On interoperability of metadata within RNPLS&T’s Single Open Information Archive

Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology has been developing the Single Open Information Archive (UOIA) to merge all digital full-text resources created or acquired by the Library. The authors examine the issues of interoperability when exchanging metadata between UOIA built on library automation software and open archives using OAI-PMH technology for metadata acquisition. Interoperability in information exchange between different ALIS is provided, for example, through applying SRU/SRW protocol and metadata scheme, while metadata exchange between OA repositories is provided mainly within Dublin Core (DC) scheme. ALIS – OA metadata transmission with transformation into DC results in information loss and prevents unambiguous reverse transformation.For a long time, DSpace has been the most popular software for open digital repositories. This product enables OAI-PMH metadata acquisition in DC and Qualified DC (QDC) formats, and supports Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) standard, which enables to describe aggregated resources. ORE in DSpace enables to collect not only metadata but also connected files and to receive other connected data provided by importing source. DSpace uses rather simple ORE format based on Atom XML that allows binding several files of different functionality with RDF-triplets.The OAI-PMH software connector is designed for RNPLS&T SOIA and enables to present metadata in DC, QDC, MARC21, and ORE formats, which supports interoperability in information exchange with OA repositories with DSpace software. Beside metadata transmission, transmission of various data types is possible, e. g. document text or license information. Further development is to expand format structure to represent associated data, in particular using RDF.

Repositórios digitais como ambiente de atuação do arquivista

Os repositórios digitais surgiram com base na Iniciativa dos Arquivos Abertos – Open Archives Initiative e do Movimento de Acesso Livre - Open Access, tornando-se atores importantes na dinamização do processo de comunicação científica e sendo utilizados por instituições de ensino e pesquisa para a preservação da memória institucional por meio do auto-arquivamento de diversos tipos documentais. Dessa forma, entende-se que os repositórios digitais podem ser ambientes de atuação do arquivista e questiona-se, portanto, quais suas relações com os princípios arquivísticos e como esses ambientes contribuem para a preservação dos documentos arquivísticos digitais. Objetiva-se, a partir dessas premissas, evidenciar os repositórios digitais como ambientes de atuação do arquivista, relacioná-los aos princípios arquivísticos e com a preservação digital. Para isso, realizou-se um estudo qualitativo, exploratório e bibliográfico tomando-se por base a literatura científica nacional e internacional publicada em livros, artigos, teses, dissertações para atingir os objetivos da pesquisa. Os resultados alcançados permitiram demonstrar as relações existentes entre os ambientes dos repositórios digitais com os princípios arquivísticos e a preservação digital. Esta pesquisa propiciou contribuições acadêmicas e científicas importantes para a área da Arquivologia, bem como no que tange à atuação do arquivista, que precisa estar sempre à frente dos progressos tecnológicos inerentes à constituição dos arquivos, especialmente no que diz respeito aos arquivos digitais.

Using classification systems in e-catalogs, e-libraries and open archives

Key requirements to search interface in e-catalogs are generalized. Alternative initial search pages of e-catalogs and e-libraries are discussed. Causes for classification underuse for search are specified. Advantages of search with classification systems are substantiated. The paper is prepared under the State Order to RNPLS&T No. 730000F.99.1.BV09AA00006 for 2021.

Software DSpace

Investigação que visa elencar características básicas que compõem o pacote de software DSpace no contexto dos repositórios institucionais. Pontua temas essenciais para a pesquisa, sendo: comunicação científica, Iniciativa de Arquivos Abertos, Movimento de Acesso Aberto e repositório institucional. Resulta, segundo uma pesquisa descritiva e bibliográfica, e de abordagem qualitativa de coleta de dados, que os repositórios institucionais foram precedidos pelos repositórios físicos, exemplificados por arquivos, bibliotecas e museus, e subsidiados pelos repositórios digitais e temáticos. Aponta o uso do DSpace na formalização de repositórios institucionais em espaços acadêmicos, especificamente em Universidades públicas, entre federais e estaduais. Estratifica um paralelo entre características do DSpace e atributos de repositório institucional, inferindo-se que esse tipo de ambiente digital promove a comunicação científica, a Iniciativa de Arquivos Abertos e o Movimento de Acesso Aberto a partir do padrão de metadados Dublin Core e do Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Conclui-se que o DSpace, adotado em universidades federais de todo o país, se caracteriza como uma ferramenta livre e de código-fonte aberto, que desenvolve e implementa repositórios institucionais, que garante o acesso à informação de forma perpétua, que armazena diferentes tipos de documentos e extensões, que permite ser customizável, que oferece opções de recuperação e que viabiliza a interoperabilidade entre sistemas

Using the Harvesting Method to Submit ETDs into ProQuest

The following case study describes an academic library’s recent experience implementing the harvesting method to submit electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) into the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database (PQDT). In this lesser-known approach, ETDs are deposited first in the institutional repository (IR), where they get processed, to be later harvested for free by ProQuest through the IR’s Open Archives Initiative (OAI) feed. The method provides a series of advantages over some of the alternative methods, including students’ choice to opt-in or out from ProQuest, better control over the embargo restrictions, and more customization power without having to rely on overly complicated workflows. Institutions interested in adopting a simple, automated, post-IR method to submit ETDs into ProQuest, while keeping the local workflow, should benefit from this method.

Strategic and Organizational Conditions for Success

This chapter examines how a constrained problem and an institutionalized solution enabled the Royal Air Force (RAF) to successfully manage the air battle during the Battle of Britain. The RAF pioneered many concepts that the U.S. Air Force still uses today, including aircraft early warning, identification friend-or-foe, track management, aircraft vectoring, and operational research. The Battle of Britain is also one of the well-documented episodes in military history. Open archives, abundant data, and the electromechanical vintage of information technology make this case an accessible illustration of information practice in action. Britain won the battle because it put together a well-managed solution to the well-constrained problem of air defense. Germany, by contrast, met the inherently harder problem of offensive coercion with a more insular solution. The chapter first describes the historical development of the British air defense system, before looking at the “external problem” that Fighter Command faced during the battle and showing how the interaction produced “managed practice” that improved RAF performance.

Data Science Tools for Monitoring the Global Repository Eco-System and its Lines of Evolution

The global network of scholarly repositories for the publication and dissemination of scientific publications and related materials can already look back on a history of more than twenty years. During this period, there have been many developments in terms of technical optimization and the increase of content. It is crucial to observe and analyze this evolution in order to draw conclusions for the further development of repositories. The basis for such an analysis is data. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) service provider Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) started indexing repositories in 2004 and has collected metadata also on repositories. This paper presents the main features of a planned repository monitoring system. Data have been collected since 2004 and includes basic repository metadata as well as publication metadata of a repository. This information allows an in-depth analysis of many indicators in different logical combinations. This paper outlines the systems approach and the integration of data science techniques. It describes the intended monitoring system and shows the first results.

Journal Programs and Cross-Disciplinary Research

In order for innovative cross-disciplinary research to find its audience, it must be easily discovered by scholars, professional practitioners, and the public. Journal publishing programs in libraries operate under the principle that investment in open access publishing of quality peer-reviewed research is the best way to make that research visible to a global audience and to shift control of publishing from commercial entities to the academy. Library publishers are therefore not constrained, as commercial publishers are, by the need to publish only research that will ensure a profit. This means that library publishing programs can provide a home for cross-disciplinary journals that break new ground and that may take time to find an audience. The lack of a profit imperative for library publishing programs also means that the platform for hosting journals is provided to journals at little or no cost, which makes library publishing very attractive to editors looking for a place to publish a new journal. Once the infrastructure is operational, the cost to add a new journal to the system is negligible because the costs of maintaining the technology are already covered. This lowers the financial barriers to starting new journals, allowing editors to focus on the task of finding and publishing excellent peer-reviewed research instead of fundraising. Journal platforms used by library publishers are designed so that journals published on those systems automatically follow best practices and standards, such as those outlined by the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-MPH) that make the content readily discoverable by internet search engines. These platforms also integrate the use of machine-readable licenses that clearly indicate how the content can be used. In addition to infrastructure that ensures visibility, library publishing programs benefit from existing library expertise in collaboration, technology, copyright, data management, scholarly publishing, information literacy, digital preservation, and the effective promotion of online research.

Otwarte archiwum Dormana

Besides his art practice, Jan Dorman was creating an archive of his life and work, which is a comprehensive collection of various types of theatre and personal documentation. Like Tadeusz Kantor, he dreamed that the collected resources would continue to be used, entering the theatre and research circuit and thus creating a “living archive”. In 2016, Iwona Dowsilas, Dorman’s daughter and promoter of his archives, donated Jan Dorman’s collection to The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw, which contributed to a three-year project “Dorman. Open Archives” (2016–2019). It was based on the concept of performative archiving, in which archives cease to be a static collection, and can be set in motion and produce separate performances. The idea of performing archives was translated into a collaborative programme involving theoreticians and practitioners of the theatre, which resulted in the intersecting of four fields: issues of theatre documentation, history and theory of the theatre, theatre education and theatre practice. The current issue of Pamiętnik Teatralny is an outcome of annual research residencies (2018), which aimed to analyse selected areas of the previously unrecognized and little-known last decade of Dorman’s theatre practice (1977–1986).