Digital repositories

Humanities researchers are producing large volumes and heterogeneous varieties of language and literature data collections in digital format. These collections include dictionaries, thesauri, corpora, images, audio and video resources. The increased availability of these datasets brought about by advances and adaptations of the Internet and increased digitisation of humanities data resources, poses new challenges for humanities researchers. Many of these challenges are related to data access and usage and include security, integrity, interoperability, information retrieval, sharing, licensing and copyright. The JISC-funded project Enhancing Repositories for Language and Literature Research (ENROLLER; https://www.enroller.org.uk) is addressing these issues through development of a targeted e-Research environment. A key component of this effort is in supporting large-scale analysis of diverse language and literature data sets. To this end, this paper presents the application of the MapReduce algorithm, that supports information retrieval and linguistic analysis on those datasets. In particular, we describe how MapReduce is used to provide advanced bulk search capabilities exploiting a range of high performance computing resources including the UK National Grid Service (www.ngs.ac.uk) and ScotGrid (www.scotgrid.ac.uk) to offer a step change in the kinds of research that can be undertaken by this community. We also present performance analysis results based on the application of these systems.

With the increasing functionality and complexity of distributed systems, resource failures are inevitable. While numerous models and algorithms for dealing with failures exist, the lack of public trace data sets and tools has prevented meaningful comparisons. To facilitate the design, validation, and comparison of fault-tolerant models and algorithms, we have created the Failure Trace Archive (FTA) as an online public repository of availability traces taken from diverse parallel and distributed systems. Our main contributions in this study are the following. First, we describe the design of the archive, in particular the rationale of the standard FTA format, and the design of a toolbox that facilitates automated analysis of trace data sets. Second, applying the toolbox, we present a uniform comparative analysis with statistics and models of failures in nine distributed systems. Third, we show how different interpretations of these data sets can result in different conclusions. This emphasizes the critical need for the public availability of trace data and methods for their analysis.

The National Archive of Portugal (IAN/TT) doesn't currently have the needed infrastructures to support the processes of ingestion and management of digital objects produced by the public administration (PA). The eGovernment initiatives establish the need of information and ...

While large grids are currently supporting the work of thousands of scientists, very little is known about their actual use. Because of strict organizational permissions, there are few or no traces of grid workloads available to the grid researcher and practitioner. To address this problem, in this work we present the Grid Workloads Archive (GWA), which is at the same time a workload data exchange and a meeting point for the grid community. We define the requirements for building a workloads archive, and describe the approach taken to meet these requirements with the GWA. We introduce a format for sharing grid workload information, and tools associated with this format. Using these tools, we collect and analyze data from nine well-known grid environments, with a total content of more than 2000 users submitting more than 7 million jobs over a period of over 13 operational years, and with working environments spanning over 130 sites comprising 10000 resources. We show evidence that grid workloads are very different from those encountered in other large-scale environments, and in particular from the workloads of parallel production environments: they comprise almost exclusively single-node jobs, and jobs arrive in "bags-of-tasks". Finally, we present the immediate applications of the GWA and of its content in several critical grid research and practical areas: research in grid resource management, and grid design, operation, and maintenance.

The ODL concept and the Bologna Process principles are largely opposed to the traditional way of organizing the learning process. In the new conditions, the didactic process requires a new “didactic machine”, that extends the tasks settled by Jan Amos Komeński. Elaboration of the learning objectives, the content and its distribution methods should be reorganized and managed in a new way. The key task is not only to divide knowledge into different courses with lectures, exercises and laboratories, but to orient the learning process toward competence as a final product.

This paper reports on an investigation into the online visibility of work undertaken in South Africa in the field of poverty alleviation. An experiment with
Google searches was undertaken, motivated by concerns about the visibility of South African research and development work, particularly in a context where social
inequality is extreme and poverty such a critical issue. Aware that much attention – through research and the practice of development work – is being paid to
poverty alleviation1
, the authors set out to examine whether that work could be found easily, and what the nature of the search results would be. Significant sums
of public money are invested in research, which should result in the production and dissemination of locally generated knowledge as a public good grounded in
local realities. A great deal of national and international funding is also spent. Thus, research published online should inform and reflect on national and regional
development practice, while contributing perspectives from the South to the global corpus of poverty research. Research to understand poverty and inform the design
and targeting of poverty alleviation programmes needs to be freely available and actively shared in order for it to accumulate value. In this regard it is argued that
there are exponentially beneficial linkages between research, scholarly publication and social development, which originate with local knowledge production and
are amplified by the availability and discoverability of that research. Availability and discoverability add breadth and depth to the potential use, value and impact
of the knowledge produced

Babini, D. (2013) “Voices from the Global South on Open Access in Social Sciences”. In: Open Access Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Open Access Conference Booklet, London School of Economics Public Policy Group & SAGE
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2013/10/Open-Access-HSS-eCollection.pdf

Session on linked data and OpenRefine in "Stay Savvy with Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Lunch" at the University of Central Florida Libraries. It covers the following topics: Why does linked data matter? How can libraries and librarians embrace linked data? Linked Data in the Library and the Web (Cases, Standards and Vocabularies); Linked Data Design Principles, Building Blocks & Creation; Current Digital Repositories and Linked Data; Data Editing Tool: OpenRefine (Features, Examples); Possible Ways to Get Involved.

Researchers in digital humanities have for many years been producing online editions of texts based on TEI XML, a widely-adopted standard for marking up textual resources with semantic content. However, this has led to a certain isolation of information, the so-called 'digital silo', and such modes of digital publication have not always made best use of the possibilities of digital technologies. The model is also challenged by the need to model texts that are by their very nature interconnected. The paper describes a collaborative environment of tools and techniques for working with texts that allows scholars to work with such highlyinterconnected material.

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FLORES, Daniel. O SEI como SIGAD ou SIGAD de Negócio: Sistema Eletrônico de Informações (MPOG). Palestra. Belo Horizonte - MG. 41 slides, color, Padrão Slides Google Drive/Docs 4x3. Material elaborado para Palestra no 4º Ciclo de Palestras promovido pela Diretoria de Arquivos Institucionais da UFMG. DIARQ - UFMG. Belo Horizonte - MG. 08 de junho de 2017. Disponível em:  <http://documentosdigitais.blogspot.com>. Acesso em: 08 de junho de 2017.

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Digital preservation is too big a challenge for any institution or solution supplier to confront on its own. The success of any long-term digital repository will depend upon multiple "open" services provided by a wide range of service providers. No company or organisation in the world is able to provide the preservation solution for all known formats, object types, or policies. Viable approaches are likely to span organizational, institutional and national boundaries. In 2003 the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, in cooperation with IBM, developed the e-Depot as their solution for long-term preservation of digital publications.

Installées dans un immeuble spécialement conçu pour cet effet, les Archives Municipales de Ponte de Lima sont chargées de préserver la mémoire archivistique et historique du Département Régional et, entre autres, de la gestion intégrée de l’information de nature «archivistique » des différents organes et services de la municipalité. Conscients de cette mission, ont été réalisées trois propositions de projets à différents programmes de numérisation, prévus dans les Programmes Opérationnels Européens du cadre financier de l’Union Européenne : 1 - La numérisation d’une grande partie des Archives Historiques et la diffusion en ligne ont pour but essentiellement de faire connaître à tous les habitants, en particulier aux jeunes, la richesse du patrimoine de Ponte de Lima en offrant à la population l’accès aux ressources archivistiques conservées par les Archives Municipales de Ponte de Lima. 2 - Les dossiers de permis de construire constituent la documentation des Archives Municipales la plus consultée par les citoyens et par les services municipaux d’urbanisme. Elle est, par conséquent, plus sensible à la dégradation physique causée par la manipulation. Le projet de numérisation a été conçu comme une double réponse à ces problèmes : faciliter l’accès aux documents et préserver la documentation. Ce projet prévoit aussi d’adopter une Gestion Intégrée du Système d’Archives Municipales de Ponte de Lima (dès la création du document et tout au long de son cycle de vie) et la création de web services afin d’intégrer ce système aux autres systèmes informatiques utilisés par la Mairie de Ponte de Lima, en particulier celui du Service d’Urbanisme, afin de éviter la perte de métadonnées et d’objets numériques au cours du temps. 3 - Afin de pouvoir conserver à long terme les documents numérisés, les Archives Municipales de Ponte de Lima veulent créer un dépôt institutionnel numérique qui permette le dépôt, la gestion et l’accès à l’information des documents numérisés, actuellement stockés sous forme de supports optiques fragiles (DVD), qui par leur vulnérabilité et obsolescence pourront provoquer la perte définitive de l’information indispensable à la constitution et consolidation de la mémoire collective de la région départementale de Ponte de Lima. Les principaux objectifs de ces projets de numérisation sont de conserver et diffuser le patrimoine archivistique, ainsi que de rationaliser le travail administratif d'une part, et d’améliorer le service rendu aux citoyens d'autre part, tout en protégeant les registres originaux des manipulations fréquentes risquant, à terme, de les endommager de forme irrémédiable.

This study looks into the life of a virtual gaming community, CTO Sims – a small slice of a wider community that engages in what Bruns (2006) has termed produsage, remediating videogame assets and content from a PC game, The Sims (2000) into custom or user-generated content – a practice also called ‘modding’. Through a virtual ethnographic methodology, this study explores the digital library at the heart of CTO Sims, and the participatory culture (Jenkins, 1992; 2006) which has grown up around it. This paper presents a narrative of an online videogaming produsage community, and through a process of immersion uncovers and probes into the everyday practices of commodification and produsage as they take place in the virtual field. The study begins to develop a theory of information culture by observing and exploring the CTO Sims community, its members, and their roles in knowledge and information economies.
It is concluded that digital information cultures within online gaming communities form around the collaborative creation and exchange of digital cultural artefacts, in heterarchical networks that develop their own unique organisational and classification conventions. Moreover, these communities form support networks for members, acting as repositories for shared knowledge, skills and experiences. Freedom of communication acts as a tool for the generation of social and knowledge capital, and enables the growth of strong ties of affiliation between members. Further research is encouraged in private, offline produsage spaces, and into the individual motivations that drive regular users to become produsers.

The Digital Repository Project, initiated by the National Film Archive in 2010, is just finishing its fifth year. The project’s aims were to digitize, archive, catalogue and make available the Polish cinema to a broader audience. The digitization for the project The National Film Archive’s Digital Repository was possible due to the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and its programs: the Digitalizacja materiałów audiowizualnych (2010) and the Wieloletni Program Rządowy KULTURA+ (2011-2014) directed by the National Audiovisual Institute.

RESUMO: Os repositórios digitais surgiram a partir da Iniciativa dos Arquivos Abertos e do Movimento de Acesso Livre e se tornaram atores importantes na dinamização do processo de comuni-cação científica, sendo utilizados por instituições de ensino e pesquisa para a preservação da memória institucional a partir do auto arquivamento de diversas tipologias documentais. Objetiva-se, a partir dessas premissas, evidenciar os repositórios digitais como ambientes de atuação do arquivista, posto que se observa suas relações com os princípios arquivísti-cos e com a gestão documental. Para isso, realizou-se um estudo qualitativo, exploratório e bibliográfico acerca das temáticas, com vistas a subsidiar essas relações. Os resultados demonstram que os repositórios digitais podem ser considerados ambientes de arquivo, tendo em vista as bases teóricas investigadas.
ABSTRACT: The digital repositories have emerged from the Open Archives Initiative and the Open Access Movement and became important in pushing forward the process of scientific communication , being used by educational and research institutions for the preservation of institutional memory from the self-archiving of various types of documents. The objective is, from these premisses, show the digital repositories as environments of archivist action, since there is its relations with archival principles and records management. For this, we carried out a qualitative , exploratory and bilbiographic study about the thematics, in order to support these relationships. The results demonstrate that digital repositories can be considered archives environments , given the theoretical bases investigated.

Este manual visa orientar o processo de auditoria de RDC-Arq’s, partindo da análise do OAIS e do ACTDR. Desta forma, enfatiza aspectos da Arquivística que devem ser considerados pela administração do repositório. Este manual visa aproximar o diálogo entre OAIS, ACTDR e Arquivística, isto porque, a linguagem utilizada nestas normas e a sua abrangência é tida como genérica, ou seja, destinada para repositórios digitais de diversas naturezas. Sendo assim, busca-se enfatizar os requisitos arquivísticos que estão implícitos tanto no OAIS, quanto no ACTDR. Dizem-se implícitos, pois, não há menções significativas à Arquivística, entretanto, há conceitos e princípios do OAIS que se enquadram na preservação de documentos arquivísticos digitais. Sendo assim, apresenta-se uma definição complementar capaz de resumir os requisitos que um RDC-Arq deve seguir.

نظرا لأننا نعيش في عصر المعرفة ومع الحاجة الكبيرة لمواكبة عمليات التحول الى مجتمع المعرفة فكان لزاما على مؤسسات المعلومات باختلاف أنواعها مواكبة التطورات الحادثة على الساحة.
ستتناول الدراسة الأنواع المختلفة لمؤسسات المعلومات والمتطلبات الفنية والتقنية المطلوب توافرها لكل نوع من أنواع مؤسسات المعلومات ومنها مؤسسات منتجة للمعلومات (جهات بحثية وأكاديمية أو منتجو معلومات تجاريين كشركات قواعد البيانات والناشرين) أو مؤسسات خدمية (المكتبات ومراكز المعلومات)
وتختلف بطبيعة الحال التجهيزات المطلوبة لكل نوع من الأنواع السابقة من مؤسسات المعلومات على مستوى البنية التحتية أو العتاد أو البرمجيات بالإضافة إلى تأهيل الكادر البشري المسئول عن تشغيل ودعم ومتابعة النظم والأجهزة وسير الأعمال.
سوف تقدم الدراسة مجموعه من الخيارات والبدائل التي يمكن للمكتبات اختيارها والعمل عليها وفقا للميزانية والموارد المتاحة وحجم الأعمال المنتجة أو عدد المستفيدين من خدمات المؤسسة وطرق الإتاحة ومستويات الإتاحة التي ستقدمها المؤسسات للوصول الى مواكبة مجتمع المعرفة.

تتناول الإستراتيجية المقترَحة استراتيجيات الوصول الحر للمعلومات العلمية،  دور المكتبات الجامعية فى تقديم خدمة الوصول الحر. وتمت صياغة استنادًا على أحدث سياسات الوصول الحر بالجامعات ذات التصنيفات العالمية المتقدمة، والتجارب الناجحة لاستراتيجيات مكتبات الجامعات العالمية التي وُضعت لترسيخ ثقافة الوصول الحر بالمجتمع الأكاديمي؛ من أجل الاستفادة من خبرات وتجارب المكتبات الجامعية في الدول المتقدمة.

This site introduces 6 of 20 karuta (Japanese game) card sets held as part of the East Asia Image Collection in the Special Collections Department of Lafayette College Library. It currently hosts one exhibit  of the karuta cards, offering an introduction to the history of this type of game card in Japan, the historical context for these cards and the ways karuta has been used to encourage learning in various forms during early childhood.

This chapter discusses digital libraries and repositories. The purpose of this research is to identify digital libraries and repositories in India available in the public domain. It highlights the state of digital libraries and repositories in India. The digital libraries and repositories were identified through a study of the literature, as well as internet searching and browsing. The resulting digital libraries and repositories
were explored to study their collections. Use of open source software especially for the creation of institutional repositories is found to be common. However, major digital library initiatives such as the Digital Library of India use custom-made software.

Universal access to information and knowledge lies UNESCO's overall mandate to promote the free flow of information by word and by image and thus to place information and knowledge at the doorsteps of communities. UNESCO strives to forge an enabling environment to facilitate and open up avenues for universal access to information and knowledge. Open Access to information and knowledge is an innovative mode of scholarly communication within the digital environment aimed at achievement of universal access to information and knowledge. While Open Access helps digital inclusion of citizens in developing countries by bringing within easy reach full-text contents of scholarly works, documentary heritage collections and development-related literature, the Digital Library remains a knowledge repository of such citizens, indigenous people, communities and institutions. Open Access to knowledge is a model adopted by many international and intergovernmental fora, such as the World Summit on the information Society (WSIS), for disseminating full-text contents to online communities. The South Asia sub-region is now in the forefront of the Open Access movement within developing countries in the world, with India being the most prominent partner in terms of its successful Open Access and Digital Library initiatives. Institutional and policy frameworks in India also facilitate innovative solutions for increasing international visibility and accessibility of scholarly literature and documentary heritage in this country. This publication has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported th international conferences and workshops including the 4 International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2001, Bangalore); the International Conferences on Digital Libraries (ICDL2004 & ICDL2006, New Delhi); and the International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library software (2006, Kozhikode), where many information professionals of this sub-region demonstrated their Digital Library and Open Access Initiatives. It discusses successful activities in the South Asia subregion bringing closer to the worldwide audience, the subject of access to scholarly literature and documentary heritage. This may thus be considered an authoritative source-book on Open Access Development in this sub-region.

In the digital age, the amount of data produced is growing exponentially. Governments and institutions can no longer rely on old methods for storing data and passing on the knowledge to future generations. Digital data preservation is a mandatory issue that needs proper strategies and tools. With this awareness, efforts are being made to create and perfect software solutions capable of responding to the challenge of properly preserving digital information. This paper focuses on the state-of-the-art in open-source software solutions for the digital preservation and curation field used to assimilate and disseminate information to designated audiences. Eleven open source projects for digital preservation are surveyed in areas such as supported standards and protocols, strategies for preservation, methodologies for reporting, dynamic of development, targeted operating systems, multilingual support and open source license. Furthermore, five of these open source projects, are further analysed, with focus on features deemed important for the area. Along open source solutions, the paper also briefly surveys the standards and protocols relevant for digital data preservation. The area of digital data preservation repositories has several open source solutions, which can form the base to overcome the challenges to reach mature and reliable digital data preservation. .

Potentials of scientific research in general are obviously subject to changes in accordance with current digital information and communication environment, which is capable to give new, advanced performances, or those essentially different from the traditional ones, even in the domain of humanities, including literary studies as well. In this connection, developing a digital heritage repository, as a way of organizing and composing objects of heritage in selected thematic entities, is demanding, but also inspiring possibility in the case of literary heritage as well. The aim of the proposed paper is to examine potentials and advantages of developing a digital repository of Meša Selimović’s literary work. The focused problem is going to be approached in a holistic manner, which means in terms of its practical and cultural values, but also in terms of its feasibility. The authors of the proposed paper are taking interdisciplinary methodological sides, which is caused by the authors’ d...

The article describes the research conducted to identify the barriers to dissemination and communication of scientific articles made available by institutional digital repositories through self-archiving. Transilvania University of Brasov Romania provides a new service attached to its digital repository, in the form of an automatic query interface of the SHERPA/RoMEO publisher reviewing platform to support the academic community. The query principles of the platform SHERPA/RoMEO’s database of publisher policies is integrated with DSpace, a digital repository software. While defining a new submission for a collection on the DSpace platform, a query is sent to the SHERPA/RoMEO server, using the application programming interface it provides, which responds by an XML document containing the information required. The XML document is further processed through the XSLT transformation in order to generate the content displayed on the HTML page. Authors find out via a simple query, whether they are allowed to self-archive an article, whether the publisher allows it, and under what conditions. Developing a software application that integrates the copyright conditions imposed by publishers emerges as the solution for resolving authors’ scepticism towards self-archiving published articles. The software application, which has been developed with low cost, would be very useful to other universities that face obstacles in populating institutional digital repositories due to copyright concerns.

This article presents an analysis of the application of softwares Archivematica and ICA - AtoM for preservation, access and research of the photographic collection of the Universidade
Federal de Santa Maria, under the extension project "Preservation of regional cultural heritage of Santa Maria in the production of instruments of archival research", conducted with the support of the Programa de Extensão Universitária (PROEXT), MEC/SESu. The Archivematica and ICA-Atom are softwares distributed under the open source software policy
and guided by current Archivology recommendations with regard to digital preservation and access, with two alternative institutions to advance the pursuit of satisfaction of the users file in order to give online access to documents stored and provide a healthy and authentic digital rep. This analysis seeks to understand the available structure and resources in these tools, aiming to facilitate and spread its use among Brazilian archival institutions. It is believed that the lack of knowledge about these two archival tools and the mistrust of working with
information technology – might be perhaps based on the looming idea of high financial costs or because it is something that would involve constant changes which would require periodic updates – are responsible for the fact of many archival institutions rather not use or leave in the background the use of archival tools like those .
Keywords: Archivematica. Digital preservation. ICA- AtoM. Archival description. Access.

Shearer, K. & Babini, D.(2014).  Challenges for the Global Periphery.  In: Mapping the Future of Scholarly Publishing.  The Open Science Initiative Working Group.  National Science Communications Institute. http://nationalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OSI-report-Feb-2015.pdf (page 41-43)

The paper provides an overview of the digital tools developed as part of the Ebla Digital Archives Project, which aims to offer a digital edition of roughly 3,000 cuneiform tablets from ancient Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh, in western Syria), dated to the middle of the third millennium BCE. The Ebla archive is the oldest one in the history of mankind, for which extensive information concerning the primary setting of the documents is available. The archaicity of the writing system, combined with the inherent difficulties in reconstructing languages from the remote past (Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite), pushes us to rethink the strategies to properly digitally capture the complexity of these sources, of invaluable historical significance: administrative documents, literary texts, vocabularies, letters, etc. We tackled the problem through the development of a PostgreSQL database, which is populated by ad hoc Python scripts that parse input transliteration files, which in turn are encoded using a shallow mark-up language. The individual steps in such workflow are discussed, as well as the benefits in terms of advanced queries for information retrieval that such approach offers.

Digital curation emerged recently as an important concept in the theory and management of cultural heritage information. This paper presents the approach and research agenda adopted by the newly-founded Digital Curation Unit of Athena Research Centre, Greece, and illustrates its relevance to the management and use of cultural heritage digital collections. It highlights the need to tackle the risks of epistemic failure tied with the prospect of long-term access to curated repositories, and presents the case for multidisciplinary research, informed by humanistic and social science as well as computer science perspectives. A multi-tiered research agenda, it argues, would need to resolve problems of representing domain knowledge; developing and maintaining knowledge resources; streamlining the enrichment of these resources from text; automatically generating text from databases; discovering and accessing domain associations; enabling the use of databases containing valuable data over time; conceptualizations of epistemic discourse, and communication genres in specific contexts; grounded research on the motives, activities and contexts of digital resources appraisal, knowledge enhancement and use; and, cost-benefit assessment of preservation policies. These complementary approaches are particularly relevant in the field of cultural heritage, where large-scale digitisation of heritage resources on one hand, and web-based social computing on the other, already create a deluge of un-curated and poorly represented cultural information.

Austin CC; Brown S; Fong N; Humphrey C; *Leahey A; Webster P (2015).
IASSIST Quarterly. Data sharing is increasingly recognized as integral to scientific research and publishing. This requires informed and thoughtful preparation from initial research planning to collection of data/metadata, interoperability, deposit in data repositories, and curation. Research Data Canada (RDC) is a collaborative, non-government organization that promotes access to and preservation of Canadian research data. The RDC Standards and Interoperability Committee (RDC-SINC) surveyed 32 Canadian and International online data platforms for storage, data transfer, curation activities, preservation, access, and sharing features. We developed a checklist to compare criteria and features between platforms. The survey revealed a heterogeneity of features and services across platforms, non-standardized use of terms, uneven compliance with relevant standards, and a paucity of certified data repositories. Recommendations for online digital infrastructure development to meet evolving researcher and end-user needs centre around persistent identification and citation of datasets, data reliability, version control, metadata, data sharing, privacy controls, long-term preservation of data, and certification of data repositories. We identified a need in Canada for investment in an integrated, comprehensive national digital infrastructure for research data.

Research in the arts and humanities is often associated with the world of the solitary scholar, surrounded by dusty books, manuscripts, or artefacts. As early as 1959, C.P. Snow lamented the &quot;gulf of mutual incomprehension&quot; separating humanities scholars from scientists. Yet, the wide-ranging changes in scholarly work in the arts and humanities associated with the inception of digital technology, the crisis of disciplinarity, the rise of new methodological and theoretical frameworks, the increased challenges to the longevity of cultural heritage resources, and the emergence of new fields of contestation around their interpretation and value, casts a different light on Snow&#39;s notion of the &quot;two cultures&quot;, introducing new issues and opportunities. For information researchers and computer scientists engaged with the conceptualization, design and development of digital infrastructures, tools and services in the domain of the arts, humanities and cultural heritage...

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Este estudo discute a implementação de repositórios arquivísticos em conformidade com o Sistema Aberto para Arquivamento de Informação e a necessidade de auditá-los para avaliar sua confiabilidade. Para tanto, realiza-se um levantamento bibliográfico de materiais previamente publicados, com seleção de: livros que abordam as perspectivas da Arquivística na era digital e o desafio da custódia documental confiável; publicações técnicas como as normas International Organization for Standardization e padrões de auditoria; e artigos científicos recuperados  pela ferramenta de pesquisa Google Scholar, com busca temática relacionada à preservação de documentos arquivísticos digitais, repositórios digais confiáveis, auditoria de informação e auditoria arquivística. O repositório arquivístico é o prisma da discussão, já a comparação entre os padrões de auditoria torna-se a categoria norteadora, logo, obtém-se um artigo de revisão assistemática. Dessa forma, são analisados os padrões de auditoria: Trustworthy Repository Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist, Catalogue of Criteria for Trusted Digital Repositories da Network of Expertise in long-term STORage, Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment e Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories. Por fim, comparativo entre os padrões demonstra que o Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositoes é o mais indicado para auditar os repositórios arquivísticos digitais.

ABSTRACT
This study discusses the implementation of archival repositories that conform to the Open Archival Information System and the need to audit them to assess their reliability. To this end, a bibliographic survey of previously published materials is carried out, with selection of: books that approach the perspectives of Archival science in the digital age and the challenge of reliable documentary custody; technical publications such as Internaonal Organization for Standardization and auditing standards; and scientific articles retrieved by the Google Scholar search tool, with thematic search related to th preservation of digital archival records, reliable digital repositories, information auditing and archival auditing. The archival repository is the prism of the discussion, since the comparison between the audit standards becomes the guiding category, thus, we obtain a no systematic review article. Thus, the audit standards are analyzed: Trustworthy Repository Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist, Catalog of Criteria for Trusted Digital Repositories from Network of Expertise in long-term STORage, Digital Repository Audit Metho Based on Risk Assessment and Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories. Finally, a comparison of standards demonstrates that the Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories is bt suited for auditing.

Open access facilitates the availability and distribution of scholarly communication freely, as a means and effort to solve the problem of inaccessibility, primarily due to fi nancial constraints, particularly in the developing countries. In India there has been a gradual realization of the usefulness of open access among various institutions. Various open access initiatives have been undertaken and are operational. Many are in the developmental stage. Some initiatives have also been taken in the area of metadata harvesting services particularly public funded ones. The future of open access in India is dependent upon a proper policy and developing a proper framework. In the implementation of open access, LIS professionals should play a proactive role in the growth of collections in institutional repositories. The paper provides an overview about the present state of open access initiatives by various institutions of the country.

The paper gives an overview of open access (OA) institutional digital repositories (IDRs) in agricultural fields. The main objective is to provide free and unrestricted access to the public funded research outputs in global-scale in the domain of agricultural by developing a single window search interface as a useful tool for agricultural researchers in developing countries with special reference to India keeping in view the exorbitant cost of research output. It reports the design and development of a federated search interface, viz. AgriCat that facilitates resource sharing through extracting metadata from different OAI (Open Archives Initiative) compatible agricultural IDRs registered in OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) database.

Esta tesis ha sido desarrollada a modo de compendio de publicaciones las cuales presentan el proceso y los resultados de esta investigación, así como las líneas de investigación futuras. Los artículos han sido publicados entre 2012 y 2014 en formato de artículos en revistas científicas internacionales, en castellano y en inglés, y como capítulo de un libro.

El objeto de investigación de esta tesis son los Repositorios de Recursos Educativos Abiertos (RREA), los cuales son definidos por McGreal (2011) como bases de datos digitales que albergan contenido de aprendizaje, aplicaciones y herramientas, tales como vídeos, grabaciones de audio, aplicaciones multimedia y herramientas de redes sociales, ya que a través de estos repositorios los REA se vuelven accesibles a estudiantes y docentes.

Esta tesis se sitúa en el contexto de una discusión académica relevante para el área de educación superior contemporánea y la comunidad educacional en general, así el objetivo central de este estudio es proponer un marco que permita medir y asegurar la calidad de los repositorios de REA mediante  la obtención indicadores teóricos de calidad en los repositorios REA (revisión de la literatura), para comprobar si los RREA cumplen o no con las recomendaciones sobre gestión de calidad, además de conocer cómo los docentes universitarios seleccionan y utilizan estos recursos para describir las características más relevantes con las que los RREA deberían contar para asegurar su correcta implementación.

Sin embargo, para promover y apoyar el desarrollo de RREA, es necesario determinar criterios de control de calidad basados en las necesidades de toda la comunidad académica para mejorar el acceso a la educación a nivel global. Por lo que para este estudio la metodología de investigación es utilizada es mixta, utilizando técnicas de tipo cualitativas y cuantitativas.


La primera etapa de la investigación consistió en una revisión de la literatura publicada entre 1996 y 2013. Con el fin de identificar la literatura más relevante para este estudio se analizaron 122 artículos de revistas científicas, artículos de conferencias y libros, dentro de los cuales se detectaron 10 indicadores de calidad para el diseño de RREA.

En la segunda etapa de este estudio se analizaron 450 iniciativas de REA y 600 repositorios de diferentes tipos de contenidos abiertos. El análisis de estas iniciativas y repositorios abiertos permitió obtener un grupo de 80 repositorios que contenían exclusivamente. Los repositorios fueron contrastados con los 10 indicadores de calidad obtenidos de la revisión de la literatura con el fin de comprobar si estos repositorios cumplen o no con las recomendaciones de la literatura.

La tercera etapa  consistió en la aplicación de una encuesta a 217 docentes universitarios de 35 países a los cuales se les consultó cómo y cuánto utilizaban distintos tipos de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TICs), redes sociales, y RREA. Además se les consultó cuales consideraban que eran las ventajas y barreras del uso de REA y RREA y cómo evalúan la calidad en los RREA.

Finalmente, en la última etapa se ha entrevistado a un grupo de 20 expertos mundiales en la temática de REA. Mediante un cuestionario online, se les consultó cuáles son los elementos que podrían sostener la correcta implementación de repositorios de REA.

Se presenta un recorido por la colección fotográfica que conserva el Archivo de la Alhambra, agrupándolas según la forma de adquisición. Además, se analiza los procesos de gestión y difusión de la misma, presentando el repositorio donde se incluirán.
We present a reminder of the photographic collection that preserves the Archive of the Alhambra, grouping them according to the form of acquisition. In addition, we examine the processes of managing and disseminating the same, showing where the repository will include.