Showing posts with label document management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label document management. Show all posts

May 21, 2017

Preserving Digital Objects

How to ensure preservation and access for digital objects? 

The California Digital Library has published guidelines that aim to support the following objectives:

• Ensure a basic level of uniformity in the structure and encoding of non-licensed digital content managed by the CDL
• Advance interoperability among digital content from diverse institutions
• Promote efficient ingest procedures
• Support the orderly management of digital content
• Facilitate access to digital content by users
• Minimize costs 
To consult the PDF of  CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects (CDL GDO) Maintained by the California Digital Library (January 2017 University of California, California Digital Library)

For more information on Calisphere/DAMS Projects

Dec 10, 2016

Persistent Identifiers and the Humanities: THOR


How do different database projects in the humanities fit together?

What, if any, is the connection between art database projects and scholarly research database projects like those involved in THOR? Do the two worlds intersect? What happens when they do?
Is there anything useful to be learned by looking outside of the art world for inspiration, tools, best practices and points of integration to facilitate access to the enormous number of documents and databases that are related to art provenance?

Beyond the narrow preoccuation of art provenance research, how do all of these different knowledge projects fit together to form a coherent whole? What is the governance that will ensure that information is reliable, sustainable, useful, transparent and, in the deepest sense, truthful?
And how do these diverse sources of information feed into the semantic web tools whose influence and range grow daily?

These were some of the questions on my mind at the Workshop on Persistent Identifiers and the Humanities, hosted by THOR at the British Library in London on December 9, 2016.

This fascinating workshop, organized by Aquiles Alencar Brayner, Angela Dappert, Adam Farquahar and Kristie Hewlett of the British Library, Angela Dappert of THOR and Tom Demeranville of ORCID, alternated presentation and discussion in a most thought-provoking environment.

For a newcomer to the language and practice of the academic database community, there were many new initiatives and projects to discover regarding PIDs and their uses in the scholarly ecosystem. 

There is much to be thought about. In the meantime, here is a brief list of acronyms used at the THOR conference on Persistent Identifier Services for the Humanities held on December 9, 2016 at the British Library in the UK.

THOR
THOR is a 30 month project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme. It will establish seamless integration between articles, data, and researchers across the research lifecycle. This will create a wealth of open resources and foster a sustainable international e-infrastructure. The result will be reduced duplication, economies of scale, richer research services, and opportunities for innovation.
https://project-thor.eu/the-thor-mission/

ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier for researchers. This makes it possible to integrate in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, and to link automatically to professional activities ensuring that work - and its impact - is recognized.
http://orcid.org/


PID
A persistent identifier (PI or PID) is a long-lasting reference to a document, file, web page, or other object.

READ
The overall objective of the EU-funded READ project is to implement a Virtual Research Environment where archivists, humanities scholars, computer scientists and volunteers are collaborating with the ultimate goal of boosting research, innovation, development and usage of cutting edge technology for the automated recognition, transcription, indexing and enrichment of handwritten archival documents.

HTR
Handwritten Text Recognition

TRANSKRIBUS
TRANSKRIBUS enables a researcher to
  • upload documents/images
  • segment the images into blocks, lines/baselines and words with the support of layout analysis tools
  • link the text with the image 
  • transcribe text in any language and with any character set 
  • export documents in formats including TEI, RTF, PDF, XML.
  • https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/
DATACITE
DataCite is a leading global non-profit organisation that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data. Our goal is to help the research community locate, identify, and cite research data with confidence.
We work on several fronts to achieve this goal. We support the creation and allocation of DOIs and accompanying metadata. We provide services that support the enhanced search and discovery of research content. And we promote data citation and advocacy through our community-building efforts and responsive communication and outreach materials.
https://www.datacite.org/mission.html


URN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Name

Other imporant acronyms for projects, services and identifiers used at the Workshop include:

OVERLEAF
ISNI
GATE
PERMCC
UK WEB ARCHIVE
PLEIADES
SNAP
UCL
BHO
CTS
PELAGIOS
TIDSR
FORCE 11
GAZETA