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          DA2: Improve repository deposits by improving discoverability

          This draft of the final report is now open for comment. Please forward any comment to the author listed in the report by 28 June 2007. Please note that this report is subject to change and you should not quote this report until it is finalised. DA2 Report for review [PDF 56Kb]. 

          Overview

          The end point of the DART e-research lifecycle model is for the various DART outputs (datasets, publications, annotations) to be discoverable. The intention of this work package was to enable public discovery of available communication units through working integration of DART repositories, and other dataset repository with the existing National Research Discovery Service hosted by NLA at ARROW  and other discipline-based discovery services as appropriate.

          In fact, the work package ended up concentrating on the need to enable metadata harvesting from the annotation server that DART was enhancing, and was not able to move to testing of harvesting across multiple repositories. This will be an easy piece of future work as the necessary protocol support has now been put in place.

          The National Research Discovery Service is also likely to be enhanced as part of the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) component of the Platforms for Collaboration (PfC) capability within the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). For further details see http://www.ncris.dest.gov.au/capabilities/collaborative_investment_plan_platforms.htm.