This website is for information related to the CESAER Taskforce on Open Science, and in particular on its sub-group looking at how the Technical Universities in Europe deal with Engineering and Research Data Management. The group is working on two tasks Task 1 - FAIR Data in Engineering (2018-19) Read - Summary of First Findings on…
KomFor is the link between research and community based data facilities, libraries and journals collaborating to improve the quality and availability of research data in the earth sciences. The way to achieve this is by building sustainable and reliable ways for data publications in line with quality standards in scientific publishing. KomFor provides access to data publishing resources for projects, institutes, research groups, and individual reseachers, spanning the entire life-cycle of research data.
NISO is where content publishers, libraries, and software developers turn for information industry standards that allow them to work together. Through NISO, all of these communities are able to collaborate on mutually accepted standards
File naming is a vital first step for those beginning to digitise. This document examines planning and using an effective file naming system when managing digital files. This paper highlights the advantages of using the 8.3 convention and looks at some options when naming derivative, surrogate files.
The PREMIS maintenance activity is responsible for maintaining, supporting, and coordinating future revisions to the PREMIS data dictionary. The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working Group, convened by OCLC and RLG, initially developed the PREMIS data dictionary as a specification with the goal of creating an implementable set of "core" preservation metadata elements, with broad applicability within the digital community. a supporting xml schema allows for implementation of element set and is maintained in network development marc standards office library congress.
B. Schembera, and D. Iglezakis. Metadata and Semantic Research. 12th International Conference, MTSR 2018, Limassol, Cyprus, 23-26 October 2018, Proceedings, Springer, (forthcoming)