Events

• Registration is now open for the 2010 CAIRSS Community Day in November.
  See CAIRSS website for further details: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_2010.htm.
  2 delegates from each CAUL institution are invited to attend. Register by emailing your details to cairss@caul.edu.au. Registrations close 25th October 2010.
  Program currently under development (to be released late August).
• The Perth CAIRSS Copyright Workshop went well last week with 23 delegates attending.
  The final CAIRSS Copyright Workshop for 2010 will be taking place in Brisbane on the 17 August (http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm). With 26 delegates registered to attend this should be a useful meeting.

Activity

• CAIRSS Senior Advisor Peter Sefton has been down in Newcastle working with Vicki Picasso this week. They have done a CAIRSS blog post on their activity ‘I only have URI’s for you: Vicki and Peter’s adventures in linked-data land’ http://cairss.caul.edu.au/blog/2010/08/05/i-only-have-uris-for-you-vicki-and-peters-adventures-in-linked-data-land/ that may be of interest to other CAIRSS repository managers.
• At the request of some repository managers, CAIRSS has done some investigations into the ‘Ranking Web of World Repositories’ website (http://repositories.webometrics.info/) and provided an overview of for the CAIRSS community on the CAIRSS elist (See: ‘The Ranking Web of World Repositories and what it means for CAIRSS’ at http://groups.google.com/group/cairss/browse_thread/thread/f631598b9684bf70). Following this investigation the CAIRSS team will be working on information on how to best be represented in Google and Google Scholar.
• The Welsh Repository Network (http://www.wrn.aber.ac.uk/en/) got in touch with CAIRSS this week to ask about Australian repository manager surveys. CAIRSS shared tips with WRN on surveying repository managers on a national level.
• Tim continuing to work with the institutions requiring migration of theses content from old VT-ETD system to IRs. There are still 3 institutions to commence this work, and 8 in progress currently. A new section outlining these ADT changes and new requirements has been added to the CAIRSS website at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/theses/new_nla_theses_view.htm. Contact Tim at CAIRSS for assistance migrating your theses content from VT-ETD to your IR
  cairss-technical@caul.edu.au.

For your interest

• The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) has developed an annual survey to enable them to better understand perceptions of ANDS. This is the first time the survey has been undertaken and offers an opportunity to provide input that will help ANDS direct its efforts more effectively. For those interested in taking the survey see: http://surveys.insyncsurveys.com.au/surveys/ANDSAttitude2010/.
• August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter is now available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-10.htm.
• In the run-up to Open Access Week, 18th-24th October 2010, the guys from ‘Repositories Support Project’ (http://www.rsp.ac.uk/) have suggested to raise awareness of the event for a wider community, proposing the week as a subject for a Google Doodle for their main home page or the home page of Google Scholar. Since Google will receive large numbers of suggestions for Doodles they ask if the OA community could join them in lobbying Google to consider OA week. To make a suggestion for the Doodle simply email Google at proposals@google.com.
  Suggested email text: The week of October 18th is international Open Access week, with events and activities taking place world-wide on university and research campuses. We believe that Open Access, researchers making their research articles available for free to all, is an exciting and important shift in the availability of research for scholars and the public. We would like to support the idea of a Google Doodle on Open Access for this week.