Establishing Digital Repositories at Western Balkan Universities

The paper presents part of the Tempus project “New Library Services at Western Balkan\ud Universities” (coordinated by the University library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade from 2010\ud up to now), whose one of two main objectives is to establish digital repositories on the 6\ud universities of the Western Balkan (three countries: Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and\ud Herzegovina). The repositories are based on the same system – PHAIDRA, created, developed\ud and launched in 2006. by University library in Vienna, which is one of the partner in the Project.\ud PHAIDRA is system designed for long term archiving and managing of different types of digital\ud objects; legislation about copyright protection is included in the system and can be easily\ud applied. The repository of the University of Belgrade, with all necessary adjustments (language,\ud university structure, classification system, etc.), became the leading model for all other\ud repositories. Dissemination of information about repositories is started at the University library\ud for several groups of faculty librarians, who participated one day training about the functioning\ud of the system. Training of librarians is also the first step in connecting with teaching staff of those\ud faculties. The Rectorate of the University of Belgrade gave institutional support to this Project:\ud by signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities,\ud rector emphasized that PHAIDRA repository is established accordingly to this decision and\ud invited professors, researchers and others to publish their scientific work within this repository\ud and to make it visible worldwide

Establishing Digital Repositories at Western Balkan Universities: poster

Establishing repositories at Western Balkan universities is a part of Tempus project “New Library Services at Western Balkan Universities”, launched in 2010 and coordinated by University Library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade. The main objectives of the Project are: modernization of library economy, more effcient library services, integration and institutional diffusion of academic library network on\ud six Western Balkan universities in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.\ud \ud Inforum 2012:\ud 18th Conference on Professional Information Resources\ud Prague, May 22-24, 2012\u

The user in focus: an inclusive approach to the presentations of digital collections of GLAM institutions

This paper describes the experience gained at the University of Padova Library System on modelling, creation, management and preservation of digital collections with Phaidra, the Digital Asset Management tool created and developed by the University of Vienna, for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums). There is also an examination of the motivations and strategies for creating a model for the presentation of the collections aimed at enhancing the cultural heritage of libraries, archives and museums of the University and local partners (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Università Iuav di Venezia) and intended for use by a specialised audience as well as by the general public. Future challenges include the repository certification and the enrichment of the search functionality

Data science and analytics in libraries

Libraries have the virtue of managing vast amounts of information. Data Science and Analytics techniques and methodologies allow libraries to fully exploit the content they hold with the goal of providing better information to their users: better search, recommendations, etc

The user in focus: an inclusive approach to the presentation of digital collections of GLAM institutions

 This paper describes the experience gained at the University of Padova Library System on modelling, creation, management and preservation of digital collections with Phaidra, the Digital Asset Management tool created and developed by the University of Vienna, for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums. There is also an examination of the motivations and strategies for creating a model for the presentation of the collections aimed at enhancing the cultural heritage of libraries, archives and museums of the University and local partners (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Università Iuav di Venezia) and intended for use by a specialised audience as well as by the general public. Future challenges include the repository certification and the enrichment of the search functionality

D7.3 Training materials

This Deliverable gives a detailed description of the comprehensive training programme and of the open educational content that the University of Padua has accomplished up to now for the project "Linked Heritage: Coordination of standard and technologies for the enrichment of Europeana" (CIP Best Practice Network). The final version of D7.3 will be released by the end of the project, when all the Learning Objects will be finished

SOW: Digitization and longterm preservation of weather maps at ZAMG

The targets of this concept are: delivering a catalog of requirements; the evaluation of tools; possible file formats (e.g. FITS) necessary for digitization and longtime preservation of the historical weather maps at ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Austria's national weather and geophysical service

The user in focus: an inclusive approach to the presentations of digital collections of GLAM institutions

This paper describes the experience gained at the University of Padova Library System on modelling, creation, management and preservation of digital collections with Phaidra, the Digital Asset Management tool created and developed by the University of Vienna, for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums). There is also an examination of the motivations and strategies for creating a model for the presentation of the collections aimed at enhancing the cultural heritage of libraries, archives and museums of the University and local partners (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Università Iuav di Venezia) and intended for use by a specialised audience as well as by the general public. Future challenges include the repository certification and the enrichment of the search functionality

Moving towards an Open Archaeology: projects, opportunities and challenges

Im Allgemeinen haben Open Science-Praktiken nur langsam Auswirkungen auf die gängige archäologische Praxis. Eine Ausnahme bildet der offene Zugang zu Publikationen, der – zusammen mit offenen Daten und Methoden – zu den für Archäolog*innen wahrscheinlich wichtigsten offenen Praktiken zählt. Dieser Artikel stellt eine Auswahl von Archäologieprojekten vor, die offene wissenschaftliche Praktiken anwenden und fördern. Schließlich wird es eine Diskussion über einige der Fragen und Herausforderungen geben, denen sich die Disziplin auf ihrem Weg zu einer Open Archaeology gegenübersieht.Generally, open science practices are only slowly having an impact on mainstream archaeological practice. An exception is the open access to publications, which, together with open data and open methodologies may represent those practices most relevant for archaeological researchers. This article introduces a selection of archaeology projects that embrace and facilitate open science practices. Finally there will be a discussion of some of the questions and challenges the discipline is facing in its move towards an Open Archaeology

Challenges of building and maintaining an image database: a use case based on the Digital Research Archive for Byzantium (BIFAB)

Due to the complex nature of archival images, it is an ongoing challenge to establish a metadata architecture and metadata standards that are easy to navigate and take into consideration future requirements. This contribution will present a use case in the humanities based on the Digital Research Archive for Byzantium (DiFAB) at the University of Vienna. By tracing one monument and its photographic documentation, this paper will highlight some issues concerning metadata for images of material culture, such as: various analog and digital forms of documentation; available thesauri – including problems of historical geography, multilingualism, and culturally specific terminologies –; and the importance of both precise and imprecise dating for cultural historians and their research archives