Module: Digital World

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Digital World
Module Code	CSC1009 (ITS: CA168)
Faculty	Computing	School	Engineering & Computing
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5

Description

The aim of this module is to present the student with an overview of the current state-of-the-art in the world of digital media and the increasing digital nature of the world. The module will address issues of multimedia data creation and storage, including how to capture, encode and store. Given that capture and storage is only half the problem, the module will also present the student with an overview and an understanding of how to organise multimedia data, how to access the data and how search engines for multimedia data operate. The module includes coverage of these topics as they are applied to the WWW. Finally, the module will address a number of state-of-the-art concepts in Digital Multimedia and the digital world to give the student an understanding and appreciation of how digital technologies affect all aspects of our lives.

Learning Outcomes

1. To know and be able to correctly utilise the three areas of technology associated with the Digital World - audio, image and video
2. To understand at an overview level, how search engines can operate over text and multimedia data, to provide retrieval facilities and how this can be applied to libraries of digital multimedia data.
3. To know, to evaluate and to be able to correctly apply the technologies required for organising information in the digital world and in digital libraries.
4. To understand the key technologies for environmental sensing and sensing the person.
5. To know how to utilise the three key areas of technology in order to support digital entertainment.
6. To understand and be able to apply the three key areas of technology to support digital business and e-commerce.
7. To know about, to appreciate and to utilise some of the key digital technologies that affect our lives today and into the future. These technologies are: Personal Media Organisation, Digital TV, Collaborative, Information Access, Blogging & Social Networking, Human Digital Memories, Gaming, Virtual Reality, Multisensory computing and sensor networks.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Seminars	10	Guest seminars
Lecture	24	No Description
Lecture	20	Supervised laboratory sessions
Independent Study	196	No Description
Total Workload: 250

Section Breakdown
CRN	10181	Part of Term	Semester 1
Coursework	0%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	Y
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Allie Tran	Module Teacher	Graham Healy, Lili Zhang, Liting Zhou

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Loop Exam	Ten weekly Loop assignments.	50%	Every Week
Project	An individual project on emerging applications in the digital world.	50%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative Reading List

Books:

Ted Vaughan: 0, CoreMultimedia : Making it work, 6, Osborne,
Ian H. Witten & David Bainbridge: 0, How to Build a Digital Library,

Articles:
None

Other Resources

1: Various resources identified during lectures, Various Resources,