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Margaret Henty

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Judith Pearce, David Pearson, Megan Williams (National Library of Australia) and Scott Yeadon (APSR)

D-Lib Magazine

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Steven Hayes, University of Sydney

In 2007, the Fieldwork Project has concentrated on consolidating initial concepts into robust application code, with a secondary focus of demonstrating the application to broad range of
potentially interested parties. Field Helper now produces a METS package combined in a zip
archive with all files described in the project.

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Andrew Bennett, Christiaan Kortekaas, Lachlan Kuhn & Matthew Smith, University of Queensland

This report outlines the way in which Fez+Fedora has been developed to support the APSR RIFF Framework, by providing a standardised approach that any repository using Fez/Fedora may use to provide content stored therein in such a way that the APSR dissemination service can receive it and render it for the user. It does so by taking the objects themselves – the content and associated metadata and presenting them via a standard API (using XML notation) to the service.

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Ian Barnes (Australian National University)

This report outlines the work of phases 2 of the Digital Scholar's Workbench Project covering the development of software for automated conversion of from there into XHTML and PDF (viewing formats). It also includes details of a third phase, to develop the bridge between the Scholar’s Workbench and the APSR RIFF submission service.

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Laura Vallee, Australia Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

The Benchmark Statistics Service project (BEST) was designed to enhance the type and quality of statistical information about repository holdings and usage. It was recognised that defining universal standards and enforcing compliance were well beyond the scope of a short project. Instead, the BEST project considered existing standards and works in progress, and defined a minimum set of terms and conditions to guide the BEST aggregator service. Related documentation includes:

• BEST definition of terms – a working list defining the key terms used when discussing the data, reports and queries involved in the BEST project.
• Guiding Principles – a draft of the text that will be used as an agreement between institutions providing data to the aggregator service.
• Review of related projects – a review of previous activities and analysis of re-usable elements and potential for collaboration.
• BEST Event Interchange Model – the schema for the exchange of event information from repositories.
• BEST presentation outline

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Peter Raftos and Leo Monus (Australian National University)

This report outlines the development of a standardised object or template which any
dissemination mechanism could expect to receive when requesting content from
a repository. The aim here was to develop a cross-platform rendering template for use with any application. For our purposes, the tests were conducted against Fez+Fedora. The template implementation was to be open source, standards compliant (where appropriate) and lightweight.

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Peter Raftos and Scott Yeadon (Australian National University)

The RIFF Submission Service Project was designed to provide a means of exporting a standardised object and metadata package for all submission applications and to ingest it. In practice, this meant developing a service-oriented application providing a framework to support packaging and routing content and metadata from a source application to a target repository.

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Tristan Gutsche, University of Sydney.

This report provides details of the workflow required to enable submission, storage and reproduction of image collections within the APSR RIFF environment. This was done to provide the higher education community with greater resources and capabilities for the utilization of digital media.

To demonstrate the presentation of image collections, templates were developed in Manakin by the Australian National University, and the iSpheres repository system at the University of Sydney developed a connector allowing access to Dspace objects and metadata via web services.

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Gary Browne, University of Sydney

This report outlines the development of scholarly communication workflows integrating the OCS (Open Conference System) publication system with open repository platforms to provide archiving, OAIS compliant access, and online (or print hybrid) outputs that have capability of complying with
recognized DEST research publication criteria. This has been implemented using the NLA METS profile and the APSR RIFF environment.

Those involved in the Project included: Scott Yeadon and Leo Monus (Australian National University), Ross Coleman, Joshua Fry and Gary Browne (University of Sydney) and Bronwyn Lee and Megan Williams (National Library of Australia).

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Judith Pearce, David Pearson and Megan Williams (National Library of Australia) and Scott Yeadon (Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories)

This reports on the outcome of the APSR METS Profile Development Project which aimed to develop an open, extensible and standard way of packaging metadata for digital objects which could be relevant to both Australian and broader contexts and a generic, repository independent metadata submission and exchange profile for use among APSR repositories.

The basis for this project was the draft METS exchange profile developed by the National Library of Australia as part of the 2006 APSR-funded PRESTA project. The project undertook to test this profile against actual implementations and then to register it with the Library of Congress.

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Gary Browne, University of Sydney

This report outlines the development of a mechanism for exporting METS packages from Open Journal Systems (OJS) for submission into DSpace as a Submission Information Package (SIP), and subsequent publication of this information using Manakin.

Those involved with the Project were: Scott Yeadon and Leo Monus (Australian National University), Ross Coleman, Joshua Fry and Gary Browne (University of Sydney), Richard Buggy (University of Technology, Sydney), Bronwyn Lee and Megan Williams (National Library of Australia)

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David Pearson and Matthew Walker, National Library of Australia

Part II of the AONS Project was designed to provide an operational service. This report outlines the development of that service and gives details for potential users.

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James Blanden, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

The COSI-Framework is a PHP/PostgreSQL web application framework which has been designed
and built to provide shared and consistent functionality across the projects of the Australian
Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) Collection Services and Infrastructures (COSI)
initiatives of 2007.

This document describes the framework only. It does not describe the specifics of software that has
been built to utilise it.

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James Blanden, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

This is a series of four documents which together describe the technical aspects of the ORCA Collections Registry project. These comprise:

• ORCA Registry v1.0 Documentation (1MB)
• ORCA Registry v1.0 Implementation Notes (110KB)
• Database Schema v1.0 (369KB)
• ORCA xsd (289KB)

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Rowan Browlee and David Berriman

Discussion of digital sustainability mostly occurs within communities either aware of the issues or with access to specialist knowledge . APSR, through consultation with partners at the University of Sydney Library, identified the need for an information service to support people creating digital collections in an academic environment.

The Sustainability Guidelines for Australian Repositories service (SUGAR) was intended to support people working in tertiary education institutions whose activities do not focus on digital preservation.

A key challenge for SUGAR was to provide a suitable level and amount of information to meet the immediate focus of the user and their level of expertise while introducing and encouraging consideration of issues of digital sustainability. SUGAR was also intended to stand alone as an online service unsupported by a helpdesk.

available from the UNESCO Memory of the World website

Kevin Bradley, Junran Lei and Chris Blackall

Recommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System and on Related Software Development
This report was commissioned by UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and prepared with the support of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR).

Kevin Bradley, National Library of Australia, led the project, edited the report and is ultimately responsible for its content. Junran Lei undertook the research and Chris Blackall supported the development of the structure of the document and coordinated APSR’s work.

D-Lib Magazine, Volume 13 Number 5/6

Margaret Henty

This article presents an overview of the major issues identified by senior academic administrators and repository managers during interviews held in mid-2006 as part of the AIRS Project. It also looks at the history of repository development in Australian universities and the need for these to be seen as part of the overall university data management strategy at a time when the nature of research is changing in that it increasingly involves the use, generation, manipulation, sharing and analysis of digital resources. Issues identified included responsibility, funding, providing an appropriate policy framework at both national and local levels, community engagement, staff, technology and the regulatory environment.

The aims of the AIRS Project were to increase APSR's understanding of the requirements of institutional repositories, to assess their collective aspirations and to define the place of institutional repositories in the research information infrastructure.

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Linda Barwick, Tom Honeyman and Stephen Hayes, University of Sydney

The FIDAS team was led by Linda Barwick (PARADISEC, University of Sydney) and Ian Johnson (ACL, University of Sydney) with considerable input from Tom Honeyman (PARADISEC), Steven Hayes (ACL) and Kim Jackson (ACL).

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Belinda Weaver, The University of Queensland

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Markus Buchhorn and Paul McNamara, The Australian National University

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Anna Shadbolt, Dirk van der Kniff, Eve Young and Lyall Winton, The University of Melbourne

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Joseph Curtis, The Australian National University

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Bronwyn Lee, Gerard Clifton and Somaya Langley, National Library of Australia

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Ian Barnes, The Australian National University

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Ian Barnes, The Australian National University

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Kevin Bradley, National Library of Australia, and Margaret Henty, The Australian National University