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

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)

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)

Technical know-how

XML

RDF/RDFS/OWL

Topic Maps

Information retrieval (search algorithms)

Digital library software (Greenstone)

Metadata (Dublin Core)

Interoperability (OAI-PMH)

Users and social issues

Human Resources Management

Users and Usage of Digital Libraries

Access to Digital Documents

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

“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)

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)

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

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

Emphasis on open access to

scholarly communication Open access models

Self-archiving

Open access mandates

Open access journals

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

Focus on user-driven systems and

services

(Weinberger, 2007; Shirky, 2005; Lagoze, 2010)

Contextualisation with emerging

technological trends and

paradigms (Anderson, 2006, 2009; Weinberger, 2007)

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