Data Curators

Cairo tools survey: a survey of tools applicable to the preparation of digital archives for ingest into a preservation repository

Cairo is a project funded under the 'Tools and Innovation' strand of the JISC's capital programme on Repositories and Preservation. The project will run to the end of March 2008. Cairo will develop a tool for ingesting complex collections of born-digital materials, with basic descriptive, preservation and relationship metadata, into a preservation repository.
http://cairo.paradigm.ac.uk/projectdocs/cairo_tools_listing_pv1.pdf
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Automated Obsolescence Notification System (AONS) II

AONS (Automated Obsolescence Notification System) notifies repository managers about formats within digital resources in their repositories and alerts them to potential problems relevant to obsolescence and long term usage.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/software.htm
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Collection Services Infrastructure (COSI) Framework

COSI is a web applications framework built to provide authentication (via either LDAP or the built-in service) and roles based access to modules of grouped functionality (or sub applications). More information about COSI can be found at the APSR web site. COSI is built with PHP (5.2.1) and PostgreSQL (8.2.3), and has been tested running under Apache 2.2.4 on Redhat Linux 9 and Mac OS X 10.4, but should also run on windows (and maybe even under Internet Information Server). PHP should be configured with pgsql, libxml, xsl, ldap, and open ssl.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/software.htm
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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.apsr.edu.au/software.htm
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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://www.apsr.edu.au/software.htm
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Online Research Collections Australia (ORCA) Registry

The ORCA Registry software provides for a registry of collection level (and associated service, party and activity) metadata that is based on the ISO 2146 draft standard. More information about ORCA can be found at the APSR web site. The ORCA Registry software consists of a PostgreSQL database that is managed/utilised by a PHP module housed within an instance of the COSI framework.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/software.htm
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Repository Interoperability Framework (RIFF) Submission Service Source Code

The RIFF Submission Service provides a service-oriented framework to support the packaging and routing of content and metadata from a source application to a target repository.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/software.htm
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Provenance

Project, now ended, to conceive, design and implement an industrial strength open provenance architecture for grid systems.
http://twiki.gridprovenance.org/bin/view/Provenance/
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OpenURL

A type of URL that contains resource metadata for use primarily in libraries.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/openurl/default.htm
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Clearing Out Legacy Electronic Records

Written by the Records Management Section at the University of Edinburgh, this guide is intended for anyone who has a sizeable collection of old electronic records, such as tens of thousands of e-mails or records stored on a shared or personal drive, on tapes, CDs, floppy disks, optical drives or the EUCS archive system. It is a practical step-by-step guide to how to clear out these records, including shortcuts and issues to consider when deciding whether or not to throw the records away.
http://www.recordsmanagement.ed.ac.uk/InfoStaff/RMstaff/LegacyElectronic/LegacyElectRecs.htm
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Joint Information Systems Committee