Content

Content Working Group Focus

The Content concept encompasses the data and information that the Digital Library handles and makes available to its users. It comprises a set of information objects organised into collections. Content is an umbrella concept used to aggregate all forms of information objects that a Digital Library collects, manages and delivers. It encompasses the diverse range of information objects, including such resources as objects, annotations and metadata. For example, metadata have a central role in the handling and use of information objects, as they provide information critical to its syntactical, semantic and contextual interpretation.

Source: Digital Library Manifesto in the Digital Library Reference Model (V1.0), p. 20

 

Experts contributing to the Content Working Group:

  • Detlev Balzer, independent consultant, Neterlands & European Film Gateway
  • Leonardo Candela, Institute of Information Science & Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTI)
  • Dontella Castelli, Scientific Co-ordinator of DL.org, Institute of Information Science & Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTI)
  • Stefan Gradmann, Professor for Library and Information Science at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
  • C.H.J.P. (Kees) Hendrick, Naturalis - National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
  • Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science & Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTI)
  • Luc Moreau, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton

 

DL.org resources available:
Tech Wiki on Content.
The Digital Library Reference Model, V1.0.
Interoperability Booklet produced for the 1st DL.org Workshop, October 2009.

 

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