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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