A Checklist and a Case for Documenting PREMIS-METS Decisions in a METS Profile

Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals

As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. In addition to deciding on the more traditional descriptive and administrative metadata, particular care needs to be given to the choice of structural and preservation metadata, as well as to integrating the various metadata components. This paper reports on the use of M...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

The Australian METS Profile - A Journey about Metadata

In any journey, there's a destination but half the 'fun' is getting there. This article chronicles our journey towards a common way of packaging and exchanging digital content in a future Australian data commons – a national corpus of research resources that can be shared and re-used. Whatever packaging format is used, it has to handle complex content models and work across multiple submission ...

METS and the CIDOC CRM – a Comparison

Mets - Component

Most existing software is one-of-a-kind, monolithic, non-interoperable, and consequently, non-reusable. In addition, this software is dificult to maintain, improve, and scale. More importantly, this soj?ware is vital to many enterprises and institutions. Thus, enterprises must continuously make trade-off decisions between developing new software and maintaining existing sojlware. The meta-compo...