Data Curators

Presentation - New Directions in Description Presentation: Metadata Management in Theory

Cecil Somerton on theory: Departments involved in the Information Management Program Business Problem Assessment stated that "Data and metadata definitions are inconsistent across systems: Definitions in different systems for the same data or metadata item are not the same, affecting other IM or usage." The presentation discusses solutions to the problem and identifies potential metadata management and services that promote information quality and reliability. Mr Somerton's work with metadata began with the planning and implementation of the Canadian Coast Guard Intranet in 1995.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/Metadata_Management_Theory_Presentation_to_LAC.ppt
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Presentation - New Directions in Description Presentation: Metadata Management in Practice

Lynn Herbert on practice: This presentation discusses issues and challenges in the practice of managing metadata. It will cover the evolving role of metadata in the publishing and administration of electronic content and why managing the metadata for long-term growth and usefulness is important.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/NewDirections-MetadataManagement.ppt
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The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP)

The Library will work closely with federal partners to assess considerations for shared responsibilities. Federal legislation calls for the Library to work jointly with the Secretary of Commerce, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Archives and Records Administration.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
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e-Science for the Arts and Humanities: a Discussion Paper

The e-Science programme has arisen because of the increasing pressure in dealing with the escalating volume of data produced by scientists, both in information gathering exercises and through experiments. Scientists are working with computing scientists to find innovative ways of managing and integrating these data volumes, largely funded through what is known as the e-Science programme. The programme is global with funding provided on a national basis.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/e-science-discussion-2004.pdf
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Preserv Project - Preservation Eprints Services

Preserv (now Preserv 2, since it is in its second phase of funding) is a JISC project investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories. Project partners are Southampton University, The National Archives, The British Library and Oxford University. Functionality:  An ingest service based on the OAIS reference model for institutional archives built using EPrints software.
http://preserv.eprints.org/
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E-Science (E-Research) Expert Seminar: Report on Proceedings

The AHRB e-science policy seminar aimed to identify the role that the outputs from the e-science programme and grid technologies might play in supporting arts and humanities research and teaching. The seminar was held on the 28th April at Senate House in London. The seminar comprised a small gathering of scholars from the arts, the humanities, computing science, and information science who are experts in their field, with an excellent understanding of the use and potential of ICT in scholarly research and communication.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/e-science-seminar-2004.pdf
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Archiving the Avant Garde

Documenting and preserving digital/variable media art. It has two case studies/related project 'Renewing the Erl King' and 'Preserving the Rhizome ArtBase'.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/avantgarde
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Choosing a Metadata Standard For Resource Discovery

Resource discovery metadata is an essential part of any digital resource. If resources are to be retrieved and understood in the distributed environment of the World Wide Web, they must be described in a consistent, structured manner suitable for processing by computer software. There are now many formal standards. They range from simple to rich formats, from the loosely structured to the highly structured, and from proprietary, emerging standards, to international standards.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-63/html/
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Report from the A.L.T. 2005 Research Seminar

The Association for Learning Technology is pleased to announce the publication of a report from the 2005 Research Seminar: Reflective learning, future thinking [external]. The report covers developments in e-portfolios, digital repositories, ubiquitous computing and informal learning. A.L.T. is grateful for the support for the spring conference received from the JISC. Both days featured projects supported or commissioned by the JISC.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/ALT_SURF_ILTA_white_paper_2005.pdf
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Xena Software

This open-source preservation software developed by the National Archives of Australia is free and openly available. Xena (XML Electronic Normalising of Archives) converts digital records into two forms for preservation: a base64-encoded version (using only printable ASCII characters) and an XML representation.
http://xena.sourceforge.net/
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Joint Information Systems Committee