OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie and Richard Gartner from King's College London co-authored this second edition of Preservation Metadata, which focuses on new developments in preservation metadata made possible by the emergence of PREMIS as a de facto international standard. This report will be of interest to digital preservation practitioners interested in learning about key issues in implementing preservation metadata (especially in the context of the PREMIS Data Dictionary), as well as anyone seeking to learn more about the general topic of preservation metadata.
The complete report is available from the Digital Preservation Coalition website (pdf: 986K/40 pp.).
The 2013 Open Repositories Conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island from July 8 – 12. This particular workshop aimed to help IR managers and others in the repository community to identify strategies and practical steps to deal with research data within the increasingly complex environment of open access scholarly communication.
Keynote: Chuck Humphrey, The Long Tail of Data Wagging the IR.
Robin Rice, On being a cog rather than inventing the wheel: Edinburgh DataShare as a key service in the University of Edinburgh's RDM Initiative.
Michael Witt & Courtney Matthews, The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR): providing institutional data services with a virtual research environment, data publication and archiving.
Trust in Digital Repositories and other articles.