Digital Libraries: Tools for Facilitating Access, Management and Preservation of Digital Content

Digital LibrariesTools for Facilitating Access, Management and Preservation of Digital Content

Lighton Phiri

September 7, 2015

Outline

1) Introduction2) Motivation3) Examples4) Digital Libraries5) Case Study6) Summary

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Introduction

We live in exciting times–-The Information Age

Massive amount of data generated and digitised1) Born digital data

◻ Data created electronically◻ Contemporary manuscripts& monographs; Tweets& FB posts :)

2) Digitised data◻ Data initially created in non-digital form◻ Most content created before ‘The Information Age’

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Why is Preservation Important?

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Urgency to preserve delicate artifacts

Massive born-digital content being generated

http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za

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http://www.netd.ac.za

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http://archive.org/web (1)

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http://archive.org/web (2)

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Digital Libraries in Perspective

DL sub-layers■ User interface■ Service layer■ Storage layer

DL fundamentals■ Identifiers■ Interoperability■ Metadata■ Standards

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Case study: open.uct.ac.za (1)

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Case study: open.uct.ac.za (2)

open.uct.ac.za runs a DSpace instance–-a popular standards-based institutional repository software tool

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DL sub-layers1) User interface

◻ Web; CLI2) Service layer

◻ Search, OAI-PMH3) Storage layer

◻ Operating System and database

DL fundamentals1) Identifiers

◻ Handles2) Interoperability

◻ OAI-PMH; SWord3) Metadata

◻ Dublin Core4) Standards

◻ OAI-PMH; SWord; DC

Summary

■ Overview◻ Introduction, motivation and problem◻ Examples of DLs

■ DL in perspective◻ DL aspects and fundametals◻ Case study–-OpenUCT

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User Interface Service Layer Storage Layer

Identifiers X X

Interoperability X

Metadata X X

Standards X X X

Bibliography

[1] Arms, William Y. (1995). "Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library". In: D-Lib Magazine. The Magazine of Digital Library Research 1.1. DOI: 10.1045/july95-arms.

[2] Arms, William Y. (2001). "Libraries, Technology, and People". In: Digital Libraries. Ed. by William Y. Arms. 2nd. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Chap. Chapter 1, pp. 1–20.

[3] Smith, MacKenzie, Mary Barton, Margret Branschofsky, Greg McClellan, Julie Harford Walker, Mick Bass, Dave Stuve, and Robert Tansley (2003). "DSpace. An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository". In: D-Lib Magazine 9.1. DOI: 10.1045/january2003-smith

[4] Suleman, Hussein (2007). "Digital LibrariesWithout Databases: The Bleek and Lloyd Collection". In: TPDL. Ed. by L´aszl ´o Kov´acs, Norbert Fuhr, and Carlo Meghini. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 392–403. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74851-9_33.

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