Introduction Iran is one of the world’s oldest cultural civilizations, with history dating to 7000 BC. It is rich in arts and cultural heritage resources (including manuscripts, works of art and artifacts).

Integrated access to the contents of the Old Persian is an important cultural concern, and many centers have the responsibilities and capabilities to realize this important initiative.

However, Iranian users seem yet to have access to the navigation and content intended for different searches on various sites.

based on demands on digital heritage resources for usage

preventing duplication of digital copies

to set the context through which users can search across all the content they need

for the protection of the rights of authors and publishers

Members

Core (12)Core members participate and interact with a

number of owners which have the resources in the country. The members decide about public policies and the consortium's members.

Members (17)All those which have shared their content of

resources with National Content Consortium, are members of the Consortium. Consortium members can use the facilities provided, for free in order to sale and supply their content to others.

Why Consortium?Technical issues regarding presenting

information resources as standard Lack of access to integrated resources Lack of consensus of manufacturers, content

owners and resourcesCultural issues and challenges for the content of

individual organizations were major reasons to integrate collections for easy access, and appropriate context and create required technical standards and infrastructure.

Advantages of National Content Consortium

NationwideCreation of a standard environment Production and accessibility for content

knowledge to compete in the evolving knowledge-based world

Launching of a platform for Islamic content Ability to create standardized cataloging

practices on content with national standards for access

Content ownersProtection of Content owner identityIncreasing number of usersAccess to other valuable content in compliance

with the stated conditionsHaving a variety of contentIncrease the amount of available information

Users and researchersEasy access to massive amounts of information

at any time and from any locationAccess to a variety of content (books, articles,

manuscripts, photographs, documents, and other content) in the form of audio, image, text, video and other evolving media

Integrated and comprehensive search feature in a network of linked data to reduce the cost of access to content

Objectives

Create a platform for researchers to have access to national content, especially Persian content

Ability to provide easy access to all kinds of information

Encourage the preservation of digital resourcesRetain ownership of the material and content

ownersGlobal awareness of valuable national resources Appropriate technical and cultural contextContent owners consentNational standards for the use or presentation

of digital content and servicesDissemination of national content globally

Activities/Services

The Consortium is not comprised of content producers, but to achieve its goal, it seeks to get involved with content owners.

It seeks appropriation of technical and cultural requirements to collect, convert, organize and protect digital data at a national level to provide the best possible practice.

For material and intellectual property issues, the Consortium seeks to insure that each content owner member would retain individual identity/ownership.  

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Principles/Rules and Regulations

Trying to keep the material and intellectual property owner of the content

Maintaining the individual identity of each member

Improving quality and productivity in all activities of the Consortium

Principles of customer serviceEffort to provide reliable information by content

owners

Property laws, material, intellectual and spiritualContent standards

Descriptive metadata: for describing the contentAdministrative metadata: information management dataStructural metadata for describing relationships between objects and digital filesLegal metadata for digital objects defines rightsTechnical metadata contains technical information about digital objectsPreservation metadata contains information to ensure the long-term preservation of digital objects

The number of Member’s Metadata

CIVIL

ICA

DLM

DCIP

MNLM

DLIP

OQS

TICI

DLU

TIIRP

CGIE

IUP

RIISCT

KED

NA

IDO

LMDCIP

OLM

DCAQ

IPOQS

NLAIR EIF

0

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

700000

170902

649111

1250036377

109147

231272

169502959 577616950

137799

1456

316017

106760

9352

377654

7122

Content Observed by End Users

TICI DLUT IIRP CGIE IUP KEDNA IDO LMDCIP OLMDCAQ IPOQS NLAIR EIF0

5

10

15

20

25

30

26

5

1 12

26

5

17

8

1

13

1

Downloaded Objects by Users

TICI LMDCIP OLMDCAQ NLAIR EIF0

5

10

15

20

25

23

43

7

19

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Conclusion

Creation of a National Content Consortium of digital repository could be of immense help to facilitate access to the nation’s heritage resources globally,

Preserve and develop the nation's digital resources, and encourage sharing and exchange of information among libraries, archives, museums and heritage organizations in Iran.

The programme would avoid duplication of efforts in digitization, develop metadata standards, and ensure sustainability of the nations resources.