MERRI at USQ:
The USQ SII Projects Roadshow
presented by the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) and Friends
USQ SII Roadshow 2007
The University of Southern Queensland manages a number of projects sponsored by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, (DEST) under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) as part of the Commonwealth Government's Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future (BAA)
This series of one day seminars will highlight the achievements of these projects and the relationships between them. The day will also showcase local Friends of the projects.
Registration for each Roadshow costs $66.00 - inclusive of GST. Included with registration is morning tea and lunch; as well as tea and coffee.
Venues
Melbourne - Thursday, 16 August 2007
Function Room 2, Victoria University
Flinders Street Conference Centre - 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Registration Closed
Sydney - Friday, 17 August 2007 Unfortunately the Sydney Roadshow has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, full refunds will be given. There are still available places at the Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth Roadshows. If there was any aspect of the Roadshow that you would particularly like to find out about please contact linkaffiliates@usq.edu.au. All presentations from the roadshows will be posted on this site.
You might also be interested in the IDEA conference in Brisbane on October 8 to 11 when some of the Roadshow projects will also be highlighted: http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/idea2007/
Perth - Monday, 20 August 2007
The Case Study Room, University Club of Western Australia
University of Western Australia - Hackett Entrance #1, Hackett Drive, Crawley (Perth)
Registration Closed
Adelaide - Wednesday, 22 August 2007
The Boulevard Room, The Stamford Plaza
150 North Terrace, Adelaide
Registration Closed
The Projects:
The day will include a series of information sessions and technical demonstrations on the following 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.
PILIN Presentation (Powerpoint) - 4.4Mb
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.
FRED Presentation (Powerpoint) - 3.0Mb
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.
e-Framework Presentation (Powerpoint) - 1.87Mb
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.
RUBRIC Toolkit Presentation (Powerpoint) - 1.22Mb
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.
ICE-RS Presentation | HTML |
HTML - Slides |
PDF - 170Kb
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.
Link Affiliates Presentation (Powerpoint) - 6.25Mb
Our Friends
Come along and meet some of our friends and learn about how the projects relate to their work
- Centre of Learning Innovation (CLI) - Sydney
- e-Works - Melbourne
- education.au & Flinders University - Adelaide
- Westone & Murdoch University - Perth
Schedule
| 8.30 - 9.00am | Registration |
| 9.00 - 9.15 | Welcome and Context for day |
| 9.15 - 10.15 | PILIN and PILIN demonstrator |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Morning Tea |
| 10.30 - 11.30 | FRED and FRED demonstrator |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | An introduction to the e-Framework The e-Framework Applied - SUMS including PILIN and FRED |
| 12.30 - 1.15 | Lunch |
| 1.15 - 2.15 | Our Friends |
| 2.15 - 3.15 | RUBRIC overview and RUBRIC toolkit |
| 3.15 - 3.30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.30 - 4.30 | ICE Overview |
| 4.30 - 5.00 | Summary and close Including an introduction to Link Affiliates |
Registration
Registration details are available at: http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/roadshow2007/registration/
For more information contact: linkaffiliates@usq.edu.au
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