World Digital Libraries - An international journal - Volume 3, issue 1

Authors: Balakrishnan, N

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120048

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. v-vi, 2010

Authors: Ganguly, Shantanu

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120049

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. vii-viii, 2010

Authors: Altenhöner, Reinhard

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The increasing production and use of digital information immediately lead to the challenging task of ensuring the long-term accessibility of digital resources. The changing information technology (IT) development becomes more important for memory institutions. This is a challenge not only for institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums, but also for public administration and industrial enterprises. Beginning in the 1990s, the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB) started collecting and archiving digital publications. It became clearer that long-term preservation has to be done cooperatively in order to share experiences and reduce efforts. Since 2006, the DNB has the legal mandate …to collect, archive, index, and enable access to digital publications published in the so-called German Web. This means that the library has to deal with a huge amount of objects. In consequence, the DNB is obliged by these new responsibilities to re-establish the workfl ows internally and to redefine the role and the tasks of the library within the national system of library and information services. This contribution refers to 10 years of activity and particularly highlights the latest developments in Germany. Show more

Keywords: German National Library, digital preservation, Universal Object Format, Open Archival Initiative, Germany

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120050

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-9, 2010

Authors: Zierau, Eld | Kejser, Ulla Bøgvad

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper explores how independent institutions such as archives and libraries can cooperate on managing a shared bit repository with bit preservation in order to use their resources for preservation in a more cost-effective way. It uses the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model to provide a framework for systematically analysing institutions’ technical and organizational requirements for a remote bit repository. Instead of viewing a bit repository simply as archival storage for the institutions, repositories, we argue for viewing it as consisting of a subset of functions from all entities defined by the OAIS reference model. The work is …motivated by and used in a current Danish feasibility study for establishing a national bit repository. The study revealed that, depending on their missions and the collections they hold, the institutions have varying requirements, for example, for bit safety, accessibility, and confidentiality. This study furthermore revealed that requirements for the level of bit safety must be supplemented by risk analysis, which needs to involve elements of the architecture, for example, the number of copies and how independence between the copies is ensured. The paper describes the bit repository architecture and its strengths in being fl exible in order to offer differentiated services with respect to, among other things, bit safety and cost. Furthermore, the challenges in formulating, for example, risk requirements are described. Show more

Keywords: OAIS reference model, bit preservation, preservation level, risk analysis, bit repository

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120051

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 11-21, 2010

Authors: Abrizah, A

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: A research group at a research-intensive university, whose vested interest is in increasing the accessibility of the university's research output to the world literature, has developed a self-sustainable and expandable open access institutional repository (IR). The paper developed by the University of Malaya's IR describes the strategies that the digital library research group employed. It also explains how the roles of academic librarians would change in the process of building institutional repository. There are extensions of existing roles in terms of system evaluation, advocacy, and reference services. New roles include content recruitment and interpreting policies. It also points out possible …directions that can make the repository sustainable. Show more

Keywords: Institutional repositories, open-access digital libraries, academic libraries, roles of librarians, Malaysia

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120052

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 23-39, 2010

Authors: Mishra, Surjeet | Ghosh, Hiranmay

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel approach to visualize and navigate the document collection of a DL using ontology. We assume a DL corpus as a network of a large set of information nodes. We use domain ontology to depict the background knowledge organization and map the multimedia information nodes on that knowledge map, in order to make the implicit knowledge organization in a collection explicit. The ontology is automatically created by exploring the Wikipedia knowledge hierarchy, and is delimited to tightly cover the information nodes in the library's collection. We present an abstract view of the knowledge map, …clear and concise, which can be progressively ‘zoomed in’ or ‘zoomed out’ to navigate the knowledge space. We place the ontology nodes on the screen, based on their mutual similarity scores for aiding the cognitive process during navigation. The system provides an interactive navigation interface to the users. Show more

Keywords: Effective visualization, navigation in multimedia collection, knowledge organization, semantic web, Wikipedia-based ontology creation, semantic DL

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120053

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 41-49, 2010

Authors: Jan, Rosy | Khan, Nadim Akhtar

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Google is considered to be a monolithic Internet power. Among its various existing products, Google Scholar is an incredible tool that allows researchers to search for a wide array of scholarly literature across the web. The study is a sample test of Google Scholar's credibility and harvesting capability by submitting select titles from the field of microbiology in three major, renowned, and open-access journal lists—Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Highwire, and BioMed Central. The findings reveal that out of the 354 submitted titles, only 16.38% were clearly identified. The highest number of titles, that is, 52.32%, was retrieved from …BioMed Central, followed by 25.37% from Highwire, and 21.7% from DOAJ. They provide most (65.50%) of the record as full text, followed by links (32.71%) and a negligible ratio of records as citations (1.78%). The study further reveals that some results are available under multiple URLs, thus leading to duplication. The highest percentage of results is from open-access web servers (49.64%). A total of 10.63% of web servers were found to be present in foreign languages, followed by an organizational contribution of 9.92% and 2.12% from conventional data providers. Show more

Keywords: Google Scholar, scholarly literature, DOAJ, BioMed Central, Highwire

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120054

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 51-62, 2010

Authors: Misra, Chandan | Bhattacharya, Baidurya | Basu, Anupam

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper deals with a new framework for archiving and annotating Rabindra Sangeet (‘Rabindra Sangeet’, n.d) (known as Tagore songs in English) written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. This framework has a layered structure with each layer having a specific defined functionality. XML (’XML Tutorial’, n.d) is used to construct the framework to store different synchronized layers of information in a simple manner. These layers contain notational, audio/MIDI (‘Learn About MIDI’, n.d), catalogue information including structure of musicsheet. MusicXML (‘MusicXML Definition’, n.d) and IEEE P1599 (‘IEEE Standard P1599-2008’, 12 June 2008) standard are two prominent structured formats for defining western …music. The inadequate nature of these two formats for representing Indian music system (including Rabindra Sangeet) makes this new framework relevant. This paper gives a brief description of the new framework and a simple application for archiving Tagore songs in MIDI and notational format. There are two ultimate purposes of this work. The first one is to generate the MIDI files of all the songs with various instruments. The second one is to store the characters of the musicsheet in the XML file so that data can be retrieved and presented in a desktop and web environment. Show more

Keywords: Rabindra Sangeet, layered framework, musicsheet, MIDI, API, Unicode

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120055

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 63-72, 2010

Authors: Smith II, Plato L

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The Digital Curation Centre Curation Lifecycle Model outlived the development of a systematic approach for preservation of images of biological silica collected from the southern part of the United States. This paper opted for an experimental approach of collaborative open-access institutional repository (OA IR) digital collection building and digital preservation strategy for Diatomscapes. Using a small representative sample of images of biological silica as a small corpus of digital data to develop, faculty and digital librarian began to collaborate to develop ways to describe, publish, promote, and preserve Diatomscapes for current and future use. This paper shows how publishing, promoting, …and preserving faculty research infl uences faculty support of and contribution participation in OA IR development and digital preservation exploration implementation. Diatomscapes digital collections in Picasa, Flickr, and DigiTool and digital preservation via Florida Digital Archive (FDA) and MetaArchive were a few outcomes. This paper provides empirical insights on how faculty views, practise or not practise digital curation, and preservation of primary research digital content, for current and future use. Show more

Keywords: Institutional repository, Diatomscapes, Curation lifecycle model

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120056

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 73-84, 2010

Authors: Ganguly, Shantanu

Article Type: Book Review

DOI: 10.3233/WDL-120057

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 85-86, 2010