digital libraries: tools for facilitating access, management and preservation of digital content
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Digital LibrariesTools for Facilitating Access, Management and Preservation of Digital Content
Lighton Phiri
September 7, 2015
Introduction
We live in exciting times–-The Information Age
Massive amount of data generated and digitised1) Born digital data
◻ Data created electronically◻ Contemporary manuscripts& monographs; Tweets& FB posts :)
2) Digitised data◻ Data initially created in non-digital form◻ Most content created before ‘The Information Age’
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Why is Preservation Important?
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Urgency to preserve delicate artifacts
Massive born-digital content being generated
Digital Libraries in Perspective
DL sub-layers■ User interface■ Service layer■ Storage layer
DL fundamentals■ Identifiers■ Interoperability■ Metadata■ Standards
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Case study: open.uct.ac.za (2)
open.uct.ac.za runs a DSpace instance–-a popular standards-based institutional repository software tool
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DL sub-layers1) User interface
◻ Web; CLI2) Service layer
◻ Search, OAI-PMH3) Storage layer
◻ Operating System and database
DL fundamentals1) Identifiers
◻ Handles2) Interoperability
◻ OAI-PMH; SWord3) Metadata
◻ Dublin Core4) Standards
◻ OAI-PMH; SWord; DC
Summary
■ Overview◻ Introduction, motivation and problem◻ Examples of DLs
■ DL in perspective◻ DL aspects and fundametals◻ Case study–-OpenUCT
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User Interface Service Layer Storage Layer
Identifiers X X
Interoperability X
Metadata X X
Standards X X X
Bibliography
[1] Arms, William Y. (1995). "Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library". In: D-Lib Magazine. The Magazine of Digital Library Research 1.1. DOI: 10.1045/july95-arms.
[2] Arms, William Y. (2001). "Libraries, Technology, and People". In: Digital Libraries. Ed. by William Y. Arms. 2nd. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Chap. Chapter 1, pp. 1–20.
[3] Smith, MacKenzie, Mary Barton, Margret Branschofsky, Greg McClellan, Julie Harford Walker, Mick Bass, Dave Stuve, and Robert Tansley (2003). "DSpace. An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository". In: D-Lib Magazine 9.1. DOI: 10.1045/january2003-smith
[4] Suleman, Hussein (2007). "Digital LibrariesWithout Databases: The Bleek and Lloyd Collection". In: TPDL. Ed. by L´aszl ´o Kov´acs, Norbert Fuhr, and Carlo Meghini. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 392–403. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74851-9_33.
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