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Business report of 13th International Digital Curation Conference
Černohlávková, Petra
The business report describes the course of participation in the 13th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) dedicated to data and data management plans. Participation in the conference was key to plans to build a new repository. The international trip brought a first insight into the issues and new trends at the international level. At the same time, it has made it possible to establish contacts between experts in the field who already manage their repositories. The findings and texts of the papers can be used as a basis for consideration of the possibilities of NTK in the field of research data and data stewardship, and they are also an inspiration for the next year of the international Conference on grey literature and repositories under the auspices of NTK.
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The datahub: de/blending museum data
Vandermaesen, Matthias
The Flemish Museums for Fine and Contemporary Art offer an overview of the art production in the Southern Netherlands and Belgium form the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century. The Flemish Art Collection is a non-profit organisation tasked with promoting the collection to an international and diverse audience. Delivery of knowledge and expertise curated by the museums is a big challenge. Blending cultural object records stored accross various databases and commercial registration systems is non-trivial and prevents opening up the collections across the walls of the museums. In 2015, the Flemish Art Collection started the Datahub Project. Over the past years, a modern metadata aggregation platform was built, leveraging open source technologies and open standards. This presentation will highlight the architecture of this platform, and the design process. The Datahub platform is a service oriented architecture and consists of three major components. The core is a home grown, reusable metadata aggregator called The Datahub. This web-application is build with the Symfony framework. Metadata records are ingested via a RESTful API, stored in a MongoDB database and disseminated via an OAI-PMH endpoint. User friendly discovery of metadata is covered via Project Blacklight and geared towards museal workers as well as the general public. Finally, we repurposed the Catmandu framework for flexible and extensible setup of ETL pipelines between the registration systems of the data providers, the Datahub and the discovery interface. Since we are exchanging information about cultural heritage objects, we use the LIDO XML exchange format designed and developed by ICOM. The project taught us several valuable lessons. What are the benefits of looking across the borders of your own domain? What are key success factors? How do you identify pitfalls? But it also raises a set of new questions. How do we go from here? What’s next? The tools and the codebase are freely available under a GPLv3 license and are actively documented and maintained on Github.
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ARCLib – LTP Solution for Libraries
Pavlásková, Eliška ; Vašek, Zdeněk
The presentation introduces project ARCLib. The project aims to create complex open source Long Term Preservation solution for libraries. ARCLib ensures long term preservation of digital data according OAIS guidelines and provides a free alternative to commercial software solutions. ARCLib is designed as a solution for all types of memory institutions – museums, galleries and archives. As part of the project two methodical guidelines were created – Methodology for logical preservation of digital data and Methodology for bit preservation.
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Blending and Debledning Data in the Daily Routine of a University Library
Stille, Wolfgang
In libraries, there is something like a war of opinions about library software in the last couple of years: some (in particular library management) prefer the licensing of commercial software products with strict business models, others (n particular library IT) participate in community driven open source solutions. Probably, the truth lies somewhere in between, which means that standards, interfaces, and interoperability play a more and more imortant role in the business of library IT, and thus have to be open. At the same time, monolithic commercial software solutions implying vendor lock-ins emerge, promising all-in-one one-stop-shop solutions, obstructing an objective debate between library management and IT staff. The talk intends to give some experiental report on the past, tries to answer questions and reasons of the present, and gives some vision (and hopefully discussion) on the future of library IT.
Slides: idr-1261_1 - PDF Video: ELAG2018-Stille - MP4
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Blend and deblend Linked open data in a Consortium
Pallarès, Jordi
Working in a Consortium give us the perspective to see the benefits of blending ideas to create a applications from a central data/point. In some cases we found the Institution want to deblend or „not blend“ with the consortium and prefer or they see more benefits to made his own aplication. We explain our experience in the Consortium blending and not blending desicions and explain two projects in linked open data to show examples of this two ways. One project We blend all the authorities and in other we not blend in the case of Thesaurus of the University of Barcelona using Skos format.
Slides: idr-1248_1 - PDF Video: ELAG2018-Pallares - MP4
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