ICADL 2007 - LNCS 4822

Further Development of a Digital Library Curriculum: Evaluation Approaches and New Tools

Seungwon Yang¹, Barbara M. Wildemuth², Seonho Kim¹, Uma Murthy¹, Jeffrey P. Pomerantz², Sanghee Oh², and Edward A. Fox¹

¹Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 U.S.A.
seungwon@vt.edu
shk@vt.edu
umurthy@vt.edu
fox@vt.edu

²School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 U.S.A.
wildem@ils.unc.edu
jpom@email.unc.edu
shoh@email.unc.edu

Abstract. This paper is a follow-up to our ICADL 2006 paper, reporting on our progress over the past year in developing a digital library curriculum. It presents and describes the current curriculum framework, which now includes ten modules and 41 sub-modules. It provides an overview of the curriculum development lifecycle, and our progress through that lifecycle. In particular, it reports on our evaluation of the modules that have been drafted. It concludes with a description of two new technologies – Superimposed Information (SI) to help resource presentation in a module and Visual User model Data Mining (VUDM) to help long-term module upgrade by visualizing the user community and its trends.

Keywords: Digital library, curriculum, education, evaluation, superimposed information, community visualization

LNCS 4822, p. 434 ff.

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