Toward Distributed Infrastructures for Digital Preservation: The Roles of Collaboration and Trust

This paper first explores some of the reasons why collaboration is becoming increasingly important in supporting scientific data curation, digital preservation initiatives and institutional repository development. It then investigates the concepts of trust and control used in the organisation scienc...

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Main Author: Michael Day
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2008-12-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:https://129.215.67.1/ijdc/article/view/39
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Summary:This paper first explores some of the reasons why collaboration is becoming increasingly important in supporting scientific data curation, digital preservation initiatives and institutional repository development. It then investigates the concepts of trust and control used in the organisation science literature and attempts to apply them to the work on trustworthy repositories being carried out by various international initiatives.
ISSN:1746-8256