Group-based Repositories in Oz

Diane CostelloCouncil of Australian University Librarians

ICOLC Montreal 2007

Group-based repositories

Not shared infrastructure, except for metadata Collaborative, complementary development

projects CAUL members & the National Library Government start-up funding

ADT APSR ARROW

ADT (Australasian Digital Theses Program) http://adt.caul.edu.au/

1998 project, government-funded, 7 universities led by UNSW

Adapted VT software to Australian conditions Central metadata repository, distributed

institutional repositories Very limited set of compulsory metadata based on

Dublin Core, compulsory front page format Repository software not compulsory, but VT

initially on its own

ADT (2)

Open to other participants in 2000 (now 39 active) Ownership by all CAUL from 2003 Joined by CONZUL in 2006 Redeveloped in 2004 to add metadata for non-digital

theses, and upgrade standards Moving away from VT to e-prints, dSpace, Fedora,

ProQuest, etc Currently 39 active members, 140,000 records Keep it simple …..

APSR (Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories) http://www.apsr.edu.au/ A Partnership of 5 institutions to Promote

Excellence in Managing Digital Collections Funded by DEST from 2004 Strategic Objectives

Augment interoperability & integrationProvide infrastructure and services for digital

collectionsFacilitate eResearch (cyberinfrastructure)Enable research reporting for funding and

accountability

APSR (2)

Repository systems – all open sourceAustralian National University – DSpaceUniversity of Sydney – DSpaceUniversity of Queensland – Fez+Fedora (Fez

developed in-house by UQ and now in use by National Science Digital Library and Emory University)

APSR (3)

Principles of collaboration Interoperable: must use common interfaces,

protocols and standardsPlatform-Independent: must work with DSpace and Fez-Fedora

Reusable: must be documented and ‘packaged’ for download/distribution

APSR (4) Repository interoperability & integration

projects (RIFF) repository integration with common research tools –

e.g. Open Office, Open Journals, Open Conference standard repository content models and presentation

definitions for improving dissemination and presentation

an APSR repository interchange profile – for improving migration between repositories and integration with other systems used in the university for administration and research

defining standard software interfaces for repositories in association with work going on internationally.

APSR (5) Collections Services and Infrastructures (COSI)

Collections Service RegistryFormat Notification and Obsolescence ServiceBenchmark Statistics ServiceRepository Technical Support Service

Publications Discussion papers

Publications on sustainability and repository issuesWhat software should I choose?Need to set up a repository? Read some of the comparative reports.

ARROW (Australian Research Repositories

Online to the World) http://www.arrow.edu.au/ Objective – identify and test software or solutions to

support best practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-prints, electronic theses, e-research and electronic publishing.

Funded by DEST from 2004 Working repository solution built on top of, & extending

functionality of, Fedora by VTLS (VITAL) Complemented by ARROW Discovery Service

harvesting from institutional repositories

ARROW (2) A generalised institutional repository solution for research

information management Not about Open Access – although that is possible too Initial focus on managing and exposing traditional “print

equivalent” research outputs Expanded to managing other digital research outputs Design decisions accommodate management of other digital

objects such as learning objects and research inputs such as large data sets

DEST Research reporting and audit, and Research Quality Framework likely to drive deposit of content by academics and research managers in ARROW universities

Employing Open Standards where possible

ARROW (3) 2007 work plan

Creative development of institutional repositories, to further enhance the functionality and utility of repositories.

Supporting 16 ARROW Community members in the implementation of the Research Quality Framework

Supporting Australian engagement with institutional repositories, through the assistance and support of the ARROW Community and other outreach programs.

Building partnerships with related projects and organisations both in Australia and overseas, to further enhance repositories

Persistent Identifiers and Linking INfrastructure (PILIN) – a sub-project of ARROW which is investigating how a national infrastructure for the creation of persistent identifiers might be brought about.

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