Move beyond text – How TIB manages the digital assets researchers generate

Abstract

The supply, use and significance of non-textual materials is steadily increasing in the areas of research and teaching. Digital assets like scientific videos, 3D objects and research data are highly relevant in order to make science reproducible. Yet, they often present a lack of appropriate metadata, unique identification, and long-term preservation, remaining beyond the relevant and journal-based scientific publication system. The TIB has established a competence centre for non-textual materials in order to improve the access and the use of those digital assets. As a use case of a service for scientific videos the TIB|AV-Portal is presented. Further best practices are also discussed.