A Conceptual Framework for Digital Library Software Attributes Relationship-base Prioritization in attaining Sustainable Developments Targets

Sustainability is the focus on balancing the people essential needs with the economy and natural resources. It will improve the world we live in by increasing our ability to drive profits and create sustainable value. On-going actions have been implemented to address the sustainable issues via information and communication technology (ICT). Unfortunately, previous research in ICT sustainability area focus more on designing and developing new hardware devices and software technologies rather than of recognizing regulatory framework and standards specifically in the present use of software application and limitation on time, budget and people. As understanding about being sustainable is that the relationship of any activities we practices with sustainable aspects, this paper, thus, aims to focus on relationship-base prioritization of software attributes with emphasizing on its relationship with the stakeholders’ sustainable development targets (SDTs) in a digital library area as an example. This paper involves extensive reviews and classifications of the literature in constructing the conceptual framework. The methodology begins with identifying a clear study topic, then, the extensive articles review on the peer-reviewed and well-known scientific journals. This is followed with identifying information accordingly to their theme and generates the conceptual framework. The proposed conceptual framework consists of three main components – Digital Library Institutional, Digital Library Attributes (Software SDTs) and Relationship-base Prioritization. The future empirical research shall be considered to employ this conceptual framework in order to understand the existence of relationship in the phenomenon under study.