Metadata, Interoperability and Digital Preservation

The Revista de Estudios y Experiencias en Educación (REXE) implements protocols and services that enable integration with external systems, repositories, databases, and indexing tools, ensuring the proper exposure of metadata, the traceability of published content, and compatibility with national and international academic information infrastructures. The journal also applies protocols to guarantee the digital preservation of its content.

Metadata

The Revista de Estudios y Experiencias en Educación (REXE) adopts international metadata standards such as Dublin Core, MARC, MARC21, and RFC1807, along with the structured exposure of metadata through Crossref for DOI assignment. The openly accessible metadata exposed by the journal includes:

  • Identification of the journal (ISSN, title, publishing institution)
  • Identification of the issue or published volume
  • Title of the publication
  • Subtitle (when applicable)
  • Authorship
  • Persistent identifiers:
  • Authors’ ORCID iDs
  • DOI assigned to the article
  • ROR identifier for institutional affiliation
  • Authors’ institutional affiliation
  • Abstract
  • Publication date
  • License of use
  • Bibliographic references
  • Document type
  • Access URL
  • Funding information (when applicable)

This set of descriptors ensures the correct indexing, retrieval, and interoperability of the journal’s contents in repositories, academic search engines, and national and international indexing services.

Interoperability

The Revista de Estudios y Experiencias en Educación (REXE), published through the OJS platform, guarantees the interoperability of its contents through the implementation of the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), enabling the automated harvesting and exposure of its metadata by repositories, aggregators, and indexing services.

Digital Preservation

The Revista de Estudios y Experiencias en Educación (REXE) is part of the Public Knowledge Project’s Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN), a fully decentralized system distributed among collaborating libraries, designed to create permanent archives of the journal and preserve original content, ensuring its restoration if necessary.

Additionally, as the publishing institution, the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción maintains internal processes for synchronous backup of the journal’s content on redundant institutional servers, ensuring long-term preservation and safeguarding of all published materials.