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Saturday, August 23, 2003

The project DARE, in which Dutch Universities cooperate to set up a national infrastructure for electronic publishing, has released a report entitled Specifications for a Networked Repository for Dutch Universities.

A functional model for an IR is presented. [ ..... ] Given the fact that the result of DARE will be a network of repositories, the largest part of the report is focused on the interoperability section of the model, including the requirement specifications for the interoperability, the international standards to which DARE partners have agreed to apply are mentioned, with special attention to metadata.