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The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

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

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The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

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  1. The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories Margaret Henty Digital Futures Industry Briefing November 8, 2006

  2. APSR Partners • The Australian National University • The University of Sydney • The University of Queensland • The National Library of Australia • The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing Associates:

  3. APSR A Partnership to Promote Excellence in Managing Digital Collections • Document best practice • Address strategic issues • Stimulate and share experience • Consider the Australian context

  4. 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

  5. Supported by: The Australian Government Department of Education, Science, and Training An Innovative Action Plan for the Future The Systemic Infrastructure Initiative 2004-2006: $2.4m 2007: $1.8m

  6. Sustainable Repositories? • Manageable • Integrated • Accessible • Cost effective • Preservable • Relevant • To management • To academic staff

  7. Repositories that Sustain? • Sustain information “beyond the life of the underlying technology”. • Have “Preservation Strategies”

  8. 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.

  9. 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)

  10. 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.

  11. AONSAutomated Obsolescence Notification System

  12. FIDASFieldwork Data Sustainability

  13. Sustainability of Word-Processing Documents

  14. AERESAustralian eResearch Sustainability Survey Aim: To survey data-intensive communities with a view to establishing current capabilities for the storage, access, and long term management of research data.

  15. The APSR Roadmap – Looking ahead • The Emerging Research Information Environment • Human Infrastructures • Cohesion and Collaboration in the Sector • Whither the Digital Collection?

  16. APSR Strategic Objectives 2006-7 • Augment interoperability & integration • Provide infrastructure and services for digital collections • Facilitate eResearch • Enable research reporting

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Infrastructure and Services for Digital Collections • Collection discovery & access services • Format registry & obsolescence notification services • Repository statistics services • Repository technical support services

  20. Questions?

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