Foundations of Digital Universities

Abstract

Abstract. Universities need to maintain data about various resources. They include intellectual creations that are the focus of (Digital) Libraries, but also courses, research projects and people. Data about the first are maintained in institutional repositories, while data about the others in various databases designed to support specific vertical applications. In this paper, we propose a uniform treatment of such resources leading to Digital Universities, i.e. a set of key resources, methodologies and tools appropriately organized to effectively support universities' users. This requires new methodologies, data models, authority control mechanisms and system infrastructures able to support a broader range of services.

Stratified Data Integration

“…This partially automated pipeline is highly flexible, independent of the input data and domain, and largely customizable. As detailed in the next section, it has been applied to the modeling of events, facilities, personal data, medical data, university data [15] and many other domains. Its intended target users are Data Scientists with no programming knowledge but with an understanding of the domain and data integration problem to be solved.…”

Sobre la gobernanza digital, política digital y educación

“…Según la percepción del manejo de grandes volúmenes de información digital que va desde la generación, aglomeración, procesamiento y tratamiento analítico que se hayan generado a nivel local, regional, nacional o internacional permitirán soluciones viables a los problemas del campo de la escolarización (Maltese & Giunchiglia, 2016). Lo que en un principio se estimó como una labor de conocimiento de la realidad de un entorno y su problemática, abordada desde las medidas políticas más convenientes, en la actualidad se subordina a patrones de datos e información generados y del cómo se materialice su interpretación, hecho que se establece desde el sustento técnico de soportes informáticos y los mecanismos de codificación de la data generada para utilizarse según se estime conveniente.…”

Digital Transformation Challenges for Universities: Ensuring Information Consistency Across Digital Services

“…The purpose of the Digital University initiative, launched in 2015 and still running at the University of Trento in Italy viii , is to turn data into a valuable asset through governance strategies that ensure quality and facilitate the re-use of available information. The solution we adopted follows the methodology described in [3] and is based on the notion of digital university. We understand digital universities as natural extensions of digital libraries with a broader scope in entity types and services.…”

“…Maltese and Giunchiglia [3] proposed a general solution to address data fragmentation and data diversity in universities. By adapting and extending the notion of digital library to universities, they introduced the notion of digital university, defined as a set of key resources, methodologies and tools appropriately organized to effectively support universities' users.…”

“…Linked Universities iii and VIVO iv [14] rely on Semantic Web technologies to represent and store data in the RDF standard model v and retrieve it using the SPARQL query language vi . However, it has been already observed that these initiatives offer limited support to tackle data diversity and data fragmentation [3].…”