DIGITAL LIBRARIES

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1. knowledge and understanding of the most important questions related to the Digital Library.

2. ability to apply knowledge and understanding to search a library database or catalogue, to design basic digital library models, to manage copyright and privacy issues, to recognize the basic principles for managing digital collections and their conservation , to identify the correct positioning of the different types of libraries on the web.interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3. ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4. ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5. ability to carry out research autonomously.

-          The mission of the library

-          Manifesto AIB on digital library

-          Digital libraries and metadata

-          MAB Technical documentation

-          Copyright and Creative Commons

-          Conservation of digital collections and digitization

-          Libraries and web in digital era

-          The digital librarian

-          A case study: MEMO - Memory of Montecassino (<https://www.memo.pyle.it/>)

Testi:

Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, Manifesto per le biblioteche digitali (//https://www.aib.it/aib/cg/gbdigd05a.htm3) (2 pp.)

-          P. G. Weston, L. Sardo, Metadati, Roma, AIB, 2017 (pp. 123)

-          F. Tomasi, Organizzare la conoscenza: Digital Humanities e Web semantico. Un percorso tra archivi, biblioteche e musei, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022 (184 pp.)

-          M. Guercio, La conservazione delle memorie digitali, in Biblioteche e biblioteconomia: principi e questioni, a cura di Giovanni Solimine e Paul G. Weston, Roma, Carocci, 2015 (pp. 545-566)

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.