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Research

Research Axes
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Digital Archives & Records Management
EDRMS design and implementation, archival standards (ISO 15489, MoReq, OAIS), long-term digital preservation, chain of custody.
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Digital Libraries
Architecture, information retrieval, open access, collaborative services, library 2.0, linked open data.
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AI in Information Management
Machine learning for document classification, AI in medical records management, generative AI tools in LIS education.
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Big Data & Archiving
Big data governance in archival institutions, aviation sector case studies, land data archiving in Tunisia.
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Digital Humanities & Archives
Role of archives in digital humanities, audiovisual archiving, national memory, right to be forgotten.
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Right to be Forgotten & Privacy
Tension between right to memory and right to erasure, personal data protection (GDPR), accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Semantic Web & XML Technologies
Ontologies, linked data, metadata standards, XML document engineering, collaborative information retrieval.
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Governance & Digital Citizenship
Document governance, e-government, digital identity, national digital memory strategy, Oman Vision 2040.
Funded Research Projects
#Project TitleFunderRolePeriodAmount (RO)Status
6Utilizing AI to Combat Misinformation and Deepfakes in OmanCentre for Strategic & Defence StudiesCo-PI2026–20275,000In Progress
5Scientific Social Networks, Digital Identity, and Scholarly Communication in OmanIG / CASS GrantCo-PI2026–20273,000In Progress
4Omani Museums and Knowledge-Based Society: Framework for Vision 2040SQU Internal GrantCo-PI2026–20273,000In Progress
3Accessibility of Archives for People with Disabilities in Oman (RF/ART/INFO/24/01)SQU Internal GrantPrincipal Investigator2024–20253,000Completed – 2 articles Q1
2Leveraging AI for Digital Medical Records (IG/ART/INFO/25/01)CASS Internal GrantPrincipal Investigator2025–20267,300In Progress
1Oman Memory and its Role in Preserving Digital Documentary Heritage (RF/ART/INFO/24/03)SQU Internal GrantCo-PI2024–20253,000Completed – 1 article Q2
Useful Research Links

A curated selection of key resources in Archives, Records Management, Digital Libraries, AI and Information Sciences — organised by thematic category.

📐 Standards & Norms 55 standards International standards for Archives, Records Management & Libraries
I — Records Management (Core Standards)
📋ISO 15489-1:2016 – Records Management: Concepts & Principles 📋ISO/TR 15489-2:2001 – Records Management: Guidelines 📋ISO 30300:2020 – MS for Records: Fundamentals & Vocabulary 📋ISO 30301:2019 – MS for Records: Requirements 📋ISO/TR 26122:2008 – Process Analysis for Records 📋MoReq2010 – Modular Requirements for Records Systems 📋ISO 18128:2014 (rev. 2024) – Risk Assessment for Records Processes
II — Metadata for Records (ISO 23081 Series)
🏷ISO 23081-1:2006 (rev. 2023) – Metadata for Records: Principles 🏷ISO 23081-2:2009 (rev. 2021) – Metadata for Records: Concepts & Implementation 🏷ISO/TR 23081-3:2011 – Metadata for Records: Self-Assessment Method 🏷PREMIS – Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies
III — EDRMS Functional Requirements (ISO 16175 Series)
⚙ISO 16175-1:2010 (rev. 2020) – Functional Requirements for Digital Records Software ⚙ISO 16175-2:2010 (rev. 2020) – Guidelines for Selection, Design & Implementation of Records Software ⚙ISO 16175-3:2010 – Guidelines for Records in Business Systems
IV — Electronic Archiving & Long-term Preservation
💿ISO 14721:2012 – OAIS: Open Archival Information System (SOAI) 💿ISO 16363:2012 – Audit & Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories 💿ISO 14641:2018 (rev. 2024) – Electronic Archiving: Specifications (incl. NF Z 42-013) 💿ISO 13008:2012 – Digital Records Conversion & Migration 💿ISO 19005-1:2005 (rev. 2011) – PDF/A-1: Long-term Preservation (PDF 1.4) 💿ISO 19005-2:2011 (rev. 2022) – PDF/A-2: Long-term Preservation (ISO 32000-1) 💿ISO 19005-3:2012 (rev. 2023) – PDF/A-3: Long-term Preservation with Embedded Files 💿ISO 19005-4:2020 – PDF/A-4: Long-term Preservation (ISO 32000-2) 💿LOC – Sustainability of Digital Formats 💿DPC BitList – Digitally Endangered Species
V — Digital Vault Standards (Coffre-fort Numérique)
🔐NF Z 42-020:2012 (rev. 2025) – Digital Vault: Functional Specifications 🔐eSafe – Label Coffre-fort Numérique (AFNOR)
VI — Information Security Management (ISO/IEC 27000 Series)
🔒ISO/IEC 27001:2022 – Information Security Management: Requirements 🔒ISO/IEC 27002:2022 – Information Security Controls (Code of Practice) 🔒ISO/IEC 27005:2022 – Information Security Risk Management 🔒ISO/IEC 27007:2020 – Auditing Information Security Management Systems 🔒ISO 10006:2017 – Quality Management in Projects
VII — Archival Description & Storage Standards
🗂ISAD(G) – General International Standard Archival Description 🗂ISAAR(CPF) – Authority Records for Corporate Bodies & Persons 🗂ISDIAH – Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings 🗂EAD3 – Encoded Archival Description 🗂EAC-CPF – Encoded Archival Context 📦ISO 11799:2003 (rev. 2024) – Storage Requirements for Library & Archive Materials
VIII — Library & Bibliographic Standards
📖ISO 2709 – Bibliographic Information Interchange 📖MARC 21 – Machine-Readable Cataloguing 📖RDA – Resource Description & Access 📖FRBR – Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records 📖ISO 25964 – Thesauri & Interoperability with Other Vocabularies 📖OAI-PMH – Metadata Harvesting Protocol 📖W3C Standards – XML, RDF, OWL, HTML 📖AFNOR – Association Française de Normalisation
🗄 EDRMS & Archival Software 12 links Leading records & document management systems worldwide
Open-Source Systems
💾Archivematica – Digital Preservation 💾AtoM – Access to Memory 💾ArchivesSpace 💾DSpace – Institutional Repository 💾EPrints – Open Repository 💾Omeka – Digital Collections
Commercial & Enterprise Systems
🏢OpenText Content Suite 🏢Hyland OnBase 🏢M-Files – Intelligent ECM 🏢Laserfiche 🏢IBM FileNet 🏢Alfresco – ECM
🏛 National Archives Institutions 18 links Arab world and international archives institutions
Arab World
🇴🇲National Records & Archives – Oman 🇸🇦Saudi National Archives 🇦🇪UAE National Archives 🇶🇦Qatar National Library 🇰🇼Kuwait National Archives 🇪🇬Egyptian National Archives (Dar El Watha'ek) 🇹🇳Archives Nationales – Tunisia 🇲🇦Archives du Maroc 🇩🇿Archives Nationales – Algeria 🌍Bibliotheca Alexandrina
International Institutions
🌐ICA – International Council on Archives 🇺🇸NARA – National Archives USA 🇬🇧The National Archives UK 🇫🇷Archives Nationales – France 🇩🇪Bundesarchiv – Germany 🌍UNESCO Memory of the World 🌍DPC – Digital Preservation Coalition 🌍ARMA International
📚 Digital Libraries & Open Access 16 links Major digital library platforms and open science repositories
Major Digital Libraries
📖Gallica – BnF France 📖Europeana 📖Library of Congress Digital 📖British Library Digital 📖Internet Archive 📖WorldCat 📖Bibliotheca Alexandrina Digital 📖JSTOR
Open Access & Repositories
🔓DOAJ – Open Access Journals 🔓Zenodo – CERN 🔓HAL – French Open Archive 🔓OpenAIRE 🔓IFLA – Int'l Library Federation 🔓Redalyc – Latin America OA 🔓Scopus 🔓Google Scholar 🏷Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
📊 Big Data in Information Sciences 10 links Platforms and frameworks for large-scale data management & analytics
⚡Apache Spark ⚡Apache Hadoop 🔍Elasticsearch ⚡Apache Kafka 🍃MongoDB 🔗Neo4j – Graph Database 📈Tableau – Data Visualisation 📈Microsoft Power BI 📊R Project – Statistical Computing 📓Jupyter Notebooks
🤖 Artificial Intelligence — General Tools 12 links Foundational AI platforms, frameworks and language models
✨ChatGPT – OpenAI ✨Claude – Anthropic ✨Gemini – Google 🤗HuggingFace – AI Models Hub 🧠TensorFlow 🧠PyTorch 🧠Scikit-learn – ML 📝spaCy – NLP 🔗LangChain – LLM Framework 🦙Ollama – Local LLMs ✨Mistral AI 🎨Stability AI
🏺 AI Applied to Archives & Libraries 10 links Specialised AI tools for document analysis, OCR, HTR and LIS applications
✍Transkribus – Handwritten Text Recognition 📄Google Document AI 📄Amazon Textract 📄Azure Document Intelligence 👁Tesseract OCR 🗂Arkindex – AI for Archives 🔬Semantic Scholar – AI-powered Research 🐇Research Rabbit 🔍Elicit – AI Research Assistant 🔍FAISS – Similarity Search (Meta AI)
🔗 Semantic Web & Linked Data 8 links Ontologies, knowledge graphs and linked open data for information sciences
🔗W3C RDF Standard 🦉W3C OWL – Ontology Language 🌐Wikidata – Knowledge Graph 🌐DBpedia 🔍SPARQL 1.1 – Query Language 📚IFLA LRM – Library Reference Model 🏛CIDOC-CRM – Cultural Heritage 🔗Schema.org
🤝 Professional Associations & Learned Societies 10 links Key organisations for archivists, librarians and information professionals
🌐ICA – International Council on Archives 📚IFLA – Library Federation 📋ARMA International – Records Mgmt 💼AIIM – Intelligent Information Mgmt 📘SLA – Special Libraries Association 🌍AFLI – Arab Libraries Federation 🇫🇷ADBS – French Association of Info Professionals 🔬ASIS&T – Information Science & Technology 💾DPC – Digital Preservation Coalition 🎓iPRES – Digital Preservation Conference
📰 Key Academic Journals in LIS & Archives 10 links Peer-reviewed journals in Library & Information Science and Archival Studies
📰Archival Science (Springer) 📰Archives & Records (Taylor & Francis) 📰Journal of Information Science 📰JASIST – J. of Assoc. for IS & Tech. 📰Library Hi Tech (Emerald) 📰Information Processing & Management 📰JLIS.it – Italian Journal of LIS 📰D-Lib Magazine Archive 📰Digital Library Perspectives 📰Records Management Journal