Events

• Reminder to register for the Perth CAIRSS Copyright Workshop on 29^th July 2010. Registrations close 9^th July 2010.See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
• Reminder for institutions to register for the Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshop on 17^th August 2010. Registrations close 30^th July 2010.See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
• The program for Spain Open Repositories conference is now online at: http://or2010.fecyt.es/Publico/GSession/index.aspx and http://or2010.fecyt.es/Publico/Posters/index.aspx.

Activity

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

• Analysis of the CAIRSS Repository Manager survey data is commencing in June.
• Planning for the 2010 CAIRSS Community Day is ramping up throughout June.
  Keely from RMIT has given us some good ideas for venues for the function component.
  Dates and details will be announced later this month after ERA submission closes.
• CAIRSS have decided to cancel the CAIRSS delicious account due to low use.
• CAIRSS has been working with Sten Christensen setting up some technical frameworks to support an Aus&NZ DSpace group. Sten will announce details later this month after ERA submission closes.

Provide support for ADT

• We do not anticipate much activity in this area while ERA submission is open, 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.

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.

• Duncan from USQ ADFI team is planning some interesting work there for a new USQ Creative Works repository and has discussed initial plans with CAIRSS. Are any other institutions planning a similar type repository in the near future?

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 in touch with the ARC each day on their progress on the outstanding SEER IR test issues (incl. the Vital/IE issue). Will be forwarding any progress they announce as soon as we can.
• 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.

• 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.

Provide a watching brief on trends and developments in repositories, Open Access, scholarly communication and dissemination of research in repositories both in Australia and overseas.

• June issue of SPARC Open Access Newsletter (issue #146) is out now and available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-10.htm.
• The CAUL Open Scholarship Initiative (COSI) has been launched. A CAUL/CONZUL working group, COSI has a focus on open access, eResearch, and the government’s social inclusion agenda. See PPT for further detail at: http://www.caul.edu.au/scholcomm/caul20101cosi.pdf.