The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

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The Australian Partnership for Sustainable
Repositories

• APSR JISC Roundtable
• March 1st 2006
• Graneek Room, ANU.

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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
Supported by
An Innovative Action Plan for the Future The
Systemic Infrastructure Initiative
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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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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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6 APSR Programs

• Digital Sustainability (NLA)
• Distributed Repositories Testbed (USyd)
• Standards-based Repository Testbed (ANU)
• Accessible Integrated Repository Testbed (UQ)
• eResearch Sustainability (APAC)
• National Outreach Services

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National Outreach
Digital Sustainability
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Standards-Based Repositories Program(ANU)

• DSpace Committers Group
• Integration of repository with systems work
  patterns
• Cocoon publishing framework
• Journal Publishing
• Academic Authoring

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Integrated Accessible Repositories Program(UQ)

• OKI Discovery Portal
• Fez Repository Management Software

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Distributed Repositories Program(USyd)

• iSpheres repository middleware
• Sustainability Guidelines Checklist
• Sustainable Fieldwork Data

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eResearch Sustainbility(APAC)

• eResearch Sustainability Survey
• Infrastructure for Digital Collections

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Digital Sustainbility(NLA)

• Digital Collections Risk Analysis Survey
• Preservation Metadata Requirements
• Automated Obsolescence Notification
• Online Digital Risk Analysis Tool

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National Outreach(Whole of APSR)

• Workshop Series
• Public Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials
• Open Repositories 2006
• Web Site
• White Paper Series
• Newsletter

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Contacts

• Web site www.apsr.edu.au
• Email Listmailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/ap
  sr_announcements
• Blog www.apsr.edu.au/blog
• Newsletter

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APSR JISC Commonalities

• Repository Programme
• Digital Preservation Programme
• VRE Programme
• Frameworks Programme

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Repository Programme

• Repository Statistics
• UQ, ANU statistics modules
• JISCs Interoperable Repository Statistics
  Project (Les Carr)
• Repository Interoperability
• USyd-ANU-UQ (FieldHelper)
• JISCs Repository Bridge Project
• RAE-RQF
• APSRs RQF initiative
• JISCs Institutional Repositories and RAE
• Ingest
• JISCs Repomann and APSRs AONS FieldHelper

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Digital Preservation Programme

• Digital Preservation
• APSRs Digital Sustainability Program (National
  Library of Australia)
• JISC UKOLN, DCC
• Links
• APSR-DCC Roundtable
• AONS Project

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VRE Programme

• VRE Repository Integration
• ANU DSpace and Sakai Integration
• JISC Integrating VRE Digital Libraries
• Contacted Maia Dimitrova, John Norman, Clare
  Llewllyn
• Coming Chuck Severance

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Frameworks Programme?

• APSR/ APAC survey of eResearch Sustainability
• Repository business model definitions