Purpose: The main goal was to study issues concerning IR software/system involved in developing and managing an institutional repository. Methodology: For the present study survey research method was found to be most suitable. The data collection tool applied for the study was web questionnaire, which was created with the help of software provided by surveymonkey.com. Findings: It was observed ...

The paper describes the scientific and technical project carried out by SNS for the Italian Culture Portal, promoted by Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, as a media for knowledge and enhancement of Cultural Heritage. Its main mission is to communicate the ensemble of Italian culture, making available existing data and giving wider visibility to cultural websites. The Portal ...

The Northwest Digital Archives is a union database of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids from institutions in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, and Montana. [1] The purpose of the NWDA is to make information about collections of primary sources widely accessible to researchers over the Internet. This article will explore the selection and development of the NWDA database, the crea...

Current institutional repository software provides few tools to help metadata librarians understand and analyse their collections. In this paper we compare and contrast metadata analysis tools that were developed simultaneously, but independently, at two New Zealand institutions during a period of national investment in research repositories: the Metadata Analysis Tool (MAT) at The University o...

We describe “digitometric” services and tools that add value to open-access eprint archives using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Celestial is an OAI cache and gateway tool. Citebase Search enhances OAI-harvested metadata with linked references harvested from the full-text to provide a web service for citation navigation and research impact analysis. Digitom...

Repositories used to be fairly monolithic systems, with a single object store, a tailored content model, and a dedicated application on top. First steps for searching across repositories (e.g. Z39.50, first drafted in 1988; OAI-PMH for content aggregation, first released 2001) are an exception to this. However, we are still far away from an ”open repository environment“, in which repositories i...

District Architecture for Networked Editions (DAFNE) is a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research aiming to develop a prototype of the national infrastructure for electronic publishing in Italy. The project's initial target concerns the scientific and scholarly production in the human and social sciences. The organizational , legal, technical and bu...

USING TIMED-RELEASE CRYPTOGRAPHY TO MITIGATE PRESERVATION RISK OF EMBARGO PERIODS Rabia Haq Old Dominion University, 2008 Director: Dr. Michael L. Nelson This research defines Time-Locked Embargo, a framework designed to mitigate the Preservation Risk Interval: the preservation risk associated with embargoed scholarly material. Due to temporary access restrictions, embargoed data cannot be dist...

With the growth in digital libraries and standardization of protocols for metadata sharing, it is becoming feasible to build federated discovery services which aggregate metadata from different digital libraries (data providers) and provide a unified search interface to users. One of the obstacles that keep data providers, especially the commercial ones, from joining the federation is the lack ...

This paper introduces the write-once/read-many XMLtape/ARC storage approach for Digital Objects and their constituent datastreams. The approach combines two interconnected file-based storage mechanisms that are made accessible in a protocol-based manner. First, XMLbased representations of multiple Digital Objects are concatenated into a single file named an XMLtape. An XMLtape is a valid XML fi...