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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?