VALA2000 Session 10 Berthon

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The moving frontier: archiving, preservation and tomorrow’s digital heritage

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Archiving
Friday 18 February 2000, 10:45 – 11:15

Hilary Berthon

Manager, National & International Preservation Activities, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Colin Webb

Director, Preservation Services Branch, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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Digital publications are a significant part of tomorrow’s heritage of digital information. However, there is a growing understanding that tomorrow’s digital heritage will simply not be available without concerted action. This paper reviews international progress in digital archiving and preservation over the past one to two years. In that time, we have seen some developments in international collaboration, many archiving models being tested, active work on a range of facilitating issues, and an ongoing debate over the most appropriate long-term preservation strategies. However, a number of problematical issues remain. A most encouraging trend is the ongoing commitment to sharing information. The National Library of Australia’s PADI website has been re-developed as an international digital preservation forum, charting progress in finding workable solutions that can be applied by Australian libraries.

VALA2000 Session 10 Gibbs

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Electronic Records – Problem Solved?: the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy and the future of electronic record keeping in Victoria

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Archiving
Friday 18 February 2000, 11:20 – 12:50

Ross Gibbs

Director Public Record Office Victoria
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au

Justine Heazlewood

Business Development Manager, Victorian Electronic Records Strategy, Public Record Office Victoria
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au

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In 1998 Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) initiated a project to examine the capture and long term preservation of the electronic records of the Victorian Government. The project team built a system which successfully demonstrated that it is possible to capture electronic records with existing technology and from existing systems in such a way that electronic records can be preserved in the long term. Further work was begun in 1999 in the Victorian Department of Infrastructure where a project to implement a Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) compliant system is now well underway. In addition this year the PROV will release an electronic record keeping standard which will apply to all Victorian government agencies. These initiatives will change the way the corporate memory of Victoria and will enable future generations to access their history.

VALA2000 Session 10 McKnight

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Creating an Electronic Research Archive – Turning a Good Idea into a Reality

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Archiving
Friday 18 February 2000, 11:55 – 12:30

Sue McKnight

University Librarian and Senior Associate assisting the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/library

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The development of digital archiving technology has opened up many possibilities for enriching the research environment, by making available on the WWW resources that were previously available to only those who could physically access known collections or documents. This paper outlines the political, legal and technological hurdles that have to be overcome to make a virtual research archive a reality. In describing the development of the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library, which will be a physical and virtual research archive, the complex issues of gaining support for major projects, developing the business plan and identifying what will be included in the library and related projects, copyright issues, and identifying and developing strategic partnerships with owners of physical items and similar research archives will be explored. Descriptions of the major projects, for which the Library is seeking funds, are included.

VALA2000 Session 11 Campbell

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Australian subject gateways – metadata as an agent of change

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Metadata
Friday 18 February 2000, 10:45 – 11:15

Debbie Campbell

Manager, Infrastructure Projects National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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Although the concept of a subject gateway has only risen to prominence in Australia during the last two years, several university library consortia and other education- based initiatives, including EdNA Online and the Australian Digital Theses Project, have already been successful in achieving collaborative approaches for the delivery of national access to electronic resources. The critical success factors realised, including the deployment of metadata and the community approaches to problem solving, mean that Australia is positioned to participate in new initiatives exploring service provision in a national infrastructure for integrated research and information access.

VALA2000 Session 11 Talmacs

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Metadata in the University Environment

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Metadata
Friday 18 February 2000, 11:20 – 12:50

Kerrie Talmacs

Metadata Co-ordinator, University of New South Wales Library
http://www.library.unsw.edu.au

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Universities need to consider metadata as a means of managing and providing access to information resources. A considerable commitment is required to assess standards; train staff and utilise metadata appropriately. The University of New South Wales Library has made a start and has embedded metadata in Library Web pages, created metadata for subject gateways – MetaChem and AVEL, and is generating metadata for the Australian Digital Theses Project.

VALA2000 Session 11 Sokvitne

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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Current Dublin Core Metadata for Retrieval

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Metadata
Friday 18 February 2000, 11:55 – 12:30

Lloyd Sokvitne

Manager (Information Systems Development) State Library of Tasmania
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au

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Presents the results of a study into the effectiveness of Dublin Core metadata for retrieval. The metadata from twenty Australian government and educational organisations was analysed. The metadata was assessed for its capacity to facilitate title, creator/publisher, and subject access. From the results, it emerged that title metadata added little value, that creator/publisher access was flawed by inconsistent name formats, and that the subject terms used were too broad to produce increased precision and decreased recall. Specific suggestions are made as to how metadata creation in these three areas can be improved, and the relationship of Dublin Core to information foraging theory is explored.

VALA2000 Session 12 Nevile

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On the web, universal content accessibility is not just browser compatibility.

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Accessibility
Friday 18 February 2000, 10:45 – 11:15

Liddy Nevile

Principal Researcher MelbourneIT
http://www.melbourneit.com.au

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The web content accessibility guidelines developed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), make clear that web accessibility is a matter of choice for publishers. Following the guidelines it is technically possible to produce exciting, accessible content including content that contains multimedia objects of many kinds. Understanding what is accessible and what is required to make content accessible is another matter. In this paper, a theoretical framework for user equivalence when working on accessibility is proposed and the wide-spread benefits of complying with guidelines are exposed. The disadvantages to many that result from failure to satisfy the guidelines are exemplified. Finally, a practical approach to accessible web development is proposed and resources for ensuring content accessibility are identified.

VALA2000 Session 12 Wallis

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Use of information technology for direct service provision to people with print disabilities.

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Accessibility
Friday 18 February 2000, 11:20 – 11:50

Leslie Wallis

Manager, Information Techonology, RVIB
http://www.rvib.org.au

Jillian Morley

Deputy Manager, RVIB Library and Information Services
http://www.rvib.org.au

Linley Wallis

General Manager, RVIB Library and Information Services
http://www.rvib.org.au

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RVIB Library and Information Services provide a range of services to people with print disabilities throughout Australia. Staff at RVIB are constantly researching and developing products which can provide users with improved and independent access to information. This paper discusses two initiatives which RVIB hopes will help revolutionize the way people with print disabilities access information. These initiatives are

giving users the ability to order books while searching the library’s OPAC remotely and at the same time sample and access full text files of audio, braille and text formatted for large print and,
the convergence of text, braille and audio files in one format or medium. The DAISY project – (Digitized Audio-Based Information System) integrates digital audio and text files on CD-ROM.

VALA2000 Session 12 Hyland

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TransAct: technology and the community

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Accessibility
Friday 18 February 2000, 11:55 – 12:30

Margaret Hyland

Manager, Information and Lending Services ACT Library and Information Services
http://www.library.act.gov.au

Dr. Patricia Milne

Program Director, Library and Information Studies Program, University of Canberra
http://www.canberra.edu.au

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This broadband project, the TransAct Trial, was the concept of the ACT Electricity and Water Authority Corporation (ACTEW). As a result of this trial, the ACT Department of Urban Services, the ACT Public Library and Information Service (ACTLIS) – that is one of the Department’s Agencies – and the University of Canberra, have been closely involved in the development of a number of related Internet sites, including an interactive site developed by youth in Aranda. The TransAct Trial has enabled ACTLIS to test new technologies for delivering information services and to explore different ways of working with sectors of the ACT community. Models have been established for ongoing links with education and with youth which can be applied to other community agencies and organisations. Outcomes for ACTLIS have been a cohesive website (which now requires redevelopment) and the need to develop marketing strategies to ensure that electronic services offered by ACTLIS are utilised to the maximum.

VALA2000 Session 13 Bundy

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Establishing guidelines for the effective evaluation of web-based periodical bibliographic and full-text databases search interfaces.

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Future Directions
Friday 18 February 2000, 14:0o – 14:30

Alan Bundy

University Librarian and Director Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library University of South Australia
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au

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The main issue of the so called information age is still being given scant systematic attention. Even if they recognise their need for information, people often lack the understandings and skills to identify, locate, access, evaluate and then apply the needed information. Librarianship is the only profession which is really alert to this issue but has itself allowed a preoccupation with technology to obscure its response to human need , as well as to its primary responsibility for the record of civilisation. All librarians in the 21st century will need to promote the fact that it is good libraries and information literacy, not just information technology, which largely determine who are the information rich and information poor. They will also need to reintermediate through balanced use of analog and digital resources; challenge those who peddle technology as the panacea for the world’s educational, economic and societal needs; assert their values and insights; and review constantly how technology in libraries is affecting their users, and the paper records of civilisation, most of which will never be digitised and with which libraries will remain entrusted.