Digital Librarianship
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge of tools, standards and methods for research, creation, management, circulation and the reuse of metadata and documentation, analogue and digital, with a practical reference to systems designed for the management of electronic resources, libraries and other preservational institutions.
Expected learning outcomes
The course aims to introduce students to conceptual models of data, standards, formats and tools for creating, managing, using and circulating between different systems. The fundamentals of Digital Humanities, in which the digital library economy (Digital Librarianship) is moving, will also be outlined.
Students will be able to apply the knowledge they have gained to create and reuse metadata in order to represent, organize and preserve documentary, analog or digital collections. They will also learn the use of software dedicated to the management of such collections and the circulation of data.
In particular, with the use of open source tools such as cms Omeka and rms Zoteror, students will be able to experiment with the creation, circulation and reuse of bibliographical metadata and electronic resources to properly manage and organize digital objects and texts.
Students will also have to demonstrate that they understand how to communicate their learned content clearly and correctly and that they have mastery over the specialized lexicon of the material.
The lessons will be supported by guided tours of libraries, participation in events or experienced talks from professionals active in the management of documentary streams.
Interested students will also be able to attend a workshop of "Theories and techniques of bibliographic cataloguing in a computerized environment " in the second semester.
All students, attending and non-attending who wish to prepare for the 9 or 6-credits exam, must come to an agreement with the instructor on a research programme and relevant texts for a specific research theme which has peaked their interest as a result of following the course or the reading of the exam texts.
Students will be able to apply the knowledge they have gained to create and reuse metadata in order to represent, organize and preserve documentary, analog or digital collections. They will also learn the use of software dedicated to the management of such collections and the circulation of data.
In particular, with the use of open source tools such as cms Omeka and rms Zoteror, students will be able to experiment with the creation, circulation and reuse of bibliographical metadata and electronic resources to properly manage and organize digital objects and texts.
Students will also have to demonstrate that they understand how to communicate their learned content clearly and correctly and that they have mastery over the specialized lexicon of the material.
The lessons will be supported by guided tours of libraries, participation in events or experienced talks from professionals active in the management of documentary streams.
Interested students will also be able to attend a workshop of "Theories and techniques of bibliographic cataloguing in a computerized environment " in the second semester.
All students, attending and non-attending who wish to prepare for the 9 or 6-credits exam, must come to an agreement with the instructor on a research programme and relevant texts for a specific research theme which has peaked their interest as a result of following the course or the reading of the exam texts.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Digital Librarianship
Part 1: Library procedures and computerization. Metadata
Part 2: Introduction to digital librarianship
Part 3: Library systems interoperability and data enhancement
Part 1: Library procedures and computerization. Metadata
Part 2: Introduction to digital librarianship
Part 3: Library systems interoperability and data enhancement
Prerequisites for admission
Basic library skills: Giorgio Montecchi - Fabio Venuda, Nuovo manuale di biblioteconomia, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022.
Teaching methods
Attendance to classes is strongly recommended although not compulsory. The teaching is delivered through frontal lectures aimed primarily at the acquisition of knowledge both theoretical and practical, competence and specific language of the subject. Discussion with the teacher in the classroom is integrant part of the didactic method and aims at promoting a critical attitude and the capacity to apply the acquired competence and knowledge.
The teaching is also based on didactic and multimedia material provided on Ariel.
All students, both attending and non-attending, who intend to prepare for the 9 or 6 credit exam must agree with the teacher on a research program and related texts on a specific topic that has aroused their interest following the attendance of the course or the reading of the exam texts.
The teaching is also based on didactic and multimedia material provided on Ariel.
All students, both attending and non-attending, who intend to prepare for the 9 or 6 credit exam must agree with the teacher on a research program and related texts on a specific topic that has aroused their interest following the attendance of the course or the reading of the exam texts.
Teaching Resources
- Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (Parts 1 and 2)
Textbook: Jenn Riley, Understanding metadata: what is metadata and what is it for?, Baltimore, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2017, [OA, PDF, online], https://bit.ly/NISOmetadata
Alessandro Sinibaldi e Paolo B. Buongiorno, Manuale di conservazione digitale. Parte prima: Informazioni e documenti, p. 17-226, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012.
Knowledge of one of the following volumes agreed with the teacher based on the research program:
David Haynes, Metadata for information management and retrieval : understanding metadata and its use, 2 ed., London, Facet publishing, 2018.
Jeffrey Pomerantz, Metadata, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2015.
Emma Annette Wilson, Digital humanities for librarians, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London Rowman et Littlefield, 2020.
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan et al., Exploring big historical data: the historian's macroscope, London, Imperial College Press, 2016.
Steven E. Jones, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, New York, Routledge, 2013, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2Soa9rf .
Defining digital humanities, A reader, edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte, Farnham, (UK): Ashgate, 2013.
Nicola Barbuti, La digitalizzazione dei beni documentali, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022.
Fabio Venuda, La citazione bibliografica nei percorsi di ricerca. Dalla galassia Gutenberg alla rivoluzione digitale, Milano, Unicopli, 2012.
Francesca Di Donato, Lo stato trasparente: Linked open data e cittadinanza attiva, ETS, Pisa, 2010. [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2GxhAIu .
Jean-Claude Guédon, Open access: contro gli oligopoli nel sapere, a cura di Francesca Di Donato, Pisa, ETS, 2009, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2WWJQdg .
Simona Turbanti, Strumenti di misurazione della ricerca : dai database citazionali alle metriche del web, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2018.
Chiara Faggiolani, La Bibliometria, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti. Competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Mauro Guerrini, Tiziana Possemato, Linked data per biblioteche, archivi e musei. Perchè l'informazione sia del web e non solo nel web, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Ester Marinelli, Library Linked Data. Verso l'interoperabilità tra le istituzioni culturali, Milano, Mimesis, 2018.
Patrick Le Boeuf, «Modeling Rare and Unique Documents: Using FRBRoo/CIDOC CRM», Journal of Archival Organization, 10:96-106, 2012, DOI: 10.1080/ 15332748.2012.709164.
ICCU, ISBD : International standard bibliographic description, Consolidated ed., trad. Italiana, Roma, ICCU, 2012, http://bit.ly/ISBDcons.
ICCU, Regole italiane di catalogazione. (REICAT), Roma, Iccu, 2009, http://bit.ly/wikiREICAT.
IFLA, Requisiti funzionali per record bibliografici. Rapporto conclusivo, edizione italiana a cura dell'ICCU, Roma, ICCU, 2000.
Aggiornato al current text consultabile sul sito dell'IFLA, all'indirizzo http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf
International Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation, FRBR object-oriented definition and mapping from FRBRER, FRAD and FRSAD (version 2.4), November 2015, http://www.ifla.org/node/10171
Kroeger, Angela. "The Road to BIBFRAME: The Evolution of the Idea of Bibliographic Transition into a Post-MARC Future." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 51, no. 8 (2013): 873-890
BIBFRAME - Bibliographic Framework Initiative (Library of Congress), https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/.
Carrying out of a paper or a research project agreed with the teachers.
Non attending students are required to read a text of their choice in addition, among those proposed above.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (Parts 1, 2 and 3)
Textbook: Jenn Riley, Understanding metadata: what is metadata and what is it for?, Baltimore, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2017, [OA, PDF, online], https://bit.ly/NISOmetadata
Alessandro Sinibaldi e Paolo B. Buongiorno, Manuale di conservazione digitale. Parte prima: Informazioni e documenti, p. 17-226, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012.
Knowledge of two of the following volumes agreed with the teacher based on the research program:
David Haynes, Metadata for information management and retrieval : understanding metadata and its use, 2 ed., London, Facet publishing, 2018.
Jeffrey Pomerantz, Metadata, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2015.
Emma Annette Wilson, Digital humanities for librarians, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London Rowman et Littlefield, 2020.
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan et al., Exploring big historical data: the historian's macroscope, London, Imperial College Press, 2016.
Steven E. Jones, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, New York, Routledge, 2013, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2Soa9rf .
Defining digital humanities, A reader, edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte, Farnham, (UK): Ashgate, 2013.
Nicola Barbuti, La digitalizzazione dei beni documentali, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022.
Fabio Venuda, La citazione bibliografica nei percorsi di ricerca. Dalla galassia Gutenberg alla rivoluzione digitale, Milano, Unicopli, 2012.
Francesca Di Donato, Lo stato trasparente: Linked open data e cittadinanza attiva, ETS, Pisa, 2010. [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2GxhAIu .
Jean-Claude Guédon, Open access: contro gli oligopoli nel sapere, a cura di Francesca Di Donato, Pisa, ETS, 2009, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2WWJQdg .
Simona Turbanti, Strumenti di misurazione della ricerca : dai database citazionali alle metriche del web, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2018.
Chiara Faggiolani, La Bibliometria, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti. Competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Mauro Guerrini, Tiziana Possemato, Linked data per biblioteche, archivi e musei. Perchè l'informazione sia del web e non solo nel web, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Ester Marinelli, Library Linked Data. Verso l'interoperabilità tra le istituzioni culturali, Milano, Mimesis, 2018.
Patrick Le Boeuf, «Modeling Rare and Unique Documents: Using FRBRoo/CIDOC CRM», Journal of Archival Organization, 10:96-106, 2012, DOI: 10.1080/ 15332748.2012.709164.
ICCU, ISBD : International standard bibliographic description, Consolidated ed., trad. Italiana, Roma, ICCU, 2012, http://bit.ly/ISBDcons.
ICCU, Regole italiane di catalogazione. (REICAT), Roma, Iccu, 2009, http://bit.ly/wikiREICAT.
IFLA, Requisiti funzionali per record bibliografici. Rapporto conclusivo, edizione italiana a cura dell'ICCU, Roma, ICCU, 2000.
Aggiornato al current text consultabile sul sito dell'IFLA, all'indirizzo http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf
International Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation, FRBR object-oriented definition and mapping from FRBRER, FRAD and FRSAD (version 2.4), November 2015, http://www.ifla.org/node/10171
Kroeger, Angela. "The Road to BIBFRAME: The Evolution of the Idea of Bibliographic Transition into a Post-MARC Future." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 51, no. 8 (2013): 873-890
BIBFRAME - Bibliographic Framework Initiative (Library of Congress), https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/.
Carrying out of a paper or a research project agreed with the teachers.
Non attending students are required to read a text of their choice in addition, among those proposed above.
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan (available in English) for exam preparation.
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (Parts 1 and 2)
Textbook: Jenn Riley, Understanding metadata: what is metadata and what is it for?, Baltimore, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2017, [OA, PDF, online], https://bit.ly/NISOmetadata
Alessandro Sinibaldi e Paolo B. Buongiorno, Manuale di conservazione digitale. Parte prima: Informazioni e documenti, p. 17-226, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012.
Knowledge of one of the following volumes agreed with the teacher based on the research program:
David Haynes, Metadata for information management and retrieval : understanding metadata and its use, 2 ed., London, Facet publishing, 2018.
Jeffrey Pomerantz, Metadata, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2015.
Emma Annette Wilson, Digital humanities for librarians, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London Rowman et Littlefield, 2020.
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan et al., Exploring big historical data: the historian's macroscope, London, Imperial College Press, 2016.
Steven E. Jones, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, New York, Routledge, 2013, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2Soa9rf .
Defining digital humanities, A reader, edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte, Farnham, (UK): Ashgate, 2013.
Nicola Barbuti, La digitalizzazione dei beni documentali, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022.
Fabio Venuda, La citazione bibliografica nei percorsi di ricerca. Dalla galassia Gutenberg alla rivoluzione digitale, Milano, Unicopli, 2012.
Francesca Di Donato, Lo stato trasparente: Linked open data e cittadinanza attiva, ETS, Pisa, 2010. [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2GxhAIu .
Jean-Claude Guédon, Open access: contro gli oligopoli nel sapere, a cura di Francesca Di Donato, Pisa, ETS, 2009, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2WWJQdg .
Simona Turbanti, Strumenti di misurazione della ricerca : dai database citazionali alle metriche del web, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2018.
Chiara Faggiolani, La Bibliometria, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti. Competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Mauro Guerrini, Tiziana Possemato, Linked data per biblioteche, archivi e musei. Perchè l'informazione sia del web e non solo nel web, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Ester Marinelli, Library Linked Data. Verso l'interoperabilità tra le istituzioni culturali, Milano, Mimesis, 2018.
Patrick Le Boeuf, «Modeling Rare and Unique Documents: Using FRBRoo/CIDOC CRM», Journal of Archival Organization, 10:96-106, 2012, DOI: 10.1080/ 15332748.2012.709164.
ICCU, ISBD : International standard bibliographic description, Consolidated ed., trad. Italiana, Roma, ICCU, 2012, http://bit.ly/ISBDcons.
ICCU, Regole italiane di catalogazione. (REICAT), Roma, Iccu, 2009, http://bit.ly/wikiREICAT.
IFLA, Requisiti funzionali per record bibliografici. Rapporto conclusivo, edizione italiana a cura dell'ICCU, Roma, ICCU, 2000.
Aggiornato al current text consultabile sul sito dell'IFLA, all'indirizzo http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf
International Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation, FRBR object-oriented definition and mapping from FRBRER, FRAD and FRSAD (version 2.4), November 2015, http://www.ifla.org/node/10171
Kroeger, Angela. "The Road to BIBFRAME: The Evolution of the Idea of Bibliographic Transition into a Post-MARC Future." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 51, no. 8 (2013): 873-890
BIBFRAME - Bibliographic Framework Initiative (Library of Congress), https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/.
Carrying out of a paper or a research project agreed with the teachers.
Non attending students are required to read a text of their choice in addition, among those proposed above.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (Parts 1, 2 and 3)
Textbook: Jenn Riley, Understanding metadata: what is metadata and what is it for?, Baltimore, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2017, [OA, PDF, online], https://bit.ly/NISOmetadata
Alessandro Sinibaldi e Paolo B. Buongiorno, Manuale di conservazione digitale. Parte prima: Informazioni e documenti, p. 17-226, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012.
Knowledge of two of the following volumes agreed with the teacher based on the research program:
David Haynes, Metadata for information management and retrieval : understanding metadata and its use, 2 ed., London, Facet publishing, 2018.
Jeffrey Pomerantz, Metadata, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2015.
Emma Annette Wilson, Digital humanities for librarians, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London Rowman et Littlefield, 2020.
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan et al., Exploring big historical data: the historian's macroscope, London, Imperial College Press, 2016.
Steven E. Jones, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, New York, Routledge, 2013, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2Soa9rf .
Defining digital humanities, A reader, edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte, Farnham, (UK): Ashgate, 2013.
Nicola Barbuti, La digitalizzazione dei beni documentali, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022.
Fabio Venuda, La citazione bibliografica nei percorsi di ricerca. Dalla galassia Gutenberg alla rivoluzione digitale, Milano, Unicopli, 2012.
Francesca Di Donato, Lo stato trasparente: Linked open data e cittadinanza attiva, ETS, Pisa, 2010. [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2GxhAIu .
Jean-Claude Guédon, Open access: contro gli oligopoli nel sapere, a cura di Francesca Di Donato, Pisa, ETS, 2009, [OA, PDF, online], http://bit.ly/2WWJQdg .
Simona Turbanti, Strumenti di misurazione della ricerca : dai database citazionali alle metriche del web, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2018.
Chiara Faggiolani, La Bibliometria, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti. Competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Mauro Guerrini, Tiziana Possemato, Linked data per biblioteche, archivi e musei. Perchè l'informazione sia del web e non solo nel web, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015.
Ester Marinelli, Library Linked Data. Verso l'interoperabilità tra le istituzioni culturali, Milano, Mimesis, 2018.
Patrick Le Boeuf, «Modeling Rare and Unique Documents: Using FRBRoo/CIDOC CRM», Journal of Archival Organization, 10:96-106, 2012, DOI: 10.1080/ 15332748.2012.709164.
ICCU, ISBD : International standard bibliographic description, Consolidated ed., trad. Italiana, Roma, ICCU, 2012, http://bit.ly/ISBDcons.
ICCU, Regole italiane di catalogazione. (REICAT), Roma, Iccu, 2009, http://bit.ly/wikiREICAT.
IFLA, Requisiti funzionali per record bibliografici. Rapporto conclusivo, edizione italiana a cura dell'ICCU, Roma, ICCU, 2000.
Aggiornato al current text consultabile sul sito dell'IFLA, all'indirizzo http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf
International Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation, FRBR object-oriented definition and mapping from FRBRER, FRAD and FRSAD (version 2.4), November 2015, http://www.ifla.org/node/10171
Kroeger, Angela. "The Road to BIBFRAME: The Evolution of the Idea of Bibliographic Transition into a Post-MARC Future." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 51, no. 8 (2013): 873-890
BIBFRAME - Bibliographic Framework Initiative (Library of Congress), https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/.
Carrying out of a paper or a research project agreed with the teachers.
Non attending students are required to read a text of their choice in addition, among those proposed above.
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan (available in English) for exam preparation.
Assessment methods and Criteria
- Method: oral exam,
- Type of examination: oral interrogation,
- Evaluation criteria: ability to demonstrate, apply and process the knowledge; capacity for critical reflection on the completed work; quality of exposition, competence in the use of specialised lexicon, efficacy, clarity, etc;
the exam will focus on the topics covered in the course, in the textbooks and in the bibliography agreed with the teacher and discovered by the student within the literary review. The agreed research program will result in an essay of about 30 pages which must be delivered to the teacher at least fifteen days before the exam and discussed during the oral exam. The research method followed, the information resources used, the databases and the keywords used for the critical review of the literature must be highlighted in the work.
- Type of evaluation method: mark in 30s;
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The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
- Type of examination: oral interrogation,
- Evaluation criteria: ability to demonstrate, apply and process the knowledge; capacity for critical reflection on the completed work; quality of exposition, competence in the use of specialised lexicon, efficacy, clarity, etc;
the exam will focus on the topics covered in the course, in the textbooks and in the bibliography agreed with the teacher and discovered by the student within the literary review. The agreed research program will result in an essay of about 30 pages which must be delivered to the teacher at least fifteen days before the exam and discussed during the oral exam. The research method followed, the information resources used, the databases and the keywords used for the critical review of the literature must be highlighted in the work.
- Type of evaluation method: mark in 30s;
-
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
Unita' didattica A
M-STO/08 - ARCHIVAL SCIENCE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIBRARIANSHIP - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
M-STO/08 - ARCHIVAL SCIENCE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIBRARIANSHIP - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
M-STO/08 - ARCHIVAL SCIENCE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIBRARIANSHIP - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
Office hours for students will be held on Wednesday 03:00 p.m. in the studio, and on MS Teams if necessary
Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - Cortile della legnaia - dept. of History, sector C, second floor; Microsoft Teams classroom, code e3eetcb