Presentation by Barbara Hutchinson (University of Arizona), Linda Eells (University of Minnesota) and Rob McGeachin (Texas A&M University) at the World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT - Atsugi, August 2008

1. AgNIC’s "Born Digital/Reborn Digital" Repository Initiatives Barbara Hutchinson (University of Arizona) Linda Eells (University of Minnesota) Rob McGeachin (Texas A&M University) World Congress on Agricultural Information and IT Tokyo University of Agriculture August 25, 2008

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15. Institutional Repositories – combining historical and current digital resources Facilitating scholarly communication & Open access

16. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin – AgNIC Cooperative Agreement

19. Born-Digital Project Committee Mission A group of land-grant institutions, in partnership with AgNIC, ADEC, USAIN, NAL, and others , and with strong (and critical) support from institutional Colleges of Agriculture and/or Natural Resources and Cooperative Extension Service units, propose to collaboratively create policies, determine appropriate standards, and develop the technical infrastructure for a repository of born digital, and subsequently reborn digital, agricultural resources that may be readily scaled to involve other national and eventually international partners.

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