Report on Knowledge Exchange workshop Price of keeping knowledge: financial streams for digital preservation

In contrast to cost modeling activities, the pricing of services must be simple and transparent. Calculating and thus knowing price structures, would not only help identify the level of detail required for cost modeling of individual instititutions, but also help develop a ”public” market for services as well as clarify the division of task and the modeling of funding and revenue streams for data preservation of public institutions. This workshop has built on the results from the workshop ”The Costs and Benefits of Keeping Knowledge” which took place 11 June 2012 in Copenhagen. This expert workshop aimed at: •Identifying ways for data repositories to abstract from their complicated cost structures and arrive at one transparent pricing structure which can be aligned with available and plausible funding schemes. Those repositories will probably need a stable institutional funding stream for data management and preservation. Are there any estimates for this, absolute or as percentage of overall cost? Part of the revenue will probably have to come through data management fees upon ingest. How could that be priced? Per dataset, per GB or as a percentage of research cost? Will it be necessary to charge access prices, as they contradict the open science paradigm? •What are the price components for pricing individual services, which prices are currently being paid e.g. to commercial providers? What are the description and conditions of the service(s) delivered and guaranteed? •What types of risks are inherent in these pricing schemes? •How can services and prices be defined in an all-inclusive and simple manner, so as to enable researchers to apply for specific amount when asking for funding of data-intensive projects?Please

Building knowledge repositories: partnership of sectors

Tedd, L.A. (2008). Building knowledge repositories: partnership of sectors. Presentation given at conference on Building Knowledge Repositories organised by the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Delhi, 7-9 February 2008. Delhi, India, February 2008.

Is it time for standards and a common data exchange format for digital image analysis?

Digital image analysis is at a crossroads. While the technology has made great strides over the past few decades, there is an urgent need for image analysis to inform the next wave of large scale tissue biomarker discovery studies in cancer. Drawing parallels from the growth of next generation sequencing, this presentation will consider the case for a common language or standard format for storing and communicating digital image analysis data. In this context, image analysis data comprises more than simply an image with markups and attached key-value pair metrics. The desire to objectively benchmark competing platforms or a push for data to be deposited to public repositories much like genomics data may drive the need for a standard that also encompasses granular, cell-by-cell data.

LSP communication in a digital age: the outcomes of teaching and learning in tertiary education

This paper discusses the changes brought by the communication revolution in teaching and learning in the scope of LSP. Its aim is to provide an insight on how teaching which was bi-dimensional, turned into a multidimensional system, gathering other complementary resources that have transformed, in a incredibly short time, the ways we receive share and store information, for instance as professionals, and keep in touch with our peers. The increasing rise of electronic publications, the incredible boom of social and professional networks, search engines, blogs, list servs, forums, e-mail blasts, Facebook pages, YouTube contents, Tweets and Apps, have twisted the way information is conveyed. Classes ceased to be predictable and have been empowered by digital platforms, innumerous and different data repositories (TILDE, IATE, LINGUEE, and so many other terminological data banks) that have definitely transformed the academic world in general and tertiary education in particular. There is a bulk of information to be digested by students, who are no longer passive but instead responsible and active for their academic outcomes. The question is whether they possess the tools to select only what is accurate and important for a certain subject or assignment, due to that overflow? Due to the reduction of the number of course years in most degrees, after the implementation of Bologna and the shrinking of the curricula contents, have students the possibility of developing critical thinking? Both teaching and learning rely on digital resources to improve the speed of the spreading of knowledge. But have those changes been effective to promote really communication? Furthermore, with the increasing Apps that have already been developed and will continue to appear for learning foreign languages, for translation among others, will the students feel the need of learning them once they have those Apps. These are some the questions we would like to discuss in our paper.

Digital Libraries Initiatives in India

Digital library Initiatives in India, models of electronic and print publishing, digitallibrary and funding, chaalenges and oppertunities,digital ibrary initiatives in India, current digital library moedels etc

Building Digital. Repository Of Project Reports: A Proposal for cusat

The effective organization and utilisation of resources produced by the students, faculty and research scholars in university departments assume greater significance. Institutional repositories are developed by many institutions to provide resources and materials that support students in their studies. The present study recognizes the value of such a repository in the Engineering and Technology discipline in Cochin University of Science and Technology. The paper explains the need for a digital repository ofproject reports. The authors present a modelfor digital repository, and the organization.and administration of such a repository. The study also analyses the various other factors associated with the proposed depository.

Resum del "VII Workshop REBIUN sobre proyectos digitales: la estrategia digital: ¿hacia donde?"

Resum del "VII Workshop REBIUN sobre proyectos digitales". Ens dóna el marc tecnològic (Driver) i legal (Cedro, Rebiun), parla del Open Access i exposa alguns projectes digitals de biblioteques

Can repositories be fun?: Thinking about… Repositories

Trabalho apresentado na conferência Os Desafios das Bibliotecas Digitais realizado na Fundação Getulio Vargas em agosto 2014

BDPI Digital Library of USP in intellectual production

USP INFORMATION MANDATE – Resolution 6444 – Oct. 22th, 2012 Make public and accessible the knowledge generated by research developed at USP, encouraging the sharing, the use and generation of new content; •Preserve institutional memory by storing the full text of Intellectual Production (scientific, academic, artistic and technical); •Increase the impact of the knowledge generated in the university within the scientific community and the general public; •It is suggested to all members of the USP community to publish the results of their research, preferably, in open-access publication outlets and/or repositories and to include the permission to deposit their production in the BDPI system in their publication agreements. •Institutional Repository for Intellectual Production; •Official Source USP Statistical Yearbook.

Proyectos conjuntos entre grupos de investigación y bibliotecas para la preservación digital y la difusión. El caso de un archivo de fuentes primarias de autores destacados

El interés por preservar y difundir digitalmente los materiales de autores destacados de la cultura de un país es un buen motivo de reunión de investigadores humanistas y Bibliotecas universitarias. A partir del ejemplo de gestación del proyecto Archivo ARCAS de fuentes primarias de autores destacados, se muestra la riqueza de interacciones posibles en un escenario marcado por la sinergia que produce el desarrollo de proyectos conjuntos. Se exponen los antecedentes y se presentan los actores intervinientes. Se detallan las principales decisiones que la FaHCE (UNLP) / IdIHCS (UNLP-CONICET) y su Biblioteca han debido tomar teniendo en cuenta su organización, la disponibilidad de recursos humanos y la base tecnológica existente para que el proyecto pueda prosperar. Luego, a un nivel más técnico, se consignan las principales características del prototipo generado y de su primera fase de implementación. Finalmente, se concluye enunciando los desafíos a futuro que el proyecto demandará, considerando la construcción de una plataforma integrada de fuentes primarias que contemple las necesidades de grupos de investigación con perfiles heterogéneos

Proyectos conjuntos entre grupos de investigación y bibliotecas para la preservación digital y la difusión. El caso de un archivo de fuentes primarias de autores destacados

El interés por preservar y difundir digitalmente los materiales de autores destacados de la cultura de un país es un buen motivo de reunión de investigadores humanistas y Bibliotecas universitarias. A partir del ejemplo de gestación del proyecto Archivo ARCAS de fuentes primarias de autores destacados, se muestra la riqueza de interacciones posibles en un escenario marcado por la sinergia que produce el desarrollo de proyectos conjuntos. Se exponen los antecedentes y se presentan los actores intervinientes. Se detallan las principales decisiones que la FaHCE (UNLP) / IdIHCS (UNLP-CONICET) y su Biblioteca han debido tomar teniendo en cuenta su organización, la disponibilidad de recursos humanos y la base tecnológica existente para que el proyecto pueda prosperar. Luego, a un nivel más técnico, se consignan las principales características del prototipo generado y de su primera fase de implementación. Finalmente, se concluye enunciando los desafíos a futuro que el proyecto demandará, considerando la construcción de una plataforma integrada de fuentes primarias que contemple las necesidades de grupos de investigación con perfiles heterogéneos

Proyectos conjuntos entre grupos de investigación y bibliotecas para la preservación digital y la difusión. El caso de un archivo de fuentes primarias de autores destacados

El interés por preservar y difundir digitalmente los materiales de autores destacados de la cultura de un país es un buen motivo de reunión de investigadores humanistas y Bibliotecas universitarias. A partir del ejemplo de gestación del proyecto Archivo ARCAS de fuentes primarias de autores destacados, se muestra la riqueza de interacciones posibles en un escenario marcado por la sinergia que produce el desarrollo de proyectos conjuntos. Se exponen los antecedentes y se presentan los actores intervinientes. Se detallan las principales decisiones que la FaHCE (UNLP) / IdIHCS (UNLP-CONICET) y su Biblioteca han debido tomar teniendo en cuenta su organización, la disponibilidad de recursos humanos y la base tecnológica existente para que el proyecto pueda prosperar. Luego, a un nivel más técnico, se consignan las principales características del prototipo generado y de su primera fase de implementación. Finalmente, se concluye enunciando los desafíos a futuro que el proyecto demandará, considerando la construcción de una plataforma integrada de fuentes primarias que contemple las necesidades de grupos de investigación con perfiles heterogéneos

Online digital special collections in English universities: promoting awareness

Cultural institutions in the UK are repositories of a wealth of historical material. The scholarly importance of such resources is at the basis of the numerous digitisation projects aimed at widening their access worldwide. The lack of national policies has left those institutions alone in engaging in dissemination activities and in raising awareness of their own online material. Of particular interest to the author are the digital special collections hosted in the English Universities. The main activities of these institutions differ from others, such as museums, archives and public libraries, as they do not have the main institutional duties of preserving and the exploiting of their holdings. This article highlights related issues and suggests some of the possible measures to effectively promote and disseminate universities’ online digital special collections.

Online digital special collections in English universities: promoting awareness

Cultural institutions in the UK are repositories of a wealth of historical material. The scholarly importance of such resources is at the basis of the numerous digitisation projects aimed at widening their access worldwide. The lack of national policies has left those institutions alone in engaging in dissemination activities and in raising awareness of their own online material. Of particular interest to the author are the digital special collections hosted in the English Universities. The main activities of these institutions differ from others, such as museums, archives and public libraries, as they do not have the main institutional duties of preserving and the exploiting of their holdings. This article highlights related issues and suggests some of the possible measures to effectively promote and disseminate universities’ online digital special collections.

Services for Content Creation and Presentation in an Iconographical Digital Library

Content creation and presentation are key activities in a multimedia digital library (MDL). The proper design and intelligent implementation of these services provide a stable base for overall MDL functionality. This paper presents the framework and the implementation of these services in the latest version of the “Virtual Encyclopaedia of Bulgarian Iconography” multimedia digital library. For the semantic description of the iconographical objects a tree-based annotation template is implemented. It provides options for autocompletion, reuse of values, bilingual entering of data, automated media watermarking, resizing and conversing. The paper describes in detail the algorithm for automated appearance of dependent values for different characteristics of an iconographical object. An algorithm for avoiding duplicate image objects is also included. The service for automated appearance of new objects in a collection after their entering is included as an important part of the content presentation. The paper also presents the overall service-based architecture of the library, covering its main service panels, repositories and their relationships. The presented vision is based on a long-term observation of the users’ preferences, cognitive goals, and needs, aiming to find an optimal functionality solution for the end users.