Tag Archives: Institutional Repository

Ingest (or how do you get things in there?)

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Nigel Ward

In an earlier post on this blog, Peter Sefton discussed a forms based data entry interface for getting data into the USQ / Newcastle ReDBox data registry. While this sort of metadata editing functionality is something every (decent) registry should … Continue reading →

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On the subject of identifiers

Posted on August 30, 2010 by de.dickinson

As various teams start to build research metadata stores1, it's important to look back at the work done and lessons learnt in the Institutional Repository world. In this post I'll discuss the issue of identifying “things” so that all repositories can have a shared understanding of data. It's something that wasn't well resolved in the IR community and threatens to reappear in our research metadata stores. Continue reading →

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