Digital Production Centre
Background information about the DPC
Our partners
- Faculties, departments and research centres.
- Individual authors, researchers and professors.
- Knowledge organisations such as archives, libraries, museums and scientific publishers.
The Centre works closely with authors and organisations within and outside the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Organisation
The DPC is a department within the Division of Electronic Services of the University Library of Amsterdam. In this way results of innovative digital library (EDUBA) projects and further technological advances can be implemented immediately.
Furthermore, the Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam has a commitment with regard to continued access and preservation of scientific information and of cultural heritage artefacts.
Membership
The Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam is a member of SPARC Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations and research institutions that supports increased competition in scientific journal publishing. SPARC Europe collaborates with with the SPARC organisation based in Washington DC, but will develop Europe-focused initiatives.
Through the Library, the Universiteit van Amsterdam is also an institutional member of BioMed Central. Researchers and scientists of the UvA will receive discount on the article processing charges in more than 80 online peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Biology and Medicine. The BioMed Central journals provide free, full text access to research papers.
The Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam is the third European library, besides the British Library and Lund University, that is represented in CNI, the Coalition for Networked Information. CNI is one of the important international organisations that undertakes initiatives and projects to develop and manage networked information content. Some 200 institutions world-wide representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organisations are members of CNI.
Abbreviations
A short and incomplete overview of abbreviations and acronyms used in DPC website:
ARNO – Academic Research in the Netherlands Online
DTD – Document Type Definition
EAD – Encoded Archival Description
HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
MASTER – Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records
MrSID – Multi Resolution Seamless Image Database
OAI – Open Archives Initiative
OCR – Optical Character Recognition
PDF – Portable Document Format
TEI – Text Encoding Initiative
URL – Uniform Resource Locator
XML – Extensible Markup Language