Old:Repository Documents

Background documents about digital repositories, digital libraries, and the work that surrounds them.

Articles & Reports

• We also maintain a list of references on Connotea, using the tag "driade". This list may be more up-to-date than the bibliography here.
• Towards 2020 Science, report from an influential 2005 Microsoft sponsored workshop, and a commentary on the report from Szalay and Gray
• A collection of documents from Gary King on data sharing and replication in the social sciences, including
  • Altmann and King (2007) A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data, to appear in DLib
  • Symposium on Replication in International Studies Research (2003) International Studies Perspectives 4, 72-107.
• Pitschmann, Louise A (2001) Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources, (CLIR Reports, no. 98) Washington, DC: Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. 44 p. $20 (ISBN 1-887334-83-1)
• RUBRIC repository planning guidelines

Cyberinfrastructure

• Report of the NSF blue-ribbon advisory panel on cyberinfrastructure
• NSF Report: Cyberinfrastructure Vision For 21st Century Discovery, March 2007
• Draft of the report to NSF from the Digital Data Universe workshop (PDF)

Data preservation & repositories

• Altman et al (2001) A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research, Social Science Computer Review 19 458-470.
• Freese J (in press) Replication standards for quantitative social science: why not sociology?
• ICPSR Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
• Clifford Lynch, Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age, ARL Bimonthly report Feb 2003
• Chronicle of Higher Ed article on Purdue's small science initiative: Lost in a Sea of Science Data
• IJDL special issue on eScience
• Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe (2006). Implementing Persistent Identifiers. ISBN 90-6984-508-3
• Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century, plus comments from the DCC
• Draft of the report to NSF from the Digital Data Universe workshop (PDF)
• Sustainability Models http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbgr7g4_08d7gmf

Data sharing

• A fair share. Editorial in Nature, Dec 2006.
• Altman et al (2001) A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research, Social Science Computer Review 19 458-470.
• Altmann and King (2007) A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data, to appear in DLib
• Freese J (in press) Replication standards for quantitative social science: why not sociology?
• The New Bioinformatics: Integrating Ecological Data from the Gene to the Biosphere, Matthew B. Jones, Mark P. Schildhauer, O.J. Reichman, Shawn Bowers, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. Volume 37, Dec 2006.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed article on Purdue's small science initiative: Lost in a Sea of Science Data
• Stanley & Stanley (2005) Data sharing: The primary researcher's perspective Law and Human Behavior

Metadata & Data documentation

• Altmann and King (2007) A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data, to appear in DLib
• Metadata Interoperability and Standardization Chan and Zeng, DLib (June 2006)
• MetaCrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia a screed from Cory Doctorow
• Freese J (in press) Replication standards for quantitative social science: why not sociology?
• Report from JCDL workshop on Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories, June 2006
• The New Bioinformatics: Integrating Ecological Data from the Gene to the Biosphere, Matthew B. Jones, Mark P. Schildhauer, O.J. Reichman, Shawn Bowers, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. Volume 37, Dec 2006.
• Understanding Metadata
• IJDL special issue on eScience
• Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century, plus comments from the DCC
• Using Metadata Standards to Achieve Data Interoperability. Formal proceedings of a technical symposium that was held June 13-14, 2006 to give providers and users of data on marine organisms and physical processes an opportunity to improve their understanding of how present day metadata standards and associated systems might be used to enhance the quality of their work.

Metadata & Data Integration

• Using Metadata Standards to Achieve Data Interoperability. Formal proceedings of a technical symposium that was held June 13-14, 2006 to give providers and users of data on marine organisms and physical processes an opportunity to improve their understanding of how present day metadata standards and associated systems might be used to enhance the quality of their work.

Historic

• As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, original description of the Memex
• MetaCrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia a screed from Cory Doctorow

Open Access Publishing

• Seminar by Bob Peet (UNC) at NESCent, 3/30/2007: Intellectual Property and the Information Commons: A Discussion for Scientists
  • Bob also wrote a white paper on Crises and Opportunities: A Scientist’s View of Scholarly Communication.
  • Notes on the seminar (by Hilmar, with additions by Todd)

Social Science Perspectives

• Geoffrey C. Bowker (2000). Biodiversity Datadiversity. Social Studies of Science, Vol. 30, No. 5, 643-683 (2000) DOI:10.1177/030631200030005001