Jeroen Bekaert, Dimitri Van De Ville, Boris Rogge, Iwan Strauven, Emiel De Kooning and Rik Van de Walle
This review is a summary of the state‐of‐the‐art for those who have not been intimately dealing with the evolution of digital archives. At the same time this survey will be a…
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This review is a summary of the state‐of‐the‐art for those who have not been intimately dealing with the evolution of digital archives. At the same time this survey will be a useful resource and starting point for archivists, librarians and technicians, who are becoming involved in institutional digitization projects. It presents a brief overview of what is meant by a digital library and a digital archive, and how archival collections can be described. It expresses briefly the different approaches to collections and their descriptions and suggests that a consistent approach to descriptions at collection and item level is an important factor in initiatives which seek to provide integrated access to distributed resources, whether those resources are traditional or digital.
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Ruben Verborgh, Seth van Hooland, Aaron Straup Cope, Sebastian Chan, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle
The purpose of this paper is to revisit a decade after its conception the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style and analyzes its relevance to address current…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to revisit a decade after its conception the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style and analyzes its relevance to address current challenges from the Library and Information Science (LIS) discipline.
Design/methodology/approach
Conceptual aspects of REST are reviewed and a generic architecture to support REST is presented. The relevance of the architecture is demonstrated with the help of a case study based on the collection registration database of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Findings
The authors argue that the “resources and representations” model of REST is a sustainable way for the management of web resources in a context of constant technological evolutions.
Practical implications
When making information resources available on the web, a resource-oriented publishing model can avoid the costs associated with the creation of multiple interfaces.
Originality/value
This paper re-examines the conceptual merits of REST and translates the architecture into actionable recommendations for institutions that publish resources.
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Luchien Karsten, Sjoerd Keulen, Ronald Kroeze and Rik Peters
This paper aims to look at the role of the top and middle management of the Philips organization during the transition from one type of organizational change to another in the…
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Purpose
This paper aims to look at the role of the top and middle management of the Philips organization during the transition from one type of organizational change to another in the 1990s and the role the history of the organisation played in this process.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper analysis is based on historical records, literature and interviews with former Philips top managers.
Findings
The paper shows that Philips' leaders used different styles of leadership to create a deliberate atmosphere and willingness to change. The final emergent transformation, however, could only sufficiently materialise while it rejuvenated existing management concepts like Quality Management. The success was partly based on the fact that these concepts played a historical role in the Philips organisation.
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The paper adds the historical style approach to leadership research and pays attention to the important role of the organization's history during processes of organizational change.