Research activities and publications

Prosentient Systems has been engaged in the development of data-intensive internet information systems for over 20 years.

Dr Balnaves, the Director of R&D at Prosentient Systems, is actively engaged in research in the areas of library services and systems, systematic digital content management, desk-top services supporting digital archiving and the inforamtion commons.

Year: 2011

• Balnaves, E (2011). The Integrated Library Vision – the Open Source/Open Access Model. ANE Books.
• Balnaves, E. (2011). Re-inventing the OPAC as a metadata hub. IFLA Information Technology Newsletter, . [Online version]

Year: 2010

• Balnaves, E. & Huynh, M. (2010). Integrating document delivery and library services using open source systems. Health Inform, .

Year: 2009

• Balnaves, E. & Chehade, M. (2009). Smart Client approaches to digital archiving of e-journals. The Digital Library, 27(5).
• Keast, D., Balnaves, E., Czuchnowski, J. & Balnaves, J. (2009). The origins of Inter Library Loans in Australia in relation to special libraries, Melbourne, 9th Australian Library History Conference, Swinburne University.
• Balnaves, E. & Keast, D. (2009). Open source systems bring Web 2.0 to special libraries, Brisbane, International Conference of Medical Libraries.

Year: 2008

• Balnaves, E. & Chehade, M. (2008). Smart-client approaches to digital archiving of e-journals, Alice Springs, ALIA Biennial Conference. [Online version]
• Balnaves, E. (2008). Open source library management systems: a multidimensional evaluation. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, AARL, 39(1), 1-13.

Year: 2007

• Balnaves, E. (2007). Library 2.0 & Web 2.0. IFLA Information Technology Newsletter, .
• Balnaves, E. (2007). Ensuring equitable participation in a resource-sharing network: Gratisnet case study. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 38(4), 252-257.
• Balnaves, E. (2007). Integrating Federated Searches in an Inter-library Loans System. Information Online, .
• Meier, A. (2007). Improving access to transport information through resource and knowledge sharing, Melbourne, Papers of the 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum, ETM Group.

Year: 2006

• Balnaves, E. (2006). Demand balancing in fee-free resource sharing community networks with unequal resource distribution. Digital Humanities, .
• Standish, F. (2006). The GLASS model could be your answer!. InCite, , 15.

Year: 2005

• Balnaves, E. (2005). Systematic Approaches to Long Term Digital Collection Management. Literary and Linguistic Computing, . [Online version]
• Balnaves, E. (2005). Content Model for Reuse: Systems for Enterprise Content Reuse, University of Sydney, Workshop on Web-based Enterprise Information Systems.
• Bigg, M. (2005). Gratisnet Model, NLA Resource Sharing Forum. [Online version]

Year: 2004

• Balnaves, E. (2004). Systematic approaches to long term digital resource management, Newcastle, Computing Arts 2004 Conference.
• Balnaves, E. (2004). Content Reuse in the World Wide Web: A model-based approach. Phd Thesis.

Year: 2003

• Balnaves, E. (2003). Escrow Management of Digital Resources, Adelaide, 4th Australian Information Warfare and Security conference.
• Blayney, G. & Standish, F. (2003). Through the looking glass: the path to a successful Inter-Library loan consortium, Adelaide, 10th Asia Pacific Special, Health and Law Librarians' Conference.

Year: 2001

• Balnaves, E. & Patrick, J. (2001). Managing multimedia content databases. Digital Research, .
• Patrick, J., Balnaves, E., Kam, T., Ler, D. & Yeates, T. (2001). A Case Study of multimedia Architecture Design: workflow and version control for regeneration of multimedia systems. The Third Australasian Workshop on Software and System Architectures, , 102-135.
• Balnaves, E. (2001). Information Systems in the Arts and Humanities: An overview. University of Sydney. [Online version]

Year: 2000

• Balnaves, E. (2000). Digital assets and Content Management Systems: White Paper. Prosentient Systems. [Online version]

Year: 1997

• Balnaves, E. (1997). Integrating the Internet into the Retail Operation. Retail Technologies, . [Online version]

Year: 1995

• Trading on the Internet as a Co-operative. (1995). Ecommerce on the Internet, , 35-42. [Online version]