Summary

On the event front, registrations have closed and final preparations underway for the Sydney CAIRSS Copyright Workshop on 4 May.

In relation to CAIRSS technical work, Tim is still busy assisting CAIRSS institutions with their SEER IR testing required by the ARC for ERA 2010 (just nearing the end of week 6 of the 8 week testing window). He is continuing to assist some CAIRSS institutions migrate their theses content from the old VT-ETD system to their IR.

Remember you can contact CAIRSS on cairss@caul.edu.au for any CAIRSS queries/assistance required.

Events

• Final preparations are underway for the 4 May Sydney CAIRSS Copyright Workshop.
  http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm
  Registrations have closed and over 35 CAIRSS community members will be participating on the day.
  CAIRSS is planning additional Copyright Workshops for Brisbane and Perth later in the year. Dates still to be confirmed.
• Peter Sefton attended the NLA’s innovative ideas forum in Canberra (funded by USQ) on Friday 16th April. See Peters comments on this event at http://cairss.caul.edu.au/blog/2010/04/21/innovative-ideas-for-cairss/
• Caroline Drury attended the ANDS Roadshow in Sydney this week.
• Caroline attended the Gumboots for the Data Deluge session in Sydney this week.

Activity

Provide a forum to represent the collective interests of repository managers around Australia

• Meeting with QUT IR staff.
• Meeting with CQUniversity IR staff.

Provide support for ADT

• CAIRSS continuing to assist CAUL with the ADT changes planned for 2010.
• Manual updates of content from institutions (in current ADT system) continue to be undertaken as required.
• Tim working with 3 CAUL sites in moving their theses content from VT-ETD to their IRs.
• CAIRSS technical staff and NLA staff participated in a teleconference with developers from Google Scholar. Trying to determine the best path for inclusion of Australian fulltext theses content in Google Scholar (via central NLA point or by individual IRs). Discussions between NLA staff /Peter Sefton/Google Scholar on this topic continuing.

Provision of best practice and policy advice for areas such as data migration, metadata, standards compliance, import and export, harvesting, ingest of new forms of digital material.

• Based on feedback from QUT, NLA has changed ARO display sort order on institutional browse.

Assistance with the integration of repositories with the requirements of the ERA and the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) exercises.

• Continuing to work with ARC on their SEER IR testing with institutions (nearing the end of week 6 of the 8 week testing period).
• Tim assisting numerous institutions with their test progress.
• ARC advice provided on: 1. SEER not rendering CSS correctly (SEER is working to implement changes to combat this issue), 2. SEER HTTP/SSL/BASIC Authentication (SEER has reviewed the code and can now accept an institution’s use of BASIC authentication over HTTPS), 3. Handle URLs (SEER is examining how to alter the validation log to allow specifically
  for Handle URLs).
• ARC advised when a Repository Manager has tested a research output within SEER Manage Repository Testing, he/she should mark whether or not that repository has passed or failed the test. This can be done in the Research Output Test Result frame in the bottom right-hand corner of the
  application. Simply expand the drop-down menu next to Result: and select the appropriate outcome for that research output’s test (failed or passed). This will place a red cross or a green tick accordingly next to that research output.
• CAIRSS waiting for responses from ARC on a couple of areas for clarification, including: testing of SEER system using various browser software (mainly diagnosing issues associated with Internet Explorer).
• CAIRSS continuing to submit general ERA queries to ARC on behalf of CAIRSS Community members.
• CAIRSS technical staff will be having another teleconference with ARC SEER technical staff next Wednesday to cover areas in SEER testing outstanding.

Assistance with the understanding of managing copyright issues in the repository environment.

• Final preparations are underway for the 4 May Sydney CAIRSS Copyright Workshop.
  http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm
  Registrations have closed and over 35 CAIRSS community members will be participating on the day.
• CAIRSS is planning additional Copyright Workshops for Brisbane and Perth later in the year. Dates still to be confirmed.
• Remember CAIRSS Community members can contact Robin for repository related queries on cairss-copyright@caul.edu.au.

Tips

• Having trouble loading locked PDFs into your IR. Try using Ghostscript software to unlock them http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.