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Hacettepe University Department of Information Management
DOK 422 Information Networks (Spring 2006) Yaşar Tonta

Time & Place: Tuesdays 13:30-16:20 (Amfi 1)
Instructor: Yaşar Tonta (e-posta: tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr; tel: 297 82 04) 
Course web site: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/spring2005/dok422/d422takvim2005.htm 

Objectives    Reading List

COURSE OUTLINE

1 Introduction to Concepts of Library Information Networks (22/1)

Lecture Slides: Introduction to Course

Lecture Slides: Bilgi Ağları ve Değişen Bilgi Yönetimi: Amazoogle, İşbirliği ve Açık Erişim

2 Historical Background -- Network Topologies / Local Area Networks (28/2)

Read: Ergün Eraslan, "Bilgisayar Ağları" ( http://www.baskent.edu.tr/~eraslan/index2.htm

Read "1. Bölüm: Bilgisayar Ağlarına Giriş" Görkem Çetin ve Barış Metin, Linux Ağ Yönetimi. 5. bs. Ankara: Seçkin, 2005, s. 23-46. (Photocopy of the chapter will be provided in class.)

There is an excellent document that describes basic networking terms, cables used and network topologies at the following addresses.  Some pictures are also included. Please test your knowledge of networks http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~whelling/L526/classnotes/reviews/reviews.html

Lecture Slides

3 Development of Wide Area Networks (BITNET, EARN, Internet); Internet2, Next Generation Internet, European Academic and Research Networks (TERENA, GEANT, GEANT 2) (7/3)

Lecture Slides: Network Standards and Policies

Lecture Slides: Internet Technologies

Lecture Slides: WWW and Internet Access

4 History of Networking in Turkey (TÜVAKA, TRNET, TURNET, ULAKNET, TTNet, etc.) (14/3) 

Türkiye'de Ağ Gelişimi http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/spring2005/dok422/d422-Lecture-development-of-Internet-in-Turkey.ppt  (Slides in this presentation were taken from a report by Peter Wolcott entitled "The Diffusion of the Internet in the Republic of Turkey, 1999, which describes the early development of the Internet in Turkey.  The full report is also available from: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/spring2005/dok422/TURK_INTERNETI-2000.pdf

Bilgi Toplumu = Herkes İçin Bilgi, Alt Yapı ve Fırsat (This presentation contains comparative figures of Internet penetration in different continents as well as the results of a survey (conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute in 2004) on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and access to Internet in Turkey.  )

Homework: Library & Information Networks. Further instructions are given in the homework. Deadline: 16 May 2006 09:00am. (Worth 20% of the final grade).

5 Information Networks and Interlibrary Cooperation (MORENet, GALILEO, ICOLC, JISC, CICNet, ANKOS, etc.) (21/3)

    See relevant articles and accompanying presentations by Tonta in his web site. For example::

    Yaşar Tonta, "Kütüphanelerarası İşbirliğinin Neresindeyiz?"; Yaşar Tonta, "Kütüphanelerarası işbirliği ve bilgi kaynaklarının etkin kullanımı"; Yaşar Tonta, "Collection Development of Electronic Information Resources in Turkish University Libraries". (consortial development prior to ANKOS is summarized in this article)

More information is available in ANKOS website on various issue of consortium development in Turkey.  For other consortia, check their web sites to find more information. 

6  Network Standards, Hardware, Software, New Standards and Services (Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard); Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Harvesting Metadata (OAI PHM) (28/3) 

       Lecture  slides: The Z39.50 Protocol 

       Lecture  slides: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting   

      Lecture  slides: Hacettepe Açık Arşiv Uygulaması 

7 Midterm I (04/4)

8. Access to Networked Information Sources/Search Engines/Meta Search Engines (11/4)

 Lecture  slides: Search engines 

9. Distributed Digital Libraries (NCSTRL, NDLTD); Federated Search Concept; Open Access & Institutional Repositories; (18/4)

 Xiaoming Liu et al. Federated Searching Interface Techniques for Heterogeneous OAI Repositories, Journal of Digital Information, Volume 2 Issue 4, Article No. 106, 2002-05-21. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Liu/

Bruce Schatz et al. Federated Search of Scientific Literature.http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/papers/ieee99/ieee99.html.

See also: NDLTD, NCSTRL, and OAIster web sites.

Lecture  slides: Federe Arama Kavramı 

 Lecture  slides: Hacettepe Dept of Information Management Institutional Archive 

10. Access Management; Authentication & Authorization; Data Security in Information Networks (25/4)

Read: William Y. Arms, Implementing Policies for Access Management, D-Lib Magazine, February 1998. 

Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser, Access Management, the Key to a Portal: the experience of the Subject Portals Project , Ariadne, Issue 35, 2004.  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/SPP/intro.html

William Arms: Digital Libraries: Access Management. (Slides in PDF format)

Lecture  slides: Elektronik Bilgi Hizmetleri ve Erişim Yönetimi

11 Metadata; Digital Object Identifiers; Reference Linking (02/5)

  Lecture  slides: Digital Object Identifiers

  Lecture  slides: Portals and Reference Linking

12 Midterm II (9/5)

13 Organization and Administration of Information Networks (16/5) 

14 Conclusions and Evaluation (23/5)


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Last updated: April 21, 2006