Organisations Repository models and Preservation metadata Similar projects
Organisations and initiatives
- SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication and publishing. In particular, it is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities.
- The DSpace digital repository provides a system to "capture, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material."
- eprints.org: provides free software "dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving."
- Fedora is "open source software that gives organizations flexible tools for managing and delivering their digital content."
Repository models and Preservation metadata
- Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model: "a conceptual framework for an archival system dedicated to preserving and maintaining access to digital information over the long term."
- Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) Working Group
- The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language.
Similar projects
- The PRESERV project is investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories (ongoing)
- An assessment of UK Data Archive and The National Archives compliance with OAIS/METS: Final report that maps the systems and metadata in use by the UKDA and TNA against those in the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model, and the METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) standards