For the information of list members. AONS Pilot Service Launched =================== A beta version of the Automatic Obsolescence Notification Service (AONS) has been launched as a pilot service. The service provides support to repositories anywhere around Australia (or in fact globally) for managing format obsolescence of digital materials. Users can register with the service by providing a URL to a repository's format scan summary. The AONS service will display the summary and allow a repository manager to compare the formats of items in their repository with information from format registries such as PRONOM and Library of Congress. These registries flag any formats that are likely to become obsolete. Repository managers can then make curation decisions about any items at risk, such as upgrading their formats. By downloading and installing an AONS locally, an institution can also take advantage of a pilot risk metrics implementation. This feature requires manual data entry in order to assign weightings to particular formats to create a risk profile for each format. Over time, by sharing this information between AONS instances it may be possible to build up accurate risk profiles for many common formats. The AONS software is the result of the AONS II project funded under APSR and developed by David Pearson, David Levy and Matthew Walker from the National Library of Australia (NLA) with an administrative user interface developed by David Berriman at ANU.
The software is able to be downloaded from Sourceforge at _http://sourceforge.net/projects/aons_ and a mailing list is also available for support and feedback. As this is a beta release we welcome feedback to the Sourceforge mailing list to inform our testing which will continue until mid-September. Please try out the pilot service by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to register with the service, and tell us which institution you are from. Any quieries can also be sent to this address. Further information about the AONS Project can be seen at _http://www.apsr.edu.au/aons2/_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
