Assessment of Digital Infrastructure Maturity in Bulgarian Scholarly Libraries: Empirical Study of Automation and AI Adoption
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https://doi.org/10.48149/jciees.2026.6.1.3Keywords:
Digital maturity index, Libraries, Chi-square test, Spearman correlationAbstract
Scholarly libraries play central role in providing services for introduction and management of scientific data, including infrastructures for institutional repositories and metadata support. In the context of complex digital research activities, scholarly libraries support access, preservation and distribution of digital resources. AI supported services give new perspectives to information sciences and widen opportunities for innovations and cooperation. Purpose of the article is to assess the digital infrastructure maturity in Bulgarian scholarly libraries and to perform empirical study of automation and AI adoption. For achieving this goal, a survey is carried out among Bulgarian scholarly libraries. It outlines the infrastructural capacity and the basic parameters, necessary for the introduction of a measurement model. The Curation Lifestyle Model is adapted to perform quantity measurement of parameters and calculate a Digital maturity index (DIMI). After that, Pearson chi-square test is performed to check the correlation between the size of the university and the DIMI. Finally, Spearman correlation formula is used to establish a relation between DIMI and AI adoption.
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