Presented at Open Repository 2018, Bozeman, Montana The National Library of Naples is the third largest library in Italy. In 2007 a digital library system was created in order to enhance the immense cultural heritage stored in its warehouses. Today, after 10 years, the Library chose to move its Digital Library Management System to DSpace-GLAM. DSpace-GLAM is a specific DSpace-CRIS configuration for the description, management, analysis and preservation of digital cultural heritage. The choice of a solution built upon DSpace, the most used open source Digital Asset Management System in the world, supported by a large community and by the Duraspace foundation, is mainly related to sustainability issues. During the first half of 2018, digital contents will be migrated into the new system. The presentation will illustrate the migration workflow and the expected results.

1. Migrating the National Library of Naples’ Digital
Heritage to DSpace-GLAM
Gennaro Alifuoco, Claudio Cortese, Emilia Groppo, Andrea Bollini, Susanna Mornati, Riccardo Fazio, Matteo
Perelli

2. An extension of DSpace built by 4Science
to meet the needs of Cultural Heritage
institutions
Flexible and extensible data model
inherited from DSpace-CRIS
to manage relevant metadata standards
and specific conceptual models
With dedicated add-ons for digital objects
curation, fruition and sharing
In Brisbane…we presented DSpace-GLAM
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)

3. Today…DSpace-GLAM…manages

4. The Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli
The 3° largest library in Italy
1,480,747 printed volumes,
319,187 pamphlets,
18,415 manuscripts,
more than 8,000 periodicals,
4,500 incunabula,
the 1,800 Herculaneum papyri.
Managing a Digital Library since 2007, supported from
the beginning by the team presently in 4Science
• A rich collection of Neapolitans songs with texts and
scores dated between 1850 and 1960
• Drawings of Herculaneum papyri (published between
1793 and 1876)

5. Why DSpace-GLAM?
Built upon the most used Digital Asset Management System in
the world
DSpace is supported by the DuraSpace Foundation and by a large
international community
Simple DSpace procedures for installation and document
management
DSpace-GLAM brings more DSpace benefits in the field of cultural
heritage

6. Challenges
The old system made extensive use of:
• structural metadata: to describe the complex structure of ancient digitized documents
• technical metadata: for Digital Preservation purposes
• high resolution images for thorough document analysis
It adopted the MAG metadata standard (a specific italian standard for administrative metadata)
It was interoperable with Internet Culturale (the portal for digital cultural resources of the Italian
Ministry of Culture )

7. Challenges

8. Challenges

9. Methodology
We used the advanced support for technical and structural metadata at the bistream level
implemented in DSpace-GLAM
We made extensive use of the DSpace-CRIS DBMS import framework based on adhoc simplified
database tables to map the MAG metadata standard on DSpace data model and to perform
operations on items and bitstreams metadata
We used the IIIF Image Viewer to manage, visualize and analyze high resolution images and
navigate structural metadata

10. Results

11. Results

12. Results

13. Results

14. Results

15. Conclusions
All the features of the old Digital Library Management System have been supported by DSpace-
GLAM
Naples Digital Library now has a powerful, stable, sustainable, state-of-art, Digital Library
Management System in order to manage, preserve, and enhance access to its digital collections in
the next years
DSpace-GLAM demostrated to be an excellent open-source solution to effectively manage complex
cultural heritage digital collections.

16. Thank you for your attention
Claudio Cortese
<claudio.cortese@4science.it>
mobile: +39 333 9340846
skype: claudio.cortese74
orcid: 0000-0003-4572-9711