In 2013, Ghana’s second largest dam was constructed on the Black Volta River, bordering the Banda region. The Bui Dam, while contributing to the country’s growing electrical supply, has also forced the relocation of thousands of villagers. In addition to the considerable changes to lifeways, the dam has brought attention to Banda from global businesspeople and tourists alike. In light of the ongoing changes to local social and economic processes, the Banda Thru Time project emerged. This project seeks to e-patriate images—from historic times to the present—to the communities that make up Banda. My part in the project—and the focus of this thesis—was to create a web portal to the repository that would contain these images in addition to other historic documents. In addition to the creation of the web portal, the thesis portion of this project engages the process of digital epatriation and the four lines of inquiry that came to inform my research: determining through what pathways digital e-patriation is initiated and achieved in a community; how collections get assembled, with an interest in the implications this has for interpretation; how a collection can be presented to unsettle the troubling either/or dichotomy of continuity and change; and how memory work relates to the process of assembling a collection for the purposes of e-patriation / Graduate

The objective of this report is to explore the design characteristics for a repository of indigenous Amazonian digital cultural heritage objects. I first examine the design objectives in relation to the available collection of digital objects. I then analyze the characteristics and expectations of the user community, and the implications of these expectations for repository design. I report on the specific intellectual property rights (IPR) laws and ideals applicable to this collection. I review possible copyright and licensing systems to protect indigenous IPR. In particular, I discuss the Mukurtu content management system (CMS) and its associated Traditional Knowledge licenses. I then report on my efforts to use the Mukurtu CMS as a means for making the collection available to the user community and for long-term digital preservation. I conclude with ideas about how Mukurtu or a similar content management system could be used for long-term management and preservation of indigenous Amazonian digital cultural heritage. / text

DSpace is a joint development project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Company. Its mission is to establish a library service to capture, distribute, and preserve the digital, intellectual output of the MIT community. We are developing a software platform for long-term digital content storage and preservation, and implementing this platform as a service of the Libraries.

An institutional repository is seen as a valuable tool to manage digital resources within the organisational context. Repositories can have a positive or negative influence on how an institution manages its digital material in relation to accessibility and dissemination of digital material. The functionality and status quo of digital repositories can be assessed and measured based on specific guidelines to determine practicality and efficacy. The guidelines used in this regard are known as international repository assessment standards. These standards have been developed by leading organisations that specialise in knowledge creation to develop controlled, consensus-based, market-relevant international standards that can be used to support innovation and provide resolutions to global challenges. In the event where an institution wishes to assess its digital repository using international standards, the underlying purpose of the assessment exercise is for the digital repository to gain trust accreditation. This study aimed to develop a South African digital repository trust assessment model based on the criteria of international standards. This study investigated the level of trust compliance that a very small sample of South African digital repositories met – using the developed model. The investigation process is also aimed at receiving feedback (in the form of recommendations) from digital repository managers to improve the developed model to make it more useful for South African digital repositories. Furthermore, the study intended to yield further research into the complex topic of digital repository assessment based on international standards. Overall, this research study revealed that South African digital repositories are not far off in complying with the full requirements of international repository assessment standards. / Mini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Carnigie / Information Science / MIT / Unrestricted

Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). / In the age of Information Technology it is very important to keep a pace with the rapid changes that has been taking place all over the world. Institutional repository play a vital role in dissemination of intellectual output of the organization hence it is essential to all the organization to develop and digitize their collection and scholarly communication. Keeping in view the technological changes and importance of creating digital repository of electronic theses, the proposal has been prepared for creation of institutional repository of electronic theses of social-sciences of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University , Nagpur . This proposal is submitted to Indian Council of Social-Science Research, (ICSSR) New Delhi and has been approved recently, now it is in execution stage. The proposal, constraints and measures for Institutional Repository have been also discussed in detail.

A gestão da informação e do conhecimento (GIC) emerge em um contexto socioeconômico no qual a informação e o conhecimento são reconhecidos como um recurso. Um bem imaterial, inesgotável e com alto potencial para geração da sustentabilidade organizacional. Assim, vislumbra-se que este modelo gerencial atende as demandas de um novo comportamento organizacional, que busca compreender os impactos da criação e do uso da informação sobre a vantagem competitiva. Nessa linha, e tendo como objeto de estudo a relação entre a GIC e as competências organizacionais, buscou-se verificar o impacto da GIC sobre o surgimento de competências organizacionais, especialmente considerando a utilização do Dspace, um repositório digital. Por meio da aplicação da metodologia exploratória-descritiva, elaborou-se um estudo sobre a experiência do uso da plataforma Dspace em um Tribunal da Justiça Trabalhista. A análise da literatura e do relato de experiência permitiu identificar que as técnicas de GIC colaboram para o estabelecimento das competências organizacionais, especialmente quando estas são consideradas a partir de uma visão holística que integra a necessidade informacional, os fluxos informacionais, a cultura informacional, o comportamento informacional e o uso da informação. Também identificou-se que os repositórios digitais podem ser um fator de influência para o desenvolvimento das competências organizacionais, uma vez que sua principal função é estruturar os ciclos informacionais para a geração de novos conhecimentos e, finalmente, constatou-se que o Dspace é uma ferramenta que apoia o desenvolvimento das competências organizacionais, pois permite criar um estoque de informações e/ou conhecimentos produzidos ou adquiridos pelas organizações, favorecendo o estabelecimento de um contexto capacitante ideal para aquisições de novas capacidades de agir. / The information and knowledge management emerges in a socioeconomic context in which information and knowledge are recognized as a resource. An immaterial and inexhaustible asset that has a high potential for generating organizational sustainability. Probably, this management tool meets the demands of a new organizational behavior, which seeks to understand the impact of the information creation and use on competitive advantage. Thus, and having as object of study the relationship between the information and knowledge and core competence, we sought to verify its impact on the emergence of core competence, especially considering the use of DSpace, a digital repository. Through the application of exploratory-descriptive methodology, a study about the experience of using the DSpace platform in a court of Labor Justice was done. The analysis of literature and experience report identifies that the techniques of information and knowledge management collaborates to establish the core competence, especially considering an integration between the informational needs, the information flows, the informational culture, information behavior and the use of information. In addition, it was found that digital repositories can be a factor of influence for the development of core competence, especially because its main function is structuring the informational cycle for generating new knowledge and, finally, it was found that the DSpace is an important tool, which supports the development of core competence. It allows creating a stock of information and/or knowledge produced or acquired by organizations, better supporting the establishment of an optimal enabling environment for acquisition of new capabilities to act.

A gestão da informação e do conhecimento (GIC) emerge em um contexto socioeconômico no qual a informação e o conhecimento são reconhecidos como um recurso. Um bem imaterial, inesgotável e com alto potencial para geração da sustentabilidade organizacional. Assim, vislumbra-se que este modelo gerencial atende as demandas de um novo comportamento organizacional, que busca compreender os impactos da criação e do uso da informação sobre a vantagem competitiva. Nessa linha, e tendo como objeto de estudo a relação entre a GIC e as competências organizacionais, buscou-se verificar o impacto da GIC sobre o surgimento de competências organizacionais, especialmente considerando a utilização do Dspace, um repositório digital. Por meio da aplicação da metodologia exploratória-descritiva, elaborou-se um estudo sobre a experiência do uso da plataforma Dspace em um Tribunal da Justiça Trabalhista. A análise da literatura e do relato de experiência permitiu identificar que as técnicas de GIC colaboram para o estabelecimento das competências organizacionais, especialmente quando estas são consideradas a partir de uma visão holística que integra a necessidade informacional, os fluxos informacionais, a cultura informacional, o comportamento informacional e o uso da informação. Também identificou-se que os repositórios digitais podem ser um fator de influência para o desenvolvimento das competências organizacionais, uma vez que sua principal função é estruturar os ciclos informacionais para a geração de novos conhecimentos e, finalmente, constatou-se que o Dspace é uma ferramenta que apoia o desenvolvimento das competências organizacionais, pois permite criar um estoque de informações e/ou conhecimentos produzidos ou adquiridos pelas organizações, favorecendo o estabelecimento de um contexto capacitante ideal para aquisições de novas capacidades de agir. / The information and knowledge management emerges in a socioeconomic context in which information and knowledge are recognized as a resource. An immaterial and inexhaustible asset that has a high potential for generating organizational sustainability. Probably, this management tool meets the demands of a new organizational behavior, which seeks to understand the impact of the information creation and use on competitive advantage. Thus, and having as object of study the relationship between the information and knowledge and core competence, we sought to verify its impact on the emergence of core competence, especially considering the use of DSpace, a digital repository. Through the application of exploratory-descriptive methodology, a study about the experience of using the DSpace platform in a court of Labor Justice was done. The analysis of literature and experience report identifies that the techniques of information and knowledge management collaborates to establish the core competence, especially considering an integration between the informational needs, the information flows, the informational culture, information behavior and the use of information. In addition, it was found that digital repositories can be a factor of influence for the development of core competence, especially because its main function is structuring the informational cycle for generating new knowledge and, finally, it was found that the DSpace is an important tool, which supports the development of core competence. It allows creating a stock of information and/or knowledge produced or acquired by organizations, better supporting the establishment of an optimal enabling environment for acquisition of new capabilities to act.

The dissertation focuses on digitization in libraries of Charles University. In connection with accessible sources, online questionnaire survey and half-structured interviews done with representatives of eight faculty libraries, the digitization activity under Charles University is presented. Transformations of the library collections into digital forms are in motion in many libraries, therefore the amount of digital material is growing and it is not co-ordinated. The great amount of digital objects is followed by a matter of depositing data and making them accessible, which is currently very topical at Charles University. The aim of the dissertation is to analyse digital libraries and repositories produced and runned at this university. First part of the thesis explains - besides set aims and metodology - terminological basis of the dissertation, especially connection between digital library and digital repository. The digital activities are analysed also from the point of staffing of performed functions, hardware and software equipment at digitalization departments of libraries, technical specification of digitized documents, metadata and also method of depositing data and making them accessible. Digitization projects in chosen faculty libraries are introduced as well. Third part of the thesis is...

Submitted by Elisangela Moura (lilaalves@gmail.com) on 2017-01-18T20:14:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rep_PreservDig_ElisangelaMoura_2015_Dissert.pdf: 2907805 bytes, checksum: 53a7e65a623df76953852c0e238ec735 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elisangela Moura (lilaalves@gmail.com) on 2017-01-18T20:14:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Rep_PreservDig_ElisangelaMoura_2015_Dissert.pdf: 2907805 bytes, checksum: 53a7e65a623df76953852c0e238ec735 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-18T20:14:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rep_PreservDig_ElisangelaMoura_2015_Dissert.pdf: 2907805 bytes, checksum: 53a7e65a623df76953852c0e238ec735 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07 / Os reposit?rios institucionais compreendem uma infraestrutura tecnol?gica e de servi?o que tem como finalidade a publica??o, acesso, uso e armazenamento de informa??o. Esses reposit?rios lidam com a produ??o intelectual de uma determinada institui??o, e est?o diretamente ligados as institui??es de ensino superior. Por?m, o ambiente tecnol?gico no qual se inserem ? fr?gil, e exp?e os formatos e suportes ? obsolesc?ncia. Com isso, a preserva??o digital, enquanto conjunto de processos que visa garantir a salvaguarda e acesso de longo prazo a essa produ??o, ganha fundamental import?ncia. Nesse sentido, atua a rede brasileira de servi?os de preserva??o intitulada Rede Cariniana, gerida pelo IBICT. A Rede utiliza o modelo de preserva??o digital distribu?da, operacionalizada atrav?s do software LOCKSS. Com o objetivo de apoiar um acordo de coopera??o entre a UFRN e o IBICT, este estudo prop?s um conjunto de requisitos m?nimos, direcionado para a UFRN e seu reposit?rio institucional, com o intuito de adequ?-lo ? Rede Cariniana, para com isso possibilitar a preserva??o e o acesso de longo prazo ? produ??o da UFRN. O conjunto ? voltado principalmente para a prepara??o dos documentos, visando trat?-los, para que sejam inseridos de forma adequada no reposit?rio e posteriormente incorporados ? Rede Cariniana. Com o conjunto proposto pretende-se apoiar o acordo de coopera??o e tratar a preserva??o digital da produ??o intelectual da UFRN a curto prazo, para que a institui??o possa construir, a m?dio e longo prazo, um Plano de Preserva??o Digital mais ambicioso, ou mesmo um Plano para certifica??o de seu reposit?rio. / Institutional repositories include a technological and service infrastructure that aims to publication, access, use and store information. These repositories handle intellectual production of a given institution, and are directly connected with higher education institutions. However, their technological environment is fragile, and exposes the formats and supports to obsolescence. Therefore, digital preservation, as a set of processes aimed at ensuring the safety and long-term access to this production, gain fundamental importance. ?Rede Cariniana?, the Brazilian network of preservation services managed by IBICT, is committed to solve this problem. The network uses the model of distributed digital preservation, operationalized through the LOCKSS software. With the goal of supporting a cooperation agreement between the UFRN and IBICT, this study proposes a set of minimum requirements, directed to the UFRN and its institutional repository, to tailor the repository to ?Rede Cariniana?, enabling the preservation and long-term access to the intellectual production of UFRN. The requirements concern mainly the preparation of documents, so that they are deposited properly in the repository and subsequently incorporated into ?Rede Cariniana?. The proposed set of requirements is aimed at supporting the working agreement and treat the digital preservation of UFRN intellectual production in the short term, enabling the institution to build, in a medium and long term, a more ambitious digital preservation plan, or a certification plan for its repository.

In recent years, the continued advancement of information technology has been changing the production process and scientific communication, enabling new forms of access to research results. Universities and research institutions now have new ways to generate, disseminate and preserve knowledge, such as digital repositories, which contribute to increase the visibility of the scientific output of the institution. However, the successful implementation of a repository depends on a consistent policy of information that enables broad dissemination of scientific and count with the participation of the academic community, especially the teachers who are responsible for much of the knowledge generated in the academic realm. Thus, this paper aims to propose a policy organization, dissemination and access to scientific output of teachers in CCSH/UFSM based on free access through a digital repository. Therefore, we carried out a descriptive study, which allowed us to characterize the scientific output of teachers in CCSH, investigate their production practices and dissemination of knowledge and ultimately establish actions to build a digital repository. Among the results, it was found that, despite significant technological changes in the forms of scientific communication and understanding of teachers about the importance of using resources more democratic access to the scientific literature, there is a disagreement about the concepts related to the means of publication and communication of knowledge produced, indicating the need for a work presentation and disclosure of a repository, demonstrating its role in the scholarly communication system, as well as the differences and similarities with other systems of dissemination of scientific production. It also became clear that the concern of teachers in adopting a digital repository is focused on issues related to plagiarism, legitimacy of the result of their research, violation of rights granted to publishers of scientific and requirements of funding agencies, such as Capes. The policy of the organization, dissemination and access to the scientific proposal in this study was prepared considering some essential aspects like information policy goals; responsibilities for managing the repository; organization repository; contents and formats; deposit/submission of documents , legal aspects, access and sustainability of the repository. / Nos últimos anos, o contínuo avanço das tecnologias de informação vem modificando o processo de produção e comunicação científica, possibilitando novas formas de acesso aos resultados de pesquisas. As universidades e instituições de pesquisa passaram a contar com novas formas de gerar, preservar e disseminar conhecimentos, como os repositórios digitais, que contribuem para aumentar a visibilidade da produção científica da instituição. Contudo, o sucesso da implantação de um repositório depende de uma política de informação consistente que possibilite a ampla disseminação da produção científica e conte com a participação da comunidade acadêmica, principalmente dos docentes que são responsáveis por grande parte do conhecimento gerado no âmbito acadêmico. Nesse sentido, este trabalho tem como objetivo propor uma política de organização, disseminação e acesso para a produção científica dos docentes do CCSH/UFSM baseada em acesso livre através de um repositório digital. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa descritiva, que permitiu caracterizar a produção científica dos docentes do CCSH, investigar suas práticas de produção e disseminação do conhecimento e por fim estabelecer ações para a construção de um repositório digital. Dentre os resultados, constatou-se que, apesar das significativas mudanças tecnológicas nas formas de comunicação científica e do entendimento dos docentes a respeito da importância da utilização de meios mais democráticos de acesso à produção científica, existe uma divergência acerca dos conceitos relacionados aos meios de publicação e de comunicação do conhecimento produzido, o que indica a necessidade de um trabalho de apresentação e divulgação de um repositório, demonstrando o seu papel no sistema de comunicação científica, assim como as diferenças e semelhanças com outros sistemas de divulgação da produção científica. Também evidenciou-se que a preocupação dos docentes na adoção de um repositório digital está centrada nas questões referentes a plágio, legitimação do resultado de suas pesquisas, violação dos direitos cedidos aos editores de publicações científicas e exigências de agências de fomento, como a Capes. A política de organização, disseminação e acesso para a produção científica proposta neste estudo foi elaborada considerando alguns aspectos essenciais como objetivos da política de informação; responsabilidades pela gestão do repositório; organização do repositório; conteúdos e formatos; depósito/submissão de documentos; aspectos legais; acesso e sustentabilidade do repositório.