1. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project ANDS Bootcamp Australian National University 12 August 2010

2. People Australia program Based on the Australian Name Authority File ~880,000 records Public, Persistent Identifiers eg Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825- 1895) http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-869246.http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-869246 10 contributors including: Encyclopaedia of Australian Science, Australian Parliamentary Library, Australian Women’s Register, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Queensland University of Technology. Coming soon: Virtual International Authority File (~10 million records)

3. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project Objective: – Improve discovery of research outputs and data – Persistently identify researchers and research organisations using public identifiers – Improve management of public researcher identity in the research sector Party Infrastructure wiki: https://wiki.nla.gov.au/display/ardcpip

4. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project Stage 1: – Define research sector requirements for the Party Infrastructure – Enable exchange of RIF-CS party records with ANDS – End of phase report and options for delivering Stage 2 with recommendations from the Advisory group Party Infrastructure Description: https://wiki.nla.gov.au/x/DAH8

5. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project Stage 2: – Adapt People Australia infrastructure to create ARDC Party Infrastructure – Modify identity matching service to cater for party data from the research sector – Enhance Party Administration Tool to enable repository and data managers to manage the party data they contribute and to obtain assigned identifiers – Ingest data from small number of early implementers – Create technical documentation and guidelines

6. Party Infrastructure Overview

7. People Australia Record Format Encoded Archival Context (EAC) Supports – Names – Rich descriptive information – Related parties – Related resource (by and about) – Functions/Activities

8. EAC Contributed Party Records (Yellow) NLA Identity Record (Blue)

15. Test party data Encyclopaedia of Australian Science (researchers and research organisations) Geoscience Australian Atlas of Mines, Ports and Mineral processing centres (government data with geospatial coordinates) https://services.ands.org.au/sandbox/orca/search.php (select National Library of Australia) https://services.ands.org.au/sandbox/orca/search.php Queensland University of Technology, Monash University and Griffith University coming soon …

16. Party Administration Tool Release current tool for ANDS use (August 2010) Release current tool for use by small number of early implementers (planned for September/October 2010) Release improved tool for sectoral use (2011)

17. Basil Dewhurst Project Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project +61 2 6262 1046 bdewhurs@nla.gov.au https://wiki.nla.gov.au/display/ardcpip