Management Of Digital Objects Research Articles

Problem issues of identification management of digital objects of multiservice systems

The paper considers the issues of access to the ecosystem of services, obtaining and providing services, which can be both internal and external in relation to the information system in which the digital object is located. Today, the management of relationships between digital objects and services is carried out not only due to the functionality provided by the information system, but also, in particular, due to the management of the identification of digital objects and services. As a digital object, not only the object that wants to receive or provide services, but also the service itself is considered. Therefore, identity management is considered in relation to two interacting objects. The analysis of digital object identification management was carried out based on the following circumstances. Identification of the same digital objects can be expressed in different sign and meaning systems. Therefore, it is necessary to update and maintain many identifiers within one ecosystem of services and be able to manage them. Identifiers can be divided into "stupid" (limited), which cannot perform anything except the function of linking a digital object to a strictly limited set of operations within the information system, regardless of the conditions in which it is located, and "smart", which can provide an opportunity to respond to circumstances and the possibility of implementing a flexible scenario selection that can be updated according to the situation. "Smart" identifiers, unlike "stupid" ones, have properties that allow them to respond to circumstances, and therefore it is necessary to be able to manage such properties of identifiers. The principles of a new architecture for the design of computer systems are proposed, which allow flexible management of digital objects, their properties, identification of digital objects, properties of identifiers depending on the circumstances of the time, place and situation in which the digital objects are located. The new architecture makes it possible to integrate new entities into information systems without significant modernizations associated with changes in source and object code, information schemes of systems, modernization of data structures, which lead to the need for mandatory restructuring of database tables and database table management procedures data.

Crosswalks among stewardship maturity assessment approaches promoting trustworthy FAIR data and repositories

Various maturity assessment approaches have been developed to help research data repositories effectively manage their holdings at both the organizational and dataset levels. Repositories can use these approaches as self-assessment tools—potentially leading to formal certification—to benchmark the maturity of their data holdings, highlight gaps in their practices, and improve their sustainability. Understanding the differences among these assessment approaches can provide beneficial information on stewardship best practices for supporting FAIR data managed by Trustworthy Data Repositories. However, it is a daunting task due to diversity in the perspectives of the approaches and the potential for subjective interpretation of individual criteria. In this article, we outline the commonalities and distinctions of three established assessment approaches: i) CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements, ii) Data Stewardship Maturity Matrix, and iii) FAIR Guiding Principles. Strong correlations are found in data discovery, accessibility, interoperability, and usability due to overlapping requirements in digital object management. The study also reveals that the complexity of the approaches can lead to a large variety of inferred crosswalks among them.

Need for a digital preservation model based on the administration of digital objects and organizational infrastructure

Public entities or institutions that have the responsibility of keeping long-term data, base their processes on digital preservation, involving the application of information technology and activities in the field of information sciences. The digital preservation has historical implications, it has a direct effect on the cultural heritage, because, without information (digital or not) that is guarded, there is no inheritance or culture, but without technology that allows the preservation or recovery of such information, neither would it be, Thus, the research question is posed as: What technical and legal characteristics are necessary to have an adaptive digital preservation model based on aspects of digital object management and organizational infrastructure, to ensure accessibility of information in the long term in public institutions of Ecuador ?, determining through an evaluation of NESTOR trust repositories and Ecuadorian legislation, that it is necessary to create an adaptive digital Preservation model.  Â

Personal Archive Management with Digital Curation Concept on Students’ Smartphones

Bckground of the study: Digital curation activities are necessary for organizing digital archives to be accessible to the present and future. The problem in this research is that information and library management (MIP) students who have previously received records management (MRA) courses through digital curation have not fully implemented digital curation in managing digital archives.Purpose: This study aims to find out how MIP students curate digital archives of their photos and documents on the smartphone.Method: The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive approach and technique. Data used in interviews with five MIP students as informants.Findings: The results show that information in conducting digital curation activities such as digital object evaluation and discussion, life cycle and digital object management on an ongoing basis, and keeping them accessible, each individual has a unique and different way.Conclusion: Factor needs, memories, and usefulness of digital archive become a more determining factor in students in digital curation.

Shared Collection Development, Digitization, and Owned Digital Collections

While library models already exist for sharing physical materials and joint licensing, this paper envisions an aspect of future collections involving a national digital collection owned, not licensed, by libraries. Collaborative collection development, digitization, and digital object management of owned collections can benefit societies in multiple ways, from expanding access to users otherwise unable to reach these materials, to preserving content even when disaster strikes, to reducing duplication of effort and expense in collection or digitization. This article will explore both the benefits of and the challenges to this type of collaboration.

Shared Collection Development, Digitization, and Owned Digital Collections

While library models already exist for sharing physical materials and joint licensing, this paper envisions an aspect of future collections involving a national digital collection owned, not licensed, by libraries. Collaborative collection development, digitization, and digital object management of owned collections can benefit societies in multiple ways, from expanding access to users otherwise unable to reach these materials, to preserving content even when disaster strikes, to reducing duplication of effort and expense in collection or digitization. This article will explore both the benefits of and the challenges to this type of collaboration.

The obsolescence of Information and Information Systems CERN Digital Memory project

In 2016 was started the CERN Digital Memory project with the main goal of preventing loss of historical content produced by the organisation. The first step of the project was targeted to address the risk of deterioration of the most vulnerable materials, mostly the multimedia assets created in analogue formats from 1954 to the late 1990’s, like still and moving images kept on magnetic carriers. In parallel was studied today’s best practices to guarantee a long life to digital content, either born digital or resulting from a digitization process. If traditional archives and libraries have grown up during centuries establishing recognized standards to deal with the preservation of printed content, the field of digital archiving is in its infancy. This paper shortly exposes the challenges when migrating hundreds of thousands of audio, slides, negatives, videotapes or films from the analogue to the digital era. It will then describe how a Digital Memory platform is being built, conform to the principles of the ISO-16363 digital object management norm that defines trustworthy digital repositories. Finally, as all information repository managers are faced with the necessary migration of underlying systems and the obsolescence of the information itself, the talk will explain how a digital archiving platform focusing only on content preservation could be of direct interest for most of the live systems.

Hyperconnected Network: A Decentralized Trusted Computing and Networking Paradigm

With the development of the Internet of Things, a complex CPS system has emerged and is becoming a promising information infrastructure. In the CPS system, the loss of control over user data has become a very serious challenge, making it difficult to protect privacy, boost innovation, and guarantee data sovereignty. In this article, we propose HyperNet, a novel decentralized trusted computing and networking paradigm, to meet the challenge of loss of control over data. HyperNet is composed of the intelligent PDC, which is considered as the digital clone of a human individual; the decentralized trusted connection between any entities based on blockchain as well as smart contract; and the UDI platform, enabling secure digital object management and an identifier-driven routing mechanism. HyperNet has the capability of protecting data sovereignty, and has the potential to transform the current communication-based information system to the future data-oriented information society.

Preserving digital heritage

Regardless of current or future technologies, accessing digitally preserved information resources will always pose challenges. There is a plethora of models, standards and best practices addressing the different facets for the preservation of digital objects. The management of digital objects requires well-defined policies and data management plans that include all processes within their specific lifecycle. To achieve high levels of data sharing and long-term re-use of data, APARSEN recommends developing an Interoperable Framework for Persistent Identifiers, paving the way for a ‘Ring of Trusted Persistent Identifiers for Linked Open Data’. To enable semantic interoperability of such a Ring, this article proposes to map LODE-BD metadata with the Framework’s ontology. The Ring can be further enriched with LOD2 Technology Stack to tackle the problem of trustworthiness of linked data lifecycle while addressing the issue of Big Data. To be trusted, digital libraries need to be audited and certified in compliance with the European Framework for Audit and Certification.

CREACIÓN DE OBJETOS DIGITALES DE APRENDIZAJE Y SU INCLUSIÓN EN EL REPOSITORIO INSTITUCIONAL eSpacio-UNED

The use of marking and labeling standards in digital objects is a process widely implemented for managing knowledge. This article aims to explain the work undertaken in the Electronics and Computer Engineering Department at UNED as a way to take advantage and reuse the department resources, such as annotations, problems, solutions, schemes, articles, etc. The work has been done using classification, labeling and digital organization of information, having been extended in a subsequent stage of extraction and management of digital objects that have been extracted from the publications of papers presented in TAEE conferences. In order to store such an amount of digital objects, the university’s institutional repository, eSpacio-UNED, has been selected to store both learning objects and metadata associated files.

Digital curation skills in the performing arts – an investigation of practitioner awareness and knowledge of digital object management and preservation

This study examines the digital curation awareness and practice of a sample of practitioners from the UK performing arts community. Twelve performance arts practitioners from across the United Kingdom were interviewed to establish understanding of whether, why and how they create and manage digital objects in the course of their creative work. Detailed qualitative data from this series of one-to-one interviews about the actual and intended digital curation practices of these performance arts practitioners establish what they understand about sustainable management of digital objects, and also which digital curation activities they actually include in their working processes. This knowledge is supplemented with some preliminary exploration of the types of digital resources that are sought and used by performance arts practitioners, in order to understand whether there is a comparable appetite for the creation and for the reuse of digital objects in this field. Questions in the interview identify the sources used by practitioners when attempting to access digital objects created by others as part of research for their own creative work. This provides a ‘practitioner's-eye view’ of performance collections; that is to say, the resources used by practitioners as collections for research, irrespective of the formal designation or intended purpose of such resources. Here, this enquiry is set into the broader context of digital curation and preservation. The approach to the interviewing is described, findings are discussed and the presence of possible skills and knowledge gaps is presented. Concluding remarks indicate the implications of these indicative findings for the representation of performance arts practice for current and future generations, and suggest useful future areas of enquiry.

Administrative Metadata for Long-Term Preservation and Management of Resources: A Survey of Current Practices in ARL Libraries

An institutional repository is, among other things, a means to preserve an organization's scholarly output or resources in a variety of digital media and across disciplines. Administrative metadata are critical to the of these digital resources. This study, which surveyed fifty-four Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutional repositories about their administrative metadata, was designed to create a snapshot of current metadata practices. It revealed no true consensus of administrative metadata accommodated and collected by the repositories. Moreover, responses throughout the survey indicate that in general, organizations are neither accommodating nor recording administrative metadata to any significant extent. If research libraries are to provide permanent, organized, and secure repositories for institutional scholarship and special collections, they must identify core metadata in the context of repository objectives, explore barriers to collection of administrative metadata, and strategize as to how those barriers might be mitigated or overcome. ********** An institutional repository is a central digital repository for an organization's scholarly output across media and disciplines. It is organized and secure, and the digital objects (scholarly resources) it houses are intended to be permanently preserved. A scan of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) repository websites shows that many libraries make explicit this preservation promise to depositors and other users. Administrative metadata, which describes the technical characteristics of the digital file and any original physical source object, actions, and relevant intellectual property rights and access permissions, is critical to the of digital resources. (1) Ten years ago, early in the development of institutional repositories, lack of and administrative metadata was cited as the biggest obstacle to successful long-term preservation. (2) Six years ago, the Audit & Certification Criteria and Checklist developed by the Research Libraries Group-National Archives and Records Administration (RLG-NARA) Task Force on Digital Repository Certification addressed metadata again, and suggested preservation metadata is best addressed by members of the designated communities. (3) These communities have responded to the call by developing numerous standards to support the and management of digital objects. A review of these standards reveals that administrative metadata are detailed and voluminous, and for good reason. Most librarians and archivists would agree that the more information that is known about a resource, the more effectively it can be managed and preserved. Unfortunately, the gathering, recording, and management of detailed metadata is expensive; indeed, a 2002 report by RLG stated that creation of detailed technical metadata alone was possibly beyond the human resources of most institutions. (4) Ten years later, this is still the case. To further complicate matters, the array of standards, best practices, and models fail to form a cohesive whole. As if the sheer volume of detailed administrative metadata were not daunting enough, the overlap and gaps between the related standards make them difficult to implement within any repository system. There are metadata standards meant to apply to all formats but which lack the specificity needed for any one. (5) There are technical metadata standards intended for a specific format but which lack corresponding metadata for the original (usually analog) source material. (6) Those technical metadata standards that do include source metadata are often only applicable to one format. (7) Moreover, boundaries between metadata types are not clearly delineated. Some standards include rights metadata, (8) but some do not. Finally, there are standards that were not designed to record detailed administrative metadata, but which have nonetheless been extensively used for this purpose. …

Cartographic and Literary Intersections: Digital Literary Cartographies, Digital Humanities, and Libraries and Archives

Digital literary cartography projects can provide dynamic interactive experiences with prose narrative, poetry, and other literary forms. Recently, literary studies have begun to incorporate maps to reveal the geographic imagination at play in literature. As metaphor, maps furnish a conceptual model to understand literary texts through characters’ proximity to each other and events and relationships between “fictional” and “real” places. The transition to digital historical maps and digital literary cartography projects continues to inform the intersection of cartographic and literary studies in that such maps and projects incorporate labels and layers to identify social and cultural contexts. Finally, these maps and projects involve users’ imaginations to read maps as narratives through the map as metaphor. Cognitive mapping, implicit in this relationship, connects cartography and literature to inform spatial and perceptual conceptions. Libraries and archives contribute to digital humanities and digital literary cartographies through digitization, preservation, and metadata of digital historical maps. Scholars, librarians, and archivists can collaborate to contribute metadata for cartographic and literary materials to create digital literary cartographies within online public access catalogs (OPACs) and digital object management systems.

Gestión de objetos digitales con <i>ContentDm</i>: estudio de caso en el <i>Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya</i> y <i>el Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya</i>

Management of digital objects -pictures or other kinds of digital files- is a major challenge for organizations. It is a strategic process that involves several tasks within the institution, from the digitization of a physical document to the right document management process, through proper definition of the functional requirements for the tool used to publish and manage digital objects. A case of two institutions, Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia and the Cartography Institute of Catalonia , is presented. Both faced this strategic process and choose the ContentDm tool for publishing and managing their digital images.

Editor's desktop

The digital age raises new challenges for institutions that have traditionally been involved in the stewardship of the cultural record. One is the stewardship of items that were born digital, those the museum world distinguishes as digital accessions. Another is the creation and stewardship of digital images of two- and three-dimensional artifacts, including texts, in the collections of these institutions. Such images exist for many purposes — for preservation and dissemination as well as for new and innovative kinds of exploration and exploitation. The description, control and use of both classes of images consume scarce resources and require new kinds of expertise. Four of the articles in this issue address these challenges. In our special section Digital Desires: What Are Museums Up To? section editor Layna White and contributors Shyam Oberoi and Sally Hubbard examine the role and management of digital objects in art museums. In her introduction Layna explains how museums use images, while Shyam and Sally discuss the problems of implementing institution-wide digital asset management systems (DAMS) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Research Institute, respectively. In contrast universities are the principal focus of the fourth article, a report on Clifford Lynch's plenary session talk at the ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting in Milwaukee. He believes that in addressing their current problems cultural institutions must focus on their responsibilities for cultural stewardship, not on salvaging the means by which these responsibilities have been fulfilled for the last century, which may now be untenable or superseded. Closer to home some of these same issues are reflected in the President's Page. ASIS&T also must struggle with the balance between the paper and the electronic worlds and with the economics of scholarly publishing. President Nancy Roderer brings us up-to-date on the current highest priority of the Board of Directors and the staff, the re-compete of the contract to publish the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. The new contract, when it has been negotiated, will most likely incorporate all ASIS&T publications and will have to deal with the many issues related to electronic publication that have arisen over the last decade. Another aspect of scholarly publishing is also addressed by Elise Langdon-Neuner, editor of The Write Stuff (the journal of the European Medical Writers Association) and a member of the editorial board of European Science Editing (the journal of the European Association of Science Editors). In “Let Them Speak English” she reviews the current environment surrounding publication in English for non-native speakers. She also considers the cost to the broader intellectual community of forcing scholars to write in a language that is not their own and the possibilities for making the content of publications originally published in other languages more widely available in English. Our two final items are less closely related to the above themes or to each other, but each makes its own contribution. First, Andrew Sears and his colleagues report on a National Science Foundation workshop from 2006 aimed at setting a research agenda for human-centered computing. The paper summarizes the workshop's suggested research areas and also its observations on interdisciplinary research in the field. Finally, this issue's information architecture (IA) columnist, Mark Nolan, discusses the potential for exploiting the exploratory search model in IA.

Constructing a DRM framework for historical newspaper archives

– The purpose of this study is to discuss the concepts of digital rights management (DRM) of archives of historical newspapers and the design of a DRM framework to render the content of historical news under the rights of authority., – The paper takes the form of a literature review and system analysis., – The rights management of digital objects involves various levels of application techniques and standards which are more complex than physical ones. This study combines the advantages of both tethered and untethered models to manage the digital rights of historical newspapers. It not only simplifies the management system, but also guarantees the rights when users use different platforms to present these digital objects., – This study designs a simplified DRM framework to protect the rights of digitized contents and to practise the rights scope of online grant for a historical newspaper.

Investigating and modeling metadata use to support information architecture development in the statistical knowledge network

AbstractMetadata and an appropriate metadata model are nontrivial components of information architecture conceptualization and implementation, particularly when disparate and dispersed systems are integrated. Metadata availability can enhance retrieval processes, improve information organization and navigation, and support management of digital objects. To support these activities efficiently, metadata need to be modeled appropriately for the tasks. The authors' work focuses on how to understand and model metadata requirements to support the work of end users of an integrative statistical knowledge network (SKN). They report on a series of user studies. These studies provide an understanding of metadata elements necessary for a variety of user‐oriented tasks, related business rules associated with the use of these elements, and their relationship to other perspectives on metadata model development. This work demonstrates the importance of the user perspective in this type of design activity and provides a set of strategies by which the results of user studies can be systematically utilized to support that design.

Bibliographic Control for Twenty-First-Century Collection Management and Resource Discovery: Current Approaches in the British Library

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the bibliographic standards landscape is undergoing considerable development. Against a background of changing user expectations, technical possibilities and economic constraints, the British Library is reviewing its approach to traditional collection management and bibliographic standards. The lack of established standards for management of digital collections is leading to a period of experimentation in which research into future technologies sits alongside pragmatic solutions to deal with the realities of the transitional ‘hybrid library’. The authors present a personal view of current initiatives and developments in the British Library, including new technological opportunities and systems developments, digitization and digital object management, metadata schemas and application profiles. They also consider measures that are in place to handle the transition to a richer and more complex resource discovery future that is still evolving across the sector.

Resource description in a heterogeneous system environment

The author describes the challenges libraries face in implementing digital object management systems (DOMS) and information retrieval portals alongside the traditional integrated library systems (ILS). In particular, resource description policies, rules, and formats will be affected by the new applications of these systems. Multiple metadata formats will coexist and will be based on diverse—or nonexistent—rules. Achieving sufficient semantic interoperability between these applications is a demanding task. In the future, just as we are now sharing bibliographic information, libraries will also want to share the new kinds of metadata used in portals as well as the mappings that make one type of metadata interoperable with another.

Developing a digital preservation strategy at Edinburgh University Library

Digital preservation poses an increasing cause for concern in UK higher education institutions. This paper provides a general overview of the development of a digital preservation pilot project within a university library, including the future integration of the METS and OAIS standards. It also considers how it is planned to automate these digital preservation practices in Edinburgh University Library's new digital object management system.