ardc party infrastructure project names roundtable national library of australia 18 june 2010
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People Australia Record Format Encoded Archival Context (EAC) Supports – Names – Rich descriptive information – Related parties – Related resource (by and about) – Functions/ActivitiesTRANSCRIPT
ARDC Party Infrastructure Project
Names RoundtableNational Library of Australia
18 June 2010
People Australia program• Based on the Australian Name Authority File• ~880,000 records• Public, Persistent Identifiers (eg http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-
869246)• 10 contributors including: Encyclopaedia of Australian
Science, Australian Parliamentary Library, Australian Women’s Register, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
• Coming soon: Virtual International Authority File (~12 million records)
People Australia Record Format• Encoded Archival Context (EAC)• Supports
– Names – Rich descriptive information– Related parties– Related resource (by and about) – Functions/Activities
EAC
Harvested Party Records (Yellow)
NLA Party Record (Blue)
ARDC Party Infrastructure Project
• Objective: – Improve discovery of research outputs and data– Persistently identify researchers and research
organisations using public identifiers– Improve management of public researcher
identity in the research sector– Enable distributed authority control
ARDC Party Infrastructure Project
• Stage 1:– Define research sector requirements for the Party
Infrastructure– Enable exchange of RIF-CS party records with ANDS– End of phase report and options for delivering Phase 2
with recommendations from the Advisory group
ARDC Party Infrastructure Project
• Stage 2:– Adapt People Australia infrastructure to create ARDC Party
Infrastructure– Modifications to identity matching service to cater for
party data from the research sector– Changes Data Administration module to enables
repository and data managers to manage the party data they contribute and to obtain assigned identifiers
– Technical documentation and administrator's guide created
Party Infrastructure Overview
Test data• Encyclopaedia of Australian Science (researchers and
research organisations)• Geoscience Australian Atlas of Mines, Ports and Mineral
processing centres (government data with geospatial coordinates)
• https://services.ands.org.au/sandbox/orca/search.php (select National Library of Australia)
Issues• Data quality• Privacy concerns and publicly available data• Resourcing contribution and matching of names• Training
Basil DewhurstProject Manager, ARDC party Infrastructure Project+61 2 6262 [email protected]