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Research on the OASIS, a Web Archive in Korea

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2010, 44(2), pp.5-27
  • DOI : 10.4275/KSLIS.2010.44.2.005
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : July 15, 2009
  • Accepted : October 31, 2009

Yoon, Cheong Ok 1

1청주대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research is to examine the characteristics and problems of OASIS, a web archive, developed and operated by the National Library of Korea, and then to propose how to improve the quality of its contents. An analysis of the contents in ‘Literature’ and ‘Social Sciences’ in the OASIS website shows problems, including low quality of some contents, lack of balance in subjects and creators/publishers, duplicate collections of web documents and web sites, lack of currency and evidence of unique or scholarly value of collected web resources, etc. Suggested are the use of ‘real-name’ of subject specialists to ensure their responsibilities in selection process and the addition of metadata elements to evidence the appropriate application of selection criteria.

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