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AUSTRALIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR
SUSTAINABLE REPOSITORIES
Caul Meeting 2005/2
Brisbane
15 September 2005
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
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)
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
Practices and Testbeds Program
(2)
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
Practices and Testbeds Program
(3)
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
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
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au
Thank you
Vic Elliott
15 September 2005
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au