OAR Lib: An Open Source Arc Routing Library

Arc - An OAI Service Provider for Digital Library Federation

The usefulness of the many on-line journals and scientific digital libraries that exist today is limited by the inability to federate these resources through a unified interface. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) is one major effort to address technical interoperability among distributed archives. The objective of OAI is to develop a framework to facilitate the discovery of content in distribut...

Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT's The Wallace Center

In 2012, the Digital Preservation Team at Rochester Institute of Technology's The Wallace Center undertook an assessment of its Institutional Repository, the Digital Media Library. The Digital Preservation Team looked at the repository's current performance and requirements for ensuring its future success, and then examined four different philosophical approaches to configuring an IR that are i...

Taking Control: Identifying Motivations for Migrating Library Digital Asset Management Systems

This paper analyzes and discusses results from "Identifying Motivations for DAMS Migration: A Survey," which traces institutions' motivations for migrating from one DAMS to another. Using data from the survey, the researchers ask two questions: "What motivations prompted institutions to migrate from one DAMS to another?" and "In what directions are institutions moving?" The researchers find tha...

Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 54, No. 1, Summer 2005 (“Digital Preservation: Finding Balance,” edited by Deborah Woodyard-Robinson), pp. 6–15 © 2005 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The amount of digital content produced at academic research institutions is large, and libraries and archives at these institutions have a responsibility to bring this digital material under curatorial ...

Promoting Open Scholarship in Africa: Benefits and Best Library Practices