APSR's recommended reading http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/recommendations.htm
A. Key reads
B. Rep technology references
C. Frameworks and Specs
D. Standards
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description (ISO Standard 15836-2003).
Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
International Standards Organization (ISO) Archiving Standards.
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS).
Motion Picture Engineering Group (MPEG) MPEG 21.
Open Access Initiative — Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
E. Ops guidelines
F. policy & costing
G. digi preservation
H. survey and comparison of repo software
I. users & usability
J&K gov resources AUS, USA
L. Australian Repository Projects
Australian Digital Theses Program Expansion and Redevelopment (ADT).
Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW).
Meta Access Management System (MAMS).
Other Web resources
DSpace Federation.
DSpace WIKI.
Fedora Project.
iSpheres.
MetaMap.
Open Language Archives Community.
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