scholarly journals How can we improve our web collection? An evaluation of webarchiving at the KB National Library of the Netherlands (2007–2017)

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Sierman ◽  
Kees Teszelszky
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
National Library ◽  
Open Archival Information System ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Initial Selection ◽  
The Web ◽  
Selection Of

In 2007, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Dutch National Library (KB-NL), started the project ‘webarchiving’ based on a selection of Dutch websites. The initial selection of 1000 websites has currently grown into over 12,000 selected websites, crawled at different intervals. Although due to legal restrictions the current use is limited to the KB-NL reading room, it is important that the KB-NL includes the requirements of the (future) users in its approach to creating a web collection. With respect to the long-term preservation of the collection, we also need to incorporate the requirements for long-term archiving in our approach, as described in the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Model ISO 14721: 2012. This article describes the results of a research project on webarchiving and the web collection of archived sites in the KB-NL, investigating the following questions. What is webarchiving in the Netherlands? What are the selection criteria of KB-NL and how are these related to what can be found on the Dutch web by the contemporary user? What is the influence of the choice of tools we use to harvest the final archived website? Do we know enough of the value of the web collection and the potential usage of it by researchers and how can we improve this value? This article will describe the outcomes of the research, the conclusions and advice that can be drawn from it and it is hoped will inspire broader discussions about the essence of creating web collections for long-term preservation as part of cultural heritage.

First person – Anne Janssen

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (19) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Nuclear Envelope ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Selective Autophagy ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Anne Janssen is first author on ‘ Direct observation of aggregate-triggered selective autophagy in human cells’, published in JCS. Anne conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Lukas Kapitein's lab at Division of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is now a FEBS long-term fellow in the lab of Delphine Larrieu at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK, where she is currently interested in the nuclear envelope and how problems in maintaining nuclear integrity can cause human disease.

scholarly journals Freeze-Concentrated Phase and State Transition Temperatures of Mixtures of Low and High Molecular Weight Cryoprotectants

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alma J. Flores-Ramírez ◽  
Pedro García-Coronado ◽  
Alicia Grajales-Lagunes ◽  
Raúl González García ◽  
Miguel Abud Archila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Transition ◽  
Frozen Storage ◽  
Thermal Transition ◽  
Transition Temperatures ◽  
Calorimetric Measurements ◽  
Mathematical Expressions ◽  
Mass Fractions ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Selection Of

Although numerous studies have been conducted on the use of cryoprotectants to prevent the deterioration of food during freezing and frozen storage, scarce reports exist on the thermal transition properties of aqueous cryoprotectant solutions at frozen temperatures. The selection of a suitable cryoprotective medium for the long-term preservation of food requires knowledge of the effects of cryoprotectants and their concentration on the freeze-concentrated unfrozen phase and state transition temperatures known asTg′,Tm′, andTm. Calorimetric measurements were conducted to determine theTg′,Tm′, andTmvalues of thirty frozen aqueous solutions containing maltodextrin, polydextrose, and glucose, in which a distance-based experimental design was used for mixtures of four components to establish their corresponding mass fractions in the mixtures. Thermograms, measured during heating/rewarming from –70 to 20°C, were used to identify the glass transition and freezing temperatures. Mathematical expressions forTg′,Tm′, andTmas a function of the mass fractions of cryoprotectants and water and their interactions (p< 0.05) were developed to aid the formulation of cryoprotective media involving more than two cryoprotectants for adequate frozen conservation of high and intermediate moisture foodstuffs.

scholarly journals Expressing Needs of Digital Audio-Visual Applications in Different Communities of Practice for Long-Term Preservation

2018 ◽  
pp. 234-258
Author(s):  
Naresh Kumar ◽  
Vittore Casarosa
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Open Archival Information System ◽  
Automatic Matching ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Lack of awareness on preservation tools and applications is a big issue today. To solve it European Commission has initiated research project, Presto4U that aimed to enable semi-automatic matching of preservation tools with audio-visual needs. To express the audio-visual needs formally it has mapped a knowledge schema. The knowledge schema was first cut and needed evaluation in terms of its ability to represent the Needs of different communities of practice, classes, their association and ability to represent requirements of Audio-visual community through properties of its classes. This evaluative study is conducted through Qualitative research approach using Interview and Questionnaire. Open Archival Information System reference model is used as theoretical framework. Fourteen members from Europe of three communities of practice have provided their needs for analysis. Data was analysed through six stages. The study found that knowledge schema is useful to express the needs of communities of practice but collected data should easily fit into the structure of knowledge schema.

scholarly journals Criteria in consultant selection: public procurement of architectural and engineering services

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefin Sporrong
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Procurement Policy ◽  
Selection Of

The competence, commitment and attitudes of design consultants strongly influence the quality and costs of built facilities. However, in the selection of professional services it is often difficult to specify and assess non-price criteria related to both firms and individual consultants. Therefore, clients traditionally rely on long term relations or recommendations from clients or colleagues. Public procurement regulation, however, restricts the use of such informal data. This study seeks to understand how procurers act to reconcile these conflicting demands.An explorative questionnaire survey distributed to Swedish municipalities investigates which selection criteria and information sources are used, as well as perceived difficulties and shortcomings related to consultancy procurement. Results show a high focus on price or more easily measured non-price criteria. This might limit the ability of municipal officials to evaluate consultant competence, especially aspects related to design and execution of projects. Furthermore, personal information sources are widely used, indicating a conflict between procurement practice and existing regulation. Unexpectedly, procurement officials were generally satisfied with their procurement practice. However, managers and more experienced procurers tend to be more satisfied than other officials. Satisfaction also appears to be connected to the existence of a procurement policy and more advanced selection methods. Keywords: public procurement, selection, consultants, Sweden

scholarly journals Towards Smart Storage for Repository Preservation Services

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Hitchcock ◽  
David Tarrant ◽  
Adrian Brown ◽  
Ben O’Steen ◽  
Neil Jefferies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Storage Management ◽  
Data Monitoring ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Continuous Data ◽  
Practical Level ◽  
The Web

The move to digital is being accompanied by a huge rise in volumes of (born-digital) content and data. As a result the curation lifecycle has to be redrawn. Processes such as selection and evaluation for preservation have to be driven by automation. Manual processes will not scale, and the traditional signifiers and selection criteria in older formats, such as print publication, are changing. The paper will examine at a conceptual and practical level how preservation intelligence can be built into software-based digital preservation tools and services on the Web and across the network ‘cloud’ to create ‘smart’ storage for long-term, continuous data monitoring and management. Some early examples will be presented, focussing on storage management and format risk assessment.

scholarly journals Going Back in Time to Find What Existed on the Web and How much has been Preserved: How much of Palestinian Web has been Archived?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaer Sammar ◽  
Hadi Khalilia
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Time Range ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Library ◽  
Internet Archive ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Web

The web is an important resource for publishing and sharing content. The main characteristic of the web is its volatility. Content is added, updated, and deleted all the time. Therefore, many national and international institutes started crawling and archiving the content of the web. The main focus of national institutes is to archive the web related to their country heritage, for example, the National Library of the Netherlands is focusing on archiving website that are of value to the Dutch heritage. However, there are still countries that haven’t taken the action to archive their web, which will result in loosing and having a gap in the knowledge. In this research, we focus on shedding the light on the Palestinian web. Precisely, how much of the Palestinian web has been archived. First, we create a list of Palestinian hosts that were on the web. For that we queried Google index exploiting the time range filter in order to get hosts overtime. We collected in 98 hosts in average in 5-years granularity from the year 1990 to 2019. We also obtained Palestinian hosts from the DMOZ directory. We collected 188 hosts. Second, we investigate the coverage of collected hosts in the Internet Archive and the Common-Crawl. We found that coverage of Google hosts in the Internet Archive ranges from 0% to 89% from oldest to newest time-granularity. The coverage of DMOZ hosts was 96%. The coverage of Google hosts in the Common-Crawl 57.1% to 74.3, while the coverage of DMOZ hosts in the Common-Crawl was in average 25% in all crawls. We found that even the host is covered in Internet Archive and Common-Crawl, the lifespan and the number of archived versions are low.

Current Practice for Transverse Mandibular and Maxillary Discrepancies in the Netherlands: A Web-Based Survey Among Orthodontists and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

2021 ◽  
pp. 194338752110276
Author(s):  
Atilla Gül ◽  
Stephen T. H. Tjoa ◽  
Jan P. de Gijt ◽  
Justin T. van der Tas ◽  
Hadi Sutedja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Orthodontic Treatment ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
The Web

The main objective of this study was to provide an overview of the current practice for transverse mandibular and maxillary discrepancies in the Netherlands using a web-based survey. Orthodontists (ORTHO) and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (OMFS) in the Netherlands were invited to the web-based survey via their professional association. Three cases were presented which could be treated non-surgically and surgically. Participants were asked what treatment they preferred: no treatment, orthodontic treatment with optional extractions or surgically assisted orthodontic treatment. The web-based survey ended with questions on various technical aspects and any experienced complication. Invitation was sent to all 303 members of professional association for ORTHO and to all 379 members of professional association for OMFS. Overall response number was 276 (response rate of 40.5%), including 127 incomplete responses. Generally, ORTHO prefer orthodontic treatment with optional extractions and OMFS lean towards surgically assisted orthodontic treatment. Mandibular Midline Distraction appears to be less preferred, possibly due to lack of clinical experience or knowledge by both professions despite being proven clinical stable surgical technique with stable long-term outcomes. There seems to be consensus on technical aspects by both professions, however, there are various thoughts on duration of consolidation period. Complications are mostly minor and manageable.

scholarly journals ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL OF UNIVERSITY OF MIDDLE AND LOWER LEVEL: PROCEDURE AND SELECTION CRITERIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Zhabenko
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Prior Review ◽  
Administrative Personnel ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Government Body ◽  
Criteria For Selection ◽  
Selection Of

In the article analyzed the procedures and criteria for selecting candidates for middle and lower administrative positions at universities in Ukraine and the Netherlands. Detected differences in the process of selection of administrative personnel of university of middle and lower level: in the use of criteria for selection of candidates (in Ukraine – formal criteria for selection of candidates, there are no criteria for determining the level of competence of the candidate, his professional and moral or ethical qualities; universities in the Netherlands use «job profiles», which contain functional responsibilities, qualification or competence requirements of the applicant, and the main criteria for selecting candidates are their authority both in academic and non-academic environment, level of competence, professional and moral and ethical qualities); in appointment to the position (in Ukraine, the rector appoints the dean (director) with the consent of the public self-government body of the faculty (institute) and appoints all administrative personnel of middle and lower level; in the Netherlands, the university's executive council appoints deans, deans appoint heads of departments; representatives of students of the faculty are involved in the work of the dean's office). Proposed to improve the process of selection of candidates for administrative personnel of university of middle and lower level in Ukraine: to develop job profiles (with an exhaustive list of criteria for clarifying the competence of the applicant; questions to determine the level of competence and personal qualities of candidates); introduce the practice of submitting portfolios by applicants for positions (with information on training, enhancement of competence, professional experience and achievements, etc.) for prior review.

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