Quality interoperability within digital libraries: the DL.org perspective

Quality is the most dynamic aspect of DLs, and becomes even more complex with respect to interoperability. This paper formalizes the research motivations and hypotheses on quality interoperability conducted by the Quality Working Group within the EU-funded project DL.org (<a href="http://www.dlorg.eu">http://www.dlorg.eu/</a>). After providing a multi-level interoperability framework – adopted by DL.org - the authors illustrate key-research points and approaches on the way to the interoperability of DLs quality, grounding them in the DELOS Reference Model. By applying the DELOS Reference Model Quality Concept Map to their interoperability motivating scenario, the authors subsequently present the two main research outcomes of their investigation - the Quality Core Model and the Quality Interoperability Survey

DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services

DANS is the new Dutch organization, which has been tasked with the preservation and permanent access to research data in the humanities and the social sciences. The two main scientific administrative organizations in the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), are jointly responsible for DANS. DANS aims to promote (interdisciplinary) collaboration with and among researchers. DANS is also the Dutch national partner in European and other international data organizations. DANS is also an intermediary to researchers for the delivery of large databases from organizations such as Statistics Netherlands, The Social and Cultural Planning agency and the Topographical Service. Already existing data archives like the social science data archive 'Steinmetzarchief' and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA) have been merged in DANS. DANS has been mandated to expand and improve the current data research infrastructure. New initiatives for data services and data archives are being developed in fields where such facilities have been lacking until recently. These TOPical Programmes (TOPs) are set up in collaboration with research groups. Work on the renewal of the infrastructure for digital data archiving is in progress. Innovation and staying ahead in the ICT-development is one of the main spearheads of this new organization. To be able to apply fundamental research findings to systems used for archiving and providing access to data DANS has established its own development team. For the acquisition of data sets, collaboration with faculties, research schools and academic institutes will be invigorated. DANS developed in collaboration with researchers in the field and the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) a user-friendly repository for research archiving. Now researchers are able to place their research data in DANS compliant data repositories. They can rely on a safe preservation and curation of their data an they can share their data with other researchers. DANS aims to make access to research data as open as possible

Permanent Pixels: Building blocks for the longevity of digital surrogates of historical photographs

This book is about the longevity of digital surrogates of historical photographs. The preservation of digital photos is considered in the context of long-term access to digital objects in general. There is a general view among archivists, librarians and museum professionals that analogue originals and their digital counterparts are closely related. The features of a digital surrogate, such as a scanned historical photograph, are based on an assessment of the analogue original as well as the intended function of the digital surrogate, also in the long term. This gives the digital objects to be preserved a very specific character that justifies the scope of this research on the longevity of a specific digital data object. The focus on the longevity of digital surrogates of historical photographs enables the investigation of available building blocks for digital preservation such as guidelines, procedures, tools, standards, strategies and methods to enable long-term access to digital data objects. This study examines in detail the role of digital preservation strategies, file format standards, content format standards, metadata schemas and other building blocks for the realisation of durable digital surrogates of historical photographs

Interoperability Framework for Persistent Identifiers systems: Paper - iPRES 2012 - Digital Curation Institute, iSchool, Toronto

In this paper, we propose an Interoperability Framework (IF) for Persistent Identifiers (PI) systems that addresses functions, roles and responsibilities needed to make heterogeneous PI systems interoperable. The fundamental steps, which provided the main inputs for the design of the model have been: 1) a survey on the use of PI among different stakeholder communities and 2) the definition of interoperability use cases and requirements. The IF is presented as a solution addressing the PI interoperability issues, which have been identified in the survey and have been translated into concrete use cases to serve as requirements for designing the model. Conclusions and intended future work close the paper

D7.2 Data Management Plan (Second Version)

This second version of the Data Management Plan (DMP) follows the template structure for an Open Research Data Pilot (ORDP) (section 2). As elaborated in the first version of the DMP (Admiraal et al. 2021), we see data management planning as inherent part of the overall knowledge exchange coordination in the project, and therefore closely related to the development of the socio-technical roadmap (Guillotel-Nothmann et al. 2022). In the first section Introduction we summarise Polifonia’s approach towards data management planning. We further detail the progress made from the DMP version 1 to 2, and by which methods those were achieved. In section 2 Polifonia Data Management Plan, we use the ORDP template, to document the achievements of data management in Polifonia, and discuss main achievements of Polifonia such as the Polifonia Ecosystem, the Polifonia Knowledge Graph, and Polifonia Ontology and the Polifonia Portal from the point of view of best practices in data management. A short Outlook section summarises tasks and steps toward the DMP version 3