Cessda expert meeting Odense

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Cessda expert meeting Odense
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Laurents Sesink 11 12 september 2008
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DANS Domain Research data from the Humanities
and Social Sciences.. Active data acquisition
and distribution Social Sciences History Archeolo
gy New disciplines Psychology Language and
textual resources
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Challenge DANS will ingest and distribute more
scientific data. scientists will produce more
digital datasets DANS will be active in more
scientific disciplines Without a growth in
personnel Assumption This can be done by
automating the workflow. (as far as possible)
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Automated workflow Self Archiving researcher Met
adata data files Contol archivist Publish ar
chivist
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Metadata elements 1. Required elements 2.
Recommended elements 3. Additional elements

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Step 1. Minimal requirements Subset of Dublin
Core All depositors Required Elements Creator T
itle Description Date created Access
Rights Audiance
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• Step 2. Convince depositors to provide more
  metadata
• Social scientists
• Historians
• Depositors are obliged to provide more metadata
• Archeologists (arranged by law)
• Data financed by the Dutch government
• Data financed by NWO

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Recommended elements Contributor Subject Spatial
coverage Temporal coverage Source Identifier

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Additional elements Format Relation Language Re
marks
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Step 3. Deep Store Only when there is a request
from researchers. Nesstar Dutch Censuses
1795-1971
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Standards used by DANS Subset of Dublin
Core QDC Historians QDC Archeologists DDI Socia
l Sciences
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Interoperablility protocol used by
DANS OAI-PMH DC OAI-PMH Didl In
progress OAI-PMH ORE
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Archival systems used by DANS EASY (Electronic
Archival System) Nesstar i-Tor In progress EASY2
(Easy on Fedora) Integrate DDD3.0 in content
model of Fedora