ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 67 | February 2004
ARROW Project: Australian Research Repositories Online to the World
The National Library is a partner in the ARROW project (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World) which received funding in the latest round of grants from the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training. A public description of the project, and links to further information, is now available at http://eprint.monash.edu.au/archive/00000046/
The ARROW project will identify and test a software solution or solutions to support best practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-prints, digital theses and electronic publishing. A wide range of digital content types will be managed in these repositories. The National Library of Australia will develop a repository and associated metadata to support independent scholars (those not associated with institutions). A complementary activity of ARROW is the development and testing of national resource discovery services (developed by the National Library) using metadata harvested from the institutional repositories, and the exposing of metadata to provide services via protocols and toolkits. This will include a potential path for the redevelopment of the Australian Digital Theses Program metadata repository incorporated into the National Librarys national resource discovery services. Initially ARROW will be tested in four consortium partner institutions, prior to its being offered more widely across the higher-education sector. The solution will be open-standards based, or will support open standards, and will facilitate interoperability within and between participating institutions. (summary from http://eprint.monash.edu.au/archive/00000046/01/ARROW_Public_Final_v1.3.pdf )
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