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Papers by José Borbinha
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2017
Information Governance (IG) as defined by Gartner is the "specification of decision rights and an... more Information Governance (IG) as defined by Gartner is the "specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals". Organizations that wish to comply with IG best practices, can seek support on the existing best practices, standards and other relevant references not only in the core domain but also in relevant peripheral domains. Thus, despite the existence of these references, organizations still are unable, in many scenarios, to determine in a straightforward manner two fundamental business-related concerns: (1) to which extent do their current processes comply with such standards; and, if not, (2) which goals do they need to achieve in order to be compliant. In this paper, we present the third and last iteration of an IG maturity model based on existing reference documents. The development process is based on existing maturity model development methods that allow for a systematic approach to maturity model development backed up by a well-known and proved scientific research method called Design Science Research.
This deliverable details the maturity model for information governance which will be used to asse... more This deliverable details the maturity model for information governance which will be used to assess the E-ARK Project use cases. The method that guides the application of this maturity model will then be detailed in deliverable 7.5, scheduled to be submitted in January 2017. A Maturity Model consists of a number of entities, including "maturity levels" (often six) which are, from the lowest to the highest, (0) Non Existent, (1) Initial, (2) Basic, (3) Intermediate, (4) Advanced and (5) Optimizing. Each process can have its own Maturity Model, which expresses quantitatively the maturity level of an organization regarding a certain process. A Maturity Model provides also a way for organizations to see clearly what they must accomplish in order to pass to the next maturity level.
Risk management is a development activity and increasingly plays a crucial role in organization’s... more Risk management is a development activity and increasingly plays a crucial role in organization’s management. Organizations develop and implement enterprise risk management strategies intending to improve their business model and bring them better results. Enterprise risk management strategies are based on the implementation of a risk management process and supporting structure. Together, this process and structure make a system. The ISO ISO 31000:2018 standard is currently the main global reference framework for risk management systems, proposing the general principles and guidelines, regardless of context. This standard depicts the process of risk management as a case rather than a sequential process flow. To that end, we explored the potential and limitations of the conceptual modeling language “Case Management Model and Notation” (CMMN) for the elaboration of the related conceptual conceptual diagrams, and the “Decision Model and Notation” (DMN) notation to model risk decisions....
Seamless integration between a live document management system and a long-term digital archiving ... more Seamless integration between a live document management system and a long-term digital archiving and preservation service (KEEP SOLUTIONS) .
This deliverable details the Knowledge Centre Prototype-an aggregator of services developed under... more This deliverable details the Knowledge Centre Prototype-an aggregator of services developed under the scope of the E-ARK Project 1 and available at http://kc.dlmforum.eu. These services aim to provide a comprehensive, but simple and easily understood, set of services that allow to understand, contribute and validate Information Governance good practices. The Knowledge Centre is divided into: The Resources Centre and the Assessment Services.
This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Ack... more This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.
Risk Management: A Maturity Model Based on ISO 31000
2017 IEEE 19th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), 2017
Risk Management, according with the ISO Guide 73 is the set of "coordinated activities to di... more Risk Management, according with the ISO Guide 73 is the set of "coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to risk". In a nutshell, Risk Management is the business process used to manage risk in organizations. ISO 31000 defines a framework and process for risk management. However, implementing this standard without a detailed plan can become a burden on organizations. This paper presents a maturity model for the risk management process based on ISO 31000. The purpose of this model is to provide an assessment tool for organizations to use in order to get their current risk management maturity level. The results can then be used to create an improvement plan which will guide organizations to reach their target maturity level. This maturity model allows organizations to assess a risk management process according to the best practices defined in risk management references. The maturity model can also be used as a reference for improving this process since it sets a clear path of how a risk management process should be performed.
The Future of Information Sciences, 2015
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004
This paper describes the architecture and components of the infrastructure in construction for th... more This paper describes the architecture and components of the infrastructure in construction for the National Digital Library in Portugal. The requirements emerged from the definition of the services to support, with a special focus on scalability, and from the decision to give a special attention to community building standards, open solutions, and reusable and cost effective components. The generic bibliographic
Quality Control of Metadata: A Case with UNIMARC
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006
Abstract. UNIMARC is a family of bibliographic metadata schemas with formats for descriptive info... more Abstract. UNIMARC is a family of bibliographic metadata schemas with formats for descriptive information, classification, authorities and holdings. This paper describes the automation of quality control processes required in order to monitor and enforce quality of UNIMARC records. The results are accomplished by format schemas expressed in XML. This paper also describes the tools that take advantage of this technology to support the quality control processes, as also its actual applications in services at the National Library ...
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011
Digital Preservation has been recognized as a key challenge in providing trusted information and ... more Digital Preservation has been recognized as a key challenge in providing trusted information and sustainable eGovernment services. However, there has been little convergence on aligning the technically oriented approaches to provide longevity of information in ever-changing technology environments, and the organizational problems that public bodies are facing, through a systematic framework that aligns organizational and technological issues in the social domain of eGovernment. In this paper, we discuss the relevance of Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance for digital preservation and analyze key frameworks for digital preservation from this viewpoint. We assess the coverage of the leading criteria catalog for trustworthy repositories in terms of Enterprise Architecture dimensions and in how far these criteria align with established Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance frameworks. We discuss the analysis process we were following and present key observations that result from our work. These point to a number of steps that should be taken in order to consolidate digital preservation approaches and frameworks and align them with established frameworks and best practice models in Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011
Subject headings systems are tools for organization of knowledge that have been developed over th... more Subject headings systems are tools for organization of knowledge that have been developed over the years by libraries. The SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System has provided a practical way to represent subject headings systems using the Resource Description Framework, and several libraries have taken the initiative to make subject headings systems widely available as open linked data. Each individual subject heading describes a concept, however, in the majority of cases, one subject heading is actually a combination of several concepts, such as a topic bounded in geographical and temporal scopes. In these cases, the label of the concept actually carries several concepts which are not represented in structured form. Our work explores machine learning techniques to recognize the sub concepts represented in the labels of SKOS subject headings. This paper describes a language independent named entity recognition technique based on conditional random fields, a machine learning algorithm for sequence labelling. This technique was evaluated on a subset of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, where we measured the recognition of geographic concepts, topics, time periods and historical periods. Our technique achieved an overall F 1 score of 0.98.
DIGMAP: A digital library reusing metadata of old maps and enriching it with geographic information
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2008
The DIGMAP service reuses metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third part... more The DIGMAP service reuses metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third party metadata sources. The gathered metadata is enhanced locally with geographical indexing, leveraging on geographic gazetteers and authority files. When available, the images of the maps are also processed to extract potentially relevant features. This made it possible to develop a rich integrated environment for searching and browsing services based mainly in enriched metadata.
A metadata geoparsing system for place name recognition and resolution in metadata records
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2011
Abstract This paper describes an approach for performing recognition and resolution of place name... more Abstract This paper describes an approach for performing recognition and resolution of place names mentioned over the descriptive metadata records of typical digital libraries. Our approach exploits evidence provided by the existing structured attributes within the metadata records to support the place name recognition and resolution, in order to achieve better results than by just using lexical evidence from the textual values of these attributes. In metadata records, lexical evidence is very often insufficient for this task, since short ...
The value of risk management for data management in science and engineering
IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2014
An established concept to address data management challenges in science and engineering is the Da... more An established concept to address data management challenges in science and engineering is the Data Management Plans. However, we claim that in some complex scenarios the actual principles for Data Management Plans might not be enough, especially when Risk Management turns to be relevant. Therefore, we propose a method, based on the ISO 31000, for science and engineering projects to create a Risk Management Plan that can complement the Data Management Plan. The validation of this proposal is presented in the real case of an engineering laboratory.
A geo-temporal Web gazetteer integrating data from multiple sources
2008 Third International Conference on Digital Information Management, 2008
Abstract This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names o... more Abstract This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names of places and historical periods, together with the associated geo-temporal information. Within the DIGMAP project, this gazetteer serves as the unified repository of geographic and temporal information, assisting in the mining of geo-temporal expressions over text, as well as in resource searching and indexing. We describe the data integration methodology and some of the applications that use the gazetteer. Initial evaluation results ...
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised histor... more DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised historical maps. The main service will reuse metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third party metadata sources to provide discovery and access to contents. This will also include a proof of concept of a scenario of reusing and enriching these metadata by automatic processes that will try to extract relevant indexing information from the images of the digitised maps, as well as from any kind of associated text.
DIGMAP – Discovering Our Past World with Digitised Maps
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DIGMAP is a project that will develop solutions for georeferenced digital libraries, especially f... more DIGMAP is a project that will develop solutions for georeferenced digital libraries, especially focused on historical materials and in the promoting of our cultural and scientific heritage. The final results of the project will consist in a set of services available in the Internet, and in reusable open-source software solutions. The main service will be a specialized digital library, reusing metadata from European national libraries, to provide discovery and access to contents. Relevant metadata from third party sources will be also reused, as also ...
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval, 2007
DIGMAP is a project focused on historical digitized maps that will develop a set of Internet serv... more DIGMAP is a project focused on historical digitized maps that will develop a set of Internet services based on reusable open-source software solutions. The main service will provide discovery and access to resources related to historical cartography, based on metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third part providers. These resources will comprise both physical and digitized objects. In the case of digitized maps, available metadata will be enriched by automatic and semi-automatic processes that will try to extract relevant indexing information from the images of the digitized maps, as also from any kind of associated text. This paper presents an early overview on the project, particularly focusing on the aspects related to geographical information retrieval.
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2017
Information Governance (IG) as defined by Gartner is the "specification of decision rights and an... more Information Governance (IG) as defined by Gartner is the "specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals". Organizations that wish to comply with IG best practices, can seek support on the existing best practices, standards and other relevant references not only in the core domain but also in relevant peripheral domains. Thus, despite the existence of these references, organizations still are unable, in many scenarios, to determine in a straightforward manner two fundamental business-related concerns: (1) to which extent do their current processes comply with such standards; and, if not, (2) which goals do they need to achieve in order to be compliant. In this paper, we present the third and last iteration of an IG maturity model based on existing reference documents. The development process is based on existing maturity model development methods that allow for a systematic approach to maturity model development backed up by a well-known and proved scientific research method called Design Science Research.
This deliverable details the maturity model for information governance which will be used to asse... more This deliverable details the maturity model for information governance which will be used to assess the E-ARK Project use cases. The method that guides the application of this maturity model will then be detailed in deliverable 7.5, scheduled to be submitted in January 2017. A Maturity Model consists of a number of entities, including "maturity levels" (often six) which are, from the lowest to the highest, (0) Non Existent, (1) Initial, (2) Basic, (3) Intermediate, (4) Advanced and (5) Optimizing. Each process can have its own Maturity Model, which expresses quantitatively the maturity level of an organization regarding a certain process. A Maturity Model provides also a way for organizations to see clearly what they must accomplish in order to pass to the next maturity level.
Risk management is a development activity and increasingly plays a crucial role in organization’s... more Risk management is a development activity and increasingly plays a crucial role in organization’s management. Organizations develop and implement enterprise risk management strategies intending to improve their business model and bring them better results. Enterprise risk management strategies are based on the implementation of a risk management process and supporting structure. Together, this process and structure make a system. The ISO ISO 31000:2018 standard is currently the main global reference framework for risk management systems, proposing the general principles and guidelines, regardless of context. This standard depicts the process of risk management as a case rather than a sequential process flow. To that end, we explored the potential and limitations of the conceptual modeling language “Case Management Model and Notation” (CMMN) for the elaboration of the related conceptual conceptual diagrams, and the “Decision Model and Notation” (DMN) notation to model risk decisions....
Seamless integration between a live document management system and a long-term digital archiving ... more Seamless integration between a live document management system and a long-term digital archiving and preservation service (KEEP SOLUTIONS) .
This deliverable details the Knowledge Centre Prototype-an aggregator of services developed under... more This deliverable details the Knowledge Centre Prototype-an aggregator of services developed under the scope of the E-ARK Project 1 and available at http://kc.dlmforum.eu. These services aim to provide a comprehensive, but simple and easily understood, set of services that allow to understand, contribute and validate Information Governance good practices. The Knowledge Centre is divided into: The Resources Centre and the Assessment Services.
This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Ack... more This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.
Risk Management: A Maturity Model Based on ISO 31000
2017 IEEE 19th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), 2017
Risk Management, according with the ISO Guide 73 is the set of "coordinated activities to di... more Risk Management, according with the ISO Guide 73 is the set of "coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to risk". In a nutshell, Risk Management is the business process used to manage risk in organizations. ISO 31000 defines a framework and process for risk management. However, implementing this standard without a detailed plan can become a burden on organizations. This paper presents a maturity model for the risk management process based on ISO 31000. The purpose of this model is to provide an assessment tool for organizations to use in order to get their current risk management maturity level. The results can then be used to create an improvement plan which will guide organizations to reach their target maturity level. This maturity model allows organizations to assess a risk management process according to the best practices defined in risk management references. The maturity model can also be used as a reference for improving this process since it sets a clear path of how a risk management process should be performed.
The Future of Information Sciences, 2015
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004
This paper describes the architecture and components of the infrastructure in construction for th... more This paper describes the architecture and components of the infrastructure in construction for the National Digital Library in Portugal. The requirements emerged from the definition of the services to support, with a special focus on scalability, and from the decision to give a special attention to community building standards, open solutions, and reusable and cost effective components. The generic bibliographic
Quality Control of Metadata: A Case with UNIMARC
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006
Abstract. UNIMARC is a family of bibliographic metadata schemas with formats for descriptive info... more Abstract. UNIMARC is a family of bibliographic metadata schemas with formats for descriptive information, classification, authorities and holdings. This paper describes the automation of quality control processes required in order to monitor and enforce quality of UNIMARC records. The results are accomplished by format schemas expressed in XML. This paper also describes the tools that take advantage of this technology to support the quality control processes, as also its actual applications in services at the National Library ...
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011
Digital Preservation has been recognized as a key challenge in providing trusted information and ... more Digital Preservation has been recognized as a key challenge in providing trusted information and sustainable eGovernment services. However, there has been little convergence on aligning the technically oriented approaches to provide longevity of information in ever-changing technology environments, and the organizational problems that public bodies are facing, through a systematic framework that aligns organizational and technological issues in the social domain of eGovernment. In this paper, we discuss the relevance of Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance for digital preservation and analyze key frameworks for digital preservation from this viewpoint. We assess the coverage of the leading criteria catalog for trustworthy repositories in terms of Enterprise Architecture dimensions and in how far these criteria align with established Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance frameworks. We discuss the analysis process we were following and present key observations that result from our work. These point to a number of steps that should be taken in order to consolidate digital preservation approaches and frameworks and align them with established frameworks and best practice models in Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011
Subject headings systems are tools for organization of knowledge that have been developed over th... more Subject headings systems are tools for organization of knowledge that have been developed over the years by libraries. The SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System has provided a practical way to represent subject headings systems using the Resource Description Framework, and several libraries have taken the initiative to make subject headings systems widely available as open linked data. Each individual subject heading describes a concept, however, in the majority of cases, one subject heading is actually a combination of several concepts, such as a topic bounded in geographical and temporal scopes. In these cases, the label of the concept actually carries several concepts which are not represented in structured form. Our work explores machine learning techniques to recognize the sub concepts represented in the labels of SKOS subject headings. This paper describes a language independent named entity recognition technique based on conditional random fields, a machine learning algorithm for sequence labelling. This technique was evaluated on a subset of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, where we measured the recognition of geographic concepts, topics, time periods and historical periods. Our technique achieved an overall F 1 score of 0.98.
DIGMAP: A digital library reusing metadata of old maps and enriching it with geographic information
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2008
The DIGMAP service reuses metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third part... more The DIGMAP service reuses metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third party metadata sources. The gathered metadata is enhanced locally with geographical indexing, leveraging on geographic gazetteers and authority files. When available, the images of the maps are also processed to extract potentially relevant features. This made it possible to develop a rich integrated environment for searching and browsing services based mainly in enriched metadata.
A metadata geoparsing system for place name recognition and resolution in metadata records
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2011
Abstract This paper describes an approach for performing recognition and resolution of place name... more Abstract This paper describes an approach for performing recognition and resolution of place names mentioned over the descriptive metadata records of typical digital libraries. Our approach exploits evidence provided by the existing structured attributes within the metadata records to support the place name recognition and resolution, in order to achieve better results than by just using lexical evidence from the textual values of these attributes. In metadata records, lexical evidence is very often insufficient for this task, since short ...
The value of risk management for data management in science and engineering
IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2014
An established concept to address data management challenges in science and engineering is the Da... more An established concept to address data management challenges in science and engineering is the Data Management Plans. However, we claim that in some complex scenarios the actual principles for Data Management Plans might not be enough, especially when Risk Management turns to be relevant. Therefore, we propose a method, based on the ISO 31000, for science and engineering projects to create a Risk Management Plan that can complement the Data Management Plan. The validation of this proposal is presented in the real case of an engineering laboratory.
A geo-temporal Web gazetteer integrating data from multiple sources
2008 Third International Conference on Digital Information Management, 2008
Abstract This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names o... more Abstract This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names of places and historical periods, together with the associated geo-temporal information. Within the DIGMAP project, this gazetteer serves as the unified repository of geographic and temporal information, assisting in the mining of geo-temporal expressions over text, as well as in resource searching and indexing. We describe the data integration methodology and some of the applications that use the gazetteer. Initial evaluation results ...
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised histor... more DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised historical maps. The main service will reuse metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third party metadata sources to provide discovery and access to contents. This will also include a proof of concept of a scenario of reusing and enriching these metadata by automatic processes that will try to extract relevant indexing information from the images of the digitised maps, as well as from any kind of associated text.
DIGMAP – Discovering Our Past World with Digitised Maps
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DIGMAP is a project that will develop solutions for georeferenced digital libraries, especially f... more DIGMAP is a project that will develop solutions for georeferenced digital libraries, especially focused on historical materials and in the promoting of our cultural and scientific heritage. The final results of the project will consist in a set of services available in the Internet, and in reusable open-source software solutions. The main service will be a specialized digital library, reusing metadata from European national libraries, to provide discovery and access to contents. Relevant metadata from third party sources will be also reused, as also ...
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval, 2007
DIGMAP is a project focused on historical digitized maps that will develop a set of Internet serv... more DIGMAP is a project focused on historical digitized maps that will develop a set of Internet services based on reusable open-source software solutions. The main service will provide discovery and access to resources related to historical cartography, based on metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third part providers. These resources will comprise both physical and digitized objects. In the case of digitized maps, available metadata will be enriched by automatic and semi-automatic processes that will try to extract relevant indexing information from the images of the digitized maps, as also from any kind of associated text. This paper presents an early overview on the project, particularly focusing on the aspects related to geographical information retrieval.