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-A community and a technology stack. or solution? for managing access to digital objects/materials. Samvera is a community driven framework for creating digital asset management systems and systems [should we tread carefully with the idea that Samvera can be a DAMS? Some institutions (including mine) are trying to use Hyrax for light digital asset management, but at this point Samvera seems most developed for access repos, less so for preservation repos or DAMS] and well-described repositories of digital objects.
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-management and curation by library professionals with an eye toward permanance, assurances of best practices and pathways towards preservation
Probably also a question of volume. With large collections of items, to effectively find anything it needs to be managed better than throwing in a bucket.
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