Benefits and Outcomes

The outcomes of this project will provide a range of benefits for the industry partners, industry sector and broader Australian community.

• The project will make a significant contribution to the achievement of the goals of the industry partners in relation to promoting best practice in the management of government records, adequately documenting the activities of government to meet business needs, accountability requirements and community expectations, government information accessibility, assuring the quality of the archival heritage, and promoting standardised descriptive practice in the Australian recordkeeping and archiving community generally (as detailed in E5 above).
• It will contribute to reliable, trustworthy, accountable, and transparent eGovernment processes at national and state levels.
• It will support compliance with recordkeeping and resource discovery standards designed to ensure quality records and archives, accessibility of government information, and accountability of government.
• It will enable the better management and enhanced accessibility of Australia's archives which function as the collective memory of society.
• It will provide a model for new software and systems solutions to assist organizations in the public sector to comply with metadata standards in cost-effective ways that maximise corporate return on investment.
• Successful development of the prototype, implementation and supporting metatools in a public sector test-bed will encourage take-up of the model in the private sector.
• Given Australia's reputation for leading the way in the field of records management and recordkeeping metadata standards, the development of the prototype and implementation model will impact on the industry internationally, and on international research, particularly the related InterPARES research.
• Australian software and business system developers operating in the resource discovery, document management and records management industry sector will be able to draw on the outcomes of the research to better position themselves in the emerging international market in this field.
• The prototype, implementation model and metatools, including the working model of a metadata registry, will be transferable into other sectors and metadata communities.
• The project will advance understanding and methodologies in the IT and metadata communities in relation to user-centred rapid prototyping.
• The project will provide industry and consumer-oriented IT research training in the context of an innovative multidisciplinary study.

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