The road to providing access to Iran’s heritage resources: Iranian Consortium / Leili Seifi
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Introduction 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.
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
Members
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.
Why Consortium?Technical issues regarding presenting
information resources as standard Lack of access to integrated resources Lack of consensus of manufacturers, content
owners and resourcesCultural 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.
Advantages of National Content Consortium
NationwideCreation 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
Content ownersProtection of Content owner identityIncreasing number of usersAccess to other valuable content in compliance
with the stated conditionsHaving a variety of contentIncrease the amount of available information
Users and researchersEasy access to massive amounts of information
at any time and from any locationAccess 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
Objectives
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 resourcesRetain ownership of the material and content
ownersGlobal awareness of valuable national resources Appropriate technical and cultural contextContent owners consentNational standards for the use or presentation
of digital content and servicesDissemination of national content globally
Activities/Services
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.
ASK A LIBRARIAN ORDER SYSTEM OF DOCUMENT
DIGITIZATION CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEMFREE CONTENT SYSTEM
Principles/Rules and Regulations
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 serviceEffort to provide reliable information by content
owners
Property laws, material, intellectual and spiritualContent standards
Descriptive metadata: for describing the contentAdministrative metadata: information management dataStructural metadata for describing relationships between objects and digital filesLegal metadata for digital objects defines rightsTechnical metadata contains technical information about digital objectsPreservation metadata contains information to ensure the long-term preservation of digital objects
The number of Member’s Metadata
CIVIL
ICA
DLM
DCIP
MNLM
DLIP
OQS
TICI
DLU
TIIRP
CGIE
IUP
RIISCT
KED
NA
IDO
LMDCIP
OLM
DCAQ
IPOQS
NLAIR EIF
0
100000
200000
300000
400000
500000
600000
700000
170902
649111
1250036377
109147
231272
169502959 577616950
137799
1456
316017
106760
9352
377654
7122
Content Observed by End Users
TICI DLUT IIRP CGIE IUP KEDNA IDO LMDCIP OLMDCAQ IPOQS NLAIR EIF0
5
10
15
20
25
30
26
5
1 12
26
5
17
8
1
13
1
Downloaded Objects by Users
TICI LMDCIP OLMDCAQ NLAIR EIF0
5
10
15
20
25
23
43
7
19
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Conclusion
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.