ask the webcast technicians for help if you have trouble accessing this information.
• Textbooks: We will be reading textbooks for most of the first half of the course and primary materials (e.g., recent conference papers) for the second half textbook sources. A course pack that contains the lecture slides, required readings has been prepared for you, it will be on sale at the NUS Co-Op (Science branch) by the start of the course. Additionally, you should have quick access to the following texts, in order of relevance to the course:
  1. Michael Lesk (2004; 1997) Understanding Digital Libraries. Practically the only high-quality book in this area, but lacks enough depth for our purposes.
  2. Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto (1999) Modern Information Retrieval. A well-respected and often used IR retrieval book for teaching the fundamentals of IR. Used for advanced coursework as well.
  3. Witten, Bell and Moffat (1999) Managing Gigabytes.
  4. Chakrabarti (2002) Mining the Web: Analysis of Hypertext and Semi-Structured Data.
  5. Arlene Taylor (1999) The Organization of Information. Available from NUS Co-Op.

Aims and objectives of this course:

• Acquire working skills in research using electronic texts of many types: from on-line newspaper texts to fiction to hyperlinked collections of documents.
• Learn how text-based information systems work: principles, design, indexing, search and retrieval, markup, clustering. Get hands-on experience in design and building of such systems.
• Understand the perspectives and problems of information providers in non-CS/IS fields, and how to apply current and emerging technologies related to these problems.
• Familiarize students with current standards in digital library environments and specific requirements of digital libraries for different disciplines.

Note to NUS-external visitors: Welcome! If you're a fellow digital libraries course instructor looking for lecture material, you can see the syllabus menu item on the left for a preview. Please contact me if you'd like to use any of my material. Thanks!

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