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The progress of web security level related to European open access LIS repositories between 2016 and 2018
Full text linkThis article focuses on the development of European institutional repositories web security in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). Since the first analysis in June 2016, we have been still using the same three independent online tools to measure the web security score of these repositories. In case of data transfer, the qualitative aspects of the secured HTTPS protocol are as important as implementing the protocol itself. Our analysis is directly related to the previously published article where we examined the selected group of LIS repositories. Now, we are focusing on the summarization of improvements made between 2016-2018. These are based on periodical annual measurements. These may contribute to increasing the security level of repositories not only in Europe, but also with respect to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) regulation which came into force a few months ago. It is significant because the GDPR focuses, inter alia, on the ways of sensitive data transfer over the internet networks
The Discovery tool is a growing organism
Full text linkThis article sums up two years of work selecting, configuring and promoting a discovery tool. Our choices were based on our circumstances and might not be right for every library. However, they led us to a state of things which we find satisfactory, and which we are going to improve further. That is why we wish to share them with colleagues who face the same challenges daily, hoping our experience can be of help.Questo articolo vuole essere il resoconto della nostra esperienza nella scelta, implementazione, configurazione e promozione di un discovery tool. Le nostre scelte sono basate sulla situazione della nostra biblioteca e potrebbero non adattarsi a tutti; ci hanno però portati ad un risultato soddisfacente e che abbiamo intenzione di migliorare ulteriormente. Per questo motivo vorremmo condividere il lavoro fatto con altri, nella speranza che qualcuno lo trovi utile
Semantic alignment in museums, archives and libraries. The ontologies for describing relationships
Full text linkThis paper presents the state of the art of the cataloguing description of personal relationships between creators of archival records and people that are related to the life cycle of cultural objects, as highlighted by museums, archives and libraries records (i.e. GLAM, translated in italian MAB). Since people are fundamental access points to the cultural heritage, the representation of relationships between people and corporate bodies in Linked Open Data is of increasing interest. Nonetheless, a shared and comprehensive vocabulary of personal relationships is not available yet. Leveraging on Semantic Web technologies, and ontologies in particular, the aim is to identify existing ontologies that allow to represent relationships in their context (i.e. time, space and events); to map and classify different types of personal relationships; and to provide a formal representation of relationships not available in existing ontologies. As a result, we present an ontology, with a controlled vocabulary, for the representation of the scenario of personal relationships in the cultural heritage domain.Il presente contributo intende analizzare lo stato dell’arte nella descrizione delle relazioni interpersonali tra soggetti produttori d’archivio e figure legate al ciclo di vita di oggetti culturali - nell’ambito museale, archivistico e bibliotecario (MAB). In quanto punti di accesso fondamentali al patrimonio culturale, la rappresentazione delle relazioni tra persone e organizzazioni è oggetto di crescente interesse nella produzione di Linked Open Data. Nonostante ciò, non esiste al momento un vocabolario condiviso che fornisca una visuale esaustiva sulle relazioni interpersonali che caratterizzano il dominio MAB. Utilizzando la lente delle tecnologie del Semantic Web, e delle ontologie in particolare, l’obiettivo è identificare le ontologie esistenti che permettono di esprimere aspetti temporali, spaziali ed evenemenziali delle relazioni; mappare e classificare le tipologie di relazioni interpersonali; fornire una rappresentazione formale di quelle che non siano disponibili in ontologie esistenti. Il risultato è una ontologia, comprensiva di un vocabolario controllato di termini, per la rappresentazione dello scenario delle relazioni interpersonali nel dominio dei beni culturali
OPERAS: bringing the long tail of Social Sciences and Humanities into Open Science
Full text linkThe paper will present OPERAS, a comprehensive infrastructure aimed at providing a pan-European infrastructure to rethink and reshape publishing, discovery and dissemination addressing the specificity and the critical issues of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).The paper will try to set the scene examining the status of scholarly communication, the developments of Open Access and Open Science, and the specific demands for SSH. A second part will outline how OPERAS meets these needs, taking care of all the steps of the scholarly communication cycle.OPERAS unique approach is to unite researchers, libraries and publishers in a common effort, in order to take back control over scholarly communication. Not merging nor replacing, but nurturing existing realities, OPERAS provides innovative services to bring SSH into Open Science.OPERAS is designed to elaborate effective and scalable long-term strategies for the future development of the digital infrastructure and community building needed to innovate scholarly communication in the SSH. OPERAS pervading idea of science as communication holds an immense potential for an inspiring model of Open Science with direct societal impact, based on continuous communication
The concept of original of a digital document in the interceptions in criminal trial
Full text linkL'attuale regolamentazione italiana definisce con precisione il concetto di "copia" e "duplicazione" di un documento digitale, tuttavia non definisce chiaramente il concetto di "documento originale". Ciò causa problemi in tutti quei contesti nei quali è necessario esibire l'originale come prova, come nel caso delle intercettazioni nei processi penali. Un punto di partenza per gli studi iniziali potrebbe essere uno sguardo alle legislazioni su questo argomento in altri paesi.The current Italian regulation defines quite precisely the concept of “copy” and “duplicate” of a digital document however it does not clearly define the concept of “original document”. This causes problems in all those contexts in which it is necessary to exhibit the “original” as evidence as in the case of interceptions in criminal trials. A starting point for opening studies could be a look to the legislations on this subject in other countries
Subject indexing in the National Library Service (SBN). Matters, problems and new challenges
Full text linkIl contributo prende in considerazione l’indicizzazione semantica in SBN, soffermandosi prevalentemente sulle premesse storiche, sulle condizioni attuali e sui possibili sviluppi dell’Archivio dei soggetti e delle classi. Sono analizzate non solo le criticità della cooperazione semantica, ma anche prospettate alcune strategie future. L’accento è posto soprattutto sulla necessità di un rinnovamento della gerarchia dei Poli e delle biblioteche che inviano soggetti in Indice, sull’importanza di un’implementazione dell’Archivio dei soggetti in SBN, sull’opportunità di legare i dati semantici a livello di record d’opera, anche alla luce del recente modello concettuale IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM).The article focuses on subject indexing in the National Library Service (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale – SBN), specifically analyzing the historical premises and the diachronic developments that marked its evolution. In particular, it traces the origin and growth of the archive of subjects and classes in the SBN Index (and the collective SBN catalogue) from the founding years of the SBN cooperative bibliographic network up to the most recent transformations coming from the “Evolution of the SBN Index” project. This paper also takes into consideration the observations of the ICCU-BNCF joint working group which worked on the application of the Nuovo soggettario in SBN from 2009 up to 2010 and analyzes the project for implementation of the archive of subjects and classes of the SBN Index (2016-2017).Some considerations are proposed concerning the subject links to the Work record, thus suggesting the apical grouping by subject, which is also based on the new conceptual model IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM)
Understanding the archival fonds as autobiographical text through three discourses
Full text linkOver the last few decades, textual criticism has shifted its focus away from the reconstruction of final authorial intentions in favour of exposing the multiplicity of intentions concurring in the formation of literary texts. A similar shift in focus can be tracked in the theoretical literature on lifewriting exploring the nature of autobiographical texts. There, the notion that such texts function as sites for the revelation of a unified authentic self has been displaced by an understanding of them as sites for the construction of multiple selves. Both these shifts resonate, in turn, with a growing body of archival literature investigating the multiple layers of agency implicated in the construction of archival fonds. Drawing on the insights of textual criticism, lifewriting scholarship and the archival theory of arrangement, this article considers the ways in which personal fonds in general and writers’ fonds in particular may be understood as autobiographical texts
Se peindre pour ne pas se perdre. Some thoughts on the archive as a self-representation.
Full text linkThe purpose of this article is to reflect on production, organization and preservation of personal archives, regarded as a kind of self-representation. In particular, these archives are considered such as an autobiography – sometimes as a support of literary memoirs – or as a monument for posterity.L’obiettivo del presente articolo è di riflettere sulla produzione, organizzazione e preservazione degli archivi personali, considerati come modalità di autorappresentazione. Nello specifico, questi archivi sono considerati come un’autobiografia – a volte un supporto della memoria letteraria – o un monumento per la posterità
Personal archives. Autobiography, representation and conservative strategies
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Volvelles of knowledge. Origin and development of an instrument of scientific imagination (13th-17th centuries)
Full text linkThis contribution reconstructs the history of volvelle in movable books; books created for a wide range of different purposes (teaching, mnemonics, play, divining, etc.) including mechanical or paratextual devices demanding or soliciting the interaction of the reader. The investigation runs from hand-written books, considering some specific editorial genres, including calendars, books of fate, anatomical flap books, navigation handbooks etc.This contribution reconstructs the history of volvelle in movable books; books created for a wide range of different purposes (teaching, mnemonics, play, divining, etc.) including mechanical or paratextual devices demanding or soliciting the interaction of the reader. The investigation runs from hand-written books, considering some specific editorial genres, including calendars, books of fate, anatomical flap books, navigation handbooks etc