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MIT's CWSpace project: packaging metadata for archiving educational content in DSpace
(Springer-Verlag, 2006-01-20)
This paper describes work in progress on the research project CWSpace, sponsored by the MIT and Microsoft Research iCampus program, to investigate the metadata standards and protocols required to archive the course ...
Future-Proofing Architectural Computer-Aided Design: MIT's FACADE Project
(Editions InFolio, 2008-09-27)
The FACADE project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA
is exploring the long-term archiving and preservation of digital data from architectural projects
in general, and 3D models and related ...
Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories
(Digital Curation Centre, UK, 2007-06)
The MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries are conducting the PLEDGE Project to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation ...
Automated Validation of Trusted Digital Repository Assessment Criteria
(Texas Digital Library, 2007-09)
The RLG/NARA trusted digital repository (TDR) certification checklist defines a set of assessment criteria for preservation environments. The criteria can be mapped into data management policies that define how a digital ...
Curating Architectural 3D CAD Models
(UKOLN at the University of Bath, 2009-07)
Increasing demand to manage and preserve 3-dimensional models for a variety of physical phenomena (e.g., building and engineering designs, computer games, or scientific visualizations) is creating new challenges for digital ...
DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: Current Status and Future Directions
(Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2003-01)
As more and more output from research institutions is born digital, a means for capturing and preserving the results of this investment is required. To begin to understand and address the problems surrounding this task, ...
DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository
(Corporation for National Research Initiatives, 2003-01)
For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpace⢠that functions as a repository ...
Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Publications Office, 2005)
The amount of digital content produced at academic research institutions is large, and libraries and archives at these institutions have a responsibility to bring this digital material under curatorial control in order to ...
DEJA : A Year in Review
(2002)
The MIT Libraries' proposed to the Mellon Foundation to plan a preservation archive for
dynamic electronic journals (DEJA : a Dynamic E-Journal Archive) that would be reliable, secure,
enduring, and sustainable over ...
The DSpace Open Source Digital Asset Management System: Challenges and Opportunities
(Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005)
Last year at the ECDL 2004 conference, we reported some initial progress and experiences developing DSpace as an open source community-driven project [8], particularly as seen from an institutional manager’s viewpoint. We ...