ARROW Progress Report to CAUL, April 2005

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ARROW Progress Report to CAUL,April 2005

• Cathrine Harboe-Ree
• ARROW Project Leader

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ARROW Project

• ARROW Consortium Partners
• Monash University (lead institution)
• University of New South Wales
• Swinburne University of Technology
• National Library of Australia
• FRODO projects funded by DEST
• Federated Repositories of Digital Objects
• ADT Australian Digital Theses
• APSR Australian Partnerships for Sustainable
  Repositories
• ARROW
• MAMS Meta Access Management System

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ARROW model
VITAL Access Portal
VITAL Fedora
Fedora
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ARROW software

• VITAL release 1.3
• Installed on test server
• Live 12 April (Monash, Swinburne, UNSW, NLA)
• Basic functionality
• Loading e-prints, e-theses, images
• OAI harvestable
• VITAL release 2.0
• Installed mid June
• Improved basic functionality
• Audio, video
• Test suitability for other institutions

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ARROW National Discovery Service NLA
http//search.arrow.edu.au/apps/ArrowUI/
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Research reporting

• Managing research publications for DEST reporting
• Integrating Research Master 4 with ARROW (Neil
  Dickson)
• Open source, for other applications
• Examining institutional workflow
• Demonstrator ready for 2006

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Electronic publishing

• OJS software at Swinburne
• 3 journals by mid-year
• Monitoring integration with Fedora
• UTS using this software

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ARROW and ADT

• UNSW exploring integration
• Data modelling completed (Katie Blake)
• ADT to harvest ARROW e-theses metadata

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Content development

• Monash
• 500 retrospectively digitised theses
• Mandating electronic submission 2005-
• 500 Business and Economics Faculty working
  papers
• Post-print papers through Research Master 4
• Gippsland Research Centre historic images
• ARROW and PictureAustralia
• Sound recordings PASH project
• National Library of Australia
• Repository to be established

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Partnerships

• Fedora Development Consortium
• Thomson Web Citation Index (also APSR)
• OCLC (metadata interoperability core)
• VTLS
• Research Master

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Further details at arrow.edu.au