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The '''Digital Assets Repository''' ((Arabic: {{lang-ar|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">

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| author = George M. Eberhart

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| volume = 3652

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| pages = 116-127116–127

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| doi = 10.1007/11551362_11

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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^rd3rd release in order to answer challenges that face an institution in consolidating its assets.<ref name="MikhailAdlyNagi2011">

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| last = Mikhail

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| volume = 6966

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| pages = 348-359348–359

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| doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_36

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== 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">

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| author1 = Stefan Gradmann

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| publisher = Walter de Gruyter

| isbn = 978-3-11-029285-5

| pagepages = 213-214213–214

}}</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">

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}}</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|copyrightedcopyright]]ed 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>

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| website = Digital Assets Repository