Abstract
Underpinning every digital library and digital repository there is a policy framework, which makes the digital library viable - without a policy framework a digital library is little more than a container for content. Policy governs how a digital library is instantiated and run. It is therefore a meta-domain which is situated both outside the digital library and any technologies used to deliver it, and within the digital library itself. Policy is also a key aspect of digital library and digital repository interoperability in a common and integrated information space. Policy interoperability - that is the exchange and reuse of policies - is a step beyond policy standardisation. Furthermore, effective and efficient policy frameworks are also one of the Digital Curation Center (DCC), DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), nestor and Center for Research Libraries (CRL) core criteria for digital repositories. In this article, we share our research on policy interoperability levels and the experimental survey on policy interoperability conducted with real-life digital libraries, as a contribution towards the definition of a Policy Interoperability Framework.
Highlights
Background and ObjectiveDigital libraries are complex multidimensional applications (Gonçalves et al, 2004) whose faceted nature has resulted in a variety of diverse disciplinary definitions (Borgman, 2000; Fox et al, 1995; Fox & Marchionini, 1998; Ioannidis, 2001; Ioannidis, 2005; Candela et al, 2006; Candela et al, 2008; Lagoze, 2010)
We discuss policy interoperability levels and the experimental survey on policy interoperability conducted with real-life digital libraries as a step towards the definition of a Policy Interoperability Framework for guiding and supporting digital libraries at organisational, semantic and technical levels
The survey replies have been regrouped into seven classes of approaches and tools for managing policies and policy interoperability: access, preservation, network, intellectual property, authentication, evaluation and assessment, representation and enforcement
Summary
Digital libraries are complex multidimensional applications (Gonçalves et al, 2004) whose faceted nature has resulted in a variety of diverse disciplinary definitions (Borgman, 2000; Fox et al, 1995; Fox & Marchionini, 1998; Ioannidis, 2001; Ioannidis, 2005; Candela et al, 2006; Candela et al, 2008; Lagoze, 2010). DL.org is looking at the DELOS Digital Library Reference Model (DLRM) (Candela et al, 2010) as its conceptual framework This model, fundamentally engineering-based, is intended as a roadmap to enable the wider digital library community to follow the same route and share a common understanding when dealing with the entities of the digital library universe. Within this project, the Policy Working Group (2010) investigated the almost unexplored territory of digital library policy at an organisational and semantic level, rather than only a technical level (Innocenti et al, 2010; IDABC, 2004). We discuss policy interoperability levels and the experimental survey on policy interoperability conducted with real-life digital libraries as a step towards the definition of a Policy Interoperability Framework for guiding and supporting digital libraries at organisational, semantic and technical levels
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