Digital Library
Jagdish Arora
INFLIBNET Centre Gandhinagar
Overview
Objectives
The objective of the course is to impart in-depth knowledge on digital libraries, their characteristics, components, standards and protocols, IPR and legal issues, digital rights and access management, planning and evaluation. The ultimate aim of the course is to instil skills in learners that would enable them to evaluate commercially available digital libraries before subscribing them for their institutions as well as to set-up their own institutional digital library with all intermediate steps involved in it from planning to offering digital library services.
Course Coverage
The course imparts in-depth knowledge on digital libraries, their characteristics and major components. The course elaborates on technology, processes and steps involved in digitization and digital preservation. It enunciates on applications and services offered by digital library and its relationship with the semantic web. It delves into the process of planning, implementation, marketing, promotion and evaluation of digital libraries. Learners would have insights into various aspects of digital rights and access management and its applications in digital libraries. The course also elaborates on examples of open access digital libraries and backend technologies used. It imparts knowledge on major digital library projects and initiatives taken all over the world including USA, UK, India and rest of the world. Lastly, the course elaborates on case studies on setting-up digital library using open source institutional repository software, i.e. Eprints, DSpace and GSDL.
Target Learners
The course is designed for the students of library and information science as well as for professionals working in library and information centres. Other learners interested in digital libraries my also take up the course.
Pre-requisite
The learner should have basic knowledge of computers, acquaintance with traditional libraries using manual processes as well as computerised library operations and services offered by both types of libraries.
Timeline- Duration
The course consists of 15 parts and is deliverable in a time span of 15 weeks as per the course layout is given below.
Course Layout
Week 1: Digital Library: Overview
Introduction to Digital Library
- Digital Library: Historical Perspectives.
Week 2: Major Components of Digital Library – 1
Major Components of Digital Library
- Search and Browse Interface in Digital Library
Week 3: Major Components of Digital Library – 2
Digital Library Technical Infrastructure
- Digital Library Architecture
Week 4: Major Components of Digital Library – 3
Collection Development of digital library
- Knowledge Organization in Digital Library
Week 5: Digital Libraries: Planning, Implementation, Marketing and Promotion
Digital Library Planning and Implementation
- Digital Library Marketing and Promotion
Week 6: Digital Library: Standards, IPR and Legal Issues
Digital Library Standards
- IPR in Digital Library/Legal Issues
Week 7: Major Projects in Digital Libraries
Major Project: US
- Major Project: UK
- Major Project: Rest of the World
Week 8: Digital Library Initiatives in India
Digital Library Initiatives in India: Part -1
- Digital Library Initiatives in India: Part-2
Week 9: Open Access and Digital Library
Open Access and Digital Library
Week 10: Digitization
Digitization Part – 1
- Digitization Part – 2
Week 11: Digital Library Services and Semantic Web
Digital Library and Semantic Web
- Digital Library Applications and Services
Week 12: Digital Rights Management / Access Management
DRM/ Access Management Part – 1
- DRM/ Access Management Part – 2
Week 13: Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation: Part – 1
- Digital Preservation: Part – 2
Week 14: Case Studies in Digital Library
Case Studies : Dspace
- Case Studies: GSDL
- Case Studies: Eprints
Week 15: Evaluation of Digital Library
Evaluation and Case Studies.
https://swayam.gov.in/course/3988-digital-library