Michael Day. "E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research". Review of E-print services (free the scholarly and scientific literature). Metadata for E-Prints

The future of the electronic scientific literature The Internet's transformation of scientific communication has only begun, but already much of its promise is within reach. The vision below may change in its detail, but experimentation and lack of dogmatism are undoubtedly the way forward. 

Code of Good Practice can be found under Basic Background material, at the CERIF home page . 

NB You will need  the Internet Explorer to show the diagram in the data model. Did not work with Nescape.

CODATA - Committee on Data for Science and Technology  was established in 1966 by the International Council of Scientific Unions.  Working on an interdisciplinary basis, CODATA seeks to improve the quality, reliability, processing, management and accessibility of data of importance to science and technology.(read more)