DL Self-Study: Topics

Topics:

Search, retrieval, resource discovery (See Chapter 2 in Dr. Lesk's book.)

Multimedia, representations (See Chapter 4 in Dr. Lesk's book.)

Architectures (See Chapter 6 in Dr. Lesk's book.)

Interfaces (See Chapter 7 in Dr. Lesk's book.)

Metadata

Electronic publishing, SGML

Database issues

Agents

Commerce, economics, publishers (See Chapter 9 in Dr. Lesk's book.)

Intellectual property rights, copyright laws & security (See Chapter 10 in Dr. Lesk's book.)
Social issues (See Chapters 11, 12 in Dr. Lesk's book.)

Pedagogy:

We recommend that the topics be covered in the order given above, with the reader examining the material in the book by Dr. Lesk before visiting the online information. Topics that do not correspond to chapters in the book have been included as supplementary material that seemed to be of special interest to students at Virginia Tech, and/or where there is keen interest and progress by the digital library community. However, these can be skipped by novices interested in a general overview.

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