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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Maintain knowledge of digital repositories
   • Research information sources to determine types and functions of digital repositories
   • Review organisational procedures on digital repositories to ensure consistency with organisational policies
   • Assess risks associated with digital repositories and refer to appropriate personnel as required
2. Manage resources for digital repositories
   • Locate and verify resources to add to the digital repository
   • Provide information to relevant personnel regarding procedures and permissions for collecting and accessing resources
   • Add resources to the digital repository using suitable software applications and equipment
   • Maintain digital resources to ensure access and integrity
   • Remove resources from the digital repository where required, following organisational procedures
3. Manage metadata for digital repositories
   • Create descriptive, technical and administrative metadata for digital repository resources according to organisational policies and procedures
   • Edit digital repository metadata according to organisational policies and procedures

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

add to and remove resources from digital repositories using organisational policies and procedures, and ensuring the access and integrity of these

create and edit metadata for digital repository resources.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

identify and describe access and preservation standards for digitisation

discuss copyright, moral rights, digital rights management and intellectual property issues and legislation that impact digital repositories

describe different digital file formats

describe digital preservation techniques

review information management principles for description and access

maintain knowledge of current trends in digital repositories

identify and describe licensing agreements covering digital resources

reference metadata standards and systems used in Australian institutions, such as:

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)

Australian Government Location Service (AGLS)

Dublin Core

Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) and MARC21

review organisational procedures regarding digital repositories.

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