[okfn-discuss] ARCHER project

Tue Dec 23 11:42:50 UTC 2008

*Apologies for cross posting*

Thought this might be of interest to you all- taken from the JISC
Repositories list.

Non

The ARCHER Project (http://archer.edu.au <http://archer.edu.au/> ), a
collaboration between Monash University, James Cook University and the
University of Queensland, wishes to announce that software developed by
the project is available for download.

Using funding provided by Australian Commonwealth Department of
Education, Science and Training via the Research Information
Infrastructure Framework for Australian Higher Education, this
Australian higher education initiative has developed software tools to
assist researchers to:

- collect, capture and retain large data sets from a range of different
sources including scientific instruments

- deposit data files and data sets to eResearch storage repositories

- populate these eResearch data repositories with associated metadata

- permit data set annotation and discussion in a collaborative
environment, and

- support next-generation methods for research publication,
dissemination and access.

For an overview of the ARCHER toolset see
http://www.archer.edu.au/products/ 

This has taken the form of a suite of independently tested, documented,
open-source, production-ready generic e-Research infrastructure
components to provide better management of research data:

- Distributed Integrated Multi-Sensor and Instrument Middleware (DIMSIM)
- concurrent data capture and analysis, and telemetry

- ARCHER Research Repository, which introduces enhancements to SRB
(Storage Resource Broker, http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/index.php/)

- XDMS - web-based research data manager and curator

- Hermes - desktop client research data manager and file transfer agent

- Collaborative Workspace Development Tool (based on Plone,
http://plone.org <http://plone.org/> ), for creating e-Research Portals.

They are available for download under a GPL3 licence from
http://www.archer.edu.au/downloads/ 

The ARCHER Project successfully completed in October 2008. Thanks to all
involved (http://www.archer.edu.au/contact/archer_dev.html) for their
hard work.

--

David Groenewegen

ARCHER Project Director

Monash University Library

Building 4

Monash University

Victoria 3800

AUSTRALIA

Ph: +61 3 9905 4563

Fx: +61 3 9905 8450

Mb: +61 409 969 658

David.Groenewegen at lib.monash.edu.au 

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