Research data and repository metadata: Policy and technical issues at the university of Sydney library

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 370-379

  Brownlee, Rowan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Batch processing; Metadata translation; Repository service levels; Repository service policy development; Repository service sustainability; Research data collections

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849151402     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01639370802714182     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. The current article builds on a discussion document created for the University of Sydney Library titled "Research Data Management and Repository Metadata," March 6, 2008, http://escholarship. library.usyd.edu.au/dpa/meta.html.
2. Abed Kassis, Arts Faculty Web and Information Systems Manager, estimates thousands of Filemaker databases within that Faculty alone.
3. Edwina Tanner, Associate Lecturer School of Geosciences, has recently secured funding from the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (http://www.apsr.edu.au) to develop a data auditing tool. Activities will be informed by the JISC Data Audit Framework Development Project (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitalrepositories2007/ dataauditframework.aspx).
4. This was intended to provide a supplemental preservation service, which did not seek to match or replace the functionality of tools an academic may use on their desktop or through a departmental data management service.
5. SCA Images Online, http://www.usyd.edu.au/sca/learning-teaching/projects/ sca-images-online.shtml.
6. Power Visual Resources Library, http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/centres/ power/?page=Power% 20Library.
7. VRA Core 3.0, http://www.vraweb.org/resources/datastandards/vracore3/ index.html.
8. Power Visual Resources Library MDID2 installation, http://mdid.arts.usyd. edu.au/.
9. HISPID is a standard format for the interchange of electronic herbarium specimen information. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/HISCOM/HISPID/HISPID3/ hispidright.html.
10. Metadata Standards Framework - Preservation Metadata (revised), http://www.natlib.govt.nz/ catalogues/library-documents/preservation-metadata- revised.
11. DSpace, http://www.dspace.org.
12. Sten Christensen, Repository Coordinator, University of Sydney Library, http://ses.library. usyd.edu.au/.
13. For further information regarding integration of repositories with research support systems at the University of Sydney, see Sten Christensen, "From Research Management System to Digital Repository: Managing and Storing Research Outputs at the University of Sydney" (poster presented at eResearch Australasia, September 29-October 3, 2008), http://www.eresearch.edu. au/posters.
14. Throughout this article, the term "native format" is used in reference to the metadata structure adopted by a researcher within their local database.
15. DSpace technologies such as Manakin may support the development of customized collection or community-based interfaces offering greater interactivity and drawing on customized metadata. Integration with external services may also offer enhanced user interface tools. The author has not investigated these areas.
16. Anthony Green, http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/centres/power/?page=staff.
17. Python is familiar to the author and offers excellent text processing facilities. http://www. python.org/
18. Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard, http://www.loc.gov/ standards/mets/.
19. Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange, http://www. openarchives.org/ore/.
20. Dr. Jim Richardson, University of Sydney Information Communications and Technology eRe-search relationship manager, http://www.usyd.edu.au/ict/relation/ contacts.shtml.
21. Monash University Large Research Data Storage (LaRDS), http://www.monash.edu.au/ eresearch/services/lards/.
22. Chris Rusbridge, ""Moving the Repository Upstream" (paper presented at the ARROW Repositories Day, Brisbane, Australia, October 14, 2008), http://www.arrow.edu.au/news/event2008program.php.
23. Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown 2008, "The Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists and Curators: An Assessment of Current Practice and Future Needs," http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16675/.
24. In particular, partnerships with APSR on development of a DSpace Open Journal System connector, harvesting of collection metadata for a research collections registry and implementation of improved statistical tools for measuring repository content use. http://www.apsr.edu.au.
25. Development version of eBot-XTF online at http://pictor.library.usyd.edu. au:8080/xtf-2.1/search; California Digital Library eXtensible Text Framework, http://cdlib.org/inside/projects/xtf/.
26. Australian National Data Service, http://ands.org.au/.
27. Intersect eResearch Support Institute, http://www.intersect.org.au/.