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Preserving and delivering audiovisual content integrating Fedora Commons and MediaMosa
The article describes the integrated adoption of Fedora Commons and MediaMosa for managing a digital repository. The integration was experimented along with the development of a cooperative proje...
Visualizing Research Data Records for their Better Management
As academia in general, and research funders in particular, place ever greater importance on data as an output of research, so the value of good research data management practices becomes ever mo...
Sheer Curation of Experiments: Data, Process, Provenance
This paper describes an environment for the “sheer curation” of the experimental data of a group of researchers in the fields of biophysics and structural biology. The approach involves embed...
FISHNet: encouraging data sharing and reuse in the freshwater science community
This paper describes the FISHNet project, which developed a repository environment for the curation and sharing of data relating to freshwater science, a discipline whose research community is di...
Building the Hydra Together: Enhancing Repository Provision through Multi-Institution Collaboration
In 2008 the University of Hull, Stanford University and University of Virginia decided to collaborate with Fedora Commons (now DuraSpace) on the Hydra project. This project has sought to define a...
Cloud as Infrastructure at the Texas Digital Library
In this paper, we describe our recent work in using cloud computing to provision digital library services. We consider our original and current motivations, technical details of our implementatio...
Kindura: Repository services for researchers based on hybrid clouds
The paper describes the investigations and outcomes of the JISC-funded Kindura project, which is piloting the use of hybrid cloud infrastructure to provide repository-focused services to research...
Beyond The Low Hanging Fruit: Data Services and Archiving at the University of New Mexico
Open data is becoming increasingly important in research. While individual researchers are slowlybecoming aware of the value, funding agencies are taking the lead by requiring data be made availa...
REDDNET and Digital Preservation in the Open Cloud: Research at Texas Tech University Libraries on Long-Term Archival Storage
In the realm of digital data, vendor-supplied cloud systems will still leave the user with responsibility for curation of digital data. Some of the very tasks users thought they were delegating t...
CLIF: Moving repositories upstream in the content lifecycle
The UK JISC-funded Content Lifecycle Integration Framework (CLIF) project has explored the management of digital content throughout its lifecycle from creation through to preservation or disposal...
Building a Community of Curatorial Practice at Penn State: A Case Study
The Penn State University Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS) collaborated on the development of Curation Architecture Prototype Services (CAPS), a web application for ingest and ...
Chempound - a Web 2.0-inspired repository for physical science data
Chempound is a new generation repository architecture based on RDF, semantic dictionaries and linked data. It has been developed to hold any type of chemical object expressible in CML and is exem...
Repository as a Service (RaaS)
In his oft-quoted seminal paper ‘Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure For Scholarship In The Digital Age’ Clifford Lynch (2003) described the Institutional Repository as “a ...
Document Viewers for Non-Born-Digital Files in DSpace
As more institutions continue to work with large and diverse type of content for their digital repositories, there is an inherent need to evaluate, prototype, and implement user-friendly websites...
DAR: A Modern Institutional Repository with a Scalability Twist
The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is an Institutional Repository developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to manage the full lifecycle of a digital asset: its creation and ingestion, its metada...