JISC has announced that about one third of the funds from its Digital Preservation and Assets Management program will go toward developing preservation functions for open-source software for institutional repositories. Excerpt: "There have [been?] few UK implementations of the OAIS Reference Model. Funded projects will explore implementations of the OAIS as well as the METS metadata standard in the context of the OAIS Information Model. Most currently available open source repository software applications do not have long term digital preservation as a key goal of their design. In order to facilitate the incorporation of preservation planning and management into repositorydevelopment, some projects are exploring integrating a preservation functionality to current open source repository software."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/29/2004 02:54:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
