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#+TITLE: Maintain your own digital library
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Having your own digital library can be one of the most valuable thing for your life.
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It is flexible in purpose: you can use it as a personal knowledge base, digital novelties collection, and/or project repository.
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A digital library should have the following features:
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- Easy to maintain (e.g., modifying [[file:file-metadata.org][File metadata]], adding more digital objects) which is the top priority.
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- Catalog the files using open standardized tools and specifications if available.
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- Provide an easy and reliable search interface with rich metadata.
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Instituition libraries such as Internet Archive and ArXiv are the go-to examples for a long sustaining digital library.
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On the other hand, personal digital libraries are basically personal information management systems where your resources are stored: documents, notes, references, and media files.
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I have been thinking of creating a digital library for myself.
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These are the tools I've been using for my experiment:
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- Zotero as my reference management library.
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- Exiftool for annotating my files with metadata.
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- Recoll as the search interface.
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- Org-Mode with org-roam as my personal wiki/knowledge base.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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* Related resources
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- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
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- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
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- https://unpaywall.org/
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- https://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/metadatastandards/pdf/MSTraineeManual.pdf
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For more digital library examples, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects.
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