News Archive


  • Paper on PILIN information model

    A description of the PILIN information model of digital identifiers has just appeared in Ariadne, the UK Digital Libraries journal.

    The paper aims to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which the field has suffered, and summaries the modelling work the USQ-Link Affiliates team undertook during the PILIN project.

    Posted in February 2010 (Archived in February 2010)

  • Is learning technology important to you?

    This is your last chance to take advantage of the Early Bird special for IDEA10 and save up to $105.00 on registration. This deal ends 5 February 2010, so please visit the IDEA10 registration page to take advantage of this offer.

    IDEA10 is for the whole education sector including schools, vocational and tertiary institutions. It is an initiative of the Link Affiliates Team based at the University of Southern Queensland and is supported by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) and IMS GLC Global.

    The themes for IDEA10 include:

    • Learning impact of technology
    • Technology supported learning innovation
    • Interoperability and technical standards

    IDEA10 is taking place at The Sebel and Citigate Albert Park Melbourne from 10-12 March 2010.

    Posted in February 2010 (Archived in February 2010)

  • Interoperability and Standards, underpinning good service delivery

    Learn how you can improve your organisations service delivery by registering today for the interoperability and standards webinar presented by USQ-Link Affiliates and SunGard.

    By attending this complimentary one hour webinar you will:

    • Learn how standards and interoperability guidelines inform good practice, drive savings and improve business agility
    • Hear about the latest open and service oriented approaches
    • See about how organisations such as yours can improve their service delivery

    Please join us on Tuesday, February 9th 2010 at 2pm AEDT.

    Posted in February 2010 (Archived in February 2010)

  • Global Registries Initiative

    The Global Registries Initiative (GRI) is a collaboration between the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) and counterparts in the UK and USA, aiming to make it easier to discover research data and publications stored in disciplinary and institutional repositories.

    It will do so by centrally registering national registries of research data, and the service points for interacting with those registries. Clients can then be configured automatically to search across all registered service points: the registries are formed into an ad hoc federation, which can be used by aggregators, mash-ups and portals, to improve access to scientific resources.

    The GRI partners met in November in Canberra for a two-day workshop, to lay out a programme for a common operational understanding of the Initiative, to establish shared governance, and to outline the range of services to be offered. Link Affiliates were invited to act as rapporteur for the meeting. The meeting outcomes are summarised on the GRI website (PDF); we have also summarised the meeting on our blog.

    Posted in January 2010 (Archived in February 2010)

  • December issue of Newsletter now available online

    The current version (December issue) of 'ITinteroperability' is now available online.

    This newsletter informs about technical, standards and interoperability projects pertinent to education in Australia. It includes news items on local interoperability projects as well as summarising activity in international standards bodies relevant to education in Australia.

    Subscription information is also available on the website and feedback is welcomed.

    Posted in December 2009 (Archived in February 2010)

  • Paper on repository federations in education

    The latest issue of D-Lib Magazine includes a paper by Dan Rehak and Link Affiliates' Nigel Ward and Nick Nicholas on Service-Oriented Models for Educational Resource Federations.

    This paper reports on the modelling of service infrastructure for building repository federations in education, as was undertaken in the FRED Project in 2007, and which has also been applied to various registries in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative.

    Posted in November 2009 (Archived in January 2010)

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