Hello Ina, I guess it depends what level of policy you're thinking of - an institutional statement, repository / data centre policy, or data plans? There are various bits of research that might be relevant for each.
We did some work in the DCC on policies last year. There's a report, which covers UK Research Council requirements for curation that might be of use. RC requirements tend to focus on data management plans here, hence our follow up activity in this area. Policy webpages: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal Report: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/reports/DCC_Curation_ Policies_Report.pdf We've recently been doing some work for the ERIS project too and have again found that institutional policies on preservation are rare in UK HE. Preservation is covered more in repository policies. The nearest we've seen to an institutional policy / statement is the one that Oxford University are currently ratifying (see slide 6 of presentation given at a JISC meeting: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/mrd/sudamih_presentatio n_rdmi_launch_27_11_09.pdf) Neil Beagrie has done a study on digital preservation policies too: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/jiscpolicy _p1finalreport.pdf They looked at various types of policy in HE as statements about preservation weren't always found within a specific 'preservation policy'. The most comprehensive preservation policies they came across were from data centres and repositories. The UKDA one is particularly useful: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/preservationpolicy.pdf For publication repositories, the OpenDOAR policy tool has a preservation template, which has been used a lot in the UK: http://www.opendoar.org/tools/policytool.php There's an event in Oxford this coming Monday on institutional policies for research data. I don't expect you'll be able to make it, but I'm sure outputs will be put online. I'm happy to feedback too. http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/policy_workshop.xml There are various other links we've collected in the course of DCC policy research, both to guides on what should be in preservation policies and example policies. This isn't very neat (very much an internal, working draft!) but I could tidy it up and pass it on if it would be of use. All the best Sarah _______________________________________________________________ Preservation Researcher (HATII & Digital Curation Centre) Tel: +44(0)141 3303549 Skype: sarah.jones.ahds Web: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/staff/sarahjones/#d.en.116142 Today's Topics: 1. Digital Preservation Policies (Smith, Ina <[email protected]>) 2. Re: SOAP and WebDAV (Tom De Mulder) 3. Re: How to bulk upload books into dspace (Prabhakaran S) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:00:59 +0200 From: "Smith, Ina <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Subject: [Dspace-general] Digital Preservation Policies To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <b3de5dee6abee34ba6cc44db2191889b161cf99...@stbevs05.stb.sun.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good day We are in the process of conducting a content analysis of existing digital preservation policies by other institutions in order to also start working towards a digital preservation policy for the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Would highly appreciate it if there are some folks out there who would be willing to share - case studies are also welcome. Maybe there is a comprehensive list out there listing all the policies already? If you know of any, I would really appreciate it if you can forward it ... Many thanks in advance! With kind regards Ina Smith University of Stellenbosch South Africa E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
