www.monash.edu.au

Dr Andrew Treloar ARROW Technical Architect, DART Project Architect, ARCHER Director

ARROW, DART and ARCHER: a quiver of innovative repository

projects

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First some context

Grid

E-Scientists

Entire E-Science Cycle Encompassing experimentation, analysis, publication, research, learning

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Institutional Archive

Local WebPublisher

Holdings

Digital Library

E-Scientists Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Virtual Learning Environment

E-Experimentation

E-Scientists

Technical Reports

Reprints

Peer- Reviewed Journal & Conference Papers

Preprints & Metadata

Certified Experimental Results & Analyses

Data, Metadata & Ontologies

Source: Adapted from Liz Lyons, eBank UK Presentation

DARTDART

ARROWARROW

ARCHERARCHER

The ARROW project after 2 years

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First there was ARROW...

Australian Research Repositories Online to the Worldhttp://arrow.edu.au/

Three year project to develop and use institutional repository software to support information management for conventional research outputsConsortium of Monash, UNSW, Swinburne, NLASoftware development outsourced to VTLS Inc. (Blacksburg, VA)

mix of open and closed source development

16 of 40 Australian universities adopting thisARROW2 (2007-2008) is extending work of ARROW into

RQF supportPersistent Identifier and Linking Infrastructure (PILIN) identifier

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Then there was DART

DART is a proof-of-concept project funded (2006 – June 2007) by theDepartment of Education, Science and Training (DEST)to support collaborative research in Australia

http://dart.edu.au/DART stands for

DatasetAcquisitionAccessibilityAnnotatione-ResearchTechnologies

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DART VC Diagram

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and then there was ARCHER...

Australian ResearCH Enabling enviRonment

ARCHER is a new DEST funded project for 2007 that will take the proof-of-concept outcomes of DART, turn them into production-ready ARCHER software tools, and package them for deployment

These tools will be developed into modular middleware web services, customised to suit the needs of a number of designated National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (NCRIS) priority research capabilities

Working with bioinformatics, species distribution, characterisation, geochemistry

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ARCHERtecture

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So might this fit together?

• Here are some thoughts developed by ARROW staff and Data Management Steering Committee

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Repository Continuum Diagram

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Repository Continuum Dimensions