Mobile Digital Library in The National Library of Norway
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/07419051111135218 |
| Date | 05 April 2011 |
| Published date | 05 April 2011 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Author | Jingru Høivik |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science |
Purpose
Digital curation means to sele ct,
preserve, maintain and make available
digital assets. But professional curation
in the digital age goes beyond the
mechanics of ordering, meta
descriptions and delivery.
As digital expression and digitized
representations are available as “full
text” in rich and multimodal formats and
as they might be embedded in similarly
rich contexts through mashups and
remixes, the curator is confronted with
new challenges.
The specialized patron and the
general public demand several access
mechanisms like filters and search
profiles, browsing, traversals of
interesting predefined paths as well as
contextual and dramaturgical support
for the process of impartment.
The purpose of the work that I report
on here is to investigate and improve
access to digital assets at the Norwegian
National Library based on one
particular requirement: It should be
achieved using a mobile phone.
The project is thus part of a growing
effort towards transliteracy, namely to
develop the abilities to read, to write and
otherwise communicate an d interact
across a range of platforms, tools and
media.
Background: digital assets at national
library of Norway
The National Library has a varied
and extensive collection of Norway’s
documentary heritage dating back to the
fourteenth century.
Since it is technology independent,
Norway has one of the world’s most
modern legal deposit acts. All textual
materials that are produced for public
consumption are supposed to be
deposited there by order of law. Based
on this Act relating to the Legal Deposit,
the library is building a collection that
includes manuscripts, books, music,
radio and TV programmes, film,
theatre, maps, posters, pictures,
photographs, internet documents and
newspapers.
As Norway’s “memory bank” the
National Library is now digitizing all its
collections, including material that is
still under copyright protection. Some
European countries have also started
digitizing parts of their national cultural
treasures, but so far no other national
library has plans to digitize their entire
holdings. We are thus the first National
Library in Europe to take on this huge
challenge, not only for the preservation
of materials for posterity, but also to
make as much content as possible
available on the web.
Library Hi Tech News
Number 2 2011, pp. 1-8, qEmerald Group Publishing Limited, 0741-9058, DOI 10.1108/07419051111135218 1
VOLUME 28 NUMBER 2 2011
MARCH
AN EMERALD PUBLICATION
Mobile Digital Library in The
National Library of Norway
Jingru Høivik
CONTENTS
Conference report
Mobile Digital Library in The National
Library of Norway ........... 1
Features
Analysis of information technology (IT)
applications in academic libraries
in Kuwait .................. 9
How to create new services between
library resources, museum
exhibitions and virtual
collections ................ 15
Advocacy for open access: a selected
review of the literature and
resource list ............... 19
Column
Current cite-ings from the Popular
and Trade Computing Press . . . 24
New & Noteworthy ........ 26
Calendar.................. 33
Library Link
www.emeraldinsight.com/librarylink
LIBRARY HI TECH NEWS NUMBER 2 2011 274
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