Organisations and initiatives
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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.
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The DSpace digital repository provides a system to “capture, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material.”
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eprints.org: provides free software “dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving.”
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Fedora is “open source software that gives organizations flexible tools for managing and delivering their digital content.”
Repository models and Preservation metadata
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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.”
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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)