2017, Lindlar, Michelle, Tunnat, Yvonne, Wilson, Carl

Digital preservation and active software stewardship are both cyclical processes. While digital preservation strategies have to be reevaluated regularly to ensure that they still meet technological and organizational requirements, software needs to be tested with every new release to ensure that it functions correctly. JHOVE is an open source format validation tool which plays a central role in many digital preservation workflows and the PDF module is one of its most important features. Unlike tools such as Adobe PreFlight or veraPDF which check against requirements at profile level, JHOVE’s PDF-module is the only tool that can validate the syntax and structure of PDF files. Despite JHOVE’s widespread and long-standing adoption, the underlying validation rules are not formally or thoroughly tested, leading to bugs going undetected for a long time. Furthermore, there is no ground-truth data set which can be used to understand and test PDF validation at the structural level. The authors present a corpus of light-weight files designed to test the validation criteria of JHOVE’s PDF module against “well-formedness”. We conclude by measuring the code coverage of the test corpus within JHOVE PDF validation and by feeding detected inconsistencies of the PDF-module back into the open source development process.

2017, Lu, Linna

The "2017 International Conference on Integrated Development of Digital Publishing and Digital Libraries (CDPDL)" took place in Taiyuan from August 16-18,2017. This conference provides a platform for Chinese and foreign librarians, publishers and scholars to present the latest developments in Chinese library resources and technical innovations. In the early 1980s, with the growing interest in East Asia through research in academic and industrial fields, the TIB's Regional Department for East Asia was founded as an independent unit. The aim of the acquisition of the Regional Unit is to provide materials that not only provide an overview of current developments in East Asia but also provide detailed, specialized information. In comparison to most Asian departments of other libraries, the TIB's East Asia collection focuses not on Asian linguistics and humanities, but on modern literature in the field of technology and natural sciences. In order to reflect on the current state of research in East Asia and to communicate research and industry, our acquisition focuses on modern periodicals, academic journals and series from scientific and technical associations, reports from universities and research institutes. Exactly these special features were presented to the participants at this year's CDPDL. Many of our colleagues in the branch could thus get to know the TIB and the regional department better, especially in the country and the geographical area in which we have placed one of our main focuses of collection.

2017, Kraft, Angelina, Dreyer, Britta, Löwe, Peter, Ziedorn, Frauke

In an ideal research world, any scientific content should be citable and the coherent content, as well as the citation itself, should be persistent. However, today’s scientists do not only produce traditional research papers – they produce comprehensive digital resources and collections. TIB’s mission is to develop a supportive framework for a sustainable access to such digital content – focusing on areas of engineering as well as architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics. The term digital content comprises all digitally available resources such as audiovisual media, databases, texts, images, spreadsheets, digital lab journals, multimedia, 3D objects, statistics and software code. In executing this mission, TIB provides services for the management of digital content during ongoing and for finished research. This includes: • a technical and administrative infrastructure for indexing, cataloguing, DOI registration and licensing for text and digital objects, namely the TIB DOI registration which is active since 2005, • the administration of the ORCID DE consortium, an institutional network fostering the adoption of ORCID across academic institutions in Germany, • training and consultancy for data management, complemented with a digital repository for the deposition and provision of accessible, traceable and citable research data (RADAR), • a Research and Development Department where innovative projects focus on the visualization and the sustainable access to digital information, and • the development of a supportive framework within the German research data community which accompanies the life cycle of scientific knowledge generation and transfer. Its goal is to harmonize (meta)data display and exchange primarily on a national level (LEIBNIZ DATA project).

2017, Barber, Martin, Hauschke, Christian, Walther, Tatiana

VIVO, ein auf Linked-Data-Technologien basierendes Open-Source-Forschungsinformationssystem aus den USA, gewinnt zunehmend an Verbreitung in Europa. Um den Bekanntheitsgrad von VIVO im deutschsprachigen, bibliothekarischen Raum zu erhöhen, werden VIVO und die am Open Science Lab (OSL) der Technischen Informationsbibliothek (TIB) entwickelten Zusatzfeatures - wie zum Beispiel die Integration des Kerndatensatzes Forschung in VIVO - im Rahmen eines Hands-On-Labs dem Publikum vorgestellt. Unter Anleitung des OSL-Teams können die Teilnehmer der Session sich mit dem System praktisch auseinandersetzten sowie bestimmte Grundfunktionen und Features des Systems erproben. VIVO wird dazu im Vorfeld in einer Virtual Machine distribuiert und mit beispielhaften Stammdaten befüllt.

2017, Vosberg, Dana

Zielsetzung — Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken geben mittlerweile den überwiegenden Anteil ihres Erwerbungsbudgets für elektronische Ressourcen aus. Das Ziel dieses Beitrages besteht deshalb darin, ein praxistaugliches Modell zu entwickeln, das eine Bewertung der Vorteilhaftigkeit der Lizenzierung von Datenbaken, E-Books oder E-Journals ermöglicht. Methode — Im Rahmen einer umfassenden ökonomischen Analyse werden alle relevanten Kosten- und Nutzenaspekte elektronischer Ressourcen identifiziert und anhand geeigneter Kennzahlen operationalisiert. Ergebnisse — Die Anwendung des Modells zeigt, dass die umfassende Bewertung der Gesamteffizienz elektronischer Ressourcen im Vergleich zur eindimensionalen Betrachtung von Costs per Download das Bestandscontrolling auf eine breitere Entscheidungsgrundlage stellt. Unverzichtbare Voraussetzung ist eine geeignete Datenbasis. Schlussfolgerungen — Das entwickelte Modell kann Bibliotheken dabei unterstützen, ihren Bestand an elektronischen Ressourcen ökonomisch fundiert zu evaluieren und damit die Basis für eine optimale Zusammensetzung eines bibliotheksspezifischen »E-Portfolios« zu legen.

2017, Einbock, Joanna, Dreyer, Britta, Heller, Lambert, Kraft, Angelina, Niemeyer, Sandra, Plank, Margret, Schrenk, Philip, Sens, Irina, Struß, Julia, Tullney, Marco, Bernhofer, Carolin, Häfner, Peter

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