Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
June M. Besek
Keyword(s):  
Copyright Law ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Convenient Means ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Property Regime

The collection and long-term preservation of digital content pose challenges to the intellectual property regime within which libraries and archives are accustomed to working. How to achieve an appropriate balance between copyright owners and users is a topic of ongoing debate in legal and policy circles. This paper describes copyright rights and exceptions and highlights issues potentially involved in the creation of a nonprofit digital archive. The paper is necessarily very general, since many decisions concerning the proposed archive's scope and operation have not yet been made. The purpose of an archive (e.g., to ensure preservation or to provide an easy and convenient means of access), its subject matter, and the manner in which it will acquire copies, as well as who will have access to the archive, from where, and under what conditions, are all factors critical to determining the copyright implications for works to be included in it. The goal of this paper is to provide basic information about the copyright law for those developing such an archive and thereby enable them to recognize areas in which it could impinge on copyright rights and to plan accordingly. After initial decisions have been made, a more detailed analysis will be possible. As the paper indicates, there are a number of areas that would benefit from further research. Such research may not yield definitive legal answers, but could narrow the issues and suggest strategies for proceeding.

scholarly journals One for Many: A Metadata Concept for Mixed Digital Content at a State Archive

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Naumann ◽  
Christian Keitel ◽  
Rolf Lang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Content ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Short List ◽  
Implementation Period ◽  
The Creation

The Landesarchiv (State Archive) of Baden-Württemberg has designed and implemented a metadata concept for digital content covering a heterogenous range of digital-born and digitised material. Special attention was given to matters of authenticity and to economic ingest and dissemination methods under the requirements of a public archive. This paper describes the outcome of metadata discussions during the implementation period of the DIMAG repository. It treats integration of the repository’s architecture with the archival classification concept, measures for long-term accessibility, the creation of adapted metadata placement, and provisions for exchange with other applications for ingest and use. The deliberately short list of metadata elements is included in this paper. Some existing standards have been evaluated under a real use environment; this paper also introduces modifications applied to them in the project context.

scholarly journals The Use of Quality Management Standards in Trustworthy Digital Archives

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Dobratz ◽  
Peter Rödig ◽  
Uwe M. Borghoff ◽  
Björn Rätzke ◽  
Astrid Schoger
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Small Study ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Quality management is an essential part in creating a trustworthy digital archive. The German network of expertise in Digital long-term preservation (nestor), in cooperation with the German Institute for Standards (DIN), has undertaken a small study to analyse systematically the relevance and usage of quality management standards for long-term preservation and to filter out the specific standardisation need for digital archives. This paper summarises the results of the study. It gives an overview on the differences in understanding the task “quality management” within different organisations and how they carry out appropriate measures, such as documentation, transparency, adequacy, and measureability in order to demonstrate the trustworthiness of their digital archive.

scholarly journals The Digital Archive at University Iuav of Venice: Electronic Invoices and Digital Decrees

Atlanti ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Monica Martignon
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
The University ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Italian Legislation

The report of the experience conducted by the University of Venice in the process taken towards digital born archives required by the recent Italian legislation: two different document types for two different approaches. The report explains the simplification results obtained and some critical points, especially in relation to long-term preservation.

scholarly journals Relay-supporting Archives: Requirements and Progress

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Janée ◽  
James Frew ◽  
Terry Moore
Keyword(s):  
Baseline Level ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Physical Layer ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Fundamental Information ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Long Term Preservation

We characterize long-term preservation of digital content as an extended relay in time, in which repeated handoffs of information occur independently at every architectural layer: at the physical layer, where bits are handed off between storage systems; at the logical layer, where digital objects are handed off between repository systems; and at the administrative layer, where collections of objects and relationships are handed off between archives, curators, and institutions.  We examine the support of current preservation technologies for these handoffs, note shortcomings, and argue that some modest improvements would result in a "relay-supporting" preservation infrastructure, one that provides a baseline level of preservation by mitigating the risk of fundamental information loss.  Finally, we propose a series of tests to validate a relay-supporting infrastructure, including a second Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT).

scholarly journals Digital Master Document: New Original

Atlanti ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-235
Author(s):  
Olivera Porubović-Vidović
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Adequate Quality ◽  
Digital Document ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
Long Term Preservation

The ultimate objective of every digitization project of archival holdings is to create digital master document - copy that would facilitate searching through archival holdings and eliminate potential damage risks during consulting original documents in archives’ reading rooms as well as during handling and using originals while preparing publications and exhibitions of archival documents kept in archival institutions. Therefore the creation of a digital master document implies previous defining of adequate quality parameters and later verifying, by means of careful and rigorous control, whether defined quality has been achieved. The paper deals with digital document quality control as an important element in the chain of creating, managing and long term preservation of e-documents created by digitization, stating that the only worth keeping digital master documents are those that passed through thorough quality control.

scholarly journals Towards a Sustainable Infrastructure for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Digital Scholarship

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter X. Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Sustainable Infrastructure ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Long Term Preservation

AbstractThe digital lifecycle encompasses definitive processes for data curation and management, long-term preservation, and dissemination, all of which are key building blocks in the development of a digital library. Maintaining a complete digital lifecycle workflow is vital to the preservation of digital cultural heritage and digital scholarship. This paper considers digital lifecycle programs for digital libraries, noting similarities between the digital and print lifecycles and referring to the example of the Digital Dunhuang project. Only through a systematic and sustainable digital lifecycle program can platforms for cross-disciplinary research and repositories for large aggregations of digital content be built. Moreover, advancing digital lifecycle development will ensure that knowledge and scholarship created in the digital age will have the same chances for survival that print-and-paper scholarship has had for centuries. It will also ensure that digital library users will have effective access to aggregated content across different domains and platforms.

scholarly journals Making IR Content Discoverable Improving Institutional Repository Content Discovery Through Your Local Catalog and WorldCat

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Content Discovery ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Institutional repositories (IRs) host a lot of unique and valuable digital content. More and more law libraries are implementing IRs to meet the needs for open access, long-term preservation, electronic publishing, and libraries' evolving role in teaching and research. But most patrons don't know where or how to find that content. So librarians must make the IR content more discoverable (and easy to find).

Problems of treatment of primary openangle glaucoma in combination with thrombosis of the central retinal vein

GlaucomaNews ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
T.E. Lipatkina ◽  
◽  
Е.V. Karlova ◽  
A.V. Zolotarev ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Macular Edema ◽  
Primary Open Angle Glaucoma ◽  
Antihypertensive Drugs ◽  
Open Angle Glaucoma ◽  
Vascular Wall ◽  
Open Angle ◽  
Retinal Edema ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Central Retinal Vein

Patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and ophthalmic hypertension have an increased likelihood of developing occlusions (thrombosis) of the central retinal vein. Different groups of antihypertensive drugs differ in their mechanism of action and may affect concomitant ocular pathology, in particular, retinal edema, which occurs, for example, in occlusion of the central retinal vein. Used in most patients with glaucoma, prostaglandin analogs can contribute to the long-term preservation of macular edema due to the effect on the permeability of the vascular wall. Preparations of other pharmacological groups, reducing the production of aqueous humor, on the contrary, may contribute to its regression. Therefore, the question of choosing a drug for antihypertensive therapy in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and concomitant macular edema is relevant and is for further study.

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