Informing the Digital Archive with Altmetrics

Developing a digital archive with limited resources

This article describes how a small liberal arts college library created a digital library using existing staff and financial resources. The Hekman Digital Archive (HDA) was created using a digital media archive module of the library’s integrated library system, and is maintained by one library staff member with the help of numerous student assistants.

Digital Archive Systems

OVERVIEW: With the spread of digital satellite broadcasting and Internetbased electronic-information services, digital content (information in digital form) is expanding rapidly in society and individual households in the form of text, still pictures, motion pictures, sound, etc. In such a digital-multimedia era, the archiving of this huge volume of data has become a major issue. Against this b...

Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories

The MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries are conducting the PLEDGE Project to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation archives and to develop standardized means of recording and enforcing them using rules engines. This has the potential to allow for automated assessment of “trustworthiness” of ...

Archive and Digital Asset Repository

Towards Digital Archive Systems: Architecture and Design of Digital Museum Archive

In the information society, the volume of born-digital contents and digitized contents from original resources is rapidly increasing. Therefore various types of digital contents, such as text, images, movies and other data types, are stored into digital archive systems and key technologies are long-term preserving storage, database management system, information retrieval, web service and other...