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People and Partners
People
Investigators:
Associate Professor Anne Gilliland-Swetland
Partners
National Archives of Australia
The National Archives will be integrally involved in the project, providing
expert staff to facilitate focus groups, contribute to the design of the
proof of concept prototype and its implementation in a test-bed site,
and provide vital links to the Government Online, metadata, software development,
and records communities. In particular, National Archives staff will contribute
their knowledge of relevant government metadata standards and government
business drivers to help maximise the practical relevance of the research
work. NAA will also convene the Advisory Committee, consisting of representatives
from government agencies, the software industry, the records and archives
profession, and metadata and standards setting communities.
State Records NSW
State Records NSW will contribute to the project by providing expert guidance
through participation in the Steering and Advisory Committees, and providing
research assistance in the form of helping with recruiting and facilitating
focus groups of users in NSW who will develop scenarios of metadata creation,
management and use to form the basis for prototyping and implementing
processes that enable the sharing of metadata across applications.
Australian Society of Archivists,
Descriptive Standards Committee
The ASA Descriptive Standards Committee will support the project by the
involvement of one of its members in the Steering and Advisory Committees.
It will provide expert advice to the Research Team. It will also facilitate
the distribution and dissemination of research findings to national and
international descriptive standards bodies.
Collaboration and Long-Term Alliances
The proposed project is a continuation of long standing collaboration
between the National Archives (NAA), the State Records Authority of New
South Wales (SRA NSW), the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), and
Monash University, particularly in the area of identifying and standardising
metadata requirements for recordkeeping, a research partnership which
was strengthened and extended by involvement in the 1998-99 SPIRT Project
which developed the Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema. This Linkage
project will further strengthen and extend research collaboration between
the industry and higher education sectors, a collaboration which has already
led to Australian recordkeeping research and development being recognised
as of world-leading significance in efforts to devise durable recordkeeping
strategies that meet the challenges of the digital age. This particular
project grew from a Research Forum involving NAA, SRA NSW, ASA Descriptive
Standards Committee and other industry stakeholders. The objective of
the meeting was to identify areas for metadata research and development
which would meet high priority industry sector needs.
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