Daarticolo

Daarticolo is a term used in Italian digital publishing discourse to describe a hypothetical open standard and platform for sharing article content and metadata across publishers. The name combines da (from) and articolo (article), signaling its focus on treating articles as the unit of data exchange. In discussions, daarticolo is presented as both a conceptual framework and a reference implementation intended to improve interoperability and reuse of scholarly and media articles.

Purpose and scope

Daarticolo aims to standardize article metadata and structure in a machine-readable form to enable indexing, search, redistribution, and compliance with licensing. Core objectives include enabling precise attribution, preserving provenance, and supporting multilingual content. Key features of the concept include:

- Metadata fields: title, authors, publication date, doi, license, affiliations, keywords

- Content structure: abstract, sections, figures, tables, references

- Provenance and licensing: versioning, source publisher, rights statements

- Interoperability: alignment with schemas such as Schema.org ScholarlyArticle and Crossref

Technical approach

The daarticolo model favors modular, graph-friendly representations using formats such as JSON-LD and RDF. It supports persistent identifiers and linkage to bibliographic systems, allowing platforms that implement daarticolo to export and ingest articles while preserving metadata fidelity. The approach emphasizes clear provenance, reusability, and compatibility with existing digital-library ecosystems.

Status and reception

Daarticolo is not an official standard, but it has influenced academic debates on article modularity and data reuse. Pilot projects and some experimental implementations explore its potential to streamline content curation across publishers, libraries, and repositories.

See also

Semantic Web, Metadata standards, Digital libraries, Open access, Scholarly communication.