Storage

http://www.snia.org/cloud/newcontent

http://arkivum.com/

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

Packaging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagIt

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/bagit-library

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-10

http://www.snia.org/SIRF

http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SIRF_v1_DRAFT.pdf

There’s a paper which compares SIRF and bagit:
https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/projects/storage/datastores/papers/systor56-rabinovici-cohen.pdf

Metadata Schema

https://schema.datacite.org/

There is a reference to a DC Application profile for data in here, but I can’t find it anywhere: https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-3/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v3.1.pdf