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With 4 days until ‘ERA Upload File Window’ starts, CAIRSS are still working with the ARC on the remaining outstanding SEER Test issues (we have another teleconference with Alex today following this up). CAIRSS can see about 4 remaining outstanding issues with the SEER system, with the IE issue affecting a high amount of sites. ARC has advised a planned outage of SEER will occur on Monday, 31 May 2010.

SEER Submit will be available from 9.00AM AEST Tuesday 1 June. Please note that SEER Manage Repository Testing will be available again from 9.00AM Tuesday for institutions to test their repositories in parallel with the submission process.

If you have any concerns, please phone (02) 6287 6755 or email era@arc.gov.au.

On Thursday, 20 May, the Vice-Chancellor of USQ sadly advised the University community of the sudden passing of our friend and colleague, Professor Alan Smith. The farewell service for Alan will be held this Friday, 28 May in Toowoomba. We would like to acknowledge the role that Alan played in establishing and managing the CAIRSS service, and the enormous amount of work that led up to that, including his role in establishing the RUBRIC partnership headed by USQ, and his contribution to the broader library and repository communities.

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Summary

CAIRSS is pleased to announce 2 additional Copyright Workshops throughout 2010.
Perth on the 29 July and Brisbane on the 17 August. See CAIRSS website for details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.

Thank you to all the repository managers who responded to the CAIRSS Repository Manager survey in the last 2 weeks. 30 responses (from a possible 39) were obtained providing a good response rate.

With less than 2 weeks until the window for ERA submission opens, CAIRSS is continuing to work closely with the ARC on remaining testing issues. Contact Tim McCallum (CAIRSS Technical Officer) at cairss-technical@caul.edu.au for any queries in this area. We are especially trying to chase up ARC SEER progress on the Vital/IE issue which many of you are experiencing. We know the ARC have been working on this issue and we hope to get an update from them on this for you very soon.

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

Events

  • Perth CAIRSS Copyright Workshop for repository managers will be held on the 29 July 2010 at Curtin University. Thank you to Julie for the venue.
    3 registrations per CAUL institution are invited. Registrations close 9 July. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
  • Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshop for repository managers will be held on the 17 August 2010 at Queensland University of Technology. Thank you to Paula and Janet for the venue.
    2 registrations per CAUL institution are invited. Registrations close 30 July. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
  • CAIRSS Technical Officer Tim McCallum has had a poster accepted for Open Repositories Conference later this year. The title of the poster is: ManagIR – A web application for managing and monitoring IR records, their data and associated tasks. USQ will be funding Tim’s travel to attend this conference.

Activity

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

  • Thank you to all the repository managers who responded to the CAIRSS Repository Manager survey in the last 2 weeks. 30 responses (from a possible 39) were obtained providing a good response rate. This information gathered will assist CAIRSS staff target services for the final CAIRSS year, as well as assist in developing an up-to-date picture of the Australian repository environment. If any other repository managers still wanted to respond to the survey please contact Katy for the survey URL.
  • The CAIRSS elist has peaked at 178 members. See http://groups.google.com/group/cairss if you were interested in joining.
  • A reminder repository managers can follow CAIRSS activity on Twitter also. See http://twitter.com/caulcairss.

Provide support for ADT

  • We do not anticipate much activity in this area while ERA submission still looms, however if institutions are interested, the CAUL announcement on ADT changes is available on the CAIRSS elist at: http://groups.google.com/group/cairss/browse_thread/thread/96b5bdabb87e1f51. Please contact Katy or Tim if any queries.
  • NLA and CAIRSS staff are having a teleconference this Friday to discuss Trove involvement in the ADT future changes.

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.

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

  • CAIRSS is continuing to work closely with the ARC on remaining testing issues. Contact Tim McCallum (CAIRSS Technical Officer) at cairss-technical@caul.edu.au. We are especially trying to chase up ARC SEER progress on the Vital/IE issue which many of you are experiencing. We know the ARC have been working on this issue and we hope to get an update from them on this for you very soon.
  • CAIRSS continuing to submit general ERA queries to ARC on behalf of CAIRSS Community members.

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

  • At the Sydney Copyright Workshop it was mentioned the ‘Checklist’ in the ‘CAIRSS and Copyright: good practice guide’ was not printing properly. Please note this has now been fixed. Please see: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/a_good_practice_guide.htm.
  • See events section of this blog post for the Perth and Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshop dates and details.
  • Remember CAIRSS Community members can contact Robin for repository related queries on cairss-copyright@caul.edu.au.  

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Summary

On the event front, the Sydney Copyright Workshop was held on Tuesday the 4th May. Two further workshops are planned for Brisbane and Perth later this year.

With just over 2 weeks until the window for ERA submission opens, CAIRSS is working closely with the ARC on the SEER IR testing issues remaining. General ERA questions are still coming in from repository managers to CAIRSS for submission to ARC.

CAUL announced this week the big changes to ADT coming at the end of 2010. See below for details. CAIRSS will be working with the NLA on these developments, as well as supporting any institutions needing to undertake migration work away from the old ADT VT-ETD software.

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

Events

  • The dates and locations for the Brisbane and Perth Copyright Workshops will be announced next week. Both will be after ERA submission date however!

Activity

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

  • The 2011 CAIRSS Repository Manager survey has been sent out to all CAIRSS repository managers. Responses close tonight. Similar to the phone surveys conducted early 2009, the results/responses to this survey will assist CAIRSS target services for the remainder of the CAIRSS project, as well as provide an up to date picture of the Australian research repository landscape. CAIRSS thanks all repository managers for taking the time to respond. Contact Kate at cairss@caul.edu.au if any queries on the survey.
    (* Note this survey is separate to the CAUL survey evaluating the CAIRSS service which was sent to ULs. Katy apologises for the confusion in both of these sent out at the same time).

Provide support for ADT

  • Notice of the ADT change was announced by CAUL this week. See CAIRSS elist for the full email (http://groups.google.com/group/cairss/browse_thread/thread/96b5bdabb87e1f51).
  • Institutions still using VT-ETD software for theses content will need to migrate all existing ADT content to either the institution’s repository or the CAIRSS holding tank by end September 2010. CAIRSS can assist any institutions requiring assistance in this migration process. Contact Tim McCallum (CAIRSS Technical Officer) at cairss-technical@caul.edu.au.
    Work is already underway with 3 CAUL institutions moving their theses content from VT-ETD to their IRs.

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.

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

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

  • The Sydney Copyright Workshop went well with 40 delegates attending. Thank you to all CAIRSS community members who participated in the workshop. Thank you to Sten again for the great venue.
  • The dates and locations for the Brisbane and Perth Copyright Workshops will be announced next week. Both will be after ERA submission date however!
  • Remember CAIRSS Community members can contact Robin for repository related queries on cairss-copyright@caul.edu.au.

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