My Dots for Friday, October 12, 2007

Large Data Formats

Archaeology Data Service report - Preservation and Management Strategies for Exceptionally Large Data Formats: 'Big Data'

[tags: data management, preservation, report]

Digital Preservation Coalition - Press Releases - Digital Preservation Award 2005

"An innovative tool to analyse and identify computer file formats has won the 2007 Digital Preservation Award. DROID, developed by The National Archives in London, can examine any mystery file and identify its format. The tool works by gathering clues from the internal 'signatures' hidden inside every computer file, as well as more familiar elements such as the filename extension (.jpg, for example), to generate a highly accurate 'guess' about the software that will be needed to read the file."

[tags: preservation, project, digital preservation, formats]

CLIR Report-pub 140

Quoted: 2007 CLIR report: In this report, we describe results of a nationwide census of institutional repositories in U.S. academic institutions. The census is one of several activities of the MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories a Collaborative Learning Environment) Project.

[tags: institutional repositories, census]

Sun - PASIG -- Preservation Archiving Special Interest Group

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the formation of the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, Sun PASIG, to bring together global leaders in government, broadcasting, education, and library services to share best practices for digital archiving.

The Sun PASIG will focus on both collaborating with leading institutions in the EPrints, Fedora, and DSpace communities to create replicable solutions and exchanging expertise on global developments around the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) architecture model.

[tags: preservation, data, oxford, storage, architecture, institutional repositories]

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My Dots for Thursday, October 11, 2007

SHERPA

SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.

[tags: SHERPA, institutional repositories, Open Access]

practicaladvice.pdf (application/pdf Object)

University of Glasgow (DAEDALUS Project) - setting up a repository: practical advice

[tags: institutional repositories, Glasgow]

Institutional Repository requirements document

A SHERPA Institutional Repositories staff and skills requirements document

[tags: institutional repositories, SHERPA]

Open Access Guidelines

University of Edinburgh Open Access Guidelines for Research

[tags: Edinburgh, Open Access]

DCMI Scholarly Communications Community

"The DCMI Scholarly Communications Community is a forum for individuals and organisations to exchange information, knowledge and general discussion on issues relating to using Dublin Core for describing research papers, scholarly texts, data objects and other resources created and used within scholarly communications. This includes providing a forum for discussion around the Eprints Application Profile, also known as the Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP) (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_Application_Profile) and for other existing and future application profiles created to describe items of scholarly communication."

[tags: metadata, institutional repositories, dublin core]

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My Dots for Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Open Data Commons - Licence now out

This is a collection of pages and links about the new Open Data Commons draft licence. There are two principal licences, the database licence and the factual information licence. Both are collected here.

[tags: open data, policy, blogs]

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My Dots for Friday, September 28, 2007

CODATA Data Science Journal

The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed electronic journal publishing papers on the management of data and databases in Science and Technology. This special issue addresses 'Open Data for Global Science'

[tags: data, science, open data]

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My Dots for Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Open Education Search

"The Hewlett Foundation has announced that it is working with the Creative Common's ccLearn division to build a web search portal dedicated to open educational resources, with the assistance of Google. ...The initiative's goal is to build a comprehensive directory of open educational resources, encouraging their broader discovery and use."

[tags: Open Access, blogs]

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My Dots for Tuesday, September 25, 2007

ROARMAP

ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies) - tracks the growth of institutional self-archiving policies.

[tags: Open Access, institutional repositories]

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My Dots for Thursday, September 06, 2007

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - Home

CKAN is developed and maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation.It is a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own

[tags: Open Access, open data]

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