Tag Archives: Repositories

VALA2008 Session 5 Jilovsky

VALA2008Changing library spaces: finding a place for print

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Library Spaces
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 15:10 – 15:40
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-5-jilovsky

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperCathie Jilovsky

Information Services Manager, CAVAL Collaborative Solutions
http://www.caval.edu.au

Paul Genoni

Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University of Technology
http://www.curtin.edu.au

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Abstract

This paper considers the storage options for print collections in a digital environment. Recent changes to library space use in particular are reducing the space available for print storage and forcing libraries to look to other solutions, including print repositories. Repositories potentially produce benefits to the networks of libraries they serve; to individual libraries within the network, and to the communities of researchers that using those libraries. The paper emphasises the Australian situation, and the discussion encompasses the policy developments that are necessary to optimise the benefits of a fully implemented national print repository for Australia.

 

VALA2008 Session 3 Kingsley

VALA2008Repositories, research and reporting: the conflict between institutional and disciplinary needs

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Repositories
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 11:55 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-3-kingsley

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperDanny Kingsley

PhD Scholar, Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
http://www.anu.edu.au

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In Australia, research reporting is considered a way to increase awareness of and support for opening up accessibility to research outputs. This paper explores the fundamental differences between disciplines, which extend beyond publishing outputs. Most crucially, the information-seeking behaviour of a disciplinary cohort will determine the likelihood of individuals voluntarily embracing repositories. The RQF is likely to fail to open access to Australian research. There is an inherent conflict between the needs of the institution and those of academics’ ‘invisible colleges’, as institutional repositories exist to serve the institution and funding bodies, rather than the individual.

 

VALA2008 Session 3 Groenewegen

VALA2008Building the ARROW community

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Repositories
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 11:20 – 11:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-3-groenewegen

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperDavid Groenewegen

ARROW Project Manager and ARCHER Project Director
http://lib.monash.edu.au

Andrew Treloar

Director, Australian National Data Service Establishment Project
http://its.monash.edu.au

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The ARROW Project is a DEST-funded consortial effort to develop and implement intuitional repository software, and has co-developed the VITAL software with VTLS Inc. The project team has been building a community of users of this software, through the use of existing free or open source products. This paper will discuss the specific objectives of building this community, the history of our use of the various available tools, an assessment of their effectiveness and their limitations, and how we plan to move forward.

VALA2008 Session 3 Henty

VALA2008Looking forward by looking back: APSR’s contribution to future repository planning in Australia

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Repositories
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 10:45 – 11:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-3-henty

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperMargaret Henty

Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
http://www.apsr.edu.au

Adrian Burton

Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
http://www.apsr.edu.au

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Abstract

The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) was established in 2004 with a grant from the Systemic Information Infrastructure (SII) from the Department of Employment, Science and Training (DEST). It was one of a number of projects to benefit from official recognition of the importance of digital sustainability and the need for development of institutional repositories in Australian universities and other organisations. In four years, APSR has contributed significantly to the management of digital information in Australia, through both its development portfolio and its extensive range of outreach activities. There have been benefits to the partners and to the sector as a whole. The work undertaken and the lessons learnt provide useful information for future planning in a field which continues to expand and develop.

VALA2006 Plenary 3 Balakrishnan

VALA2006 Keynote SpeakerUniversal Digital Library – connecting users to digital contents

Narayanaswamy BalakrishnanVALA 2008 PLENARY 3: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Thursday 9 February 2006, 09:00 – 10:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-plenary-3-balakrishnan

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science
http://www.iisc.ernet.in

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The Universal Digital Library epitomises international collaboration with partners from USA, China, Egypt and Australia spanning academia, Government and religious institutions as stakeholders. Nearly 600,000 books have been scanned so far and most of them are available for free browsing.

Discuss the Indian Language Technology Research that was stimulated by the vast information base made available by the UDL project. The efforts to connect the users to content using mobile vans, Internet based dissemination and the personalised Digital collections are compared. The talk concludes with the discussion on the issue of copyright and presents a novel idea of a “Consortium for Compensating for Creating Contents” – the FourCs.

 

VALA2006 Plenary 2 Payette

VALA2006 Keynote SpeakerChoosing technology that can evolve with user needs: a service-oriented approach to e-research, e-scholarship and advanced scholarly publication

Sandy PayetteVALA 2008 PLENARY 2: Sandy Payette
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 16:10 – 17:25
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-plenary-2-payette

Sandy Payette

Researcher and Co-Director of the Fedora Project, Cornell Information Science, Cornell University, USA
http://www.infosci.cornell.edu and http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette

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Emerging trends in the processes of scholarly research and scholarly communication present significant challenges to libraries and other information-oriented institutions in terms of choosing technologies that best position for the future. The challenge of “connecting with users” has typically been associated with the most visible layer of an information system: the user interface itself. At the same time, it is essential that we understand how the choice of technologies that lie beneath this visible layer will reverberate throughout a system, ultimately enabling or disabling users in their creation, manipulation, and use of information resources. This is especially true over time as user needs change, and information must be re-used and repurposed for new or evolving contexts. The significance of service-oriented architectures, with Fedora as an example, is discussed in the context of meeting user requirements in the areas of institutional repositories, scholarly publication, e-research, and e-scholarship applications.

 

VALA2006 Session 2 Borchert

VALA2006Changing user behaviour using a digital repository system

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Digital Repositories
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 11:55 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-2-borchert

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperMartin Borchert

Associate Director, Access Services, Information Services, Griffith University
http://www.griffith.edu.au

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Griffith University is developing a digital repository system using HarvestRoad Hive software to better meet the needs of academics and students using institutional learning and teaching, course readings, and institutional intellectual capital systems. Issues with current operations and systems are discussed in terms of user behaviour. New repository systems are being designed in such a way that they address current service and user behaviour issues by closely aligning systems with user needs. By developing attractive online services, Griffith is working to change current user behaviour to achieve strategic priorities in the sharing and reuse of learning objects, improved selection and use of digitised course readings, the development of ePrint and eScience services, and the management of a research portfolio service.

 

VALA2006 Session 2 Woodland

VALA2006“Too many systems, too little time”: integrating an eprint repository into a University publications system

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Digital Repositories
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 11:20 – 11:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-2-woodland

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperJulie Woodland

Senior Librarian, Library and Information Service, Curtin University of Technology
http://library.curtin.edu.au

Joanne Ng

Client Facilitator, Library and Information Service, Curtin University of Technology
http://library.curtin.edu.au

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This paper discusses the analysis, design and implementation of an integrator system to share data between an institutional eprint repository (IR) and a University publications management system. The process of building IR functionality into the University system is described in the context of user demands to reduce data input to multiple systems, and the Library’s desire to increase the uptake and usability of its own eprint system.

 

VALA2006 Session 2 Hunter

VALA2006Scientific models – a user-oriented approach to the integration of scientific data and digital libraries

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Digital Repositories
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 10:45 – 11:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-2-hunter

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperJane Hunter

Professorial Research Fellow, Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), University of Queensland
Note: as of 30 June 2006 the DSTC is defunct.

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Many scientific communities are struggling with the challenge of how to manage the terabytes of data they are producing, often on a daily basis. Scientific models are the primary method for representing and encapsulating expert knowledge in many disciplines. Scientific models could also provide a mechanism: for publishing and sharing scientific results; for teaching complex scientific concepts; and for the selective archival, curation and preservation of scientific data. As such, they also provide a bridge for collaboration between Digital Libraries and eScience. In this paper I describe research being undertaken within the FUSION project at the University of Queensland to enable scientists to construct, publish and manage scientific model packages that encapsulate and relate the raw data to its’ associated contextual and provenance metadata, processing steps, derived information and publications. This work involves extending tools and services that have come out of the Digital Libraries domain to support e-Science requirements.