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Line 1: The '''Digital Assets Repository''' ((Arabic: مستودع الأصول الرقمية) or ''DAR'') is a system developed at the [[Bibliotheca Alexandrina]] (BA) by the [[International School of Information Science]] (ISIS) to create and maintain digital library collections and preserve them to future generations.<ref name="Eberhart2013"> {{cite book \| author = George M. Eberhart \| title = The Whole Library Handbook 5: Current Data, Professional Advice, and Curiosa \| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=tuacAwAAQBAJ \| year = 2013 \| publisher = American Library Association \| isbn = 978-0-8389-1090-0 \| page = 59 }}</ref> The project's main goal is to build a digital resources repository by supporting the creation, use, and preservation of varieties of digital resources as well as the development of management tools. These tools help BA library to preserve, manage and share digital assets. The system is based on evolving standards for easy integration with web-based interoperable digital libraries.<ref name="SalehAdlyNagi2005"> ~~A '''Digital Assets Repository''' (DAR) is used to store all types of digital material and provides public access to the digitized collections through web-based search and browsing facilities.~~ {{cite journal \| last = Saleh \| first = Iman \| last2 = Adly \| first2 = Noha \| last3 = Nagi \| first3 = Magdy \| date = 2005 \| title = DAR: A Digital Assets Repository for Library Collections \| url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11551362_11 \| journal = Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries \| publisher = Springer Science + Business Media \| volume = 3652 \| issue = \| pages = 116-127 \| bibcode = \| doi = 10.1007/11551362_11 \| access-date = February 1, 2015 }}</ref> DAR is designed to manage the full lifecycle of a digital asset: its creation and ingestion, its metadata management, storage and archival in addition to the necessary mechanisms for publishing and dissemination. In 2011, DAR system architecture was revamped and upgraded to its 3<sup>rd</sup> release in order to answer challenges that face an institution in consolidating its assets.<ref name="MikhailAdlyNagi2011"> The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) was developed by the [[International School of Information Science]] (ISIS) to create and maintain the Library digital collections. DAR acts as a repository for all types of digital material (obtained from the Library or acquired from other sources), preserving and archiving digital media, and providing public access to digitized collections through web-based search and browsing facilities. A digitization laboratory was built for this purpose at the [[Bibliotheca Alexandrina]]. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies for digitizing different types of material including slides in multiple formats, negatives, books, manuscripts, pictures and maps, audio, and video. {{cite journal \| last = Mikhail \| first = Youssef \| last2 = Adly \| first2 = Noha \| last3 = Nagi \| first3 = Magdy \| date = 2011 \| title = DAR: Institutional Repository Integration in Action \| url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_36 \| journal = Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries \| publisher = Springer Science + Business Media \| volume = 6966 \| issue = \| pages = 348-359 \| bibcode = \| doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_36 \| access-date = February 1, 2015 }}</ref> == Access == BA announced launching the largest Arabic [[Digital library\|digital library]] worldwide, maintained by DAR in April 2009 with 130,000 books.<ref name="Eberhart2013" /> In 2011 and ongoing, the repository reached 185,000<ref name="GradmannBorri2011"> {{cite book \| author1 = Stefan Gradmann \| author2 = Francesca Borri \| author3 = Carlo Meghini \| coauthors = Heiko Schuldt \| title = Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL, Berlin, Germany, September 26-28, 2011, Proceedings \| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5Mihx8SD8mgC \| date = 15 September 2011 \| publisher = Springer Science & Business Media \| isbn = 978-3-642-24468-1 \| page = 357 }}</ref> Arabic books out of a 5-language collection of 300,000 books.<ref name=ISISBA>{{cite web \| url = http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/Projects/ProjectDetails.aspx?id=W3pY6t/UXBALar+oO2BxqQ== \| website = International School of Information Science (ISIS) \| title = Embassies of Knowledge \| publisher = Bibliotheca Alexandrina \| accessdate = 1 February 2015 }}</ref> DAR provides free public access to the library's [[Digitizing\|digitized collections]] through a web-based search and browsing facilities<ref name="SalehAdlyNagi2005" /><ref name="SharmaHeadquarters2012"> {{cite book \| author1 = Ravindra N. Sharma \| author2 = IFLA Headquarters \| title = Libraries in the early 21st century, volume 2: An international perspective \| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=V9b8UJqwtvUC \| date = 30 July 2012 \| publisher = Walter de Gruyter \| isbn = 978-3-11-029285-5 \| page = 213-214 }}</ref> for [[Internet]] visitors directly via DAR's website. The site supports three languages interface: [[Arabic]], [[English]] and [[French]],{{efn\|The homepage defaults to the English language interface.}} and is listed at [[Egypt\|Egypt's]] Government Services Portal (Bawaba) website.<ref name="OECD2013"> {{cite book \| author = OECD \| title = OECD e-Government Studies OECD e-Government Studies: Egypt 2013 \| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ldMsKrHrmzUC \| date = 21 March 2013 \| publisher = OECD Publishing \| isbn = 978-92-64-17878-6 \| page = 138 }}</ref>{{efn\|Bawaba (egypt.gov.eg) lists DAR website under ''Service Providers'' section of the English site interface. (Home > Main Menu > Service Providers > Alexandria Library > Digital Assets Repository)}} DAR website allows its online visitors to access full content of the [[public ___domain]] digitized books in the repository, but limits access to preview only (5%) snippet for the [[Copyright\|copyrighted]] digitized books with 10 pages minimum. Moreover, it provides different viewing options for repository contents, in addition to other tools such as: searching content; using annotation tools; adding sticky notes; tagging, rating and commenting on books; sharing books on social networks; and creating own virtual bookshelves per user.<ref name=DARBA> {{cite web \| website = Digital Assets Repository \| publisher = Bibliotheca Alexandrina \| accessdate = 31 January 2015 }}</ref>{{efn\|English website interface locates ''Sign Up'' and ''Member Login'' links at the top of its homepage, but no reference anywhere on the site about registration process and benefits.}} == See also == Line 8 ⟶ 105: * [[Internet Archive]] * [[Islandora]] == Notes == {{Notelist}} == References == {{Reflist}} == Further reading == * Arseneault, Michel. "Alexandria, from papyrus to the Internet." ''The Unesco Courier''52, no. 4 (April 1999): 40-42. [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-courier/in-focus/book-and-copyright/] and [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001155/115591e.pdf] * Bilboul, Roger. "The Library of Alexandria Reopens." ''Information Today''19, no. 11 (December 2002): 26. Line 15 ⟶ 118: == External links == * [http://~~www~~dar.bibalex.org/~~english/researchers/isis/TR-DAR.pdf~~ Digital Assets Repository] Official DAR atwebsite, ~~the ISIS]~~BA * [http://www.bibalex.org/english/researchers/isis/TR-DAR.pdf DAR at the ISIS], BA * [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/dar/dlp/ DAR at the University of Texas]

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