Comments and suggestions to the group are welcome. Please contact
the Library's Coordination Support Branch at: csb@nla.gov.au or the gateways
directly.

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Agrigate is an Australian information gateway for
researchers of agriculture. Included are websites, databases, and e-reports
that have been vetted for quality and currency by subject librarians from three
Australian universities and the CSIRO. Users can search by keyword or browse
broad subject headings. Suggestions of relevant agriculture research resources
are welcomed. A What's New alert service is available by free email
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AMOL is the national internet gateway to Australian museums
and galleries and caters to the needs of people working in the museum sector
with dedicated professional resources. AMOL also develops and maintains a
distributed national database of movable cultural heritage, a national guide to
museums and galleries and a learning gateway to museums' educational resources
called Discovernet. AMOL is currently redeveloping its website which is to be
relaunched in early 2005 as the 'Collections Australia Network' (CAN).
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AusStage provides an index and directory to performing arts
events in Australia since the beginning of 2001, while work is continuing to
'fill in the blanks' in the years before 2001. AusStage indexing is limited to
live performances of events with a dramatic content, such as plays, music
theatre and dance. As an infrastructure project, the primary aim of the index
is to provide a marker of what was an ephemeral event rather than a rich
description of it, and to suggests links via the directory to those
institutions or individuals where more detailed information on that ephemeral
event may be obtained. |

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AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between eight
Australian universities and the National Library of Australia providing
authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical
Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and
literary organisations. Its coverage spans the 1780s to the present day.
AustLit indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of
print and electronic information sources. It also makes available selected
critical articles and creative writing in full text. Researchers,
bibliographers and librarians, working around the country, gather information
about Australian writers and writing, providing authoritative information on
and facilitating access to Australian literature. |

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The Australia Dancing portal provides users with access to
both current and historical information about dance in Australia. The primary
zone, the directory of resources, describes dance research materials held by
the National Library of
Australia (host), ScreenSound Australia, and other selected institutions.
Some of this material is directly accessible in digital formats, some is
available as electronic finding aids. Progressively more material is being made
available in these ways. The directory service is supplemented by other pages
enabling discovery, location and access to information about dance in Australia
through links to other relevant sites, and through current industry information
provided by Ausdance.
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ADT is an initiative of the
Library of University
of New South Wales, collaborating with several other Australian
universities. It provides a distributed database of digital versions of theses
produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities.
ADT Expansion
and Redevelopment project, to be completed by end of 2004, will develop a
federated search service covering all Australian postgraduate research theses,
whether in digital form or not. |

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The Australian e-Humanities Gateway is an initiative of the
Australian e-Humanities Network providing a number of online resources for
humanities researchers using digital tools. It incorporates a searchable
database that lists projects concerned with the use of digital resources in
humanities disciplines in Australia, and provides access to a discussion forum
and weekly news bulletin. |

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A register of the many industries, corporations, research
institutions, scientific societies and other organisations that have
contributed to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage, with
references to their archival materials and a bibliography of their historical
published literature. The gateway was developed by the
Australian Science and Technology
Heritage Centre. |

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Australian Trade Union Archives is a gateway for researchers
and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail,
archival resources, published material and current information about Australian
industrial organisations. Archival metadata standards have been used for
description, resource discovery and publication of the results on the
Web. |

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AVEL Sustainability Knowledge Network is a portal and
brokerage service for engineers, other professionals and researchers concerned
with sustainable systems. It is also a resource for students in senior
secondary and tertiary education. The
metadata used consists of a
combination of Dublin Core, AGLS, EdNA and A-Core metadata elements. |

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An online register of over 3,000 people involved in the
development of science, technology and medicine in Australia, including
references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources. The gateway
was developed by the Australian
Science and Technology Heritage Centre. |
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EdNA Online is a network of and for the Australian
education and training community (government and non-government schooling
systems, vocational education and training, adult community education and
higher education). The EdNA Metadata
Standard is based on the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and is consistent
with AGLS. |
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The Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts provides access
to a database of finding aids for collections of literary manuscripts in
Australian libraries. More than 80 finding aids are currently available for
browsing and searching. The Encoded Archival Description format (EAD) is used
as the encoding standard for the finding aids. The site is hosted by the
University of Western
Australia. |
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LawAccess NSW enables the general public to easily access
quality plain language legal resources and services that provide legal
assistance. Justice Sector Metadata Standard elements are used to describe
resources. This standard conforms to Dublin Core and AGLS metadata catering for
legal specific information such as jurisdiction, act name and secondary
materials. Participants include the NSW Attorney General's Department, NSW
Legal Aid Commission, Law Society of NSW, and NSW Bar Association. |
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PADI is an initiative of the
National Library of Australia to provide
high quality information about issues and tools for preserving digital
resources, both digitised and 'born digital'. The site uses the Dublin Core,
A-Core and some locally defined
metadata schema. An
international advisory group provides advice and guidance for PADI. |

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PictureAustralia is a web service based on a metadata index
held at the National Library of Australia
which links to pictorial images held on the web sites of
participating cultural
agencies around Australia. The service has a 'hybrid' architecture with a
centralised search index and distributed images. Through a single access point,
it is possible to search the distributed image collections of many significant
cultural institutions, without having to know where the images are held.
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WebLaw is a co-operative subject index to internet
resources for Australian legal researchers including lawyers, students,
researchers and lay professionals. Participating organisations take
responsibility for a subject area/s, and provide annotated links to quality
assessed resources in this area. |
Gateways Under
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MusicAustralia is now in its prototype phase. The vision is
to develop MusicAustralia as a web-based music service that will provide
integrated access to Australian music resources and information to all
Australians and other interested users. MusicAustralia is to be developed and
delivered as a collaboration between the National Library of Australia,
ScreenSound Australia and other
national cultural institutions and the wider Australian music community. It
aims to make Australian music resources and information, both historical and
contemporary, as widely accessible as possible in all their formats. |