II Konferencja Naukowa : Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian, Warszawa, 15-16.04.2013 r. Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Studiów Bibliologicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski The 2nd Scientific Conference : Information Science in an Age of Change, April 15-16, 2013. Institute of Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw

1. Iran is one of the world’s oldest
cultural civilizations, with history
dating to 7000 BC. It is rich in arts
and cultural heritage resources
(including manuscripts, works of art
and artifacts).
Integrated access to the contents of
the Old Persian is an important
cultural concern, and many centers
have the responsibilities and
capabilities to realize this important
initiative.

2.  However, Iranian users seem yet
to have access to the navigation
and content intended for
different searches on various
sites.
 based on demands on digital
heritage resources for usage
 preventing duplication of digital
copies
 to set the context through which
users can search across all the
content they need
 for the protection of the rights
of authors and publishers

3.  Core (12)
Core members participate and interact with a number of
owners which have the resources in the country. The
members decide about public policies and the
consortium's members.
 Members (17)
All those which have shared their content of resources with
National Content Consortium, are members of the
Consortium. Consortium members can use the facilities
provided, for free in order to sale and supply their content
to others.

4.  Technical issues regarding presenting information
resources as standard
 Lack of access to integrated resources
 Lack of consensus of manufacturers, content owners and
resources
 Cultural issues and challenges for the content of
individual organizations were major reasons to integrate
collections for easy access, and appropriate context and
create required technical standards and infrastructure.

5. Nationwide
 Creation of a standard environment
 Production and accessibility for content knowledge to
compete in the evolving knowledge-based world
 Launching of a platform for Islamic content
 Ability to create standardized cataloging practices on
content with national standards for access

6. Content owners
 Protection of Content owner identity
 Increasing number of users
 Access to other valuable content in compliance with the
stated conditions
 Having a variety of content
 Increase the amount of available information

7.  Users and researchers
 Easy access to massive amounts of information at any
time and from any location
 Access to a variety of content (books, articles,
manuscripts, photographs, documents, and other
content) in the form of audio, image, text, video and other
evolving media
 Integrated and comprehensive search feature in a network
of linked data to reduce the cost of access to content

8.  Create a platform for researchers to have access to
national content, especially Persian content
 Ability to provide easy access to all kinds of information
 Encourage the preservation of digital resources
 Retain ownership of the material and content owners
 Global awareness of valuable national resources
 Appropriate technical and cultural context
 Content owners consent
 National standards for the use or presentation of digital
content and services
 Dissemination of national content globally

9.  The Consortium is not comprised of content producers,
but to achieve its goal, it seeks to get involved with
content owners.
 It seeks appropriation of technical and cultural
requirements to collect, convert, organize and protect
digital data at a national level to provide the best possible
practice.
 For material and intellectual property issues, the
Consortium seeks to insure that each content owner
member would retain individual identity/ownership.

10.  ASK A LIBRARIAN
 ORDER SYSTEM OF DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION
 CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM
 FREE CONTENT SYSTEM

11.  Trying to keep the material and intellectual property
owner of the content
 Maintaining the individual identity of each member
 Improving quality and productivity in all activities of the
Consortium
 Principles of customer service
 Effort to provide reliable information by content owners

12. Property laws, material, intellectual and spiritual
Content standards

13. Descriptive metadata: for describing the content
Administrative metadata: information management data
Structural metadata for describing relationships between objects and digital
files
Legal metadata for digital objects defines rights
Technical metadata contains technical information about digital objects
Preservation metadata contains information to ensure the long-term
preservation of digital objects

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17.  Creation of a National Content Consortium of digital
repository could be of immense help to facilitate access to
the nation’s heritage resources globally,
 Preserve and develop the nation's digital resources, and
encourage sharing and exchange of information among
libraries, archives, museums and heritage organizations
in Iran.
 The programme would avoid duplication of efforts in
digitization, develop metadata standards, and ensure
sustainability of the nations resources.