Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
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The aims of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) Project were to establish a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format.
Online collections of scholarly materials are bringing about a quiet revolution in the way researchers work. Researchers have faster easier ways of finding and analyzing research materials. New modes of research and new research methodologies are all now possible. APSR was a partnership that aimed to promote excellence in building & managing these collections of digital research objects.
The Partnership received Federal Government funding to assist Australian researchers with research information management. To this end, APSR conducted outreach and educational programs and undertakes collaborative development of systems and tools.
The Partnership was an eclectic one including major research universities, the National Library of Australia, and APAC (Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing). This reflected the broad nature of the issues faced and the capabilities required in managing Australia’s research data and scholarly information in digital format.
APSR worked closely with research communities, information professionals, technical staff, and higher education policy makers on a series of development projects, surveys, publications, seminars, and training workshops. The Partnership aimed to help create the systems required for managing data and information in a research environment and simultaneously to increase the capability of Australian researchers to do so.
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ANU Archive Item Open Access 2005/6 ATN Research Quality Framwork (RQF) TrialFurlong, NeilANU Archive Item Open Access The AAF and ShibbolethDalziel, James; Witheridge, Neil; Lin, AizhongThe Australian Access Project is a DEST-funded project to implement a trust federation for Australian higher education and research. Macquarie University is leading the Shibboleth component of this project, building on the existing testbed federation and development work conducted in the Meta Access Management System (MAMS) project (also funded by DEST). The Shibboleth software was developed by Internet 2, and provides a mechanism for “Identity Providers” to securely share identity attributes with “Service Providers” to allow for access to protected resources, collaborative workspaces and other shared services. The MAMS project also developed a Shibboleth-based “Virtual Organisation” system (“IAMSuite”) to allow for the creation and management of distributed research teams, including access to protected resources and services. This presentation provides an overview of work conducted within the MAMS project, an update on the progress of the Shibboleth component of the AAF, and the use of virtual organisations (based on IAMSuite) within this trust federation.ANU Archive Item Open Access Accelerating investigative discoveryFlanagan, MartinSince the beginning of the computing era, a key problem has been how to let 'ordinary' people ask arbitrarily deep and meaningful questions of large collections of data without being forced to resort to programming experts. The historical 'solution' was to have teams of programmers writing 'applications' for 'users' - an expensive approach whose deliverable becomes rapidly out of date leading to the well known silo problem. The Semantic Web is purposed to replace the increasingly cumbersome nature of this model - using Ontologies to describe concepts and their relationships, questions can be now phrased in terms that represent the questioners' domain of expertise in familiar language, with software then translating that into the computer code needed to retrieve the answers. The Semantic Discovery System (SDS) is InSilico Discovery's software product that implements this 'simple questions/relevant answers' Semantic Web vision, and is especially acclaimed for its unique ability to efficiently retrieve the answers from multiple distributed and disparate sources of the organisation's internal production data - as well of course as external Web sources. Gartner call this the Corporate Semantic Web - Organisations understandably want to leverage the huge value existing in production systems, but without being forced to do a mass data migration to a new architecture - they want a "Semantic Web Bridge". This bridge is the value SDS supplies - the organisational data remains in situ but it can now fulfil two purposes simultaneously - continuing to serve day to day production needs but also now supporting ad hoc research queries. SDS achieves this capability by using Semantic Web technologies (OWL, SPARQL, RDF etc) to represent a logical view of the world coupled with a Federated Query system to retrieve the physical data that will always reside in situ inside databases, files, proprietary systems etc. SDS has been built over a 10 year period (in collaboration with Universities of Pennsylvania, Manchester and GSK) based on referenceable implementations at major Pharmaceutical companies. This paper discusses capabilities of the SDS product family and plans for the immediate future.ANU Archive Item Open Access Access Grid, video conferencing, and real life simulationThorns, David; Allan, MaryA 2006 pilot study investigating patterns of interaction in Access Grid environment revealed situations in which real- life strategies and practices were mirrored in the AG environment. Following this observation, further study is underway to investigate AG environments as simulators of Face-to-face interactions. This paper describes the findings of the ongoing study. It investigates patterns of interactions among people, and the ways in which they interact with the technological environment, and use various artifacts for conveying and sharing information when collaborating over AG and other video conferencing systems. Building on the hypothesis that AG and other advanced video conferencing tools create a simulated face- to-face environment, the study investigates the emergence of spontaneous, informal collaboration alongside planned collaborative activities. The paper raises the question whether the forms of communication allow the creation of new forms of knowledge and require the development of new research practices.ANU Archive Item Open Access The Adaptable RepositoryA one-day workshop on new challenges and opportunities for repositories, to be held in association with ARROW.ANU Archive Item Open Access The Adaptable Repository ProgramProgram for the one day workshop, The Adaptable Repository, run jointly by APSR and ARROW.ANU Archive Item Open Access The Adaptable Repository: Swinburne Online JournalsMorgan, TeulaANU Archive Item Open Access All aboard, destination: SeamlessLansdown, Anne-MarieA key enabler for e-Research in Australia is to give researchers seamless access to resources, including each other. Significant investments have been made, and are continuing to be made, in supplying the above resources. Convergence, a key driver of current developments in telecommunications, media and information technology industries, has brought about the rapid evolution of digital, information and communications technologies and has created an environment in which the paradigms of research have changed. Convergence is not just about the technology evolution. It is about services and about new ways of doing business and of interacting with society. It has created growing demand by researchers for services including seamless access to data held in universities, publicly funded research agencies, government agencies and industry; access to data generated by scientific facilities and access to computational capability. The emergence of new services and the development of existing services are expected to provide researchers with more opportunities. They may want access from anywhere anytime to any service, independently of the technology used, or the geographical point of such access within a trusted environment. At the same time the evolution of the capability and sophistication of scientific instruments and facilities has seen an explosion in the quantum of data produced by experimentation, and the complexity of analyses conducted through data sharing. Globalisation amplifies the international dimension of convergence. The global reach of the Internet has already shown a need for international solutions to a number of key issues such as security, intellectual property rights, privacy and interoperability. The effective re-use of research data on a national basis is the primary goal of the government and institutional investments into national data infrastructure. The investments will deliver access services; and outreach services for researchers and institutions that can enhance the effective use of data within a federated research data management system. The outcome will be the ability for all researchers to identify, locate, access and analyse any available research data, regardless of origin or scale, to interface with the outside world, within trusted environments for example the Australian Access Federation. The key facilitators for this are adequate physical resources, middleware, access to data including data collection and generation; data storage and the physical management of stored data; the evolution of standards to enable data to be used and interpreted; and access regimes to permit data to be accessible. The Australian Government, in partnership with research communities, state governments and key research agencies, is working towards coordinating the advancement of Australia’s national e-Research capabilities. The timely development of these capabilities, in an increasingly competitive international environment, will entail the careful coordination and bringing together of distributed initiatives and projects already undertaken by research communities, many institutions and jurisdictions. e-Research capabilities will also underpin the implementation of the Australian Government’s Research Quality Framework (RQF). A key enabler of the RQF will be the Accessibility Framework, which will set out the principles governing the need for improved access to the outcomes and outputs of publicly-funded research. Ongoing work through the NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration capability will determine the strategic and balanced investments in system-wide infrastructure and ICT enabled services to support Australian researchers. Only by a concerted, strongly-directed, intervention-based strategy and national cooperation will the critical mass be achieved to more fully enable Australian researchers with e-Research capabilities. By combining our resources, we will enhance the chances and opportunities for our researchers in the years to come.ANU Archive Item Open Access ANU Archive Item Open Access The Alti-i Labs Interoperability DemonstratorTownsend, JohnANU Archive Item Open Access ANU DSpace Dissemination ServiceRaftos, Peter; Monus, LeoObjects stored in a digital repository may be accessed, rendered or displayed in any number of ways. Images may be searched for and then viewed online; or they may be printed or downloaded as high-resolution for layout in a print magazine. Film may be streamed; data tables may be queried in situ; humans may search the repository or machines may interrogate it. There are multiple repository applications and multiple 'levels'� of repository: long-term archives, CVS trees, streaming servers (to name just a few). Clearly, there is a need for a standardised object or template which any dissemination mechanism could expect to receive when requesting content from a repository. Philosophically, this concept is the flip side to the APSR RIFF Submission service.ANU Archive Item Open Access The ANU's Electronic Publisher: ANU E PressKanellopoulos, LorenaANU Archive Item Open Access AONS II: continuing the trend towards preservation software ‘Nirvana’Pearson, DavidFile format obsolescence is a major risk factor threatening the sustainability of and access to digital information. While the preservation community has become increasingly interested in tools for migration and transformation of file formats, the National Library of Australia is developing mechanisms specifically focused on monitoring and assessing the risks of file format obsolescence. This paper reports on the AONS II project, undertaken by the National Library of Australia (NLA) in conjunction with the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR). The project aimed to develop a software tool which allows users to automatically monitor the status of file formats in their repositories, make risk assessments based on a core set of obsolescence risk questions, and receive notifications when file format risks change or other related events occur. This paper calls for the preservation community to develop a co-operating file format obsolescence community which includes registries, software tool creators and end users to effectively curate digital content in order to maintain long-term access.ANU Archive Item Open Access AONS System Documentation(Australia: Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)) Curtis, JosephAONS (Automated Obsolescence Notification System) is a system to analyse digital repositories and determine whether any digital objects contained therein may be in danger of becoming obsolescent. It uses perservation information about file formats and the software which supports these formats to determine if the formats used by digital objects are in danger. The information used is gleaned from various registries (PRONOM1 and LCSDF2) and stored in a MySQL3 database. AONS will then periodically check the contents of the repository for formats in danger of becoming obsolescent. When the repository is found to contain such formats a notification report will be sent to the repository manager responsible. AONS supports multiple repositories with fully independent scheduling. Currently AONS only supports the DSpace4 digital repository; however, the interface between the repository and AONS is simple and well defined and it shouldn't be too hard to extend to other repositories in the future.ANU Archive Item Open Access APAC: A National Research Infrastructure ProgramO'Callaghan, JohnANU Archive Item Open Access APSR - a National Partnership for Sustainability(2005-06-10) Burton, AdrianANU Archive Item Open Access APSR - Preserving the past, maintaining the futureHenty, MargaretANU Archive Item Open Access APSR Image Workflow Final Report(Australia: Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)) Gutsche, TristanThe project was setup to develop a process for submission, sustainable storage, and reproduction, of image collections within the RIFF environment, which will provide the higher education community with greater resources and capabilities for the utilization of digital media. The project will address the issues of, mapping image collection metadata to the standard NLA METS profile, as well as and fundamental presentation functionality for user interaction with image collections. Initially image collections where to be referred to as “Image Albums”, however this was latter dropped by the NLA committee. To demonstrate the presentation of image collections, templates where developed in Manakin by ANU, and the iSpheres repository system developed a connector allowing access to Dspace objects and metadata via web services. By this means, objects from Dspace and other repositories, may be presented throguh custom web and desktop applications. The project was scheduled to be complete in 2007 and will be demonstrated at the Clever Collections conference in November.ANU Archive Item Open Access ANU Archive Item Open Access APSR Road Map 2007(Australia: Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)) Burton, AdrianThe purpose of this APSR Road Map 2007 (Preliminary Document) is to serve as a framework for more detailed planning. More comprehensive planning documents are envisaged for Q1 2007. The roadmap document has three parts: A. Looking Ahead B. Action C. Approaches It begins with a scan of the horizon to map the important landmark needs of the foreseeable future (A). This then leads to sketching out important areas of activity (B) and appropriate approaches (C) to best respond to those needs.