scholarly journals Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: ‘Curation’ and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Angevaare
Keyword(s):  
Data Curation ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Taking Care

scholarly journals Partnership of Digital Libraries Hathi Trust Digital Library: the New Mode of Cooperation

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Tatiana E. Savitskaya
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Digital Collection

There is analysed the activities of digital libraries partnership Hathi Trust Digital Library (HTDL), arose in October 2008 in the United States as a collaborative repository of digital collections of library systems of 13 universities in the U.S. Middle West and digital collections of 11 universities in California (now numbering 124 libraries). In the United States — the leader of IT-technologies — has been accumulated the vast experience in the field of organization of electronic resources, carried out a large-scale reorganization of library industry, the results of which are not sufficiently covered in the domestic library science. For the first time, the Russian library community is invited to learn the specific experience of the formation and operation of the partnership of digital libraries HTDL, based on the principle of institutional cooperation and coordination of management solutions in the conservation and maintenance of electronic collections.The main tasks of the distributed data warehouse belonging to the partnership group of large research libraries are: providing access to the digital collection first of all for collective users, libraries — co-founders; preservation of intellectual heritage through reliable and accessible electronic representation, improvement of open technological infrastructure. The HTML concept is based on the conscious preservation of the specificity of research libraries, when the user is offered a body of special catalogued literature, and the ranking of search results is not influenced by the commercial interests. It is noted that HTDL is built on the basis of an extensive network of interlibrary entities in the United States with extensive cooperation in the field of administration, cataloguing, and storage of printed materials.There are considered the priority achievements of Hathi Trust Digital Library: development of the new models of interlibrary cooperation, efficient distributed management structure, transparent scheme of payment calculation of infrastructure maintenance. The dynamics of the development of this resource from the moment of formation to the present time is analysed.

scholarly journals Research libraries as digital publishers: The foreign experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
T. E. Savitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Scientific Data Management ◽  
Content Selection ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
Publishing Services

The author discusses the current experience of building the service of digital science publishing obtained by the libraries in the Western countries. She emphasizes that this process is incorporated into further informatization of libraries and their increasing role in managing science data. The digital publications integrate a number of interrelated programs comprising the whole cycle of scientific data management accomplished within the wider context of innovations. Digital publishing is a new type of library activities; it requires integrating competences of modern librarians (i.e. content selection, data supervising, metadata management, building digital collections, their preservation and archiving) and publishers (monitoring new trends in science and technology, selecting materials for publication, abstracting, scientific editing, developing marketing strategies).For the first time in the domestic library studies, the dynamics of this service in foreign countries is examined based on Library Publishing Directory for 2013– 2018. The author compares digital publishing services in four university libraries in different world regions and offers the findings of preliminary analysis of online publication services in foreign research libraries.

scholarly journals Staying in the Game

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Susan M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Positive Role ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Hybrid State ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Future ◽  
Printed Materials

I have been thinking about the future of libraries, especially what I would call “special collections” or “research” libraries, for much of my career. During this time, technology has played an increasingly significant and positive role in libraries. In recent years as others wrote books about the demise of printed books and the end of the library, I dismissed this view and have been content to believe in a future for libraries that many have labeled as “hybrid.” I thought that this hybrid state of books and other printed materials coexisting in libraries alongside digital collections would last a long, . . .

scholarly journals Archivos y metadatos de conservación: estado del arte y propuesta metodológica

2005 ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Alejandro Delgado Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Reference Model ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
National Library ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Open Archival Information System ◽  
Metadata Standards ◽  
Extensible Markup ◽  
Preservation Metadata ◽  
La Red

Se analizan los metadatos archivísticos de conservación, a los que se ha dedicado menos atención que a los metadatos descriptivos y que, sin embargo, son también necesarios para gestionar datos en un entorno digital. En primer lugar, el presente texto proporciona defi niciones bien aceptadas de metadatos de conservación. En segundo lugar, revisa algunos proyectos existentes y, a partir de ellos, sugiere una propuesta de implantación en el entorno archivístico. Para ello, se examinan un modelo de referencia ampliamente aceptado —OAIS (Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System)— y cinco experiencias: el proyecto Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections de la National Library of Australia (NLA), la red Networked European Deposit Library (NEDLIB), el proyecto CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives (CEDARS), el proyecto conjunto del Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) y el Research Libraries Group (RLG) PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies), y el proyecto de la New Zealand National Library Metadata Standards Framework-Preservation Metadata. En el trabajo inicial, estos proyectos se describieron y se evaluaron cualitativamente, tomando como criterios los de modularidad, extensibilidad, refi namiento, multilingüismo, interoperabilidad y reusabilidad, así como el de existencia de una gramática formal y de una gramática formalizada. Se tabularon los elementos de estos proyectos para facilitar una comparación entre ellos. El resultado fue una serie de elementos de metadatos ya existentes, así como ejemplos y una discusión acerca de su viabilidad en dos entornos: el de las bases de datos relacionales y el de los lenguajes de marcado. En el primer entorno, se sugería una definición de campos y sus posibilidades de utilización. En el segundo, se propuso una instancia de documento XML (Extensible Markup Language), susceptible de ser utilizada como base para la generación de metadatos de conservación en archivos digitales. Esta instancia sirvió para generar automáticamente varias gramáticas (schemas y DTD). Se tomaron en consideración las posibilidades de combinación de las mejores características de ambos entornos. Por último, se propusieron, a partir de ejemplos de software disponibles, opciones para que la utilización de metadatos de conservación en archivos digitales resultara viable

scholarly journals Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives. Aaron D. Purcell. Developing Digital Scholarship. Alison MacKenzie and Lindsey Martin, eds.

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Michelle Urberg
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Digital Scholarship

Digital scholarship is a growing area of interest in the affiliated library professions. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is trying to better support Special Collections librarians working on digital projects through the Rare Book and Manuscript Section’s Digital Special Collections Discussion Group, and through the newly formed Digital Scholarship Section, which brings together previously separate interest groups for digital curation, digital humanities, and numeric and geospatial data services. A growing number of volumes have also been published in recent years about how libraries and librarians are either supporting digital scholarship or building digital collections.

scholarly journals Beyond the Scanned Image: A Needs Assessment of Scholarly Users of Digital Collections

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 690-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriett E. Green ◽  
Angela Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Humanities Faculty ◽  
Scanned Image ◽  
Qualitative Responses

This paper presents an analysis of how humanities scholars use digital collections in their research and the ways in which digital collections could be enhanced for scholarly use. The authors surveyed and interviewed humanities faculty from twelve research universities about their research practices with digital collections and present analysis of the resulting responses. The paper also analyzes a sample of qualitative responses from the Bamboo Technology Project’s workshops with faculty, librarians, and technologists about the use and functionalities of digital materials for humanities research. This paper synthesizes these data analyses to propose the critical need for interoperability and data curation in digital collections to increase their scholarly use, and the importance of user engagement in development of digital collections.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Data Curation Activities Within Two Academic Libraries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Lafferty-Hess ◽  
Julie Rudder ◽  
Moira Downey ◽  
Susan Ivey ◽  
Jen Darragh
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Library Community ◽  
Institute Staff ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Community Data ◽  
The University

A growing focus on sharing research data that meet certain standards, such as the FAIR guiding principles, has resulted in libraries increasingly developing and scaling up support for research data. As libraries consider what new data curation services they would like to provide as part of their repository programs, there are various questions that arise surrounding scalability, resource allocation, requisite expertise, and how to communicate these services to the research community. Data curation can involve a variety of tasks and activities. Some of these activities can be managed by systems, some require human intervention, and some require highly specialized domain or data type expertise. At the 2017 Triangle Research Libraries Network Institute, staff from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University used the 47 data curation activities identified by the Data Curation Network project to create conceptual groupings of data curation activities. The results of this “thought-exercise” are discussed in this white paper. The purpose of this exercise was to provide more specificity around data curation within our individual contexts as a method to consistently discuss our current service models, identify gaps we would like to fill, and determine what is currently out of scope. We hope to foster an open and productive discussion throughout the larger academic library community about how we prioritize data curation activities as we face growing demand and limited resources.

scholarly journals Digital Humanities in European Research Libraries

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Lotte Wilms
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Storage

Libraries are increasingly becoming involved in digital humanities research beyond the offering of digital collections. This article examines how libraries in Europe deal with this shift in activities and how they compare with libraries in other parts of the world. This article builds on the results of surveys conducted in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the United States and the United Kingdom, and compares them with a survey conducted in Europe. We found that European libraries are mostly active in research supporting activities, such as digitisation and storage, while US libraries often include analysis in their activities. Funding comes from the library’s main budget and non-structural funding in a variety of forms. Staff working in DH roles has a diverse range of titles, with various forms of librarians being the most used. Analytical staff such as GIS specialists are only found in the US survey. All surveyed libraries agree that the biggest skill gap amongst their staff is in technical skills. When looking towards the future, European libraries see the role of digital humanities (or digital scholarship) within the library grow and are making plans to facilitate this change within their organisation by positioning themselves as an attractive research partner, by opening and increasing their digital collections and by improving the internal workings of the library.

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