What does the Digital Production Centre do?

The Digital Production Centre (DPC) offers advice and support on the digital publication process of your academic publications on the Web. The DPC advises on how best to present the information and to this end develops the full technical infrastructure.

The DPC has already developed platforms for e-journals, e-books, repositories, electronic dictionaries, digital image banks, online finding aids, online text databases and multimedia websites.

Click on the link below for an overview of the products we have developed for scientists, publishers, museums, libraries and archives.

Open access and international standards

The DPC strongly supports open access and the worldwide availability of academic information. The DPC helps academic authors and editors to make the process of digital publishing as smooth as possible.

The DPC’s aim is to publish the information digitally in a sustainable and intelligent way. To this end, the DPC uses and promotes international and open standards, such as: XML, XHTML2, Dublin Core Metadata, Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Open Archives Initiative, OpenURL – SFX, Unicode, The XML Cover Pages and The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System.

This has several advantages:

• the information can be harvested by other academic institutions;
• the information is safeguarded for future (re)use;
• more and better search capabilities;
• increased traceability on the Web;
• different indexes per publication possible (e.g. author, keyword, etc.);
• enriching publications with datasets;
• cross-linking;
• opportunities for linking to references and sources;
• adding sound and video clips.

Durability and enrichment

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is committed to international agreements concerning sustainable information and the permanent availability of academic information and important cultural heritage. The DPC’s mission is to support the UvA in achieving this goal.

Since the DPC is part of the Division of Electronic Services of the University library of Amsterdam (UBA), the results of innovative projects within the digital library and new technological developments can immediately be applied to other projects.
The UBA is a member of several international scientific networks, such as SPARC Europe, BioMed Central and CNI.

The DPC has developed platforms for (inter)national scientific projects such OAPEN and UNICUM.

Extra services

Once we have developed your digital publication, we can provide the following additional services:

• creating the updates of your publication;
• maintaining usage statistics;
• applying for ISSN-numbers for e-journals;
• adding your e-journals to directories on the Web (e.g., the Directory of Open Access Journals)

Are you considering digital publication?

Please contact Caspar Treijtel, Head of Digital Production Centre, phone: 020 525 2176, email: C.Treijtel@uva.nl.