New material on DLF website -- SIP Specification Draft (fwd)

[Lou Burnard]

SIP is definitely of interest if we are planning to discuss revising TEI
metadata.

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> Two new reports are now available from the DLF website.
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> 1. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information
> Environment (December 2001). A report by William S. Brockman, Laura
> Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, Tonyia J. Tidline
> http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html
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> 2. Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0
> DRAFT ? December 19, 2001 (December 2001). A draft proposal developed
> by Harvard University Library as part of its Mellon e-journal
> archiving project. http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf
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> Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information
> Environment http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html). As the
> scholarly information environment changes, so do the needs,
> expectations, and behaviors of users. Assessing and responding to
> those changes is essential for the academic library so that it may
> continue in support of the scholarly mission. The authors of this
> report have formally examined how humanities scholars conduct and
> collate their research. The study was based on a small sample of
> scholars; nonetheless, the results are powerfully suggestive of ways
> in which academic libraries can adapt to and develop in a rapidly
> changing environment. In particular, the findings emphasize how
> important it is for libraries to chart their evolutionary course in
> close consultation with scholarly user communities. This study results
> from the fruitful cross-fertilization between the scholar concerned
> with aspects of information science and the librarian concerned with
> delivering operational information services.
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> Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0 DRAFT ?
> December 19, 2001 http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf The
> purpose of the Harvard University E-Journal Archive is to preserve the
> significant intellectual content of journals independent of the form
> in which that content was originally delivered in order to assure that
> this content will be available to the scholarly community for the
> indefinite future. Functionally, the archive is designed to render
> text and still images and other formats as practical with no
> significant loss in intellectual content. The archive reserves the
> right to freely manipulate the internal format of the manifestation
> over time as long as the plain meaning of the intellectual content is
> preserved. The framework for discussing the architecture and operation
> of the archive is provided by the Open Archival Information System
> (OAIS) Reference Model. Under the OAIS model, material from a content
> provider is transmitted to the archive in a form called a Submission
> Information Package (SIP). The format of the SIP acceptable to the
> Harvard archive is described normatively by this specification.