Digital Curation Centre

Networks of trusted repositories

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Contents:

Architectures that support repository interoperation
Shared infrastructures (registries, etc.)
Sharing of objects (packaging formats, etc.)
Repository audit and certification
Repository system perspectives
The OAIS Reference Model
National strategies
Co-operation on content
Collaboration in research contexts

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Architectures that support repository interoperation

NDIIPP:

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

NDIIPP Architecture, v. 0.2. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/technical/NDIIPP_v02.pdf

C. Shirky, "Preliminary architecture proposal for long-term digital preservation." In: Preserving our digital heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Appendix 9, pp 233-250. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/about/ndiipp_appendix.pdf [large file]

NDIIPP Conceptual Framework. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/technical/pwc042402.html

A. Friedlander, "The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program: expectations, realities, choices and progress to date," D-Lib Magazine, 8(4), April 2002. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/friedlander/04friedlander.html

JISC projects:

SHERPA DP project. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/sherpa-dp/

PRESERV project. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://preserv.eprints.org/

Ingest workflows:

JaJa, J., McCall, F., Smorul, M., Moore, R., & Chadduck, R. (2004). "Digital archiving and long term preservation: an early experience with Grid and digital library technologies." Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: the National Archives and Records Administration Web site: http://www.archives.gov/era/papers/thic-04.html

Smorul, M., JaJa, J., Wang, Y., & McCall, F. (2004). "PAWN: Producer - Archive Workflow Network in support of digital preservation" University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Technical Report UMIACS-TR-2004. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from:http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~joseph/pawn-july2-2004.pdf

CCSDS 651.0-B-1, Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard. Washington, D.C.: Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems, May 2004. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/651x0b1.pdf

Service Oriented Architectures:

H. Suleman, "Analysis and evaluation of service oriented architectures for digital libraries." In: Peer-to-Peer, Grid and Service-Orientation in Digital Library Architectures: 6th Thematic Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS, Cagliari, Italy, June 24-25, 2004, ed. C. Türker, M. Agosti, & H. J. Schek. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3664. Berlin: Springer, 2005, 130-146. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000272/

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Shared infrastructures (registries, etc.)

Global Digital Format Registry. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/

S. L. Abrams, and D. Seaman, "Towards a global digital format registry," 69th IFLA General Conference and Council, Berlin, Germany, 1-9 August 2003. Retrieved March 31, from: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/128e-Abrams_Seaman.pdf

PRONOM. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from The National Archives Web site: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/

J. Darlington, "PRONOM - a practical online compendium of file formats," RLG DigiNews, 7(5), October 2003. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews7-5.html#feature2

University of Leeds, Survey and assessment of sources of information on file formats and software documentation: final report, London, Joint Information Systems Committee, 2003. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/FileFormatsreport.pdf

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Sharing of objects (packaging formats, etc.)

J. Bekaert, P. Hochstenbach, E. De Kooning, & R. Van de Walle, "An analysis of packaging formats for complex digital objects: review of principles." Internet Multimedia Management Systems IV, Orlando, Florida, USA, September 9-11, 2003, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5242, Bellingham, Wa.: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2003, 324-332.

J. Bekaert, P. Hochstenbach & H. Van de Sompel, "Using MPEG-21 DIDL to represent complex digital objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library," D-Lib Magazine, 9(11), November 2003. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november03/bekaert/11bekaert.html

J. Bekaert, E. De Kooning, R. Van de Walle, "Packaging models for the storage and distribution of complex digital objects in archival information systems: a review of MPEG-21 DID principles," Multimedia Systems, 10, 2005, 286-301.

R. Gartner, R. (2002). Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS). JISC Techwatch Report TSW 02-05. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_report_0205

Lagoze, C., Lynch, C. A., & Daniel, R. (1996). "The Warwick Framework: a container architecture for aggregating sets of metadata." Cornell University Technical Report TR96-1593, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 28 June. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR96-1593

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Repository audit and certification

RLG-NARA Task Force

Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, Preserving digital information: report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information commissioned by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group, Washington, D.C.: Commission on Preservation and Access, May 1996. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from http://www.rlg.org/legacy/ftpd/pub/archtf/final-report.pdf

Working Group on Digital Archive Attributes, Trusted digital repositories: attributes and responsibilities, Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, May 2002. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf

Digital Repository Certification Task Force, Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories [draft], Mountain View, Calif.: RLG, August 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20769

Center for Research Libraries, Certification of Digital Archives project. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58&l3=142

R. Dale, "Making certification real: developing methodology for evaluating repository trustworthiness." RLG DigiNews, 9(5), October 2005. Retrieved July 26, 2006, from: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20793

S. Ross, & A. McHugh, "Audit and certification of digital repositories: creating a mandate for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)." RLG DigiNews, 9(5), October 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20793

S. Ross, & A. McHugh, "The role of evidence in establishing trust in repositories." JCDL Workshop on Digital Curation and Institutional Repositories, Chapel Hill, N.C., 15 June 2006. Retrieved July 26, 2006, from: http://www.ils.unc.edu/tibbo/JCDL2006/Ross_McHugh-JCDLWorkshop2006.pdf

OAIS compliance

H. Beedham, J. Missen, M. Palmer & R. Ruusalepp, Assessment of UKDA and TNA compliance with OAIS and METS standards, Colchester: UK Data Archive, 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/oaismets.pdf

DINI-Zertifikat

DINI-Zertifikat. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.dini.de/zertifikat/

S. Dobratz, F. Scholze, "Das DINI-Zertifikat: Qualitätskontrolle für Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver." cms-journal, 27, August 2005, 14-18. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?lang=ger&id=25488

S. Dobratz, & A. Schoger, "Digital repository certification: a report from Germany." RLG DigiNews, 9(5), October 2005. Retrieved July 26, 2006, from: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20793&Printable=1&Article_ID=1779

Evaluation of library services

General

P. Hernon, & E. Altman, Assessing service quality: satisfying the expectations of library customers. Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, 1998.

Y. S. Lincoln, "Insights into library services and users from qualitative research." Library & Information Science Research, 24, 2002, 3-16.

LibQUAL+(TM)

LibQUAL+(TM). Retrieved July 26, 2006, from: http://www.libqual.org/

C. Cook, F. Heath, B. Thompson, & R. L. Thompson, "LibQUAL+(TM): service quality assessment in research libraries." IFLA Journal, 27(4), 2001, 264-268.

B. Thompson, C. Cook, & M. Kyrillidou, "Concurrent validity of LibQUAL+(TM) scores: what do LibQUAL+(TM) scores measure?" Journal of Academic Librarianship, 31(6), 2005, 517-522.

J. S. Town, & S. A. Lock, "LibQUAL+ in the UK and Ireland: three years findings and experience." Paper presented at: 6th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, Durham, UK, 22-25 August 2005. Retrieved July 26, 2006, from: http://hdl.handle.net/1826/951

M. Kyrillidou, "Library assessment as a collaborative enterprise." Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 18(1/2), 2005, 73-87. Retrieved July 26, 2006, from: http://www.libqual.org/documents/admin/kyrillidou_haworth_sept72004.pdf

Service quality concepts

Of little direct relevance to (digital) library service evaluation, these references are included because they provide essential background to the development of the LibQUAL+(TM) tool mentioned above.

Service quality models

C. Grönroos, "A service quality model and its marketing implications." European Journal of Marketing, 18(4), 1984, 36-44.

A. Parasuraman, V. A. Zeithaml, & L. L. Berry, "A conceptual model of service quality and its implications for future research." Journal of Marketing, 49, 1985, 41-50.

SERVQUAL

A. Parasuraman, V. A. Zeithaml, & L. L. Berry, "SERVQUAL: a multiple item scale for measuring consumer perceptions of service quality." Journal of Retailing, 64(1), 1988, 14-40.

A. Parasuraman, L. L. Berry, & V. A. Zeithaml, "Refinement and reassessment of the SERVQUAL scale." Journal of Retailing, 67(4), 1991, 420-450.

L. J. Morrison Coulthard, "Measuring service quality: a review and critique of research using SERVQUAL." International Journal of Market Research, 46(4), 2004, 479-497.

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Repository system perspectives

DSpace:

DSpace Federation. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://dspace.org/federation/

J. Walker, "DSpace, digital preservation, and business models." ERPANET Seminar: Business Models Related to Digital Preservation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20-22, 2004. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://www.erpanet.org/events/2004/amsterdam/presentations/erpaTraining-Amsterdam_Walker.pdf

R. Tansley, M. Smith, & J. H. Walker, "The DSpace open source digital asset management system: challenges and opportunities." In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 9th European Conference, ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005, ed. A. Rauber, S. Christodoulakis, & A. M. Tjoa. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3652. Berlin: Springer, 2005, 242-253.

M. Smith, "Exploring variety in digital collections and the implications for digital preservation." Library Trends, 54(1), 2005, 6-15.

M. Smith, R. Rodgers, J. Walker, & R. Tansley, "DSpace: A year in the life of an open source digital repository system." In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 8th European Conference, ECDL 2004, Bath, UK, September 12-27, 2005, ed. R. Heery, & L. Lyon. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3232. Berlin: Springer, 2004, 38-44.

R. Tansley, M. Bass, & M. Smith, "DSpace as an open archival information system: current status and future directions." In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 7th European Conference, ECDL 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 17-22, 2003, ed. T. Koch & I. T. Sølvberg. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2769. Berlin: Springer, 2003, 446-460.

LOCKSS:

LOCKSS. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://lockss.stanford.edu/

B. Parno, & M. Roussopoulos, "Defending a P2P digital preservation system." IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1(4), 2004, 209-222.

P. Maniatis, M. Roussopoulos, T. J. Giuli, et al., "The LOCKSS peer-to-peer digital preservation system." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 23(1), 2005, 2-50.

V. Reich, D. Rosenthal, "Preserving today's scientific record for tomorrow: LOCKSS marries age old concepts of librarianship with modern technology." BMJ, 328, January 10, 2004, 61-62.

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The OAIS Reference Model

Section 6 of the standard looks at different models of archive interoperability, e.g. co-operating or federated archives, sharing functional areas.

CCSDS 650.0-B-1, Reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Washington, D.C.: Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems, 2002. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf

ISO 14721:2003. Space data and information transfer systems -- Open archival information system -- Reference model, Geneva: International Organization for Standardization.

B. F. Lavoie, "The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: introductory guide," DPC Technology Watch Report 04-01, Digital Preservation Coalition, 2004. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.dpconline.org/docs/lavoie_OAIS.pdf

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National strategies

T. Severiens, E. R. Hilf, Zur Entwicklung eines Beschreibungsprofils für eine nationale Langzeit-Archivierungs-Strategie - ein Beitrag aus der Sicht der Wissenschaften. nestor-materialien, 7 (2006). Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/

National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, Revolutionizing science and engineering through cyberinfrastructure, Arlington, Va.: National Science Foundation, 2003. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/report.pdf

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Co-operation on content

1. Data sharing infrastructures:

OECD Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://dataaccess.ucsd.edu/

P. Arzberger, P. Schroeder, A. Beaulieu, G. Bowker, K. Casey, L. Laaksonen, D. Moorman, P. Uhlir, & P. Wouters, "An international framework to promote access to data," Science, 303, 2004, 1777-1778.

P. Arzberger, P. Schroeder, A. Beaulieu, G. Bowker, K. Casey, L. Laaksonen, D. Moorman, P. Uhlir, & P. Wouters, "Promoting access to public research data for scientific, economic, and social development." Data Science Journal, 3, 2004, 135-152. Retrieved March 31, 2006, from: http://www.datasciencejournal.org/

P. Wouters & P. Schröder, eds., Promise and practice in data sharing, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschappelijke Informatiediensten (NIWI-KNAW), 2003.

C. A. Ball, G. Sherlock & A. Brazma, "Funding high-throughput data sharing," Nature Biotechnology, 22(9), 2004, 1179-1183.

T. Hey & A. E. Trefethen, "Cyberinfrastructure for e-science." Science, 308, 2005, 817-821.

2. Library co-operation (e.g. IFLA UAP Programme):

M. Line & S. Vickers, Universal Availability of Publications (UAP): a programme to improve the national and international provision and supply of publications. IFLA Publications, 25. Munich: Saur, 1983.

M. B. Line, Access to resources: the international dimension. Library Resources & Technical Services, 30(1), 1986, 4-12.

M. -F. Plassard, M. B. Line & P. Oakeshott, The impact of new technology on document availability and access. Wetherby: IFLA International Programme for UAP, 1988.

M. B. Line, Beyond networks - national and international resources. Iatul Quarterly, 3(2), 1989, 107-112.

M. B. Line, Universal availability of publications in an electronic age. Iatul Quarterly, 3(4), 1989, 214-223.

M. B. Line, Co-operation: the triumph of hope over experience? Interlending & Document Supply, 25(2), 1997, 64-72.

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Collaboration in research contexts

General:

C. S. Wagner, & L. Leydesdorff, "Network structure, self-organisation, and the growth of international collaboration in science." Research Policy, 34, 2005, 1608-1618.

P. A. David, "Towards a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific collaboration: providing its 'soft' foundations may be the hardest part." In: Advancing knowledge and the knowledge economy, ed. B. Kahin & D. Foray. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006 (forthcoming). Also published as: SIEPR Discussion Paper, no. 04-01. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, May 2005. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://www-cepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/04-01.html

P. A. David, & M. Spence, Towards institutional infrastructures for e-science. Research Report, no. 2. Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute, September 2003. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/publications/RR2.pdf

P. A. David, & L. C. Keely, "The economics of scientific research coalitions: collaborative network formation in the presence of multiple funding agencies." SIEPR Discussion Paper, no. 01-24. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, February 2002. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://www-cepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/01-24.html

J. Genuth, I. Chompalov, & W. Shrum, "How experiments begin: the formation of scientific collaborations." Minerva, 38, 2000, 311-348.

J. Hagedoorn, A. N. Link, & N. S. Vonortas, "Research partnerships." Research Policy, 29, 2000, 567-586.

J. S. Katz, & B. R. Martin, "What is research collaboration?" Research Policy, 26, 1997, 1-18.

Astronomy:

R. J. Hanisch, "Distributed data systems and services for astronomy and the space sciences." In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX, ed. N. Manset, C. Veillet, & D. Crabtree. ASP Conference Series, vol. 216. (San Francisco, Calif.: ASP, 2000), 201. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://www.adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass99/O9-01/

J. Fullton, "Distributed astronomical data archives." In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. D. R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, & J. Barnes. ASP Conference Series, vol. 61, (San Francisco, Calif.: ASP, 1994), 3. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from: http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/ADASS/adass_proc/adass3/papers/fulltonj/fulltonj.html

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