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www.apsr.edu.auAustralian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

AUSTRALIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE REPOSITORIES

Caul Meeting 2005/2

Brisbane

15 September 2005


PARTNERS

The Australian National University (Lead institution)

The National Library of Australia

The University of Sydney

The University of Queensland

Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC)


Scope

overall focus on critical issues of access continuity to and sustainability of digital collections

determination to build on base of demonstrators for digital continuity and sustainability embedded in developmental repository facilities within partner institutions

aspiration to contribute to national strength by encouraging development of skills and expertise and by providing coordination throughout the sector via a platform of national services and international linkages


APSR Developments Appointment of new Executive Officer, Dr Adrian Burton,

April 2005 July 2005 issue of Sustaining Repositories newsletter

published <www.apsr.edu.au/news> Presentations

The challenge of managing and preserving eResearch, Chris Rusbridge, Canberra, 9 June 2005

National Perspectives on Sustainable Repositories, Colloquium, Canberra, 10 June 2005

IRUA Forum on Digital Repositories, Adelaide, 30 June 2005 Creating publications from a DSpace repository, Scott Yeadon,

2nd DSpace Federation User Group Meeting, Cambridge UK, 7 July 2005

Establishing a Digital Repository Service, Workshop, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, August 2005


Digital Sustainability (Core Program)

APSR Sustainability Issues Discussion Paper made available from APSR website <www.apsr.edu.au/documents/APSR_Sustainability_ Issues_Paper.pdf>

Sustainability analysis of APSR testbed repositories completed

Requirement Specification of Preservation Metadata Capability in Open Source Repositories project begun

Automatic Obsolescence Notification Service (AONS) project funded


Practices and Testbeds Program(1)

Implementation of Repository Technology in a Standards Framework (ANU)

Further collections added to ANU DSpace production and development servers including source files for ANU E Press titles

DSpace-in-a-box, a one-stop DSpace installation package, made available from ANU Digital Resource Services downloads site <http://sts.anu.edu.au/drs/downloads/index.php>

Continuing involvement in further development of code for DSpace software Project to develop techniques and skills for the long-term sustainable storage of

wordprocessed documents within a university environment begun



Sustainability and Interoperability in a Complex Distributed Environment (University of Sydney)

Open source middleware, iSpheres, introduced to serve range of digital objects across distributed heterogeneous data repositories (initially iSpheresImage applied to Archaeology, Architecture, Botany and Pathology image collections)

Sustainability guidelines and checklist under development for use when planning design or redesign of repositories

Project initiated to develop and extend existing data storage arrangements between PARADISEC and APAC to other repositories

DSpace adopted as University of Sydney Library institutional repository platform and use of Cocoon software to be trialled to facilitate publication of selected content through University of Sydney Press PoD service



eScholarship Australia (University of Queensland)

Basic management interface and access control/authentication layer for eSpace digital repository system using Fedora completed

Release of software for flexible digital repository and workflow management system (PHP and MySQL based, working as a front end and administration tool above Fedora) scheduled for end 2005

UQ Research Finder <http://www.library.uq.edu.au/researchfinder/index.php> further developed

Identification of primary research data repositories suitable for harvesting into eSpace continuing


National Services Program

National Perspectives on Sustainable Repositories, Colloquium, Canberra, 10 June 2005

IRUA Forum on Digital Repositories, Adelaide, 30 June 2005 Establishing a Digital Repository Service, Workshop, Canberra,

Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, August 2005 (Adelaide, 6 October 2005)

Data-Intensive Research: Challenges and Issues, Public Lecture, Reagan Moore, Canberra, 29 September 2005

Data-Intensive Research and Analysis: Preservation Environments and the Data Grid, Tutorial, Reagan Moore, Canberra, 30 September 2005

Supporting Research Community Data Collections, APAC/APSR Workshop, Canberra, 18-19 October 2005

Open Repositories 2006 (Repository Projects Forum, User Group Meetings, Technical Tutorials, Workshop and Symposium), Sydney, 1-3 February 2006


International Linkages Program Digital Curation Centre

visit of Chris Rusbridge, 9-10 June 2005 DSpace Federation

ANU among 6 partners developing code for DSpace software participation in User Group Meeting, Cambridge UK, 7-8 July 2005

SETIS, PARADISEC, ACL/SSIU/TimeMap University of Sydney participation

Thomson Scientific (ISI) Web Citation Index Project ANU and Monash participating (with CalTech, Cornell, Max Planck

Society, NASA/Langley, University of Rochester) Digital Publishing System (DPubS) (Cornell and Penn State)

ANU participation New Zealand Institutional Repositories Symposium, Wellington, 23

November 2005 ANU and University of Queensland presenting


Thank you

Vic Elliott15 September 2005

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