Repurposing MARC Metadata for an Institutional Repository

Evolving Metadata Needs for an Institutional Repository: MIT's DSpace

As the DSpace digital repository system develops, various metadata needs have emerged to accommodate the differing uses being made of the system. In the initial stages of the project a qualified form of the Dublin Core metadata set was developed for use within the system. Subsequently it became evident that metadata would also have to be imported from existing MARC sources for batch loads of sc...

The RepoMMan project: Automating workflow and metadata for an institutional repository

The RepoMMan project has been funded from June 2005 to May 2007 as part of the Digital Repositories Programme managed by the United Kingdom’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). RepoMMan is closely aligned with the deployment of the Fedora digital repository system within the University of Hull, and seeks to address two areas of functionality that have generated wide interest in the rep...

Institutional Repository

26 Background: Distance from home to school is an important influence on the decision 27 to use active transport (AT); however, ecological perspectives would suggest this relationship 28 may be moderated by individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors. This study 29 investigates whether (i) gender, (ii) biological maturation, (iii) perceived family support for 30 physical activity (PA),...

Institutional Repository

The global burden of foodborne disease due to the presence of contaminating microorganisms remains high, despite some notable examples of their successful reduction in some instances. Globally, the number of species of microorganisms responsible for foodborne diseases has increased over the past decades and as a result of the continued centralization of the food processing industry, outbreaks n...

Institutional Repository