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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing library operations by streamlining cataloguing, enhancing search functionalities, and optimizing resource allocation. This paper explores the impact of AI on library operations, focusing on information management. AI streamlines cataloguing, enhances search functionalities, and optimizes resource allocation. It also plays a role in user experiences, enabling data-driven decision-making and addressing information overload challenges. The proposed system automates librarian and user tasks, simplifies book searches, locates paths within the library, and streamlines interactions. The paper highlights the importance of understanding AI technologies for progress in intelligent systems and the potential for AI to revolutionize libraries by creating a more efficient, accessible, and responsive information ecosystem.

The planning and implementation of the digitization of the Hellenic National Academic Recognition and Information Center (D.O.A.T.A.P.) archive* was a pivotal project for its entire operation. The physical archive of the Organization consists of the individual folders for the recognition of foreign academic titles and covers the period 1979-2019 (220,000 folders/ 132,000 digitized). The presentation analyzes the stages of preparing the material, defining criteria for document selection, dimensioning the documentation and managing needs of project. The development of archive management system, using open source software (Alfresco), represents the core of its digital transition. The methodology for extracting the functional requirements, the challenges and solutions provided are presented. In this context, the construction of the metadata schema, the integration of controlled vocabularies, the management of pre-existing database datasets and the mapping to the new schema, represent a critical factor both in supporting the representation of internal processes and its interoperability with third-party systems. At the same time, due to the active character of the archive, interventions to synchronize the operation of the Organization and the implementation of the project are recorded, with the utilization of internal resources and flexible workflows planning. Furthermore, aligning the digital management of folders with eDoatap platform required partial convergences of metadata and interoperability specifications. The synergies developed (EDYTE, KED) for the Organization's inclusion in horizontal digital services (ptyxia.gov.gr, etc.) and their results, constitute a distinct goal. The project implementation includes the study and rethinking of the overlapping practices, which reflect the historical course of the Organization, with the aim of preserving the institutional memory as well as simplifying and optimizing the processes through its digital transition. Finally, the structural connections of the archive with the National Registries (recognized academic institutions, types of titles, etc.) maintained by D.O.A.T.A.P. and its operation in the Greek academic environment.

The paper discusses various digital preservation initiatives in India, digital preservation standards and tools and the challenges. Authors concluded that In India, digital preservation development is limited to government organizations and due to the lack of legislation and a national policy on digital Preservation, producers of digital information do not place a premium on conserving digital information.

This conference proceeding presents the results of a national survey conducted among providers of academic conferences and scientific events as well as their participants, with an aim to gain perspectives regarding the awareness of the impact of predatory scientific conferences on research output dissemination and academic events’ metadata curation. The total number of valid responses was 1270, 80 % of which were dissatisfied with the current practice of academic event registration in Ukraine. Therefore, we proposed that implementation of a platform for academic events would simplify the processes of unification and collection of information on scientific events and simultaneously would help to automate the processes of their registration. The system will provide access to verified information about scientific events in all fields of knowledge and will enable scientists to track events and plan participation in them. In addition, the system will provide information about providers of events that will help to protect young researchers from predatory events’ nets.

This article describes the adaptation of the teaching activities of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Esmuc) to the confinement established for the containment of COVID-19, in terms of teaching, Technology and resources available to teachers and the students. The digital tools used to conduct online classes during confinement are described, and the impact and effects that this sudden technological adaptation has had on teaching and services. The analysis of the content of the surveys carried out on teachers and students shows the difficulties of adapting to the virtual environment, especially the subjects of instrumental ensemble, improvisation and instrument, due to technological problems such as delay, low quality sound, lack of sound range, among others; the psychological effects arising from a borderline situation such as imposed confinement and social inequality of students which is evidenced in the problems of access to the resources needed for learning. This study shows the digital transformation that COVID-19 has pushed at Esmuc.

"Practices" of digital preservation at the Biblioteca Brasiliana Mindlin/USP

The Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin (BBM), inaugurated in 2013, is an organ of the Pro-Rectory of Culture and University Extension of the University of São Paulo. As an academic entity, it configures itself as an interdisciplinary center of information and documentation, scientific research and dissemination, and historical-cultural memory. Its purpose is to preserve and provide unrestricted access to its significant bibliographic and documental collection for researchers, students and the general public. To achieve its goals, the strategy adopted was the development of a Brazilian digital library (BBM Digital). This work presents a retrospective from the pilot project, the problems and successes during the course of the project. It reports the challenges faced and the solutions found for resuming the digitization and development processes of the digital collection.

The Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin Library (BBM), in its purpose of preserving and providing unrestricted access to its significant bibliographic and documental collections for researchers, students and the general public, seeks to provide new ways of access through more intuitive research tools . There is a relevant collection of reference works in the bibliographic collection of BBM, which has a number of Brazilian and Portuguese-language dictionaries, where users can learn about the morphology and meanings of different words and translations into other languages. It is from this motivation that the development of this project was proposed. Objectives: Give users one more option to access BBM/PRCEU/USP's digital collections, making it possible to search for entries in Digitized Dictionaries on a single platform.

Theoretical aspects of the problem of designing information and educational environment and electronic resources are considered. The directions of research of the specified problem in scientific and information researches during 2015-2020 are allocated and outlined. The basic stages of the decision of this problem according to requirements of modern tendencies of informatization of library and information sphere are substantiated and resulted.

Theoretical aspects of the problem of designing information and educational environment and electronic resources are considered. The directions of research of the specified problem in scientific and information researches during 2015-2020 are allocated and outlined. The basic stages of the decision of this problem according to requirements of modern tendencies of informatization of library and information sphere are substantiated and resulted.

Exam records are sensitive pieces of data that tell a story of the academic life of an individual while in the University. The study investigates how digital exam records are being preserved for long-term accessibility and use in the Federal University Lokoja. Qualitative research methodology, a case study design alongside a structured interview guide was used to examine the strategies in place to manage and preserve digital exams record for long-term accessibility and utilization. Findings of the study revealed that currently, the SQL backups and hard drives were the present means of storing exam records for long-term preservation. A major gap in the preservation of records at the Federal University Lokoja was the lack of a preservation policy thereof The study, therefore, recommended that a preservation policy be implemented capturing the long-term preservation of records at the University alongside other recommendations.

Digital transformation has revolutionized the ways we relate to our more traditional media. As a result, it is important to know the measures and guidelines, both international and national, that are being implemented to digitize our archives. As an example, the Asociación Profesional de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas de Madrid (ABDM) has implemented the electronic archive in its Association: objective, phases, managers, stages, etc.

The headways and the democratization in the access to electronic tools for musicians have experienced a considerable increase, both in diversity and versatility of contexts. In this digital environment, libraries may act with the purpose to offering services that are quite unlikely in previous years. On the occasion of the centenary’s ephemeris of the Catalan cuplé, a pilot project with this musical heritage was proposed to the Library of Catalonia. The main objective of this project was the conversion of a score set of this music genre to its digital equivalent. In this way, the next following tasks were considered: the exploration of the maturity of Optical Music Recognition’s technologies, the appraisal of open-source music notation software’s and the planning of contexts and digital products to help with the promotion of the research and the dissemination of the Catalan musical heritage.

The Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin is an organ of the Pro-Rectory of Culture and University Extension. As an academic entity of the University of São Paulo, it is an interdisciplinary center for information and documentation, research, scientific dissemination and extension. With the purpose of preserving and providing unrestricted access to its collection, the strategy adopted was the development of a Brazilian digital library. This work presents an experience report of the development of the new platform for the BBM Digital Library. It presents a retrospective of the pilot project, the problems and successes during the course of the project. It reports the challenges faced and the solutions found for resuming the digitization and development processes of the digital collection. Finally, it presents the next steps, challenges and points to the need for strategic definitions for its institutional sustainability

The General Athanasios Daskarolis is one of the unsung officers of the Greek Army in whose long military career Asia Minor Campaign is included as well. After his family decision, and through the intervention of a Harokopio’s University Geography Department faculty member, a collection of 15 military maps of this significant Greek history period, were donated to the Library and Information Center. The maps remained in obscurity for a long time till the time that Library was funded from the European Project “Digital Govergence”. Thus, Library had the opportunity to upgrade the Institutional Repository “ESTIA”. In this context and in order to develop the infrastructure for the exploitation of its cartographic material, Library integrated the organization, processing and dissemination of the General’s A. Daskarolis military maps collection with the ultimate aim of preserving this valuable historical material and promoting it under open access to the wide public. The purpose of this paper is to describe both the collection’s maps and the digitization process used by the Library for their management. Additionally, General’s A. Daskarolis brief biography will be mentioned, while the future actions that should be taken in order to promote more effectively the geographical information derived from these printed documents to the general public, will be highlighted.

This presentation aimed to discuss pressing issues and concerns that necessitate the digitization of archival materials; to present latest technologies in digitization; and to cite practical and innovative projects involving digitization in special and academic library setting.

Antonio Tenreiro Brochón (A Coruña 1923 - 2006) is one of the key figures in the recovery of modernity that occurred in Spain from the 1950s onwards, when the autarchic period following the Civil War was overcome and a new generation of architects joined the profession, detached from previous historicist languages and reintroducing modern principles in a critical and reflective manner. As a result of his professional activity, carried out between 1951 and 1981, a documentary fund was generated which he himself donated to the City Council of A Coruña in 2001, being preserved since then in the Archivo Municipal de A Coruña. In 2017, Fundación Alejandro de la Sota proposed the incorporation of this legacy into “Archivos de Arquitectos del Siglo XX”. This experience has allowed Tenreiro Brochón most outstanding projects to be available on the web. The aim of this study is to assess and analyse the reflection process carried out for the documentary selection, as well as other critical decisions of both a theoretical and technical nature taken in the same. It is proposed here as a model of interdisciplinary action in the case of professional archives, concretised in the archives of architects' offices.

Scientific posters are popular in conferences run by professional organizations in the UK, Europe, and North America, with the majority focused on medicine and health care disciplines. Individual events may include hundreds (and even thousands) of posters with cumulative numbers from all events (including academia) estimated in the millions annually (1). Generally, posters are not retained, in spite of their value as scholarly resources; many are the first reporting of new research and contain information months in advance of peer-reviewed articles. Printed posters have been around for many years and, with recent digital advances can be transformed into dynamic displays through multimedia inclusion and zoom functionality, whilst being made available via the web to large, geographically distributed audiences. Electronic posters (ePosters) are environmentally friendly, they eliminate printing and transport problems, and they scale well for large conferences (e.g. American Society of Anesthesiologists has used ePosters since 2013, recently with over 3000 posters at multiple sites). Most importantly, they lend themselves to being easily captured and retained as scientific resources. Following successful pilot projects (for which data on student and faculty support and cost-effectiveness will be presented), KAUST University Library has introduced a campus-wide ePoster service for the University beginning in January 2019. This service replaces printed posters and better prepares students for ePoster presentation scenarios commonplace within professional organizations and provides open access via the KAUST Research Repository. Training overheads for both students and organizers are low and uptake has been high, with weekly events scheduled for the first four months of 2019. Academia is notably behind this practitioner-driven trend. KAUST Library believes that, by rolling out an ePoster system to the University, it is the first campus in the world to offer such a campus-wide solution, reflecting a digital smart campus vision of KAUST.

The presentation on the challenges for the development of the New BBM Digital: Platform, Interface and Processes; beyond the next steps and future projects.

As part of the 50th anniversary of EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona, the History and Design Studies Research Group (GRHED) and the EINA Archive have produced a chronology that summarises the fifty years of the institution's history, from its foundation at the height of Francoism to the present day. It is an informational project, but one that, without neglecting academic rigour, aims to place EINA in the historical-social and cultural setting of the last five decades. The first part of the chronology, corresponding to the period between 1953 and 1980, places the background, the founding and the early years of the school in the context of a Francoist Spain that, more than a decade after the end of the Civil War and the initial severe repression, has relaxed slightly, favouring a more propitious scenario for the arrival of new educational experiences whose principles incorporate the ideas of progress and modernisation of society. Another of its main characteristics is the fact of having been undertaken from the perspective of the digital humanities. The digital humanities are an area of research, teaching and creation in which the studies of the different disciplines related to human culture and computer science converge, tackling projects such as the design and implementation of collections and digital repertories, the analysis and visualisation of large volumes of cultural data, and digital publishing in new formats of academic production in the humanities. The aim of the paper is to place the EINA chronology project in the context of the digital humanities, addressing aspects that range from the conception of the initial proposal to its final design.

Abstract Cultural heritage institutions such as archives, libraries, and museums have the mission of curating and safeguarding societal memories. The patrimonialization and curatorial processes developed by such institutions are continuous value-adding activities. Such institutions are beginning to publish their collections as digital objects on the Web. The representation and publication of cultural heritage records as digital objects using LOD—linked open data—technologies is a new step in patrimonialization and curatorial practices. Many collections are thematically superimposed, complementary, and have synergy. These collections often present culturally relevant relationships between their objects, like a book about a painting or a draft or sketch of a famous painting, etc. This research aims at characterizing such culturally relevant relationships, compiling an inventory, and organizing them in a vocabulary. The implementation of semantic links using LOD technologies can achieve interoperability between digital collections and improve the usability of digital collections, thus empowering heritage institutions.

In the digitalizing world, there are transformations in all areas from lifestyles, ways of doing business, education methods and ways of providing information. The data generated by the digitalization of public transactions are created and / or integrated in various data pools in various regions of the world with the view that they can contribute to research processes. On the other hand, it is known that libraries, archives and museums have developed joint ventures and developed joint projects in order to achieve more productive results in research processes by integrating their data on the same platform. In this study, firstly the reasons of the mentioned joint ventures are explained and examples are given. Finally, after the transformation and the reflection of the transformations observed in the archives to the services are examined with the digitalization, evaluations are made about the digital services developed by the national archiving institutions in the world and their features. In the course of this study, information is given about the status of common platforms developed under the leadership of memory institutions and their reflections on research processes. After assessed the status of ongoing archive services in Turkey, the mentioned services are being made to include proposals for improving the integration of national and international platforms.

The presentation on the challenges for the development of the New BBM Digital: Platform, Interface and Processes; beyond the next steps and future projects.

The availability of digitised cultural heritage content held by archives and other memory institutions improves their visibility, facilitate and increases access to information, allowing new kinds of research of digital heritage, namely Digital Humanities. This study intends to report how Municipal Archives of mainland Portugal are ensuring access to their digitized cultural heritage content. For this purpose, an analysis was held to collect data about online catalogues with digital objects linked to the archival description in 278 Municipal Archives of mainland Portugal. The data revealed that the openness of the primary information sources preserved by the municipal archives, which can be reused by all those who need them and particularly by digital humanists, is still in infancy.

This paper addresses the issue of training in digital curation, whose curricula are developed based on the digital curation curriculum competencies and knowledge matrix in the Digital Curation Curriculum (DCC) lifecycle model and DigCurV (Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe Project) evaluation framework. For this purpose, the courses with the specific designation of "digital curators", which are taught at European higher education institutions accredited by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and / or are members of iSchools , in order to ascertain what skills and knowledge are indispensable for the professionals of the information for the exercise of functions of digital curatorship, as well as what the role of the digital curator.

This paper explores the development of digital library in agriculture universities. Most of the libraries today offer a wide range of digital services to their users. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research & Government of India has taken several steps for mobilization of libraries. The paper discusses the different initiatives of the digital library and the need for an effective information system for agricultural researchers and its user. Here an introduction of UBKV, dealing with the digital environment has been discussed

With the invention of Information Communication Technology, libraries now use various types of technologies to provide services to users. In this changing environment needs of library users are changed. In order to play a useful role in supporting teaching, learning and research, librarians need to develop special knowledge and skills for information services in the digital era. This study examines, on the basis of published literature, the skills required by librarians in the digital era.

The article outlines the process of setting up a digital repository of the Maksymovych Scientific Library of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. It briefly describes old printed books collection as a basis of digital repository. It also pays attention to digitalizing process and, finally, specifies the type of a library online resource which may be applied to this particular digital collection.

In contemporary times, with the advent of information and communication technologies and the institutional means impacted deeply, the forms of materiality of the information. Currently, this information, have much of their genesis in digital information environments. In this scenario, the materiality of organic information in archival context reveals certain differences when contrasted with the concept of liquid modernity. Thus, the digital long-term preservation in this context has become challenge. Thus, digital repositories can be configured as strategic environments in digital preservation of long-term as well as the enterprise content management. The objective is, based on these assumptions, show the information materiality of impact in the context of digital information environments and archival science. For this, there was a qualitative study, exploratory and bibliographic on the national and international scientific literature published in books, articles, theses and dissertations. As a result it is evident the tension point of the theoretical constructs consolidated by the tradition archival that emerged in the classical information environments, which are shown in long-term, therefore, the digital information environments, through the use of digital preservation strategy called migration. This conflictive situation is evidenced as a resolution of liquid modernity in the materiality of organic information in the digital preservation of long-term in the context of archival science.

This communication aims to present the project recently implemented in Ponte de Lima Municipality entitled "Information Repository Municipality of Ponte de Lima (RIMPL)". The project, pioneer in local government in Portugal, aims to facilitating integrated access to information that is available at the archive, libraries and museums data bases, enabling citizens to access the global heritage and cultural information about Ponte de Lima.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existing digital resource management systems and practices in Bangladeshi libraries. This paper followed a mixed research approach and collected primary data by questionnaire method. It explored the library professionals' conception about digital library and institutional repository that best fit in Bangladesh context and their practices. The findings indicate that there is an enormous development in library digitization initiatives in the last decade. The libraries are facing challenges like capacity building, declining budgets, insufficient facilities, and traditional functions knocked by modern technologies. Despite many obstacles, the library professionals are leading from the front in digitization projects and implementing digital resource management systems. This paper also discusses some issues, for instance, digital library, institutional repository, open source software, metadata, vocabulary, open access vs close access, copyright issues, user’s needs, user interface, virtual reference, organizational policy, barriers, etc., and suggested a set of practical guidelines and proposed collaborative digitization initiatives.

The study gives an introduction to the fundamental principles involved in the digitization process and outlines some key concepts such as, defining digitization, examining pathways, introducing the notion of 'fit for purpose', and assessing archival concerns and dissemination compression techniques. The paper also discusses characteristics and issues on preservation challenges. Although there are drastic changes in digital technology, finance, staff training, manpower, infrastructure etc are serious problems to be tackled before an attempt for digitization.

In order to promote and disseminate the archival collections, safeguarding and preserving the original documents of use and excessive handling, the Municipal Archive of Ponte de Lima has been digitizing cultural heritage materials and made them available in full text - more than 193,000 images. In the actuality the Municipal Archive of Ponte de Lima has implemented a project entitled "Information Repository of Ponte de Lima Municipality (RIMPL)", which consists in providing a common interface research archive, Library and Municipal Museums, avoiding thus the need to access each system individually to obtain the desired information.