One of the few things I acknowledge about my existance is that I am a terrible public speaker. I have tried most techniques---even speech shadowing... A couple of weeks ago, I enrolled into the University of Washington run Coursera MOOC course---Introduction Public Speaking [1]. We have a local UCT group that meets weekly and, today, I gave a 10 minute-long Informative Speech---this falls under Topics 4, 5 and 6. [1] https://goo.gl/fQ1w3V

1. Digital Libraries
Tools for Facilitating Access, Management
and Preservation of Digital Content
Lighton Phiri
September 7, 2015

2. Outline
1) Introduction
2) Motivation
3) Examples
4) Digital Libraries
5) Case Study
6) Summary
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3. Introduction
We live in exciting times–-The Information Age
Massive amount of data generated and digitised
1) Born digital data
◻ Data created electronically
◻ Contemporary manuscripts& monographs; Tweets& FB posts :)
2) Digitised data
◻ Data initially created in non-digital form
◻ Most content created before ‘The Information Age’
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4. Why is Preservation Important?
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Urgency to preserve delicate artifacts
Massive born-digital content being generated

5. http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za
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6. http://www.netd.ac.za
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7. http://archive.org/web (1)
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8. http://archive.org/web (2)
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9. Digital Libraries in Perspective
DL sub-layers
■ User interface
■ Service layer
■ Storage layer
DL fundamentals
■ Identifiers
■ Interoperability
■ Metadata
■ Standards
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10. Case study: open.uct.ac.za (1)
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11. Case study: open.uct.ac.za (2)
open.uct.ac.za runs a DSpace instance–-a popular
standards-based institutional repository software tool
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DL sub-layers
1) User interface
◻ Web; CLI
2) Service layer
◻ Search, OAI-PMH
3) Storage layer
◻ Operating System and
database
DL fundamentals
1) Identifiers
◻ Handles
2) Interoperability
◻ OAI-PMH; SWord
3) Metadata
◻ Dublin Core
4) Standards
◻ OAI-PMH; SWord; DC

12. Summary
■ Overview
◻ Introduction, motivation and problem
◻ Examples of DLs
■ DL in perspective
◻ DL aspects and fundametals
◻ Case study–-OpenUCT
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User Interface Service Layer Storage Layer
Identifiers X X
Interoperability X
Metadata X X
Standards X X X

13. Bibliography
[1] Arms, William Y. (1995). "Key Concepts in the Architecture of the
Digital Library". In: D-Lib Magazine. The Magazine of Digital Library
Research 1.1. DOI: 10.1045/july95-arms.
[2] Arms, William Y. (2001). "Libraries, Technology, and People". In:
Digital Libraries. Ed. by William Y. Arms. 2nd. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Chap. Chapter 1, pp. 1–20.
[3] Smith, MacKenzie, Mary Barton, Margret Branschofsky, Greg
McClellan, Julie Harford Walker, Mick Bass, Dave Stuve, and Robert
Tansley (2003). "DSpace. An Open Source Dynamic Digital
Repository". In: D-Lib Magazine 9.1. DOI: 10.1045/january2003-smith
[4] Suleman, Hussein (2007). "Digital LibrariesWithout Databases: The
Bleek and Lloyd Collection". In: TPDL. Ed. by L´aszl ´o Kov´acs,
Norbert Fuhr, and Carlo Meghini. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag,
pp. 392–403. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74851-9_33.
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