JLIS.it (Italian Journal of Library, Archives, and Information Science / Rivista italiana di biblioteconomia, archivistica e scienza dell'informazione)
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Semantic technologies and linked data for the Italian PA: the case of data.cnr.it
Get PDFGovernmental data are being published in many countries, providing an unprecedented opportunity to create innovative services and to increase societal awareness about administration dynamics. In particular, semantic technologies for linked data production and exploitation prove to be ideal for managing identity and interoperability of administrative entities and data. This paper presents the current state of art, and evolution scenarios of these technologies, with reference to several case studies, including two of them from the Italian context: CNR's Semantic Scout, and DigitPA's Linked Open IPA.Governmental data are being published in many countries, providing an unprecedented opportunity to create innovative services and to increase societal awareness about administration dynamics. In particular, semantic technologies for linked data production and exploitation prove to be ideal for managing identity and interoperability of administrative entities and data. This paper presents the current state of art, and evolution scenarios of these technologies, with reference to several case studies, including two of them from the Italian context: CNR's Semantic Scout, and DigitPA's Linked Open IPA
Il contesto dei metadati ed i profili applicativi nella struttura globale dei cataloghi e nei progetti di digitalizzazione della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Get PDFThis paper will focus on the application profiles recently implemented in the new Vatican Library's discovery tool that interacts with interoperability standards and manages different metadata. The presentation will also take into consideration what the Library is planning for accessing web-based digitized manuscripts collections.This paper will focus on the application profiles recently implemented in the new Vatican Library's discovery tool that interacts with interoperability standards and manages different metadata. The presentation will also take into consideration what the Library is planning for accessing web-based digitized manuscripts collections
Legal interoperability: making Open Government Data compatible with businesses and communities
Get PDF"Legal interoperability" could be defined as the possibility of legally mixing data coming from different sources (including governmental data, data generated by online communities and data held by private parties). Legal interoperability is similar to technical interoperability, since it is a prerequisite for mixing data and create new knowledge or services. But it also has its own peculiarities, for instance because it could be achieved simply choosing the appropriate licensing scheme, but also because self-help mechanisms which could - at a certain price - guarantee technical interoperability to third parties cannot (lawfully) solve legal interoperability issues. In the mid/long run, legal interoperability could be achieved thorough the evolution of legal frameworks in order to harmonize the landscape of Government Data. In the short term, the shortcomings generated by diversified legal frameworks may be alleviated through the careful choice of copyright licenses. The presentation will focus on the latter aspects, discussing existing public licenses (such as the Creative Commons and Open Data Commons ones), representing a de facto standard in this domain, and the main open data licenses developed by European governments (e.g. the Open Government Licenses in the UK, the French License Ouverte or the Italian Open Data License)."Legal interoperability" could be defined as the possibility of legally mixing data coming from different sources (including governmental data, data generated by online communities and data held by private parties). Legal interoperability is similar to technical interoperability, since it is a prerequisite for mixing data and create new knowledge or services. But it also has its own peculiarities, for instance because it could be achieved simply choosing the appropriate licensing scheme, but also because self-help mechanisms which could - at a certain price - guarantee technical interoperability to third parties cannot (lawfully) solve legal interoperability issues. In the mid/long run, legal interoperability could be achieved thorough the evolution of legal frameworks in order to harmonize the landscape of Government Data. In the short term, the shortcomings generated by diversified legal frameworks may be alleviated through the careful choice of copyright licenses. The presentation will focus on the latter aspects, discussing existing public licenses (such as the Creative Commons and Open Data Commons ones), representing a de facto standard in this domain, and the main open data licenses developed by European governments (e.g. the Open Government Licenses in the UK, the French License Ouverte or the Italian Open Data License)
Introduzione al Seminario Global interoperability and linked data in libraries
Get PDFWhy a Linked data Seminar? Linked data provides a new language in the world of global communication: from the public administration, banks, insurance companies, to archives, libraries and museums. Global communication via Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods.Why a Linked data Seminar?Linked data provides a new language in the world of global communication: from the public administration, banks, insurance companies, to archives, libraries and museums. Global communication via Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods
FLORe – Florence Repository. The University of Florence Open Archive
Get PDFL'Università di Firenze ha una tradizione consolidata nella realizzazione di archivi della ricerca per i ricercatori. Dopo una breve introduzione sullo stato dell'arte dell'accesso aperto in Italia e in Europa, l'articolo fa riferimento ad esperienze passate dell'ateneo con l'archivio EPrints per poi passare a descrivere la genesi di FLORe, il nuovo repository istituzionale della ricerca realizzato per promuovere l'archiviazione ad accesso aperto da parte di docenti e ricercatori dell'Università di Firenze. A seguire sono descritte l'architettura e le funzionalità principali di FLORe come estensione di U-GOV ricerca, il catalogo dei prodotti dell'ateneo, piuttosto che come repository autonomo. Implementando i requisiti dati dalla Commissione sull'accesso aperto dell'Università di Firenze, FLORe ha dimostrato di essere la soluzione giusta in un'ottica di riduzione dei costi, mantenendo interfaccia e workslof di archiviazione già noti agli utenti, e fornendo infine un'interfaccia di ricerca semplice dotata del protocollo OAI-PMH per la disseminazione dei matadati.The University of Florence has a long and consolidated experience in the exploitation of open archives and self archiving by researchers. After a short introduction on current open access context in Europe and in Italy, the article recalls past experiences by tracing the history of the first e-prints archive and then describes the genesis of FLORe, the new research institutional repository developed to promote open access archiving by teachers and researchers at the University of Florence. Afterwards the architecture and the main functional and technical features of FLORe are discussed aiming to depict and to motivate the approach followed in implementing FLORe as an extension of U-GOV Research, the catalogue of scientific products, rather than an autonomous repository. Following and implementing the requirements stated by the University of Florence Open Access Commission, FLORe proves to be the right solution because it reduces operational costs, does not add a new graphical user interface, preserves the already well consolidated end-users self-archiving workflow and, at the same time, provides a simple and intuitive search interface with OAI-PMH support for research metadata dissemination
Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Linked data and cultural heritage
Get PDFThe purpose of Linked Data is to develop a total data space (the data web) able to mutually connect and enrich shared databases. Libraries therefore have the opportunity to integrate the structured information of their catalogs with information from other multiple sources and to make them more accessible by building them on web standards. The ability model the data, making them accessible and preserving the contextualization is proposed as a criterion for determining the quality of a library. The article deals with the essential articulation of semantic web and its application in the universe of libraries, and the opportunity to use shared languages, meta-languages, controlled vocabularies and ontologies that are able to meet the need for automatic processing
Preserving Open Access digital resources
Get PDFThere has been a remarkable growth of the use of e-resources, and especially of e-journals by researchers, in every field of studies. Ensuring the accessibility and use by future generations is an important challenge for university and research libraries. The paper is particularly dealing with the problems of digital preservation of relevant scientific documents issued according to the Open access movement. After examining the characteristics of the diffusion and citation impact of Open access papers in scientific literature, the paper highlights the need for all the research libraries to preserve digital contents published in OA, to ensure the access and use for future researchers. The KB e-Depot and DOAJ project for OA digital preservation is taken into consideration, and systems for digital archiving and for cooperative preservation of scholarly journals' contents: PORTICO, the LOCKSS Alliance and CLOCKSS, are presented.Nel corso degli ultimi anni si è verificato un aumento nell'utilizzo delle risorse elettroniche, specie per quanto riguarda le riviste, in ogno campo della ricerca scientifica. Assicurare l'accesso e l'usabilità di queste risorse per le generazioni future è una sfida molto importante per le biblioteche delle università e degli enti di ricerca. Questo saggio tratta in modo particolare la digital preservation di documenti di particolare interesse scientifico resi disponibili secondo il modello dell'accesso aperto. Dopo aver esaminato le caratteristiche della diffusione e l'impatto citazione delle pubblicazioni Open Access nella letteratura scientifica, l'autrice sottolinea l'importanza di conservare i contenuti digitali disponibili ad accesso aperto al fine di garantirne il riuso da parte della comunità di ricerca. Vengono presi in esame e-Depot della Koninklijke Bibliotheek e il progetto DOAJ, e sono presentati sistemi di conservazione cooperativa dei contenuti delle riviste, come PORTICO, LOCKSS e CLOCKSS
Digital editions as a new model of conceptual authority data
Get PDFI progetti relativi alla valorizzazione dei beni culturali si trovano ad affrontare un graduale passaggio dalla descrizione delle sorgenti, a livello di metadati, verso la loro digitalizzazione. Quando questo patrimonio è testuale un'attenzione particolare viene riconosciuta alla digitalizzazione come trascrizione annotata o marked-up, con l'obiettivo di edizione testuale o documentaria. Ogni caratteristica di un documento che può essere elemento di annotazione – ed è pertanto oggetto d'interpretazione – ha la forma di un authority data da analizzare sotto i diversi aspetti che attestano l'istanza specifica dell'elemento nel contesto. Gli strumenti di descrizione delle risorse, come prodotto del contesto e del dominio, contribuiscono a trasformare l'edizione di un documento in una conoscenza base. Il Web semantico e i Linked Data forniscono gli strumenti teorici e tecnologici per convertire gli authority files, che rappresentano i punti di accesso concettuali e semantici alle edizioni digitali, in risorse interoperabili.Projects related to cultural heritage enhancement are facing a gradual transition from the description of the sources, at the level of metadata, to their digitization. When this heritage is textual a special attention is recognized to digitization as annotated or “marked-up” transcription, having the aim of textual or documentary edition. Each feature of a document that can be element of annotation - and is therefore subject of interpretation - takes the form of an authority data to be analyzed under the different aspects that attest the specific instance of the element in context. Tools of description of resources, as product of context and domain, contribute to transform the edition of a document in a knowledge base. Semantic Web and Linked Data provides the theoretical and technological tools to convert siloed authority files, which represent the conceptual or semantic access points to digital editions, in interoperable resources
Sviluppo di uno schema di metadati per descrivere le risorse contenute negli archivi istituzionali alla luce delle strategie "LODE-BD"
Get PDFBasato sulle "Linee guida per la creazione e la gestione di metadati nei repository istituzionali” (CRUI, Italia, 2012), sulle "Raccomandazioni LODe BD” (AIMS, 2012) e, sull'esplorazione di altri principi e strategie per lo sviluppo qualitativo dei metadati che rappresentano il contenuto e le proprietà dei contenuti digitali, questo articolo presenta il profilo specifico dei metadati per la descrizione dei dati relativi alle risorse depositate negli archivi istituzionali. Questo profilo è allocato all'interno di uno schema di metadati fornito da termini ben definiti, dalle specifiche di compilazione, dalle strategie di allineamento (mappatura) per specifici termini di metadati e dal valore della proprietà che consente ai metadati base di diventare più efficienti nel contesto del controllo d'autorità, più ricchi nei loro profili semantici, più accessibili e utilizzabili in rete per mezzo dei Linked Data. Lo sviluppo e l'implementazione degli schemi di metadati completamente o parzialmente allineati con il paradigma dei Linked Data, fornirà lo scambio tra i differenti metadati, potenziando così la relazione semantica, l'interrogazione del loro contenuto e la loro partecipazione ai Linked Open Data.Based on ''Guidelines for metadata creation and management in the Institutional Repositories'' (CRUI, Italy, 2012) and ''LODE-BD Recommendations'' (AIMS, 2012), and exploring other principles and strategies for qualitative development of metadata representing contents and properties of digital contents, this article presents the specific metadata profile for description of Institutional Repository information resources. This profile is allocated within a metadata schema provided by well-defined metadata terms, compilation specifications, and alignment (mapping) strategies to more specific metadata terms and value properties enabling basic metadata to become more efficient in authority control context, richer in their semantic profiles and more accessible and usable on the web by means of Linked Data sets. Developing and implementing metadata schemas aligned completely or partially with Linked Data paradigm will provide metadata exchange among different Linked Data-enabling repositories, potentiate semantic relationship browsing and querying of their contents, enable their participation in the Linked Open Data cloud and contribution to an open research commons space
Trust and persistence for Internet resources
Get PDFInternet has changed our way of working, communicating, living, producing and accessing information, everything available on an open and flexible infrastructure accessible to all the users mainly free of cost. However in some cases, it’s not only important to find information but also having information about its authenticity, integrity, provenance and relations with other pieces of information. Systems for certification using URN technology like the persistent identifiers for digital objects, for authors and for bodies can extremely help in order to refine the quality of information retrievable from Internet and to increase largely its usability and potential development.Internet has changed our way of working, communicating, living, producing and accessing information, everything available on an open and flexible infrastructure accessible to all the users mainly free of cost. However in some cases, it’s not only important to find information but also having information about its authenticity, integrity, provenance and relations with other pieces of information. Systems for certification using URN technology like the persistent identifiers for digital objects, for authors and for bodies can extremely help in order to refine the quality of information retrievable from Internet and to increase largely its usability and potential development