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Repositories like ePrints, DSpace and Fedora are designed to manage content for the long term while making it as accessible as possible. They provide a very different way of managing information than using relational databases. This workshop will introduce the concepts needed to understand how to use repositories, including the design of information objects and formal relations among them; descriptive, administrative and preservation metadata; policy establishment and enforcement; and different ways of exposing information for access, including the Open Archives Initiative, faceted-browsing systems and RDF. Examples of how to apply these concepts will include creating collections of digitized texts and cultural heritage images, as well as the implications for scholarly use of these collections.
