scholarly journals Copyright and Mass Digitization

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
Eric S. Slater
Keyword(s):  
Mass Digitization

Technische Universitaät Darmstadt v. Eugen Ulmer KG

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Carstens
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Attention ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
Mass Digitization

In Technische Universität Darmstadt v. Eugen Ulmer KG, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ or Court) addressed several important copyright issues stemming from a practice that continues to confound many legal practitioners and adjudicators: the mass digitization of library collections. The judgment adds to an emerging body of jurisprudence decided in the context of a trend toward greater digitization that could ultimately facilitate the development of a global, digital library. To date, the jurisprudence has largely been formed by cases challenging mass digitization that are percolating through the United States courts and have attracted international attention and criticism. The ECJ decision thus provides an important point of reference for evaluating how different jurisdictions balance the rights of authors against the public interest, as served by relevant fair use exceptions consistent with their international obligations under traditional copyright treaties, the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty, and the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) applicable to all WTO member states.

scholarly journals Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-113
Author(s):  
Devan Ray Donaldson ◽  
Allison McClanahan ◽  
Leif Christiansen ◽  
Laura Bell ◽  
Mikala Narlock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
Lifecycle Model ◽  
Mass Digitization

Since its creation nearly a decade ago, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model has become the quintessential framework for understanding digital curation. Organizations and consortia around the world have used the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model as a tool to ensure that all the necessary stages of digital curation are undertaken, to define roles and responsibilities, and to build a framework of standards and technologies for digital curation. Yet, research on the application of the model to large-scale digitization projects as a way of understanding their efforts at digital curation is scant. This paper reports on findings of a qualitative case study analysis of Indiana University Bloomington’s multi-million-dollar Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI), employing the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model as a lens for examining the scope and effectiveness of its digital curation efforts. Findings underscore the success of MDPI in performing digital curation by illustrating the ways it implements each of the model’s components. Implications for the application of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model in understanding digital curation for mass digitization projects are discussed as well as directions for future research.

scholarly journals A new user interface for a text proofreading web portal in a digitization and crowdsourcing context

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Pietro Murano
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Task Time ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
Mass Digitization ◽  
Empirical Experiment ◽  
Satisfaction Measures

Purpose This paper aims to present a new user interface design for text proofreading portals in a digitization and crowdsourcing context. Several of the current proofreading portals lack usability in their user interfaces. The aim of the new design is to increase user performance and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach An empirical experiment has been conducted to evaluate the new user interface as a comparison with 18thConnect – TypeWright proofreading portal. Two of the main measures involved times and errors and this approach is considered to be good for these kinds of measures allowing a good degree of control. Nevertheless, personal opinions are also very important and these are elicited by means of a post-experiment questionnaire. Findings The data were statistically analysed and overall the new user interface helped users to perform better in terms of task time. Errors were also better with the new user interface, but the differences were not statistically significant. Furthermore, users were more satisfied with the new user interface. User satisfaction measures were mostly statistically significant. Originality/value As far as has been ascertained, there have been no systematic studies evaluating a new design with an existing design of a proofreading portal. Therefore, this research is considered to be original, and if implemented widely, it would be very valuable to the mass digitization aims.

Using Computational Techniques to Fill the Gap between Qualitative Data Analysis and Text Analytics

KWALON ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis Atkisson ◽  
Colin Monaghan ◽  
Edward Brent
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Text Analytics ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Data Flows ◽  
Mass Digitization ◽  
Analysis System

The recent mass digitization of text data has led to a need to efficiently and effectively deal with the mountain of textual data that is generated. Digitized text is increasingly in the form of digitized data flows (Brent, 2008). Digitized data flows are non-static streams of generated content – including twitter, electronic news, etc. An oft-cited statistic is that currently 85% of all business data is in the form of text (cited in Hotho, Nürnberger & Paass, 2005). This mountain of data leads us to the question whether the labor-intensive traditional qualitative data analysis techniques are best suited for this large amount of data. Other techniques for dealing with large amounts of data may also be found wanting because those techniques remove the researcher from an immersion in the data. Both dealing with large amounts of data and allowing immersion in data are clearly desired features of any text analysis system.

Massive Digital Libraries (MDLs)

2019 ◽  
pp. 476-488
Author(s):  
Andrew Philip Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Internet Archive ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Google Books ◽  
Print Books ◽  
Mass Digitization ◽  
The Impact

Massive digital library (MDL) is a term coined to define a class of digital libraries gathering mass-digitized print books and monographs, which rival the size of brick-and-mortar libraries. Specific examples of MDLs, including Google Books, HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive, et al., are presented. The issues raised by MDLs include mass-aggregation of digital content and the ability to maintain source-material accuracy and veracity; copyright, fair use, and the mass-digitization of materials not in the public domain; and disparities in the level of diversity, especially with regard to Spanish-language, Japanese-language, and Hawaii-Pacific materials. Finally, the impact of MDLs on Digital Humanities, especially with regard to the Google Books digital corpus and the Google Ngram Viewer, will be investigated.

Von U-Booten, Kriegsreportern und dem Fall des Hauses Romanov

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bohn
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Digital Multimedia ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Complex Source ◽  
Finding Aids ◽  
Media Types ◽  
Mass Digitization ◽  
First World

AbstractThe mass digitization of finding aids and original documents from the First World War presents a challenge in developing digital multimedia scholarly editions. Different source categories and media types such as film documents, written records, images and sound can thus be linked, annotated and contextualized. This is illustrated by describing the complex source transmission of three historical events: the submarine warfare in the Mediterranean in 1917, the murder of the Romanov family by the Bolshevik revolutionaries and the cross-border activities and professional life of the Russian born war reporter Samson Chernov (1887-1929) during the Balkan Wars and the First World War.

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