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Investigating Evolving Collection Support with Simple Tools

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From Born-Physical to Born-Virtual: Augmenting Intelligence in Digital Libraries (ICADL 2022)

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Most digital archive/repository toolkits are designed for the long-term preservation of digital objects and metadata but are not as well suited for evolving collections where the content, structure and presentation are not settled. This is crucial for contested knowledge systems or where knowledge systems change because of changes in society. This paper discusses simple approaches to address the evolution problem in the context of the EMANDULO archive and the Simple DL toolkit. Our initial and ongoing work shows promise to leverage existing practices and underlying tools for a potentially more effective solution for rapidly evolving archives.

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    https://github.com/slumou/simpledl.

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    https://purl.archive.org/.

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This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant numbers: 105862, 119121 and 129253) and University of Cape Town. The authors acknowledge that opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are that of the authors, and that the NRF accepts no liability whatsoever in this regard.

We would like to acknowledge the Archive & Public Culture research initiative at the University of Cape Town for allowing this research to use the Five Hundred Year Archive data collection for the purposes of this study.

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  2. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

    Marie Katsurai

  3. VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

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Suleman, H. (2022). Investigating Evolving Collection Support with Simple Tools. In: Tseng, YH., Katsurai, M., Nguyen, H.N. (eds) From Born-Physical to Born-Virtual: Augmenting Intelligence in Digital Libraries. ICADL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21756-2_36

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