This presentation was given by Getaneh Alemu at TPDL-2011 workshop on “Linking Research and Education in Digital Libraries", held 28-29 September 2011 in Berlin. Getaneh was invited by the workshop organisers (Vittore Casarosa, Donatella Castelli and Anna Maria Tammaro) to present his perspectives and experiences in digital library education and research. For more information about the workshop http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november11/casarosa/11casarosa.html
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Linking Research and Education in Digital Libraries: students’ perspectives
1. Getaneh Alemu
School of Creative Technologies
University of Portsmouth
Workshop on
Research and Education in Digital Libraries
September 28th -29th 2011
International Conference on Theory and
Practice of Digital Libraries 2011
Berlin
2. Current
PhD Student at University of Portsmouth (2010-present)
Title: ‘A Conceptual Framework for User-Driven Semantic
Metadata Interoperability in Digital Libraries’
Past work experience
Research Assistant at University of Portsmouth (2009-2010)
Digital preservation metadata
Librarian at Mekelle University (2001-2007)
Education
MSc in Digital Library Learning (DILL) (Oslo, Tallinn and
Parma, 2009)
MSc in Knowledge and Information Management (Ghent,
2005)
BSc in Library and Information Science (Addis Ababa, 2001)
3. Conceptual foundations
Digital library definition
DELOS Reference Model
DLF definition
Research Methods & Theory of Science
Digital Documents
Information & Knowledge Management
Major texts
Lesk, M. (2004) & Witten, I.H. & Bainbridge, D. (2003)
4. Technical know-how
XML
RDF/RDFS/OWL
Topic Maps
Information retrieval (search algorithms)
Digital library software (Greenstone)
Metadata (Dublin Core)
Interoperability (OAI-PMH)
5. Users and social issues
Human Resources Management
Users and Usage of Digital Libraries
Access to Digital Documents
6. Content
Sound theoretical basis
Digital library definitions
Digital library architectures (DELOS reference model)
Metadata interoperability
DL protocols and standards
Information management
Users
Joint organisation by different
universities
Involvement of distinguished lecturers
Diversity of student backgrounds
Internship opportunities
Master thesis requirement
7. “We [in LIS] are struck by the poverty of
foundational theories” (Day, 2010);
“The development of LIS should not rely on
some borrowed, pre-packaged theory” (Floridi,
2000)
Is LIS a theory or model-based discipline?
(personal communication)
The socio-technical perspective of digital
libraries (House, Bishop, & Buttenfield, 2003; Lagoze, 2010)
8. Synergy between various DL frameworks
Example:
Streams, Structures, Spaces,
Scenarios and Societies (5S) (Moreira, et al,
2009)
versus
Content, user, functionality, quality,
policy, architecture (Candela, et al, 2007)
9. Building meaning
“In the world after the Enlightenment, the
cultural task was to build knowledge. In the
miscellaneous world, the task is to build
meaning”
(Weinberger, 2007, p.222)
Constructivist learning approaches
10. Inclusion of digital preservation
Migration versus emulation
Choice of file formats
Complex objects
Preservation of games
OAIS reference model
Digital preservation tools
PRONOM, DROID, GDFR
PLATO
11. Emphasis on open access to
scholarly communication
Open access models
Self-archiving
Open access mandates
Open access journals
12. Address data curation issues (Lagoze,
2011)
Data lifecycle
Data science expertise (data scientist, data curator,
eScience librarian)
Open data
Linked data
IP privacy, and ethical issues associated with data
,
13. Focuson user-driven systems and
services
(Weinberger, 2007; Shirky, 2005; Lagoze, 2010)
Contextualisationwith emerging
technological trends and
paradigms
(Anderson, 2006, 2009; Weinberger, 2007)
14. Familiarisation with European
Commission (EC) projects
Planets, KEEP, DELOS, LiWA, PARSE.Insight, PROTAGE,
PrestoPRIME, SHAMAN, CASPAR, DPE, TEL, Europeana,
DL.org and many others
Collaboration between EC
education programmes and EC-
research projects
To engage students through internships, visits, conferences,
workshops, and career opportunities
Lecturers should recommend areas/themes/topics for
thesis/dissertations