1. OLIVER and iSpheres

3. OLIVER features  Automatic image resizing  Full text indexing  Customised metadata  Configurable authentication  Simple user interface  Quality control managed by indexing experts

6. APSR and SORRT  SORRT is a subproject of APSR  APSR = Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories  SORRT = Sustainable Object Repositories for Research and Teaching  The main partners in SORRT are the Library, Med Faculty, the SSIU, and PARADISEC

7. iSpheres  Emerged from Med Faculty’s and SSIU’s image repositories (OLIVER, ImageBank, ArchImage)  Development began in 2004, code released on sourceforge.net July 2005 (under Apache licence)

8. Features  Configurable metadata  Distributed  Data source Connectors, to allow plugging in to existing repositories  Object file types and transformations are plugins  SOAP interface for building specialised front-end interfaces, linking into existing tools (WebCT, etc) or protocol translators

9. iSpheres is middleware

10. Planned (or hoped-for) front ends  iSpheresImage (general purpose image repository)  WebCT  Resource Builder  Med Faculty CMS  PARADISEC  OAI harverster client  Desktop iSpheres