Australian Music Centre Wins Kinetica Innovation Award
The Australian Music Centre was given
the Kinetica Innovation Award at the Kinetica
Annual Users’ Meeting held in
The Australian Music Centre was established in 1974 to encourage the performance
and understanding of music by Australian composers throughout the world. It
has an extraordinarily rich collection: over 12 000 printed scores, 1800 sets
of performance parts of works by Australian composers, 1200 CDs, 3500 tapes,
130 LPs and a small collection of DATs. Much of the collection is unique unpublished
material which underpins music performance and research in
Mr John Arfield, Chair, Kinetica Advisory Committee presented the award noting:
‘This project represents a significant step forward in providing access to a
unique collection of national significance. The award recognises the important
use of innovative technology in improving access to resources in
John Davis, General Manager and Judith Foster, Music Resources Manager, Australian Music Centre, accepted the award and commented ‘The centre’s library catalogue will now be available online to Australian libraries through Kinetica for the very first time. The development was a highly cooperative one with significant technical work required, but the benefits in national access are enormous for our largely unique collection’.
Two highly commended applications were also received. The National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (NOHSC) has, through participation in the Commonwealth Metadata Project, successfully developed record harvesting for its online publications, at the same time ensuring their inclusion in the National Bibliographic Database. After harvesting these AGLS (a Dublin Core-based standard) records are converted through MODS to MARC and then resupplied to the NOHSC for inclusion in their library catalogue. This significantly improves resource discovery.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics Library
was also commended for its work with its own Publications Branch—to record URLS
for links to the main feature pages of all ABS publications. ABS Library has
worked with Kinetica on the development of record sets of titles in the AusStats
collection for supply to Australian libraries.
— Fran Wilson, Resource Sharing Division
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