1. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project Names Roundtable National Library of Australia 18 June 2010

2. People Australia program Based on the Australian Name Authority File ~880,000 records Public, Persistent Identifiers (eg 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 Coming soon: Virtual International Authority File (~12 million records)

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

4. EAC Harvested Party Records (Yellow) NLA Party Record (Blue)

5. 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 – Enable distributed authority control

6. 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 Phase 2 with recommendations from the Advisory group

7. ARDC Party Infrastructure Project Stage 2: – Adapt People Australia infrastructure to create ARDC Party Infrastructure – Modifications to identity matching service to cater for party data from the research sector – Changes Data Administration module to enables repository and data managers to manage the party data they contribute and to obtain assigned identifiers – Technical documentation and administrator's guide created

8. Party Infrastructure Overview

15. Test 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

16. Issues Data quality Privacy concerns and publicly available data Resourcing contribution and matching of names Training

17. Basil Dewhurst Project Manager, ARDC party Infrastructure Project +61 2 6262 1046 bdewhurs@nla.gov.au