Prosentient Systems is a leading contributor to research in the development of Enterprise solutions for information sharing.

Current Research

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 area of systematic digital content management, desk-top services supporting digital archiving and the inforamtion commons.

Research papers and publications:

• Balnaves, E & Chehade, M (2009).  "Smart Client approaches to digital archiving of e-journals ."   The Digital Library vol 27 no 5
• Balnaves, E and Keast, D. (2009).  "Open source systems bring Web 2.0 to special libraries."   International Conference of Medical LIbraries, Brisbane, 2009.
• Keast, D; Balnaves, E; Czuchnowski, Judy and Balnaves, John (2009).  "The origins of Inter Library Loans in Australia in relation to special libraries ."   9th Australian Library History Conference, Swinburne University, Melbourne, June 2009
• Balnaves, E & Chehade, M (2008).  "Smart-client approaches to digital archiving of e-journals."   ALIA Biennial Conference 2008.  Alice Springs, 2008. http://conferences.alia.org.au/alia2008/pdfs/308.pdf
• Balnaves, E (2008). "Open source library management systems: a multidimensional evaluation"   Australian Academic & Research Libraries, AARL March 2008 vol 39 no 1 pp1-13.
• Balnaves, E & Chehade, Mark(2008). "Digital archiving of e-journals for Special libraries. IFLA World Congress 2008.  Quebec city, Quebec.   http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/159-Balnaves_Chehade-en.pdf (Spanish)
• Balnaves, E (2007). "Library 2.0 & Web 2.0" IFLA Information Technology Newsletter November 2008
• 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 2007, Sydney, Australia 2007
• Balnaves, E (2006). "Demand balancing in fee-free resource sharing community networks with unequal resource distribution" in Digital Humanities 2006, Sorbonne, Paris 2006.
• Balnaves, E. (2005). "Systematic Approaches to Long Term Digital Collection Management ". Literary and Linguistic Computing. Sept 16, 2005
• Balnaves, E. (2005). "Content Model for Reuse: Systems for Enterprise Content Reuse." Workshop on Web-based Enterprise Information Systems, University of Sydney, 2005.
• Balnaves, E. (2004). "Systematic approaches to long term digital resource management" in Computing Arts 2004 Conference, Newcastle 2004
• Balnaves, E. (2004). "Content Reuse in the World Wide Web: A model-based approach." PhD University of Sydney 2004
• Balnaves, E. (2003). "Escrow Management of Digital Resources" in 4th Australian Information Warfare and Security conference. Adelaide. 2003.
• Balnaves, E and Patrick, J. (2001) "Managing multimedia content databases". Digital Research 2001.
• Patrick, J and Balnaves, E., Kam, T, Ler, D. and 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, pp. 102-135
• Balnaves E. (2001). "Information Systems in the Arts and Humanities: An overview". University of Sydney. 2001
• Balnaves, E. (2000). "Digital assets and Content Management Systems: White Paper" Prosentient Systems 2000
• Balnaves, E. (1995). "Trading on the Internet as a Co-operative". In Ecommerce on the Internet, Singapore June 1995, pp.35-42
• Balnaves, E (1997). "Integrating the Internet into the Retail Operation." In Retail Technologies, 1997.

Other publications relating to our work:

• Meier Andrew (2007).  Improving access to transport information through resource and knowledge sharing. Papers of the 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 25-27 September 2007, Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne: ETM Group
• Standish, Fairlie (2006).  "The GLASS model could be your answer!" in InCite March 2006, p.15.
• Bigg, Mandy (2005)  "Gratisnet Model."  NLA Resource Sharing Forum.  http://www.nla.gov.au/rsforum/download/mandy_gratisnet.doc
• Blayney, Gayle and Stanish, Fairlie (2003).  "Through the looking glass: the path to a successful Inter-Library loan consortium."  in 10th Asia Pacific Special, Health and Law Librarians' Conference, Adelaide Convention Centre,Adelaide, South Australia 24-27 August 2003.  http://conferences.alia.org.au/shllc2003/papers/032.pdf