DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL INFORMATION SERVICES

Development of Digital Information Services

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Executive Summary

The current era is the era of information technology and digital information. There is an amazing amount of data and information that is available to be generated in the present world. The usage of postcodes, core reference data-maps, timetables and statistics has now become the integral segment of the fabric of economic life. It forms a major section of the digital infrastructure of all the nations. The integration of digital information services is slowly becoming a dominant factor in numerous other services including the student information services, library automation systems, and electronic learning systems.

The current paper presents a review of the available facilities of the digital information services along with the opportunities that can be availed and the strategies to avail them. Moreover, it also draws a focus towards the downsides and risks of the digital information services.

Table of Contents

Introduction8

Digital Information8

Opportunities and Challenges10

Tools, Technologies and Platforms13

Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification14

European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories15

Nestor Catalogue of Criteria15

PLATTER15

Regulations and Governance16

Digital Millennium Copyright Act16

Intellectual Property Infringement and Other Unfair Acts17

Intellectual Property Owners Association17

Contingencies18

Conclusion19

Introduction

A seamless access is demanded by the users to a massive amount of digital information services on their desktop computers. Now, the end-users prefer to use such systems which possess the ability of recognizing them as soon as they log in, and acknowledge their privileges and rights, thus making easy the provision of the information services that are customized and personalized.

Digital Information

The digital information system is the most advanced and complicated form of the current information system. The digital information is different from the analog data in a way that it is transferred through the series of ordered symbols. It is generally synchronized through the use of capitalization, pauses (spaces), and punctuation and is conveyed through a language that is possessed by both the receiver and the sender of the information (Tocci, 2006). It is checked for errors by numerous techniques including the check codes and ensures an error-free communications with the help of retransmission or redundancy. One of the major properties of digital data is that it can be easily compressed. The amount of the required bandwidth space is reduced through the compression of data and the information is transmitted in an easier manner. All the modern electronic services such as digital libraries, television and other means of communication utilize the digital system of communicating.

There is a large amount of digital information services that is provided to users through various information centers and libraries today. These include the full-text access to electronic journals, table of contents services, electronic document delivery, current awareness services, and many other types of virtual reference services. A paramount part is being played by internet in the provision of these services, as it eliminates all the spatial and temporal barriers and delivers the information on a 24/7 basis. Not only this but the users can also facilitate themselves with getting instantly whatever they want for the best value of their ...