Digital Resource Management Research Articles

Digital Resources Management: The Role of the National Digital Library

ICT has changed the traditional concept of the library. The role of the digital library in collecting varied resources has given a new dimension in the library services. Adding to this concept, the major role of the National Digital Library of India in collecting the digital resources and providing them through a single window system is a remarkable achievement. It is helpful in the teaching-learning process and promotes research and development. Now-a-day, Libraries are more powerful, dynamic and reach before the users easily without any geographical restrictions. Libraries are fast moving in this Internet era from the manual mode of action to digital access. In this direction, the use of communication technologies has redesigned the library services to the borderless world and has become the lifeblood for the users’ community. In this context, the aim of this paper is to establish the importance and different roles of the national digital library in preserving and disseminating the digital resources for the academic excellence and research growth.

Users ’Perception towards the Facilities, Resources and Services with Reference of the Selected Newspapers Media Libraries of Karnataka State (India)

Effective library management leads to produce efficient, accurate and enhanced service to their users. Today's advanced technology trends redefined library terms and are refining digitalization of information resources for quick and effective enhanced services. The purpose of this paper is to describe the findings of a survey about users' perceptions of services given by library professionals regarding digital resources management with reference of the selected media libraries of Karnataka state (India). The primary objective of the survey was to obtain feedback from users on their perceptions of digital library services and to insist suggestions for efficient and timely service.

Active Ageing - Implementing integrated care for falls prevention and bone health at scale

Introduction and aim: The purpose of AFFINITY (activating falls and fractures prevention in Ireland together), a national population health improvement project, is to implement a national strategy on the prevention of harmful falls and fractures in older persons. Harmful falls and fractures in older persons are on the whole predictable and preventable and are a significant human, social and economic cost burden. AFFINITY is also a commitment within a pan European programme on active and healthy ageing that aims to increase the average healthy lifespan of citizens by 2 years by 2020. Practice Changes,Timeline and Stakeholders: AFFINITY has adopted a whole system approach (2014-2020), with multi-stakeholders, multi-professional and multi-sectoral collaborative working. Key implementation approaches: empowering citizen self-management, supporting older persons to actively age, robust project governance, integrated service delivery model, work practice changes and system change management supports. AFFINITY is a joint project of the national service provider and the publicly funded health & social care system indemnifier. Highlights and Lessons Learned: AFFINITY is being embedded within new service provider structures and processes, including the national service provider integrated care framework for older persons using enablers such as digital technologies, funding and human resources. Four early adapter sites for falls prevention and bone health are developing bespoke, evidence informed integrated care pathways (ICP) since 2014 to address the needs of their older populations: key indicators include timely access to quality multidisciplinary team interventions with measurable outcomes at an individual and population health level. Learnings from these early adapters is being used to identify and scale up additional sites within all service areas nationally to improve access, quality and outcomes of falls and fracture prevention services in 2017. Outcomes and targeted population: Full implementation of this project will mean that persons 65 years and older: will be proactively co-producing their own health & wellbeing, will have access to quality ICP according to need, will have less harmful falls & fracture sequelae will enjoy safer age friendly environments and improved quality of life years. Transferability and Sustainability: AFFINITY, enabled by the European programme, will be an exemplar of a coordinated, sustainable and effective model of care for older persons, that is both proactive and reactive. Cooperation between AFFINITY and its European partners will enhance and enrich the underlying information and process models, supporting the embedding of evidence informed practices and upscaling to spread and sustain the gains. Change management success factors and approaches to barriers will be available for similar large scale implementation projects to learn from. The political, funding, legislative and organisational reforms and challenges happening at national level will resonate with other countries in their desire for better quality care, more efficient health and social care delivery systems and new economic opportunities and investments, especially within the digital and silver economy.

Resource management of opportunistic digital array radar antenna aperture for pattern synthesis

Due to the complex time-varying environments and the unknown target information, the uncertainty of target information is introduced into the echo signal. Owing to the uncertainty of target information, the number and operating modes of antenna array elements allocated for pattern synthesis are uncertain. Hence to reduce the influence of uncertainty of target information and save the antenna array elements, in the light of the uncertainty of the number and the distribution of the array elements in working state, a novel fuzzy random chance-constrained programming model of opportunistic digital array radar antenna aperture resource management is proposed. Moreover, this model can determine the information of radar target from the echo signal by reasonable resource management and allocation under the condition that the specified confidence levels are satisfied. Meanwhile, for solving the multi-object model, the fuzzy random simulation is integrated into fast and elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA_II) to compose a hybrid intelligent optimisation algorithm. Finally, two simulations are carried out to verify the validity of this model.

Spatial Data Infrastructures

Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is the infrastructure that facilitates the discovery, access, management, distribution, reuse, and preservation of digital geospatial resources. These resources may include maps, data, geospatial services, and tools. As cyberinfrastructures, SDIs are similar to other infrastructures, such as water supplies and transportation networks, since they play fundamental roles in many aspects of the society. These roles have become even more significant in today's big data age, when a large volume of geospatial data and Web services are available. From a technological perspective, SDIs mainly consist of data, hardware, and software. However, a truly functional SDI also needs the efforts of people, supports from organizations, government policies, data and software standards, and many others. In this chapter, we will present the concepts and values of SDIs, as well as a brief history of SDI development in the U.S. We will also discuss the components of a typical SDI, and will specifically focus on three key components: geoportals, metadata, and search functions. Examples of the existing SDI implementations will also be discussed.

Digital Resource Management Strategies: Study on Selected All India Radio Media Libraries of Karnataka

The present century has been earmarked by various revolutionary and innovative developments such as information revolution, Information and Communication Technology revolution, globalization and privatization. With the continuous development of internet technology and mobile communication network and the popularizing hardware equipment, the new network technology made accessing of information resources become easy and quickly by digitalization. So, the tasks of housekeeping operations of library are redefining in a new way like digitalization, preservation, indexing, distribution, authenticating, indexing etc., with the transformation of traditional library into digital library. However, digital resources made enormous advantages over traditional collection to meet library user’s demand. On the other hand librarian is in a state of facing challenges to management of the digital resources. The systematic approach towards digital resources management strategies with reference to the selected, All India Radio media libraries of Karnataka State, has been made in this paper.

Digital Resource Management Strategies in an ICT Era with Reference to Selected Telecasts Media Libraries of Karnataka State (India)

Forthcoming years are only digital platform to libraries, since more advantages of digital resources are over traditional collections. On the other hand, there must be a systematic, professional approach that should be essential to preserve, curate, establish, distribute, secure and deploy the digital resources in the digital library and is called digital resources management. In the present study, an approach is made to digital resources management with reference to selected media libraries of Karnataka (India).

School Collection Development and Resource Management in Digitally Rich Environments: An Initial Literature Review

The changing technological environment and the range of digital resources influence the role of the school librarian in collection development and management of digital resources.As digital technologies have evolved collection development remains a significant component of the school librarian's professional practice.The aims of this paper are 1) to understand the influence of technology on the evolving material collections in K-12 schools, 2) examine the changes in collection development and resource management brought about by technological innovation, 3) investigate the leadership role of school librarians in collection development and the promotion of digital learning objects or resources, and 4) summarize the relevant literature focusing on school library collection development and management of digital resources. This article will present a brief overview of the impact of technology on the collection development practices of librarians in K-12 schools.

Adaptive Digital Resource Modeling as Service Provider and Consumer

The increase in the production of heterogeneous and multi-source digital data over last years raises several issues regarding their management and use. Hence, users can face some difficulties in selecting the adequate digital resources and combining them to reach their objectives in a given activity. In this paper, we focus on digital resources design and management in order to enhance their retrieval, interoperability, adaptation and collaboration within an adaptive system. In practical terms, our work consists in a new method for digital resource design and management capable of enhancing their usability. It relies on RESTful web service-based methodology and platform thinking approach. We have implemented our method in an interactive and adaptive PLE to assist researchers in using and managing their digital resources, called PRISE for PeRsonal Interactive research Smart Environment. We have also undertaken some experiments with PRISE platform in our laboratory. The result showed that modeling digital resources with RESTful and platform thinking concept enhances digital resource usability in terms of retrieving, interoperability, adaptation and collaboration.

Application of Cloud Storage Technology in the Management of Massive Digital Teaching Resources Based on HDFS

Application of Cloud Storage Technology in the Management of Massive Digital Teaching Resources Based on HDFS

Cultural Heritage Information: Access and Management

Recent developments in the ICT, web and mobile technologies have significantly boosted research and development activities aimed at the creation and management of digital cultural heritage resources. Managing digital cultural heritage involves a number of challenges ranging from the digitization of cultural heritage objects and artefacts to various knowledge organization challenges that include metadata, indexing and retrieval, and various user and social challenges such as information seeking and retrieval in the context of cultural heritage, digital divide and social inclusion, social and legal policy issues, and moreover long term access and sustainability issues . Beginning with an overview of different information management issues and challenges associated with cultural heritage information, this book provides an account of research in digital cultural heritage focusing particularly on the knowledge organization, access, users and usability issues digital cultural heritage information systems and services.

Testare l’archivio ibrido e lanciare l’ERMS?

This article is a 'case report' which describes the rationalization experience accomplished on hybrid documentation - half paper and half electronic – built up over nearly thirty years in a very unique bank office such as the Historical Archives of Intesa Sanpaolo Group. It comprises not only management documents, common to any administrative organization, but also many cataloguing and internal information files, related to the working team activities. Definitive inventories were not included in the plan, as they are stored in the xDams database. Through the analysis of office-produced electronic documents, the project entailed the review of procedures and workflows, which lead to functions redefinition and a modernization of the office working habits. The description of what happened will therefore be useful to any administrative office. To prepare the basis of this challenging project we scrutinized studies on organization issues and digital resources management. Alongside university textbooks, it was above all important to study working methods already applied elsewhere by reading guidelines, articles, policies and case studies. At that point, work was divided into several phases, which can be summarized in: on-going dialogue with staff members, careful and meticulous analysis of all kind of documents and their application software, the study, selection and retention of duplicate or not definitive documents (such as minutes, drafts, semi-finished studies), the comparison between paper and hybrid archives and their coexistence, and finally the reaching of a new and definitive management system and a related tree network.

The role of policy for documentary systems

The article analyzes the role that policies have in guaranteeing the quality of creation, management and maintenance of digital resources, and offers an overview of national and international policies and standards that refer to records management and digital preservation. Finally, the article illustrates ICCROM’s records management manual and its digital preservation policy and strategy.

Ontology-driven collaborative annotation in shared workspaces

In the last decade, collaboration and sharing on the Web have become mainstream. Digital, remote interaction happens on a daily basis, not only to share digital resources, but also to create, manage and discuss them, in every possible situation where collaboration is required: from work teams to groups of friends, from community committees to no-profit organizations. In this paper we address the task of collaborative management of digital resources within a team, with a special focus on the task of semantic annotation, where team members, possibly supported by automated reasoning, enrich resources with properties that help in organizing, retrieving and creating connections between contents of different types. We focus in particular on the problem of reaching an agreement on the annotation itself among the participants. The paper presents a qualitative user study aimed at observing users behavior when faced with this task. The results of the study are then analyzed in order to draw guidelines, which are then implemented in a tool for collaborative annotation. This study is carried out in the context of the Semantic Table Plus Plus (Sem T++) Project, a framework supporting collaboration over thematic workspaces, whose goal is to enhance cooperation through awareness, enhanced communication and easy sharing of digital content.

Design and Implementation on Digital Media Resource Management System Based on SOA

With the development of computer, network, multimedia technology, digital media resources with many types and huge amount are increasing dramatically, so this results in a more serious requirement on digital media resource management. Digital media resource management system based on SOA is put forward in this paper in the light of the problems of existing media resource management system. SOA, architecture of new generation, is one of the most ideal solutions to integrate application systems. The system solved the problem of heterogeneity fundamentally, and maximum integration and sharing of resources in management system can be achieved. Study achieved an integrated digital media resource management system and the problem of resource sharing was solved so as to adapt to the digital media resource management in big data era.

Readers and Reading in the First World War

This essay consists of three individually authored and interlinked sections. In ‘A Digital Humanities Approach, Francesca Benatti looks at datasets and databases (including the UK Reading Experience Database) and shows how a systematic, macro-analytical use of digital humanities tools and resources might yield answers to some key questions about reading in the First World War. In ‘Reading behind the Wire in the First World War Edmund G. C. King scrutinizes the reading practices and preferences of Allied prisoners of war in Mainz, showing that reading circumscribed by the contingencies of a prison camp created an unique literary community, whose legacy can be traced through their literary output after the war. In ‘Book-hunger in Salonika, Shafquat Towheed examines the record of a single reader in a specific and fairly static frontline, and argues that in the case of the Salonika campaign, reading communities emerged in close proximity to existing centres of print culture. The focus of this essay moves from the general to the particular, from the scoping of large datasets, to the analyses of identified readers within a specific geographical and temporal space. The authors engage with the wider issues and problems of recovering, interpreting, visualizing, narrating, and representing readers in the First World War.

Readers and Reading in the First World War

This essay consists of three individually authored and interlinked sections. In ‘A Digital Humanities Approach, Francesca Benatti looks at datasets and databases (including the UK Reading Experience Database) and shows how a systematic, macro-analytical use of digital humanities tools and resources might yield answers to some key questions about reading in the First World War. In ‘Reading behind the Wire in the First World War Edmund G. C. King scrutinizes the reading practices and preferences of Allied prisoners of war in Mainz, showing that reading circumscribed by the contingencies of a prison camp created an unique literary community, whose legacy can be traced through their literary output after the war. In ‘Book-hunger in Salonika, Shafquat Towheed examines the record of a single reader in a specific and fairly static frontline, and argues that in the case of the Salonika campaign, reading communities emerged in close proximity to existing centres of print culture. The focus of this essay moves from the general to the particular, from the scoping of large datasets, to the analyses of identified readers within a specific geographical and temporal space. The authors engage with the wider issues and problems of recovering, interpreting, visualizing, narrating, and representing readers in the First World War.

출판기능이 부여된 디지털도서관 II - 하이브리드 디지털도서관의 모형 설계 -

디지털도서관을 단순한 정보유통 구조의 한 부분으로 정의하지 않고 디지털도서관 그 자체를 자원의 생산, 유통 그리고 재생산을 위한 무형의 가치창출 행위로 인식하였으며 디지털자원의 속성을 해석함으로써 디지털도서관을 설계하였다. 즉, DRM(Digital Resources Management)의 가치를 디지털도서관으로 보았으며 그것을 전통적 도서관의 진화로 인식하였다. 이미 대학도서관들의 오픈액세스 자원생산이 이루어지고 있으며 클라우드 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 도서관 디지털장서 관리와 공유가 가능함을 보여줌으로써 출판이 가미된 디지털도서관의 가능성을 보여주었다. A digital library could be understood as not a part of information cycling, but whole process of information production, circulation and reproduction. This study suggests that a digital library should be a creator as which it is publishing, circulating, and re-producing the information resources. Therefore, the role of intrinsic DRM (Digital Resources Management) can be interpreted as a digital library. Open access model have been already adopted to many university libraries, many university libraries are publishing free access online research resources by themselves. Also, research collection based on cloud computing can be extended to networked research collection and share with other university libraries. These evidences show future library can be the digital library with online and open accessible publishing function.

Opportunities for using Wiki technologies in building digital library models

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to research the open access and encyclopedia structured methodology of building digital libraries. In Azerbaijan Libraries, one of the most challenged topics is organizing digital resources (books, audio-video materials, etc.). Wiki technologies introduce easy, collaborative and open tools opportunities which make it possible to implement in digital library buildings. Design/methodology/approach – This paper looks at current practices, and the ways of organizing information resources to make them more systematized, open and accessible. These activities are valuable for rural libraries which are smaller and less well funded than main and central libraries in cities. Findings – The main finding of this article is how to organize digital resource management in the libraries using Wiki ideology. Originality/value – Wiki technologies determine the ways of building digital library network models which are structurally different from already known models, as well as new directions in forming information society and solving the problems encountered.

Research on Utilization of Library Website Digital Resources Based on Web

With the rapid development and widespread use of Internet, readers, especially scientific researchers, depend more on Internet than on traditional library services for necessary information. The Web access of libraries has begun to lay more emphasis on digital reference and consultation services. More importantly, this new type of service is becoming the focus of many scholars research at home and abroad. In this paper, we design a library digital resources management system based on the semantic Web technology, and analyze the access control model in our system by the semantic Web.