Events

• A quick reminder that registrations for the 2010 CAIRSS Community Day close on the 25th of October 2010. Please see the CAIRSS website for further details: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_2010.htm.
  The program for the day is available for download from the CAIRSS website. See: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_program_2010.pdf.

Activity

• Another quick reminder… all CAUL institutions need to have their theses content out of ADT VT-ETD software and into their research repositories by end of September. Tim has been working through a comprehensive strategy to assist individual institutions with the harvesting and data transformation of this VT-ETD content. Please email Tim at cairss-technical@caul.edu.au if you have any questions or require any further assistance.
• Dr Peter Sefton has completed and posted the CAIRSS blog document ‘Getting into Google, Google Scholar and other search engines’. The post has been well received, please do not hesitate to ask questions or share information in the comments section on the post.

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.
• 2010 CAIRSS Community Day program is now available on the CAIRSS website. See: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_program_2010.pdf. Thank you to the community members who nominated to give presentations.
• The Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshop was held this week with good attendance. Across the Sydney, Perth and Brisbane workshops we had 87 participants in total (with representation of 90% of CAUL institutions). Additional groups who participated in the workshops included CSIRO, ANDS and NLA.

Activity

• Please note CAIRSS Project Manager Katy Watson will be on annual leave from 20^th August to
  7^th September 2010. Community members can continue to contact CAIRSS staff member Tim McCallum during this time on cairss-technical@caul.edu.au and 07 4631 2129.
• Reminder all CAUL institutions need to have their theses content out of ADT VT-ETD software and into their research repositories by end of September (only 5 weeks remaining for this work to be done). 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. If an institutions theses content is not migrated from institutional VT-ETD system to institutional research repositories by this time, that theses content will not be included in the new NLA theses display (and ADT replacement).
• Dr Peter Sefton and the CAIRSS team have almost finalised the new webpage ‘Getting into Google, Google Scholar and other search engines’. Coming soon.

For your interest

• Tim McCallum has given the CAIRSS website a bit of a usability makeover to comply better with web usability standards. If you notice any problems with the new CAIRSS website please let us know at cairss-technical@caul.edu.au so we can fix it.

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.

Events

• Reminder to register for the Perth and Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshops on 29^th July 2010 and 17^th August 2010. Registrations for Perth close 9^th July and registrations for Brisbane close 30^th 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.
• 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.

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.

Events

• Reminder to register for the Perth and Brisbane CAIRSS Copyright Workshops on 29^th July 2010 and 17^th August 2010. Registrations for Perth close 9^th July and registrations for Brisbane close 30^th July. See CAIRSS website for further details at: http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/copyright/cairss_copyright_workshop.htm.
• The first of the ANDS Data Commons Boot Camps is running this week (http://ands.org.au/events/bootcamp.html). Peter Sefton from CAIRSS is attending.

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

• 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. We will be ramping up work in this area after ERA submissions close. 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. Contact Tim McCallum (CAIRSS Technical Officer) at cairss-technical@caul.edu.au for any related queries.
• CAIRSS had another teleconference with policy and technical staff at the ARC today to monitor the remaining outstanding issues. The ARC have advised us that they are implementing a patch to SEER today that may fix a number of the outstanding IR issues. Post patch Tim will be testing and contacting relevant institutions who still have outstanding issues reported to him.
• 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.

• CAIRSS met with ANDS staff last week in Brisbane regarding investigations being done by ANDS into suitability of Institutional Repositories for integrating with ANDS metadata requirements. With varying architectures, ANDS has requested IR expertise from CAIRSS to ensure that they are aware of potential impacts upon repositories, as well as how repositories may be utilised.

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.

• RIAN, Ireland’s new national portal for Open Access to Irish published research is now live: http://www.rian.ie. RIAN contains content harvested from the institutional repositories of the seven Irish Universities and Dublin Institute of Technology.