Digital Libraries

• Basic concepts: Evolution of libraries and information technologies; Components of a Digital Library; Basic concepts underlying a Digital Library Model.
• Information Discovery: Metadata and metadata standards; OAI model and the OAI-PMH protocol; institutional repositories; knowledge representation and RDF model.
• Information Representation and Access: Textual information; audio, image and video information; textual and multimedia search and retrieval; ranking of results; search engines.
• Additional topics: Personalization; collaborative tools; introduction to digital preservation; security, authentication and authorization.
• Laboratory: Implementation of a simple Digital Library using an existing (free) Digital Library system (Greenstone).