Costs

Training

Storage

ShareGeo Open

ShareGeo Open is a data repository for Open data. There are lots of useful spatial datasets that have been deposited by users for others to download and re-use. This create – share – reuse philosophy is central to ShareGeo Open. All the data in the repository is open and can be re-used freely making it ideal for students, researchers and teaching staff to find data. In addition to the just downloading data, users can upload data to the repository.  URL: www.sharegeo.ac.uk
http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/
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Library of Congress Transfer Tools (BagIt, and so on)

This project includes tools for use with BagIt [external PDF], a hierarchical file packaging format for the exchange of digital content jointly developed by the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library. The Library plans to release additional tools as part of a suite of solutions and software development resources as they are completed over time. There are already more tools in the pipeline. Functionality:  Three tools developed by the Library's Repository Development Group are available now.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-xferutils/
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WebCite

WebCite® is a project initiated by the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto intended to digitally archive web material (web pages, PDF documents, and so on) which are cited in scholarly articles. The idea of WebCite is that authors of scholarly papers (as well as editors and publishers of scholarly work) are increasingly citing digital material which is in the public domain on the web, yet which is at risk to disappear, i.e.
http://www.webcitation.org
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The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010

In this detailed white paper, IDC researches and analyses the impact of ever-increasing amounts of digital information generated worldwide.
http://www.emc.com/about/destination/digital_universe/pdf/Expanding_Digital_Universe_IDC_WhitePaper_022507.pdf
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FEZ

Fez is an open source project to produce and maintain a highly flexible web interface to FEDORA for any Library or Institution to configure and publish or archive documents of any type sustainably.
http://fez.library.uq.edu.au/wiki/Main_Page
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Field Helper

Field Helper is a desktop application that enables you to quickly view and categorise groups of related digital files and then submit the resulting package to a repository for long term preservation and access.
http://www.fieldhelper.org/
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eDAVID - Expertisecentrum DAVID

Expertisecentrum DAVID is a centre of research and knowledge on digital archiving.
http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/eng/index.php
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ICT Guides Website

The ICT Guides website is designed to help arts and humanities researchers find out more about the use of Information and Communications Technology in their work by showing them:
http://www.arts-humanities.net/
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RODA (Repositório de Objectos Digitais Autênticos)

The National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT) doesn't currently have the needed infrastructures to support the processes of ingestion and management of digital objects produced by the public administration (PA). The initiatives of the eGovernment establish the need to support its activity in information and communication technologies to improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their public services. In this scenario it is clear that the number of digital objects produced by these institutions will grow, and that their legal value and authenticity should be assured.
http://portal.roda.dgarq.gov.pt/
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AV Digitisation and Storage GuideStorage Guide

Web site for archive owners and the public alike, which provides first point-of-call for information on audiovisual storage. The site provides information and management tools on digital technology for the storage of film, video and audio content and associated metadata. The information covers the state-of-the-art in storage technology, and include forecasts of trends over the next twenty years. Functionality:  Tutorials and on-line tools supporting calculations of storage sizes and costs.
http://wiki.prestospace.org/
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Archiving, distribution and preservation of language corpora

Chapter 6 of 'Developing Linguistic Corpora', in the series of Guides to Good Practice from the Arts and Humanities Data Service. This chapter focusses on planning for and creating a sustainable electronic resource. Functionality:  Online HTML book, unrestricted access. Level of Expertise:  This guide is for researchers who are creating or using electronic corpora, and for curators of language resources.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/linguistic-corpora/chapter6.htm
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IMAPpreserve

Independent Media Arts Preservation, Inc. (IMAP) is a non-profit service, education, and advocacy organization committed to the preservation of non-commercial electronic media. IMAP has grown from a New York-based consortium of arts organizations and individuals to a national resource for preservation training, information, and advocacy. IMAP's core constituents include institutions, organizations, and individuals whose diverse media collections are underserved by existing preservation efforts.
http://www.imappreserve.org
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ICA (International Council on Archives)

The International Council on Archives (ICA) is dedicated to the advancement of archives worldwide. In pursuing the advancement of archives, ICA works for the protection and enhancement of the memory of the world. ICA is the professional organisation for the world archival community, dedicated to promoting the preservation, development, and use of the world's archival heritage. It brings together national archive administrations, professional associations of archivists, regional and local archives and archives of other organisations as well as individual archivists.
http://www.ica.org
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Adding Value

What makes up data curation?

13 December, 2008 | in Blogs

Following some discussion at the Digital Curation Conference in Edinburgh, how about this:Data Curation comprisesData managementAdding value to dataData sharing for re-useData preservation for later re-useIs that a good breakdown for you? Should data creation be in there? I tend to think that data creation belongs to the researcher; once created, the data immediately falls into the data management and adding value categories.

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Adding value to data: eScience conference session

20 August, 2008 | in Blogs

If you nearly had a paper ready for the International Digital Curation Conference in December (the closing date was the end of July), you may still have time to get one in to the special session "Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world" at the 4th IEEE International Conference on eScience, whose deadline has just been extended to 31 August. From the call for papers on the DReSNet blog:

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Wikiproteins...

28 May, 2008 | in Blogs

Genome Biology has an article by Barend Mons, Michael Ashburner et al: "Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins". From the abstract:

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Adding Value through SNEEPing

4 April, 2008 | in Blogs

I'm really quite taken by the SNEEP plug-in for ePrints that was showcased at OR08. It enables users to add their comments/annotations to an item stored in an eprints repository. These annotations are then made public and items can have numerous annotations added by different users. I don't know if there's a limit...? This is a great example of one way that value can be added to data collections in the context of digital curation - though admittedly the value of the added comments and annotations will be debatable!

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Business Models

Sherpa DP

The SHERPA-DP project, funded by the JISC and led by the AHDS, aims to advance research through a study of the practical implementation of previous recommendations about the provision of preservation services to academic institutional repositories using a distributed model, but one that is OAIS compliant.
http://www.sherpadp.org.uk/
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Software

Biosharing

Functionality:  CATALOGUES The web-based BioSharing catalogues aim to centralize bioscience data policies, reporting standards and links to other related portals. 1. Providing a “one-stop shop” for those seeking data sharing policy documents and information about the standards and technologies that support them. 2. Exposing core information on well-constituted, community-driven standardization efforts and link to their standards, documentation, training material, news and contact point. 3.
http://biosharing.org/
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ShareGeo Open

ShareGeo Open is a data repository for Open data. There are lots of useful spatial datasets that have been deposited by users for others to download and re-use. This create – share – reuse philosophy is central to ShareGeo Open. All the data in the repository is open and can be re-used freely making it ideal for students, researchers and teaching staff to find data. In addition to the just downloading data, users can upload data to the repository.  URL: www.sharegeo.ac.uk
http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/
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WebCite

WebCite® is a project initiated by the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto intended to digitally archive web material (web pages, PDF documents, and so on) which are cited in scholarly articles. The idea of WebCite is that authors of scholarly papers (as well as editors and publishers of scholarly work) are increasingly citing digital material which is in the public domain on the web, yet which is at risk to disappear, i.e.
http://www.webcitation.org
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OJAX

OJAX provides a highly dynamic AJAX-based user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata. OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful.
http://ojax.sourceforge.net/
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OSSWatch CDs

OSSWatch, the Jisc funded Open Source advisory service, have just released two new CDs to promote awareness of Open Souce software. The first is the Knoppix 4.02. Knoppix is a Linux LiveCD, which means that you put it in the CD-ROM drive of your PC, reboot, and you will have a usable Linux desktop environment that you can explore. The CD also contains running versions of the Moodle and Boddington VLEs. The second disk is TheOpenCD. TheOpenCD is a collection of open source software that runs on the Windows operating system. All of the programs are ready to install.
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/
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