ARROW Progress Report to CAUL,April 2005

Cathrine Harboe-Ree

ARROW Project Leader

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ARROW Project

ARROW Consortium Partners Monash University (lead institution) University of New South Wales Swinburne University of Technology National Library of Australia

FRODO projects funded by DEST

[Federated Repositories of Digital Objects] ADT: Australian Digital Theses APSR: Australian Partnerships for Sustainable Repositories ARROW MAMS – Meta Access Management System

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ARROW model

Fedora

VITAL

& Fedora

VITAL Access Portal

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ARROW software

VITAL release 1.3 Installed on test server Live 12 April (Monash, Swinburne, UNSW, NLA) Basic functionality

Loading e-prints, e-theses, images OAI harvestable

VITAL release 2.0 Installed mid June Improved basic functionality Audio, video Test suitability for other institutions

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ARROW National Discovery Service: NLA

http://search.arrow.edu.au/apps/ArrowUI/

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Research reporting

Managing research publications for DEST reporting Integrating Research Master 4 with ARROW (Neil

Dickson) Open source, for other applications

Examining institutional workflow Demonstrator ready for 2006

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Electronic publishing

OJS software at Swinburne 3 journals by mid-year Monitoring integration with Fedora UTS using this software

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ARROW and ADT

UNSW exploring integration Data modelling completed (Katie Blake) ADT to harvest ARROW e-theses metadata

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Content development

Monash 500+ retrospectively digitised theses Mandating electronic submission 2005- 500+ Business and Economics Faculty working papers Post-print papers through Research Master 4 Gippsland Research Centre historic images

ARROW and PictureAustralia Sound recordings: PASH project

National Library of Australia Repository to be established

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Partnerships

Fedora Development Consortium Thomson Web Citation Index (also APSR) OCLC (metadata interoperability core) VTLS Research Master

Further details at: arrow.edu.au