[Asis-l] Stewarding Research Data with Fedora and Islandora - PASIG Webinar June 11, 11:30am EST

[Dick Hill]

[ASIS&T members can attend at no cost.  Dick Hill] 

The next PASIG monthly webinar will be June 11 at 11:30am EST. This webinar
is free to ASIS&T members, $20 for non-members. It will be archived. The
registration website is:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-6-11-2013-register.ht
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Stewarding Research Data with Fedora and Islandora

The interest in stewarding research data is undergoing an exponential
increase, encouraged by funder mandates as well as the recognition by
researchers that data sharing leads to greater discovery and innovation. The
Islandora community is actively working on solutions for managing the
diversity of data in virtually any domain. In one example at the University
of PEI, Islandora tools are being built to sync data from systems like
DropBox and Google Drive to Fedora, providing immediate preservation
services for any arbitrary collection of data. This Physical Data Model is
intended to provide a quick and seamless integration with Islandora where
the researchers can subsequently add enrichment and optionally choose to
share the data with others. In another example the Smithsonian is applying a
set of Intellectual Data Models to steward research output from a variety of
projects. In this case data is ingested into Islandora against a
domain-specific data model that applies specific metadata forms, data
transformations and data viewers to make the data more accessible
immediately on ingest. The Webinar will highlight these and other approaches
to research data management and preservation.

Speaker

Mark Leggott: Mark is the University Librarian at the University of PEI,
President of discoverygarden Inc. and founder of the open source Islandora
project. Mark has been involved with things open and digital for most of his
career, and together with the team at the University of PEI is working on a
digital archive of the complete cultural and heritage history of the Island.
As founder of the Islandora project Mark collaborates with global
institutions interested in stewarding digital information for the long-term.