Contents for open digital libraries

Code 473AA
Credits 6

Learning outcomes

Educational Goals
An introduction to open digital libraries, to methods and procedures for the preparation of their content in a distributed way and coordinated by volunteers, and for the development of free software to support these procedures.
Description
Intellectual monopolies and free sharing of knowledge. Copyright, trademarks and patents. Copyright and public domain, historical development.
Open digital libraries, the role of institutions and the voluntary sector.
Organization of the transcription, correction and marking cooperative and distributed. Problems, procedures, tools and formats.
Supporting software.
Laboratory for the preparation of tools and texts.