Deposito

We can take as a starting point several passages from the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 2003:

 “Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily available to society. New possibilities of knowledge dissemination not only through the classical form but also and increasingly through the open access paradigm via the Internet have to be supported. We define open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community.

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Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:

The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving.

This starting point is fundamental to understanding the other dimension of MoRE: the archive created and maintained on dspace.unipr.it, the institutional repository of the University of Parma, in response to two distinct needs:

• The desire to combine the specific nature of contemporary artistic culture, centred on processes, attention to the relational dimension of artistic practice, and reflection on authorship, with the requirements of rigorous analysis based on scientific methods.
• The need to ensure the long-term preservation of digital materials, which are not necessarily unique, while guaranteeing the reversibility of digital formats, as well as enabling their retrieval through the definition of a set of cataloguing fields (metadata) that allows users to navigate the archive. Cataloguing thus constitutes a necessary tool for constructing an information system that complements and enriches the digital documents produced by artists. Semantic indexing is essential for enhancing, in the longer term, the analysis of the reasons behind the ‘unrealised’.