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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Filipiniana.net?
Filipiniana.net is an online digital library and a research portal that gathers the most important and significant documents and artifacts on Philippine Studies and makes them available on the Internet for free. It has one of the widest and most comprehensive collections of Filipiniana documents in English, Filipino and Spanish, categorized under history, government, economy, religion, geography, science, culture and the arts. Filnet also contains non-textual materials such as photographs, maps, postcards, stamps, paintings, and illustrations. Through the portal, researchers and scholars will have access to primary content sources and online links, in an easy, organized and intelligible way. What is a digital library?
A digital library is a library in which collections of information, sources, resources and services are stored in digital formats and are accessible through computers. The digital content may be stored locally or accessed remotely through networks and the web. What are the reasons behind the creation of Filipiniana.net?
Filipiniana.net follows the world wide web consortium (w3c.org) recommendations for universal and transparent web interoperability as well as open and non-proprietary standards. It subscribes to the UNESCO vision of empowering people by democratizing access to information and knowledge through free flow of ideas in words and images. Filipiniana.net digital library was created primarily to digitize and preserve documents, manuscripts and images on Philippine history and culture. It also aims to be the premier online research portal on Philippine Studies in three different languages – Filipino, English and Spanish. Furthermore, through its series of blogs and forums, users may keep in touch with the latest in the Philippines, sharing information and opinion on scholarly matters, thus creating a knowledge-based community for Filipinos throughout the world. What sort of materials does Filipiniana.net have?<
Documents and materials stored in the digital library are primary and secondary content sources focusing primarily on Philippine Studies. These materials are considered ''public domain'' materials that can be freely accessed and used by researchers and scholars in their study. Can you explain what public domain is and what type of documents are considered under public domain?
The term "public domain" refers to creative materials, documents and artifacts that are not protected by any intellectual property law such as copyright, trademark or patent laws. These materials are owned by the public and not by an individual author, artist or corporation. Anyone can use a public domain material without obtaining permission, since no one has the right of ownership to that work. There are four ways that a creative material can be considered under public domain:
Therefore, can I copy the documents published in Filipiniana.net?
Yes, Filipiniana.net is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. Users are free to copy, distribute, share, and modify materials published in the digital library so long as they attribute the source and do not profit commercially from downloaded materials. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, educators, artists and scientists easily mark their creative work with the freedom they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Creative Commons licenses have been ported locally in order to be compatible with Philippine law by Atty. Jaime Soriano and Atty. Verne Guerrero of Arellano Law School. How is Filipiniana.net different from other digital libraries?
Filipiniana.net is different from other existing online digital libraries, as all documents published in the website are provided with executive summaries, subject headings, publication information and are fully-indexed and searchable to provide users fast and easy browsing of all the documents they need. The digital library also has twelve (12) valuable collections of materials designed to provide researchers specializing on a particular subject or discipline with all the help they need in browsing these materials inside the digital library for their studies. What are these Filipiniana.net Collections?
The Filipiniana.net Collections includes the 100 Nobelang Tagalog, Image Database, Philippine Revolutionary Records (PRR), Virtual Blair and Robertson, 100 Pinoy Komiks, Philippine Legal Database, Knowledge Map, Premio Zobel, Master Union Bibliography, Philippine Women's Studies, Philippine Labor Studies and The Complete Jose Rizal. Each collection is designed to serve as a gateway for exploring a particular field of interest or specialization, providing users the assistance they need to further enrich themselves with knowledge on a definite subject in the fastest and most efficient way. How can I use the digital library?
The Filipiniana.net Digital Library is easy to use. It is like having a physical library inside your computer without the hassle of asking a librarian to help you. Documents and images published in the digital library are arranged according to the eight (8) Filnet Categories. You just have to click on a Filnet category to view all the documents under that category. You can also browse or access document through the ''Filipiniana.net Collections.'' Or simply, you can just type a keyword in the ''SEARCH'' box and then press enter. The search engine will do the searching for you. It will provide you a list of all the documents related to that keyword, including several information of these documents -- executive summary, keywords, subject headings, author, date of publication, etc. All you have to do is choose from the list of documents and artifacts and you can now start reading. |
