ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

ANDS BootcampAustralian National University

12 August 2010

People Australia program

• Based on the Australian Name Authority File• ~880,000 records• Public, Persistent Identifiers eg Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-

1895) 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, Queensland University of Technology.

• Coming soon: Virtual International Authority File (~10 million records)

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

Party Infrastructure wiki:https://wiki.nla.gov.au/display/ardcpip

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 Stage 2 with

recommendations from the Advisory group

Party Infrastructure Description:https://wiki.nla.gov.au/x/DAH8

ARDC Party Infrastructure Project

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

Infrastructure– Modify identity matching service to cater for party data

from the research sector– Enhance Party Administration Tool to enable repository

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

– Ingest data from small number of early implementers– Create technical documentation and guidelines

Party Infrastructure Overview

People Australia Record Format

• Encoded Archival Context (EAC)• Supports

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

EAC

Contributed Party

Records (Yellow)

NLA Identity

Record (Blue)

Test party 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)

• Queensland University of Technology, Monash University and Griffith University coming soon …

Party Administration Tool

• Release current tool for ANDS use (August 2010)• Release current tool for use by small number of early

implementers (planned for September/October 2010)• Release improved tool for sectoral use (2011)

Basil DewhurstProject Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project+61 2 6262 1046bdewhurs@nla.gov.auhttps://wiki.nla.gov.au/display/ardcpip