Documentation from CLOCKSS's TRAC audit.

N.b. this is all self-reported.

Simply storing data does not constitute preservation. Simply storing minimal, descriptive metadata does not ensure usability. True data archives are equipped for storing, preserving, and providing access to the various kinds of metadata that accompany research data. Metadata includes data documentation, descriptions of methodology and instrumentation, formulas used for recoding and analyzing the data, and field notes, as well as administrative and preservation records that ensure the long-term access and usability of data files.

Open-source DLCMS, optimized for newspaper collections.

If you post your paper to arXiv, you can post your data to the Data Conservancy.

Alma Swan's wiki about the European effort to solve Every Repository Problem Ever. Lots of useful lists of repo-related stuff -- software, initiatives, organizations, etc.

A nice encomium for the IR as a platform for instructional content.

Brilliant, lucid explanation of the OAIS reference model. ADD TO SYLLABUS.

Succinct statements of "success factors" and "challenges" for IR population. Nothing we didn't already know, though. Maybe someday we stop restating the problem and actually SOLVE IT?