Facilitating content creation and content research in building the city of lit digital library

Authors:
Haowei Hsieh;Bridget Draxler;Nicole Dudley;Jim Cremer;Lauren Haldeman;Dat Nguyen;Peter Likarish;Jon Winet
Affiliations:
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In conjunction with Iowa City's designation as a UNESCO "City of Literature," an interdisciplinary research team at The University of Iowa collaborated to develop a digital library featuring important Iowa City authors and locations. The "City of Lit" digital library consists of a mobile application for the general public and a set of web-based interfaces for researchers and content creators. This paper explains the motivation and describes the design and implementation of the digital library, its framework, the user-side mobile app and our future plans. We also outline a pilot study, in which undergraduate students conducted scholarly research and created content for the digital collection.