ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

Names RoundtableNational Library of Australia

18 June 2010

People Australia program• Based on the Australian Name Authority File• ~880,000 records• Public, Persistent Identifiers (eg http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-

869246)• 10 contributors including: Encyclopaedia of Australian

Science, Australian Parliamentary Library, Australian Women’s Register, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

• Coming soon: Virtual International Authority File (~12 million records)

People Australia Record Format• Encoded Archival Context (EAC)• Supports

– Names – Rich descriptive information– Related parties– Related resource (by and about) – Functions/Activities

EAC

Harvested Party Records (Yellow)

NLA Party Record (Blue)

ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

• Objective: – Improve discovery of research outputs and data– Persistently identify researchers and research

organisations using public identifiers– Improve management of public researcher

identity in the research sector– Enable distributed authority control

ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

• Stage 1:– Define research sector requirements for the Party

Infrastructure– Enable exchange of RIF-CS party records with ANDS– End of phase report and options for delivering Phase 2

with recommendations from the Advisory group

ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

• Stage 2:– Adapt People Australia infrastructure to create ARDC Party

Infrastructure– Modifications to identity matching service to cater for

party data from the research sector– Changes Data Administration module to enables

repository and data managers to manage the party data they contribute and to obtain assigned identifiers

– Technical documentation and administrator's guide created

Party Infrastructure Overview

Test data• Encyclopaedia of Australian Science (researchers and

research organisations)• Geoscience Australian Atlas of Mines, Ports and Mineral

processing centres (government data with geospatial coordinates)

• https://services.ands.org.au/sandbox/orca/search.php (select National Library of Australia)

Issues• Data quality• Privacy concerns and publicly available data• Resourcing contribution and matching of names• Training

Basil DewhurstProject Manager, ARDC party Infrastructure Project+61 2 6262 1046bdewhurs@nla.gov.au