Digital Repository

تهدف الدراسة الحالية إلى بناء نموذج لمستودع رقمي لجامعة مصر للعلوم والتكنولوجيا يضم كافة
أشكال الإنتاج الفكري الرقمي الصادر عن أطراف مجتمع الجامعة، وإتاحته للمجتمع في الداخل والخارج
عن طريق تحليل البيئة الداخلية للجامعة للتعرف على مدى وعي المجتمع داخل الجامعة بالمستودعات
الرقمية وأهميتها، واحتياجات هذا المجتمع من المستودع، وإمكانية إتاحته لمصادره الإلكترونية، كما
تهدف إلى التعرف على خدمات المستودعات الرقمية العربية والعالمية، كل ذلك من أجل الوصول لأفضل
مستودع رقمي يخدم مجتمع الجامعة، ثم قياس مدى الإفادة من المستودع الرقمي لدى مجتمع الجامعة
بعد تشغيله. وتم استخدام المنهج المسحي ومنهج دراسة الحالة والمنهج التجريبي مع استخدام أسلوب
تحليل وتصميم النظم للوصول إلى أدق النتائج التي تساعد على نجاح الدراسة.
The current study aims to build a model of a digital repository at Misr University for Science and Technology, it includes all forms of digital intellectual production outputs of the university community, and made available to the community both inside and outside the university Using Analysis of internal environment of the University To identify the community awareness within the University digital repositories and their importance and their needs from it. And the availability of using the electronic resources throw the repository. Also, this study aimed to learn about digital repository services regionally and globally.

Este trabalho analisa o processo de construção do repositório digital Objectos do culto católico. A constituição de uma colecção de temática religiosa justifica-se pelo facto de ser um conjunto coerente e representativo de uma parte significativa dos acervos nacionais de património cultural móvel. Por outro lado, a variedade de tipologias
permite enquadrar o actual conceito de biblioteca digital, como um repositório alargado de conteúdos, integrando espécies bibliográficas e objectos museológicos. Estudámos as características das imagens digitalizadas adequadas à constituição de uma matriz de arquivo, a partir das quais se elaboram cópias de consulta, e descrevemos um esquema de nomeação e organização dos ficheiros digitais obtidos. Analisámos os esquemas de metadados a aplicar no âmbito dos objectos patrimoniais, de modo a garantir a leitura e a recuperação da informação a longo prazo. No contexto deste trabalho, inventariámos e processámos, segundo as regras de digitalização, metacodificação e preservação digital, compiladas e descritas nesta dissertação, 10 objectos patrimoniais de tipologia variada (pintura, ourivesaria, têxteis, mobiliário e livro antigo). Com os objectos digitais gerados foi  construído o protótipo do repositório digital que se apresenta e discute neste trabalho, detalhando-se as suas
funcionalidades. Utilizámos, para o efeito o Greenstone, disponível em open-source, o qual configurámos, incluindo vários modelos de pesquisa e uma hierarquia de thesaurus. Para efeitos de validação do trabalho realizado e obtenção de sugestões de melhoria, o protótipo foi submetido a 14 pessoas de diferentes áreas disciplinares (História, História da Arte, Biblioteconomia, Museologia, Comunicação Cultural e Informática), que o testaram em Windows e Linux e cujas observações foram recolhidas e são aqui apresentadas e analisadas.

This work analyzes the process of building a digital repository of objects of Catholic worship. The establishment of a collection of religious nature is justified by the fact that it constitutes a coherent and representative set of a significant part of the national collections. Moreover, the variety of types allows us to frame the current concept of digital library as a repository of expanded content, including bibliographic species and museum objects. We have studied the characteristics of digital images suitable for the formation of a digital archive, from which copies can be made for study or other activities. We also describe a naming and organization scheme for the files obtained. We have analyzed the metadata schemes needed and the ways to ensure the persistence and retrievability of data on the long run.
In the context of this study we have made the inventory and processing, according to the rules of digitization, meta-codification and digital preservation, compiled and described in this work, 10 different types of objects (paintings, jewellery, textiles, furniture and old printed books). With the digital objects generated it was built a prototype of the digital repository that is presented and discussed on this work, while detailing its features. For this purpose we used the open-source software package Greenstone, which was configured including several models of research and a hierarchy of thesaurus. For the purpose of validating the work and obtain suggestions for its improvement, the prototype was submitted to 14 persons from different fields of study (history, art history, library, museum studies, cultural communication and computing), which tested it on Windows and Linux and whose comments were collected and analyzed and are also presented here on this work.

The Digitization Workflow Management System (DWMS) is a system developed in Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Library of Alexandria, to manage the whole process of digitization including its various phases, system users, files movement, archiving, and integration with the ILS and the library digital repository. The system supports workflow dynamic evolutions and deviation to allow for exception handling. It provides history tracking

In presenting this paper, I want to foreground the constant paradox of enabling-constraining that is intrinsic to all human cultural activity, including the documentation and digitisation of performance. The phrase ‘enabling-constraining ’ has been drawn from the useful insights of Ralph D. Stacey and his colleagues in the Centre for Complexity, University of Hertfordshire. Stacey observes that people attempt to establish the aboutness or objectification of knowledge in their interactions with each other. Through social and, in particular, institutional relations of power, some groups of individuals, in determining what knowledges are produced and recognised as normal and legitimate, exert constraint over other groups of individuals. Any distinctive group of people might be understood in the following terms: [B]iological individuals relating to each other in the medium of symbols, thereby forming, while simultaneously being formed by, figurations of power relations between them, and...

We present an empirical study of different social networks obtained from digital repositories. Our analysis reveals the community structure and provides a useful visualising technique. We investigate the scaling properties of the community size distribution, and find that all the networks exhibit power law scaling in the community size distributions with exponent either-0.5 or-1. Finally we find that the networks' community structure is topologically self-similar using the Horton-Strahler index.

This paper includes an overview of the changing landscape of scholarly communication and describes outcomes from the innovative eBank UK project, which seeks to build links from e-research through to e-learning. As introduction, the scholarly knowledge cycle is described and the role of digital repositories and aggregator services in linking data-sets from Grid-enabled projects to e-prints through to peer-reviewed articles as resources in portals and Learning Management Systems, are assessed. The development outcomes from the ...

1 Introduction The increment of cooperative organization and the combination of efforts have been suggested as directions for the development of virtual libraries (Mason et al. 2000). This might be achieved through the interoperability of several applications or through the ...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this paper, we present the status of identity management systems and e-learning standards across Europe, in order to promote the mobility and the sharing of contents and services in higher education institutions. With new requirements for authentication, authorization and identity management for Web applications, most higher education institutions implement several solutions to address these issues. At

Abstract: Description of structural and semantic relationships and properties of, within, and between resources is seen as a key issue in digital preservation. But the markup languages used to encode descriptions for migration between and storage within digital repositories are subject to the same interpretive problems that complicate other uses of markup. This paper reports on a project that aims to address these problems by explicating facts that otherwise would not support automated inferencing. These facts are expressed as RDF [ ...

Abstract Interactive web-based resources are significant to the mediation of culture in that they act as an interface [10] between communities and information structures. The focus of this paper is on the use of digital media arts and user-centered technologies to develop a digital ...

The RLG/NARA trusted digital repository (TDR) certification checklist defines a set of management policies that establish the characteristics of a repository for digital preservation. We explore how these management policies can be mapped onto a set of repository management policies derived from the DSpace/SRB software system. We examine a mapping of the system management policies to rules, the definition of

This paper discusses the building of a digital knowledge repository for life-long competence development. The repository is an essential part of the LearnWeb2.0 system, which is aimed at stimulating knowledge sharing, knowledge management and the transformation of information into knowledge. The paper describes system’s architecture, the choice of a digital repository, the modeling of digital objects and the metadata for resources.

In 2006 the Portuguese National Archives (Directorate- General of the Portuguese Archives) engaged in the devel- opment of an OAIS compatible digital repository system for long-term preservation of digital material. Simultaneously, at the University of Minho a project called CRiB was be- ing devised which aimed at the development of a whole- some set of services to aid digital preservation.

The overall goal of libraries the world over is to best satisfy their users by providing relevant and up-to-date information. Librarians are dedicated to ensuring that information is always available, in retrievable formats and can be readily disseminated on request. But with the changing demographics of our users, along with changes in technology and new courses, it will take a multi-generational hybrid Librarian and Information Scientist to maintain relevant collections and services to meet the needs and desires of our various patrons. To be able to serve the next generation users, Librarians are exploring ways on how to adapt to the new environment: staff development to create hybrid librarians, who will be able to undertake functions of managers/leaders, website designers, authors, mentors, trainers, archivists, researchers and the like. Therefore, the future generation Librarian should be well trained in areas like customer care, leadership, mentoring, website authoring, traini...

Established LTA Board, mission statement, and succession plans Approved appraisal criteria for selection of data Began nominating and approving data for accession to the LTA Implementing a digital repository based on the Fedora open source architecture Conducting a selfassessment to meet the requirements for a trustworthy repository Much of the scientific data that are being collected today cannot be recreated if they are not properly preserved and documented. Establishment of reliable long-term digital archives is essential to preserving these data and associated documentation beyond the working lifetimes of current scientists. Numerous challenges, both technical and institutional, need to be addressed before these data or their documentation become lost or inaccessible. Direct collaboration between university research libraries and active scientific data centers is one approach to addressing these challenges. We report here on the collaboration between the Columbia Libraries and t...

We present a novel approach for extracting noun phrases in general and named entities in particular from a digital repository of text documents. The problem of coreference resolution has been divided into two subproblems: pronoun resolution and non-pronominal resolution. A rule based-technique was used for pronoun resolution while a learning approach for nonpronominal resolution. For named entity resolution, disambiguation arises mainly due to polysemy and synonymy. The proposed approach fixes both problems with the help of WordNet and the Word Sense Disambiguation tool. The proposed approach, to our knowledge, outperforms several baseline techniques with a higher balanced F-measure, which is harmonic mean of recall and precision. The improvements in the system performance are due to the filtering of antecedents for the anaphor based on several linguistic disagreements, use of a hybrid approach, and increment in the feature vector to include more linguistic details in the learning t...

Publishing scientific research is an area of study that attracts interest from various stakeholders such as publishers, academic and research staff, libraries and funders. In the past decade increased journal subscription fees prompted calls for cheaper and more efficient means of accessing the scientific literature. Factors such as the expansion of digital repositories, the introduction of open source journal management