Reminder to register for the Perth and Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshops on 29th July 2010 and 17th August 2010. Registrations for Perth close 9th July and registrations for Brisbane close 30th July. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
Activity
Provide a forum to represent the collective interests of repository managers around Australia
Planning for the 2010 CAIRSS Community Day program is underway. If you have a repository development you are interested in presenting on the day, or a topic area you would like to see addressed please contact Katy at cairss@caul.edu.au.
Provide support for ADT
Once ERA submissions close, this is a key area for CAIRSS to increase work in (helping institutions still on ADT VT-ETD software migrate content into their IRs). Please contact Katy or Tim with any queries at cairss@caul.edu.au.
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. This is taking the majority of our time at present. A lot of progress this last week occurred with the ARC sorting out a number of the outstanding issues (including the IE display issue that was affecting many sites). Tim still working with ARC on fixing 3 remaining testing issues. Contact Tim McCallum (CAIRSS Technical Officer) at cairss-technical@caul.edu.au for any related queries.
CAIRSS are continuing to submit general ERA IR queries to ARC on behalf of CAIRSS Community members. We are unable to comment in detail on XML submission errors however and recommend the ARC helpdesk is contacted directly regarding these.
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.
Assistance with the integration of repositories with the requirements of the ANDS and the associated Australian Data Commons.
Peter Sefton attended last weeks ANDS Data Boot Camp. He will be providing an overview of the event on this CAIRSS blog soon.
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.
CAIRSS looking further at COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) http://coar-repositories.org for CAUL. Launched in October 2009, COAR aims to enhance greater visibility and application of research outputs through global networks of Open Access digital repositories.
