Building the digital library: The role of digital repositories

9:00am-4:30pm Friday 8 October 2004, Room V714, QUT Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane

Digital repository software can be applied to a wide range of applications such as eprint institutional research repositories, e-science data repositories, specialised digital library collections, and the storage of teaching and learning objects.

This seminar aims to cover a broad cross-section of digital repository products, and applications from across the converging digital library, teaching and learning, and content management system sectors. Various institutional case studies will illustrate the diversity in the application of digital repositories.

To explore this forthcoming technological convergence, and the range of functionality and integration features available, representative vendors from each sector will demonstrate their products. A variety of high- and low-cost solutions will be demonstrated.

Keynote speaker

Repositories of digital objects: Choices and challenges
Geoff Payne ARROW project manager (Monash University)

Presentations

E-prints at QUT - and a look at the e-print landscape
Paula Callan E-print archive project officer, Queensland University of Technology

Critical issues in digital repositories
Martin Borchert Manager, Access Services, Griffith University

Repositories@State Library of Queensland
Anna Raunik Executive manager, Resource Discovery, State Library of Queensland

Implementing HarvestRoad's Hive® System at Griffith University: Practice Validates Theory
Joanna Richardson Digital repository administrator, Access Services, Griffith University

The Open Archives Initiative in practice: eScholarship@UQ
Chris Taylor, Executive manager, Information Access Service, University of Queensland

The hybrid library challenge : Providing seamless access to physical and digital collections
Monica Berko Director, IT applications, National Library of Australia

Vendors

The following vendors of digital repository products presented and demonstrated at the seminar:

• Endeavor Information Systems (ENCompass for Digital Collections) presenter Caroline Beatty
• The Learning Edge presenter Chris Jones
• Concord Australia (Concord Masterfile™) presenter Colin Bell
• Interwoven presenter Richard Marr
• DA Information Services-OCLC (OCLC ContentDM) presenter Lian Todd
• Blackboard Australia (Blackboard Content System®) presenter Bob Cupitt
• HarvestRoad(HarvestRoad Hive®) presenter Peter Lowe