We are please to announce that registrations are now being accepted for the 'Merri at USQ - The USQ SII Projects Road Show' at the following: http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/roadshow2007. The Road Show will be held in the following cities in August 2007: Melbourne, 16 August Sydney, 17 August Perth, 20 August Adelaide, 22 August 2007.
The Projects
PILIN
USQ manages the Persistent Identifier Linking Infrastructure (PILIN) project on
behalf of its partners in the ARROW2 project. The objective of the PILIN project is to strengthen Australia's ability to
use global identifier infrastructure. PILIN is developing guidance documents and best practice advice on identifiers,
building software tools that will allow applications to use persistent identifiers more easily and to maintain the identifiers
over time, and is tasked with making recommendation to DEST on options for sustaining, supporting and governing identifier management infrastructure.
FRED
The Federated Repositories for Education (FRED) is being developed by the Australian ADL Partnership Laboratory with Framework
for Open Learning (FOLP) funding. The FRED project aims to support deployment of repository federations in Australian education
and training communities, adopting a 'services' approach. It is documenting generic service-oriented models of repository federation
and producing software toolkits that support development of repository federations.
e-Framework for Education & Research
The e-framework for Education & Research is an international collaboration focused on
achieving broad and flexible technical interoperability in the development of IT infrastructure needed to support education and
research. The e-Framework is guided by the following principles: a service-oriented approach to system and process integration;
commitment to open standards; recognition of the central importance of community involvement; the need for open and collaborative
development activities; and, deployment of these approaches in a flexible and incremental way.
RUBRIC Toolkit
The RUBRIC Toolkit is a premier output of the DEST funded
RUBRIC Project. The RUBRIC Toolkit will have answers to many Institutional Repository
queries and addresses issues arising from the RQF. The RUBRIC Toolkit is the fruition of the collaborative work of five RUBRIC
project partners plus three IRUA (Innovative Research Universities Australia) partners; it is a work in progress and will only
be completed at the end of the project in December 2007. The draft version will be presented at the advertised road shows.
ICE-RS
ICE-RS is creating software, manuals and training packages that allow and
encourage efficient creation of flexible documents in the process of conducting and reporting on research, with benefits in improved
efficiency, greater usability of research outputs and more sustainable research repositories. ICE allows groups of authors to
collaborate on long and short documents, and publish them to the web and print formats.
Link Affiliates
Link Affiliates is the newly branded but long supported focus for national DEST supported
standards activities. Link Affiliates works with Australian communities, infrastructure projects, and with national and international standards organizations to solve real interoperability problems.