the australian partnership for sustainable repositories
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The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. Margaret Henty Digital Futures Industry Briefing November 8, 2006. APSR Partners. The Australian National University The University of Sydney The University of Queensland The National Library of Australia - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
Margaret Henty
Digital Futures Industry Briefing
November 8, 2006
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The Australian National UniversityThe University of Sydney
The University of QueenslandThe National Library of Australia
The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
APSR Partners
Associates:
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APSR
A Partnership to Promote Excellence in Managing Digital Collections
Document best practice Address strategic issues Stimulate and share experience Consider the Australian context
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APSR
A Partnership to Promote Excellence in Managing Digital Collections
•Document best practice
•Address strategic
issues
•Stimulate and share
•Provide advice
Publications
Development
Outreach
Consultancy
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An Innovative Action Plan for the Future
The Systemic Infrastructure Initiative
The Australian Government
Department of Education, Science, and Training
Supported by:
2004-2006: $2.4m
2007: $1.8m
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Sustainable Repositories?
Manageable Integrated Accessible Cost effective Preservable Relevant
To management To academic staff
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Repositories that Sustain?
Sustain information “beyond the life of the underlying technology”.
Have “Preservation Strategies”
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National Outreach
As a national program, APSR provides a nationwide outreach program for the benefit of all Australian universities. Other repository services, in both public and private sectors, have also benefited. Integrated and Accessible
Repositories(UQ)
Standards-based Repositories
(ANU)
eResearch Sustainability(APAC)
Distributed Repositories
(USyd)
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Why Sustainability?
“Sustainability . . . refers to all the considerations that go into
maintaining the institutional context for creation and maintenance of
digital objects and resources, and supporting . . . long-term viability”
National Institute for Networked Cultural Heritage (2002)
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PRESTAPREMIS Requirement Statement
Aim: To specify requirements for the collection of metadata for preservation management purposes and help these be applied to selected repository implementations of APSR partners.
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AONSAutomated Obsolescence Notification
System
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FIDASFieldwork Data Sustainability
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Sustainability of Word-Processing
Documents
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AERESAustralian eResearch Sustainability
SurveyAim: To survey
data-intensive communities with a view to establishing current capabilities for the storage, access, and long term management of research data.
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The APSR Roadmap – Looking ahead
• The Emerging Research Information Environment
• Human Infrastructures• Cohesion and Collaboration in the Sector• Whither the Digital Collection?
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APSR Strategic Objectives 2006-7
• Augment interoperability & integration
• Provide infrastructure and services for digital collections
• Facilitate eResearch• Enable research reporting
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Principles
• Interoperable: must use common interfaces, protocols and standards
• Platform-Independent: must work with DSpace and Fez-Fedora
• Reusable: must be documented and ‘packaged’ for download/distribution
• Strategic: must align with DEST/JISC e-Framework and related interoperability initiatives (e.g. Pathways Initiative)
• Presentable: must be presented, demonstrated, publicised etc. through APSR Outreach events
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Repository interoperability & integration
• repository integration with common research tools
• standard repository content models and presentation definitions
• an APSR repository interchange profile
• defining standard software interfaces for repositories
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Infrastructure and Services for Digital Collections
• Collection discovery & access services• Format registry & obsolescence
notification services• Repository statistics services• Repository technical support services
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Questions?