Digital Repositories

Data-related blog posts coming out of Open Repositories 2012 conference

By robin

September 19, 2012

I’d been meaning to write an IASSIST blog post about OR 2012, hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Host Organising Committee led by Co-Chair and IASSISTer Stuart Macdonald in July, because it had such good DATA content. Fortunately Simon Hodson, the UK’s JISC Managing Research Data Programme Manager, has provided this introduction and has allowed me to post it here, with further links to his analytic blog posts, and even those contain further links to OTHER blog posts talking about OR2012 and data!

Special IQ: Moving Research Data Into and Out of Institutional Repositories

By robin

May 12, 2009

The IASSIST Quarterly IQ Vol. 31 issue 3&4 is now available on the web: http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol31.html This issue will only be available on the web. There will be no printed version mailed out to the membership. This double issue is the work of the authors and their articles are introduced below. We are presenting an integrated double issue of high quality. We should also give a special thanks to the editors of the issue.

Data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research

By robin

February 22, 2008

Luis Martinez-Uribe, Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator, is based at the Oxford e-Research Centre and will be conducting a scoping study to capture researcher’s needs for repository services to manage, curate, preserve and disseminate research data generated in Oxford. A new blog (http://oxdrrc.blogspot.com/) has been set-up to record the progress of the project while disseminating outputs and information about relevant activities. If you are interested in following the progress of this project you can subscribe to the RSS feed (http://oxdrrc.

DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

By robin

February 1, 2008

Announcing new deliverables from the DISC-UK DataShare project: DISC-UK DataShare: Web 2.0 Data Visualisation Tools, by Stuart Macdonald. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories, by Luis Martinez. Both briefing papers can be retrieved from http://www.disc-uk.org/deliverables.html . There is also a new “Collective Intelligence” page with a tag cloud to links from our social bookmarks of reports, websites, and blogs related to the project themes. http://www.disc-uk.org/collective.html A newsfeed of deliverables and new bookmarks is available from the project blog at http://jisc-datashare.

DISC-UK DataShare Project for Institutional Data Repositories

By robin

October 12, 2007

As part of the JISC-funded DISC-UK DataShare project{.moz-txt-link-freetext} in the UK, a State-of-the-Art Review has been written, marking out the current scene on data sharing at the beginning of the project. While the report is UK-focused, it may be of wider interest, and has a very thorough bibliography. DISC-UK is a UK consortium of data support professionals working in departments and academic libraries in universities (Data Information Specialists Committee-United Kingdom). The project is about DISC-UK members (all of whom are also IASSIST members) working with academics and institutional repository managers at the four partner institutions - London School of Economics and the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and Southampton - to provide exemplars for sharing research data within institutional repositories (based on EPrints.

Assessment of UKDA and The National Archive (UK) Compliance with OAIS and METS Standards

By Ann

September 28, 2005

Interesting report applying the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) to the UK Data Archive; a very useful convergence of preservation strategies and articulation of what the model means for data and disciplinary focused digital repositories/archives.Email from the Digital Preservation Department at the UK National Archives: In conjunction with the UK Data Archive, The National Archives have released a report comparing their preservation practices to the leading internationally recognised standard for digital archives.

ICPSR to Participate in Project to Certify Digital Archives

By Ann

September 15, 2005

ICPSR will be taking part in the RLG-NARA Digital Repository Certification project to identify the criteria repositories must meet for reliably storing, migrating, and providing access to digital collections.ICPSR has been selected to serve as a “test subject” in the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) project to develop an audit checklist for certification of trusted digital repositories. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, this project builds on the work of a Task Force consisting of members from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the U.

The Practice of User Registration to Access Data

By administrator

September 14, 2005

I am writing to address an issue that is coming up at UCLA with increasing frequency. More and more data distributors (agencies, archives, individuals) require a user to “register” before downloading data from a web site. These registrations take many forms and there is a continuum in terms of levels of detail and responsibility assigned to the user. It makes it hard for me to be of service to users when each study requires every individual to perform the registration task.

Data-related blog posts coming out of Open Repositories 2012 conference

Special IQ: Moving Research Data Into and Out of Institutional Repositories

Data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research

DDI, institutional repositories, and numeric data mashups

DISC-UK DataShare Project for Institutional Data Repositories

Assessment of UKDA and The National Archive (UK) Compliance with OAIS and METS Standards

ICPSR to Participate in Project to Certify Digital Archives

The Practice of User Registration to Access Data

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