Benefiting LIS students and professionals alike, Franks presents complete coverage of the
records and information lifecycle model. Encompassing paper, electronic (databases, office …

Over the past two decades, the European Commission has mobilised cultural heritage to
bolster a European identity. One of the main flagship initiatives promoted to this end has …

Widespread digitization of cultural heritage materials and access to digital tools have altered
the scholarly research landscape. For historian scholars who use archival sources to …

As digital data creation technologies become more prevalent, data and metadata
management are necessary to make data available, usable, sharable, and storable …

Introdução: A preservação digital no arquivamento da Web só será possível com o uso
efetivo de padrões de metadados, pois são eles que determinaram a persistência, a …

The OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) framework recasts the repository-centric
notion of digital object to a bounded aggregation of Web resources. In this manner, digital …

ABSTRACT Introduction: Digital preservation in Web archiving will only be possible with the
effective use of metadata standards. These standards are the ones that determine the …

There are two problems associated with conventional web crawling techniques: a crawler
cannot know if all resources at a non-trivial web site have been discovered and crawled (" …

The need to federate repositories emerges in two distinctive scenarios. In one scenario,
scalability-related problems in the operation of a repository reach a point beyond which …

In this paper, we present MetaStore, a metadata management framework for scientific data
repositories. Scientific experiments are generating a deluge of data, and the handling of …