Objectives and outcomes
Learning key elements of managing digital documents within digital libraries and archives and acquiring
practical skills in developing document management software. Students understand functional
requirements and architectures of document management software. Students are
familiar with the modern technologies for implementing digital libraries and have the ability to implement
a small digital library by customising available open-source solutions or implementing a new
software system from scratch.
Lectures
The concept of a digital document. Metadata. Document life cycle. Document management systems – overview of the functionalities and examples of the system. The concept of institutional repository and digital library. Standards for systems that manage digital documents. Standard formats for metadata representation – MARC, Dublin Core, ETD-MS. Standard protocols in
document management systems – standards for metadata and documents exchange, standards
for collection search. OAI-PMH, Z39.50, SRU protocols. Query languages for collection search. Searching metadata and digital documents. Overview of the free software solutions for developing digital libraries (DSpace, EPrints).
Practical classes
Practising customisation of a chosen free software package for developing digital libraries.
Implementation of the digital library of students’ theses and dissertations. Defining metadata for a given
example of digital collection. Implementing metadata storage. Implementing digital document storage
and linking digital documents to their metadata. Implementation of the metadata input form.
Implementing metadata and document search by applying some of the standard query
languages. Overview of data search results and downloading digital documents.