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#+title: Maintain your own digital library
#+date: "2020-04-14 18:28:55 +08:00"
#+date_modified: "2021-05-20 15:04:55 +08:00"
#+language: en
#+tags: personal-info-management


It is flexible in purpose: you can use it as a personal knowledge base, digital novelties collection, and/or project repository.

A digital library should have the following features:

- Easy to maintain (e.g., modifying [[id:ccb3bc14-a801-4ed0-b066-50b1bcd853aa][File metadata]], adding more digital objects) which is the top priority.
- Catalog the files using open standardized tools and specifications if available.
- Provide an easy and reliable search interface with rich metadata.

Instituition libraries such as Internet Archive and ArXiv are the go-to examples for a long sustaining digital library.
On the other hand, personal digital libraries are basically personal information management systems where your resources are stored: documents, notes, references, and media files.


* How to create one?

I have been thinking of creating a digital library for myself.
These are the tools I've been using for my experiment:

- Zotero as my reference management library.
- Exiftool for annotating my files with metadata.
- Recoll as the search interface.
- Org-Mode with org-roam as my personal wiki/knowledge base.

There are a couple of minor things such as Buku as my bookmarks manager, lf as a file explorer, mpv for multimedia, and Firefox as my web browser.

The digital library does not have to be integrated as the established libraries, you just have to loosely connect a system with each of the components of your library.
My digital library are fragmented with each component located in its own directory (e.g., Zotero data directory is in ~$HOME/Documents/references~, books and documents are at ~$HOME/Documents/books~, wiki at ~$HOME/writings/wiki~) but it is a non-problem for me and it is easy to solve if it's a problem.


* Related resources

- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
- https://unpaywall.org/
- https://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/metadatastandards/pdf/MSTraineeManual.pdf

For more digital library examples, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects.
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Update the files for convention Apparently, the convention (at least starting from 2018) is to make the keywords and block names to be in lowercase as stated from one of the following discussions at https://orgmode.org/list/87tuuw3n15.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/. The files was updated with a one liner of shell. However, this is Emacs and org-mode does have an API to let you do stuff in your config and interact with the documents internally so it is not an elegant solution in any way. 2021-04-01 16:08:15 +00:00			`#+title: Maintain your own digital library`
			`#+date: "2020-04-14 18:28:55 +08:00"`
Create entries on potential traps on learning Ehh... Why I didn't think of those things but here we are. They are going to stay for a little while. Also, there's a slight shift in how I want use my wiki now. Instead of trying to craft every note into a set of evergreen notes. While Andy Matuschak's notes are very practical, it also focuses too much on crafting evergreen notes (a bit too much). Or maybe that was just my impression? Either way, I'll let some of my thoughts to drift if it able to link somewhere in the notes. I think I'm getting the point of Luhmann's original use of Zettelkasten as a research partner. 2021-05-20 13:58:54 +00:00			`#+date_modified: "2021-05-20 15:04:55 +08:00"`
Update the files for convention Apparently, the convention (at least starting from 2018) is to make the keywords and block names to be in lowercase as stated from one of the following discussions at https://orgmode.org/list/87tuuw3n15.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/. The files was updated with a one liner of shell. However, this is Emacs and org-mode does have an API to let you do stuff in your config and interact with the documents internally so it is not an elegant solution in any way. 2021-04-01 16:08:15 +00:00			`#+language: en`
Update the tags to be more consistent I will now use hierarchical tags similar to tildes. I think it's pretty cool. The tags are also primarily more explicit to make the tags more skimmable. 2021-04-05 12:03:26 +00:00			`#+tags: personal-info-management`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00

			`It is flexible in purpose: you can use it as a personal knowledge base, digital novelties collection, and/or project repository.`

			`A digital library should have the following features:`

Migrate notes to org-roam v2 2021-05-04 16:07:40 +00:00			`- Easy to maintain (e.g., modifying [[id:ccb3bc14-a801-4ed0-b066-50b1bcd853aa][File metadata]], adding more digital objects) which is the top priority.`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00			`- Catalog the files using open standardized tools and specifications if available.`
			`- Provide an easy and reliable search interface with rich metadata.`

Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00			`Instituition libraries such as Internet Archive and ArXiv are the go-to examples for a long sustaining digital library.`
			`On the other hand, personal digital libraries are basically personal information management systems where your resources are stored: documents, notes, references, and media files.`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00
Update PIM notes Hmmm... I can't seem to escape to take notes abou note-taking. But then again, note-taking is a form of PIM. 2021-05-07 04:08:40 +00:00


			`* How to create one?`

Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00			`I have been thinking of creating a digital library for myself.`
			`These are the tools I've been using for my experiment:`

			`- Zotero as my reference management library.`
			`- Exiftool for annotating my files with metadata.`
			`- Recoll as the search interface.`
Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00			`- Org-Mode with org-roam as my personal wiki/knowledge base.`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00
			`There are a couple of minor things such as Buku as my bookmarks manager, lf as a file explorer, mpv for multimedia, and Firefox as my web browser.`

Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00			`The digital library does not have to be integrated as the established libraries, you just have to loosely connect a system with each of the components of your library.`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00			`My digital library are fragmented with each component located in its own directory (e.g., Zotero data directory is in ~$HOME/Documents/references~, books and documents are at ~$HOME/Documents/books~, wiki at ~$HOME/writings/wiki~) but it is a non-problem for me and it is easy to solve if it's a problem.`




			`* Related resources`

			`- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace`
			`- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp`
			`- https://unpaywall.org/`
			`- https://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/metadatastandards/pdf/MSTraineeManual.pdf`

			`For more digital library examples, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects.`