Events

• The ‘2010 CAIRSS Community Day’ went well last week with just under 100 delegates attending.
  Representatives from 95% of CAUL institutions attended, as well as guest delegates from ARC, ANDS, NLA, ARMS, and CONZUL.
  Thank you to all delegates for attending and making the event a true ‘community’ event.
  PPT presentations from the day are now available on the CAIRSS website at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_program_2010.htm.
  Thank you to all the speakers for presenting and sharing their work.
  Thank you also to all delegates who submitted a feedback form. This assists with planning for useful events to the community in future. If you still have a feedback form and want to submit it, just scan and email or post to Katy at USC.
  Finally a big thankyou once again to Craig Anderson and Keely Chapman at RMIT for hosting the event.
• Some of the presentations from the ‘CAIRSS/ANDS Metadata Stores Briefing’ event are now available on the CAIRSS website at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_ands_metadata_stores_briefing_2010.htm. The other PPTs from this event will be added soon.

Activity

• The ARC has released an email response to queries relating to repository downtime over Dec/Jan. This has been forwarded to the CAIRSS elist at: http://groups.google.com/group/cairss/browse_thread/thread/a1a664f266cac9fa .
• CAUL is still progressing work on the decommissioning of ADT and info on new NLA theses display. CAUL will release this information soon.
• The CAIRSS Repository Software Sandbox has been updated to include information on Fez. See: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/sandbox/sandbox.htm. Note this is a link to a hosted UQ demonstration system rather than a repository CAIRSS manages. Please contact Tim (CAIRSS Technical Officer) for log-in details.

New

• The RSP group (similar to CAIRSS in the UK) recently held a ‘Doing it differently’ event which looked great. For your possible interest they have loaded some handouts and PPTs from the day at: http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php?page=DID1010/index.php.
• December 2010 eResearch newsletter is now available at: http://www.eresearch.edu.au/newsletter-201012.
• The October ERA newsletter is now available at: http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/ERAnews_Oct10.pdf.
• Community member Julie Woodland pointed out a useful document, a RIN (Research Information Network) and OCLC comparative study on information-related support services for researchers in the UK and the US throughout the lifecycle of the research process. See Julie’s email to the CAIRSS elist at: http://groups.google.com/group/cairss/browse_thread/thread/76de65646f69bfc8.