Planning for PARADISEC

Abstract

PARADISEC is a collaborative digital research resource set up by the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University in 2003, with funding from the Australia Research Council's Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities scheme. Conceived and created in cyberspace, the project locates its digitisation equipment at the University of Sydney, its website at ANU, and metadata database at the University of Melbourne, with researcher contributions from all three Universities. Current planning issues concern provision of appropriate levels of digital rights management and access for the many stakeholder communities located throughout the Asia-Pacific region. This presentation outlines the principles that have guided us in planning and implementation of PARADISEC.Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Australian Research Counci