Data management - Preservation - IPR - Multilingualism

Project Name
Digital Documentation Center - American University of Beirut
Project Acronym
DDC
Country
Lebanon
Department/Generate Directorate/Bureau/Service name
Digital Documentation Center - American University of Beirut
Project URL
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/
ACQUISITION AND HARVESTING - 2D Data Acquisition
Scanning and high resolution photographic digitization services at the highest level of detail available at the time of digitization relative to presentation technologies.
ACQUISITION AND HARVESTING - 3D Data Acquisition
High resolution photography for QuickTime VR
DOCUMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT - Data management
Flat file systems for long term sustainablility
VISUALISATION - 2D Graphical user interfaces
HTML 2.0
VISUALISATION - 3D Modelling
VRML
VISUALISATION - Virtual and Augmented Reality
QuickTime VR
ACCESS TO DIGITAL RESOURCES - Websites
HTML 2.0 (http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/)
ACCESS TO DIGITAL RESOURCES - Digital libraries
Various (http://www.aub.edu.lb/libraries/)
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AND SPECIFIC INTERESTS - Short and long-term preservation
Digitized material is stored on migrating disk systems, tape, and DVD back-up. Open standards.
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AND SPECIFIC INTERESTS - IPR
All material is the copyright of AUB or cooperating partners. Creative Commons licensing being considered.
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AND SPECIFIC INTERESTS - Other
Multilingualism: English and Arabic are implemented with UNICODE
Department/Generate Directorate/Bureau/Service address
P.O.Box 11-0236 / CNS, Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020
Directorate/Bureau/Service tel.
+961-1-340460 / 350000 ext. 2260
Directorate/Bureau/Service e-mail
ddc-info@aub.edu.lb
Directorate/Bureau/Service Website
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/
Department/Generate Directorate/Bureau/Service Description
The DDC is a cooperative effort between AUB and the department of informatics at stfold University College, Halden, Norway. The aim is to establish and run a unit at AUB for digital documentation, archiving and publishing.
Contact Person
Borre Ludvigsen
Contact Person Gender
Mr
Contact Person Institution
AUB, Computing & Networking Services, DDC
Contact Person Address
P.O.Box 11-0236 / CNS, Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
Contact Person Tel
+47 908 24 608
Contact Person e-mail
borrel@aub.edu.lb
Contact languages
English, Norwegian, Arabic
Project Duration
1997 - today
Objectives and priorities
Digitizing, archival and publishig of scholarly documents and objects on behalf of the various departments and academic units at AUB.
Problems encountered and lessons learnt
Variations in the degree of appreciation of usefulness of digital network-based publishing of material as common contribution to the mass of globally available scholarly information. Slow development of open standards for log term sustainability of data.
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