Interesting References

SHAMAN - Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg

(Securing communication with the future)

http://shaman-ip.eu/

Under a mid term vision, SHAMAN will design and progressive implement large-scale European-wide collections with innovative access services that support communities of practice in the creation, interpretation and use of cultural and scientific content, including multi-format and multi-source digital objects. They will be combined with robust and scalable environments which include semantic-based search capabilities and essential digital preservation features.

For the longer term, SHAMAN will develop radically new approaches to Digital Preservation, such as those inspired by human capacity to deal with information and knowledge, providing a sound basis and instruments for unleashing the potential of advanced ICT to automatically act on high volumes and dynamic and volatile digital content, guaranteeing its preservation, keeping track of its evolving semantics and usage context and safeguarding its integrity, authenticity and long term accessibility over time.

Archivist on Board - including an archivist in the research team

http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1022

[abstract] In this article, we demonstrate the advantages of including an archivist as a member of the research team based on our experience with two multi-site, multi-method, primarily qualitative projects. The Principal Investigator, committed to the principles of data sharing and preservation, recruited a data archivist at the inception of the projects. Several issues arose that are not typically encountered in a research project: investigators needed to agree to the principles of data preservation and sharing—concepts that are not typically discussed a prior; the research ethics application and approval had to incorporate the conditions of preservation and sharing; and we needed a comprehensive plan for preservation that would ensure the creation of high-quality data products worthy of deposition. This comprehensive plan required that we identify the standards of archiving, incorporating within the data management plan an appropriate inventory list and a design for tagged fields and a corresponding Document Type Definition (DTD) used in the mark-up of textual data. A plan for creating access to the data for secondary analysis was also developed. The conditions of use, cataloguing records, and citation guide are all part of preparing the data for access. Finally, the challenges of this approach are summarized.

Recommendations for independent scholarly publication of data sets

Jonathan Rees, Science Commons white paper Creative Commons, March 2010

http://sciencecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/datapaperpaper.pdf

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en

Since its establishment in 2005, DANS has been storing and making research data in the arts and humanities and social sciences permanently accessible. To this end DANS itself develops permanent archiving services, stimulates others to follow suit, works closely with data managers to ensure as much data as possible is made freely available for use in scientific research.