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The Metadata Coal Face for Digital Repositories

Australian Partnership forSustainable Repositories (APSR)

Adrian Burton, Chris Blackall* & Scott Yeadon

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• Digital Curation and Preservation

• Repository Interoperability

• Collection/Services Registry

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The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council

(PMSEIC)

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FOR SALE

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Working Group on Data for Science (2006)

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Working Group on Data for Science (2006)

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HIGH PERFORMANCE/GRID COMPUTING

POLICY

INSTITUTIONALREPOSITORIES

E-LEARNING

<2000 >2007 >2008-12>2002

Platforms for Collaboration (PfC) ~75m

Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council (AeRIC)

ASHER

~25m

Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII)

Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII): e.g. AREN ~83m

Australian Research InformationInfrastructure Committee (ARIIC)

Carrick Institute

National Computing Infrastructure (NCI)Interoperation and Collaboration Infrastructure (ICI)

National eResearch Architecture Taskforce (NEAT)

Australian National Data Service (ANDS)

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National Computing Infrastructure (NCI)

Interoperation and Collaboration Infrastructure (ICI)

National eResearch Architecture Taskforce

Australian National Data Service (ANDS)

Contexts

HPC/Mass data facilities

Grid Computing/Middleware

Data Stewardship and Curation

Infrastructure Projects

UTILITIES PROGRAM

REPOSITORIES PROGRAM

FRAMEWORKS PROGRAM

RESEARCHER PRACTICES

✔✔

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ANDS Utilities Program

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Expertise & Advice

Persistent

IdentifierServices

AccessRegistry

Authorisa-tion

Fabric

Federation

Registry

Aggregated StatsService

Quality Assuranc

eService

REPOSITORIES, DATA CENTERS, ARCHIVESREPOSITORIES, DATA CENTERS, ARCHIVES

Item-level

Discovery

Collection-level

Discovery

Discovery Portal

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The Australian Data Commons

Towards the Australian Data Commons, ANDS Technical Working Group, October 2007

www.apsr.edu.au

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The Australian Data Commons

Towards the Australian Data Commons, ANDS Technical Working Group, October 2007

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Repository specifications/standards

• File/object standards– file formats– XML data & applications

• Item-level Metadata for– Discovery– Management/Preservation– Structure

• Collection-level Metadata– e.g. Dublin Core Collection

Application Profile

• Community-level specifications & standards– e.g. Australian METS Profile

www.apsr.edu.au

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OAIS Reference Model

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OAIS Detail

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ISO2146 Registry Services for Libraries and Related Organisations

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Online Research Collections Australia (ORCA) Registry

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ORCASchemaXML

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