Autumn 2007

Name: Associate Professor Nils Pharo Email: Nils.Pharo@jbi.hio.no Phone: 22 45 26 84 Adress: Pilestredet 48 Office: R405

Credits:15 ECTS

Prerequirements

The students need a basic understanding of XML

Goal

The students shall acquire theories for and practical skills in analysis, structure, production and organisation of digital documentes. The students shall be able to apply their knowledge and skills in knowledge organisation to implement these in digital surroundings, with a particular focus on web documents. Further, the students shall acquire understanding related to copyright related issues within a digital context.

Content

• digital genres
• information architecture and usability
• ontologies
• topic maps
• semantic web standards, including RDF
• copyright issues including digital rights management

Organisation of the course

Lectures, colloquiums, practical tasks and seminars. The students shall write a semester thesis, either individually or in groups.

Previous semester theses

Assessment

Individual theme paper and 6-hour written exam. The theme paper counts 40%, the 6-hour exam 60%.

Course plan

Required reading

Hand-outs and presentations are required reading

• Bearman, D. (2007). Digital Libraries. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 41, 223-272
• Berners-Lee, T, Hendler, J & Lassila, O (2001). The semantic Web. Scientific American, 284 (5), 34-43. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
• Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. Atlantic Monthly, July, 101-108. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.w3.org/History/1945/vbush/
• Borgman, C.L. (1999). What are Digital Libraries? Competing Visions. Information Processing & Management, 35(3), 227-243.
• Chowdhury, G.G., Chowdhury, S. (2003). Introduction to Digital Libraries. London: Facet. Chapter 4: Digital Library Design
• DCMI Usage Team (2006). DCMI Metadata Terms. Retrieved August, 15, 2007, from: http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
• Garshol, L.M. (2003). Living with Topic Maps and RDF. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tmrdf.html
• Garshol, L.M. (2004). Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic maps! : making sense of it all. Journal of Information Science, Vol. 30 (4), 378-391. [Digital editions Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html]
• Garshol, L.M. (2006). The Linear Topic Map Notation: Definition and introduction, version 1.3. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/download/ltm.html
• Garshol, L.M. (2007). Towards a Methodology for Developing Topic Maps Ontologies. In L. Maicher, A. Sigel, A., L.M. Garshol, L.M. (eds.): Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4438. Berlin : Springer.
• Golder, S & Huberman, B. A. (2006). Usage Patterns of Collaborative Tagging Systems. Journal of Information Science, 32(2). 198-208.
• Hillman, D. (2005). Using Dublin Core. Retrieved August, 15, 2007, from: http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
• ISO/IEC 13250-2: 2006 (2006). Information Technology - Topic Maps – Part 2: Data Model (Final committee draft). Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-model/data-model.pdf
• Lesk, M (2005). Understanding Digital Libraries. Amsterdam, Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN: 1-55860-924-5. Chapter 2: Text Documents
• Lynch, C. (2002). Digital Collections, Digital Libraries and the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information. First Monday, 7(5). Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/lynch/
• Manovich, L. (2001). The language of new media. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. Chapter 1: What is new media?
• Miles, A. & Brickley, D. (2005). SKOS Core Guide. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/
• Morville, P. (2005). Ambient findability. Beijing: O'Reilly. Chapter 6: The Sociosemantic Web
• Morville, P. & Rosenfeld, L. (2007). Information architecture for the World Wide Web. (3rd ed.). Beijing : O'Reilly. Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Newcomb, S.R. (2003). A Perspective on the Quest for Global Knowledge Interchange. In J. Park and S. Hunting (eds.) 2003. XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
• Ontopia. (2006). Tolog: Language tutorial, version 3.2. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/omnigator/docs/query/tutorial.html
• Ontopia. (2006). The Built-in Tolog Predicates. Reference Documentation, version 3.2. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tolog-predicate-reference.html
• Passin, T.B. (2004). Explorer’s Guide to the Semantic Web. Greenwich: Manning. ISBN: 1-932394-20-6. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 7
• Pepper, S. (2002). The TAO of Topic Maps. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html
• Pepper, S. (2006). The Case for Published Subjects. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/The_Case_for_Published_Subjects.pdf
• Pepper, S. (2007). Expressing Dublin Core in Topic Maps. Retrieved August, 15, 2007, from: http://www.ontopedia.net/pepper/papers/DCinTopicMaps.pdf
• Pepper, S. & Garshol, L.M. (2002). The XML Papers: Lessons on Applying Topic Maps. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/xmlconf.html
• Pepper, S. & Grønmo, G.O. (2001). Towards a General Theory of Scope. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/scope.htm
• Pepper, S., Oh, S & Durusau, P. (2007). N0884 - Draft Dublin Core -- Topic Maps - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34. Retrieved August, 15, 2007, from: http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0884.htm
• Pepper, S. & Schwab, S.(2003). Curing the Web's Identity Crisis: Subject Indicators for RDF. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/identitycrisis.html
• Pepper, S., Vitali, F., Garshol, L.M., Gessa, N. & Presutti, V. (eds.) (2006). A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals. W3C Working Group Note. Retrieved July 30, 2007, from: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdftm-survey/
• Schwartz, C. (2000). Digital Libraries: An Overview. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26(6), 385-394.
• Shepherd, M. & Watters, C. (1998). The evolution of cybergenres. Proceedings of the 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '98). 97-109.
• Vatant, B. 2003. Topic Maps from Representation to Identity: Conversation, Names, and Published Subject Indicators. In J. Park, and S. Hunting (eds.) 2003. XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web. Boston: Addison-Wesley.