Data Curators

Case Study: PerX Experience of Harvesting & Utilising Metadata from Oxford Journals

This brief case study illustrates some of the types of issues encountered by OAI-PMH service providers attempting to utilise third party metadata obtained via OAI-PMH.
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/casestudyoxford.htm
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Standard Naming Conventions for Electronic Records

Written by the Records Management Section at the University of Edinburgh, this document provides a common set of rules to apply to the naming of electronic records. The conventions are primarily intended for use with Windows-based software and documents such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mails and project plans.
http://www.recordsmanagement.ed.ac.uk/InfoStaff/RMstaff/RMprojects/PP/FileNameRules/FileNameRules.htm
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Web2Rights

Within the context of academia, a wide range of new and developing services, software and other technologies are being deployed, developed and adapted to engage and communicate with staff, students and new audiences. The software and technologies are diverse and are reshaping user engagement, the concept of "community" and experiences within the context of teaching, learning, research and administration.
http://www.web2rights.org.uk/
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Developing an Electronic Records Preservation Strategy

Written by the Records Management Section at the University of Edinburgh, this guide enables you to decide the best means of ensuring that your area's electronic records remain accessible for as long as they are needed by providing you with the tools to develop a strategy for the immediate short-to-medium-term preservation of your electronic records. This is mainly an issue for those not using a centrally supported IT service as areas with a centrally supported IT service are generally using onward migration.
http://www.recordsmanagement.ed.ac.uk/InfoStaff/RMstaff/ElectronicPreservation/ElectronicPreservation.htm
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Preservation Guide (for Audiovisual Media)

If you have audiovisual media, it needs maintenance - or you will lose it. This guide shows how to: conserve old formats digitise for transfer to new formats create digital file formats use digital restoration use mass storage provide electronic and web access Functionality:  Wiki Level of Expertise:  Introductory, but also has information of use to experienced professionals
http://www.bbcarchive.org.uk
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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.
http://prestospace-sam.ssl.co.uk/
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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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CRiB (Conversion and Recommendation of Digital Object Formats)

The CRiB is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration-based preservation interventions. The CRiB system works by assessing the quality of distinct conversion applications or services to produce recommendations of optimal migration strategies. The recommendations produced by the system take into account the specific preservation requirements of each client institution.
http://crib.dsi.uminho.pt/
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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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Digital Video Preservation Reformatting Project

Project focusing on the critical need for preservation initiatives for dance recorded on videotape.
http://www.danceheritage.org/preservation/
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