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- Content Selection, Preparation, and ManagementMcMillan, Gail; Howard, Rachel (Educopia Institute, 2010)Here is a set of best practices for policies regarding the selection, preparation, and management of digital content for preservation purposes. Though the authors draw upon PLNs (Private LOCKSS Networks) in their featured examples, the chapter may be applied more broadly to many distributed digital preservation initiatives. As such, it will be of great use to librarians, curators, and archivists, as well as administrators, who are seeking to ready their collections for preservation.
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Progress, Issues, and ProspectsMcMillan, Gail; Fox, Edward A.; Srinivasan, Venkat (Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, 2009)ETDs form an important component of global scholarship and research output. Many universities around the world require, accept, or at least encourage students to submit their theses and dissertations electronically. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which promotes ETD activities worldwide, now has over 779,000 ETDs accessible through its Union Catalog, run by Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Other NDLTD partners provide powerful tools for searching, browsing, and visualization...
- On-Demand Big Data Analysis in Digital RepositoriesXie, Zhiwu; Chen, Yinlin; Jiang, Tingting; Griffin, Julie; Walters, Tyler; Tarazaga, Pablo Alberto; Kasarda, Mary E. (Springer International Publishing, 2015-12-18)We describe a use and reuse driven digital repository integrated with lightweight data analysis capabilities provided by the Docker framework. Using building sensor data collected from the Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall Living La- boratory, we perform evaluations using Amazon EC2 and Container Service with a Fedora 4 repository backed with storage in Amazon S3. The results con- firm the viability and benefits of this approach.