Library Cataloging
Digital Archives
A Content Integrity Service For Long-Term Digital Archives by Haber, Stuart; Kamat, Pandurang (HPL-2006-54).
We present a content integrity service for long-lived digital documents, especially for objects stored in long-term digital archives. The goal of the service is to demonstrate that information in the archive is authentic and has not been unintentionally or maliciously altered, even after its bit representation in the archive has undergone one or more transformations.
Authentication
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Metadata
Experiences of Educators Using a Portal of Aggregated Metadata by Sarah L. Shreeves and Christine M. Kirkham appears in Journal of Digital Information v. 5, no. 3.The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting...
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Preservation Metadata
April 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine includes the paper: Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity by Brian F. Lavoie.As cultural heritage institutions, businesses, and government agencies invest more and more resources...
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Oais
The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide by Brian Lavoie is a useful introduction and survey of this preservation model. The 20 page PDF file did take a while to load, give it time, it is worth the wait. (Do not confuse...
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E-prints
E-LIS is an electronic open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities. E-LIS is an archive to deposit preprints, postprints...
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Xml And Taxonomies
XML and taxonomies A partnership cure for digital sprawl by Linda Farmer provides a business perspective on these tools. Information Highways v. 9, no. 2 (Jan.-Feb., 2002)The judicious application of XML and taxonomies can go a long way towards stemming...
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