ARROW Progress Report to CAUL, April 2005 Cathrine Harboe-Ree ARROW Project Leader

2 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

3 ARROW model Fedora VITAL & Fedora VITAL Access Portal

4 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

5 ARROW National Discovery Service : NLA

6 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

7 Electronic publishing  OJS software at Swinburne  3 journals by mid-year  Monitoring integration with Fedora  UTS using this software

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

9 Content development Monash  500+ retrospectively digitised theses  Mandating electronic submission  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

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

Further details at: arrow.edu.au