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This investigation, funded by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and conducted in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) of the Glasgow University, is part of the activities within the Data Asset Framework (DAF) to provide research organisations with an online tool to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. This research has produced a metadata set fitted for the implementation of curation and preservation policies in small research institutions. In this paper, the DAF DDI profile will be exposed and explained. Further, it will be discussed, the advantages this metadata set offers to the small Cultural Heritage institutions for supporting curation and preservation policies. The DAF DDI profile is the first example of a DDI 3.1 implementation in a general curatorial context, that is not disciplinary specific, and its integration with PREMIS 2.0 is the first published mapping of PREMIS to DDI.
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Lancia, R. (2010). The DAF DDI Profile, a Metadata Set to Address Digital Curation and Preservation Issues in Cultural Heritage Institutions. In: Ioannides, M., Fellner, D., Georgopoulos, A., Hadjimitsis, D.G. (eds) Digital Heritage. EuroMed 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6436. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16873-4_22
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