What repositories do: The OAIS model (Another post in an ongoing series on repositories.) In my previous post, I mentioned the OAIS reference model as an influential framework for thinking about and planning repositories intended for long-term preservation. If you’re familiar with some of the literature or marketing for digital repositories, you may well have seen OAIS mentioned, or seen a particular system marketed as “OAIS compliant”. Senior Lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing Introduction Scholarly publishing is totally broken. Not only, at present, can most of the people (taxpayers) who fund research not get access to it, but plans to fix this look set to screw over Early Career Researchers and anybody else who can't persuade their funders to give them the up-front fees required by publishers for Open Access journals. There are other models. I have proposed that the university library could function as a re-invented university press.
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Open Definition v2.0 Released – Major Update of Essential Standard for Open Data and Open Content Today Open Knowledge and the Open Definition Advisory Council are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Open Definition. The Definition “sets out principles that define openness in relation to data and content” and plays a key role in supporting the growing open data ecosystem. Recent years have seen an explosion in the release of open data by dozens of governments including the G8.
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When I Go Away: Getting Your Digital Affairs in Order Nowadays when we prepare a will, we have the added responsibility of leaving instructions to our loved ones about what to do with our online things after we die. Bequeathing has grown more complicated. Featured Last Will and Testament on Audiblewisdom.org Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit - wiki.dpconline.org A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities. Created by the Jisc funded SPRUCE Project. The textual content of the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is made available under the CC-BY-SA license. Attribute as "Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit If part reproduced in a business case, the requirement to attribute the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is waived. For licensing of the accompanying images, please see this page.
Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of her Departure from the University of Michigan Anne R. Kenney & Nancy Y. McGovern Introduction For over a decade, the national media periodically has treated the American public to horror stories regarding the fate of important documents available only in digital form. Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment D-Lib Magazine September/October 2012 Volume 18, Number 9/10Table of Contents Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment Sally Vermaaten Statistics New Zealand sally.vermaaten@stats.govt.nz
How to Develop a Data Management and Sharing Plan By Sarah Jones, Digital Curaton Centre Published: 8 September, 2011 Browse the guide below or download the pdf.