Labels: Electronic repositories, NLA, Research Policy
Greeting from the School of Computer Science at the ANU in Canberra, where Professor Zhendong Niu is visiting from Beijing Institute of Technology. One of his areas of interest is Digital Library and Digital Education. SOme projects of interest are the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, National Cultural Information Resource Sharing Project, China Academic Library Information System, National Foundation Education Grid (for k12 education resources for schools). The Professor also has an interest in legal portals.With the development of digital library, social networks, and user-generated content, need for trust and reputation models become prime. In this paper, we propose a user reputation model. As an encouraging and sanctioning mechanism, it has been applied to the DLDE (Digital Library and Digital Education) Learning 2.0 Community that is developed by our lab based on digital repositories management etc. The model combines user's individual activity analysis approach and collaborative activity analysis approach. Individual activity analysis approach is used to analyze the activities in which users participate individually and give its evaluation method. Collaborative activity analysis approach is used to analyze users' collaborative activities; three different categories of users' collaborative activities and corresponding evaluation methods were proposed in this paper. Experiments show that the proposed reputation model can accomplish the mission of encouraging good behaviors and differentiating the ability of students. Therefore it can fit well in our Community. ...
From: A User Reputation Model for Digital Library and Digital Education DLDE Learning 2.0 Community, Jin, F., Niu, Z., Zhang, Q., Lang, H., and Qin, K. 2008. , In Proceedings of the 11th international Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access To information (Bali, Indonesia, December 02 - 05, 2008). G. Buchanan, M. Masoodian, and S. J. Cunningham, Eds. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5362. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 61-70. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_7
Labels: ANU School of Computer Science, Beijing 2008 Olympics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Digital Library, Education Revolution, Electronic repositories
Special Minister of State, Senator John Faulkner has announced draft laws to establish an Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) The Minister invited submissions via the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet website by 15 May 2009. But unfortunately the invitation did not include a copy of the documents to be commented on, nor any information on how to obtain a copy, making comment difficult.
In October 2007 I set the design of a computer system to speed FOI requests as a workshop exercise for students of Electronic Document Management at the Australian National University. The problem is that the volume of material could overwhelm manual FOI processes in the relatively small OIC. A system using XML and web technology could be used to speed the process.Labels: Australian Government, Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories, Information Management Course
ACS Digital Library (410 records)
Running Other softwares (various), based in Australia and is registered as e-Journal/Publication
Registered on 2006-12-05
Cumulative deposits: 410 total [table] [graph]
Daily deposits in last year: 1 days of 1-9, 1 days of 10-99, 0 days of 100+ [table] [graph (PNG format)] [interactive graph (requires SVG format support)]
OAI Interface: Identify List Metadata Formats List Sets [harvest status]
100% freely accessible fulltext (* estimate)The ACS Digital Library provides international quality magazines, journal articles and conference papers, covering innovative research and practice in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). This service is provided free to the ICT profession by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) as part of its commitment to ensure the beneficial use of technology for the community. It includes: Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT), and Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT).
Labels: Electronic publishing, Electronic repositories, Open Access, Scholarly Publishing
Information produced and maintained on the web as part of public sector business is covered by the Public Records Act 2005. This includes information on public websites, intranets, shared workspaces, wikis, blogs and other types of sites, as well as information in the administrative systems used to run these sites.
Archives New Zealand is receiving increasing requests for advice on recordkeeping for web information. Current guidance contained in the Continuum Recordkeeping Resource Kit was largely developed in 2003 and needs to be updated and expanded to provide more useful support to public sector agencies on strategies and tactics for current web information management that will support the aims of the Public Records Act.
Archives New Zealand is looking for a contractor to undertake the project over the period to 31 June 2009:
Interested individuals or consultancies are invited to submit an expression of interest along with a proposal outlining how you would approach the work and details of relevant experience by Friday the 21st November 2008. ...
From: Development of Web Information Continuity Guide, Archives New Zealand, 21/11/08
Labels: archives, e-documents, Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories, Government ICT
We are the first people of our lands.These are some of our stories from where we have lived so long.
We welcome you to know about us, about our culture, this way.
12 Canoes
This website is built for us, for everyone.
There are 12 stories here about where we live, about how we came to be, about our history and about how we live now.
- Creation
- Our Ancestors
- The Macassans
- First White Men
- ThomsonTime
- The Swamp
- Plants and Animals
- Seasons
- Kinship
- Ceremony
- Language
- Nowadays
Gallery
There are many artworks (by many artists), photos and music here about where we live, about how we came to be, about our history and about how we live now. ...
Gallery > People & Places
There are over 60 photos here about where and how we live.
...About > Meanings
Yolngu: The literal translation of Yolngu is simply, "the people", but it is used nowadays as a term to describe the group of Australian Indigenous people (Aboriginals) living in or originating from central and eastern Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.
Balanda: A word meaning "white person(s)", derived from the word "Hollander"...the Dutch were the first white people to come into contact with the Yolngu.
Macassan: The Macassans, from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia began visiting the north coast of Australia centuries ago. Their trade made the Yolngu a very powerful grouping economically. Such trading was stopped by the government in the 1906-07 season, and the economy of the region was destroyed by the imposition of Balanda law. ...
About > The People
We are the Yolngu people of Ramingining, in the northern part of Central Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.
Ramingining is a town of about 800 of our people. More of our people live on outstations different distances from town. Also about 50 Balanda live here.
The nearest other town is Maningrida, more than two hours drive away except in the rainy season, when we can only fly there.
In Ramingining we have a store, a clinic, a school, a new police station, an arts centre, a resource centre, houses and not much else.
But we have history and culture here, that our ancestors have been growing for more than forty thousand years.
They passed that culture on from generation to generation. Now it's our turn to pass it on, not just to the next generation, but to people everywhere, all over the world.
That's because our way of life is changing fast now, and what you're going to see is for every generation to remember and keep our culture alive.
About > Where In The World
Ramingining is in the northern part of Central Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.
Ramingining is a town of about 800 of our people.
About > Study Guide
This section coming soon. ...
Share
We are proud of our community. We are proud of our history and our present.
We are proud of our children, and our artists, and our songmen, we are proud of our whole place.
Because we are proud of all these things, we are sharing them with you. We are glad that you are interested enough to be here.
We hope that if you like them, the paintings or the stories or any of it, that you will share them with other people who are interested in learning about us...
From: Twelve Canoes: Introduction, Indigemedia Incorporated, Christensen Fund, South Australian Film Corporation and Screen Australia, 2008
Labels: ANU, Electronic repositories, museums, Northern Territory, South Pacific, Yolngu people
Labels: archives, Australian Government, edocument elearning course, Electronic repositories, Governance, ICT Policy, New Zealand
... The project is undertaking a survey of academic and scholarly authors within Australia to obtain an understanding of authors’ knowledge of publishing agreements and their experience in dealing with publishers in order to provide an accurate perspective on current academic publishing practices. The results received from the survey will be used in developing model publishing agreements, toolkits and training materials for academic authors and publishers.
If you are an academic or scholarly author within Australia, please click on this link to complete the survey: http://qutsurvey.webcentral.com.au/OAKsurvey/OAKsurvey.asp
We know that your time is valuable, yet we encourage you to complete the survey as we are confident that the results will allow us to develop practical tools which can be used by you to better manage your copyright.
Alternatively, if you would like more information about the OAK Law project please visit our webpage: www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au; this page also contains a link to the Author Survey.
We thank you in advance for your consideration of this request.
Paul Armbruster
On behalf of Professor Brian Fitzgerald
Research Assistant
The OAK Law Project
Legal Framework for e-Research Project
Queensland University of Technology
Level 1, 126 Margaret Street
Brisbane, Queensland, 4001
Australia ...
www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au
www.e-research.law.qut.edu.au
CRICOS NO.: 00213J
Labels: Creative Commons, Electronic publishing, Electronic repositories
Labels: Australian Government, Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories, Information Management Course
One catch with this proposal is that the cataloging of the information would have to be correct to prevent any privacy or security breeches. Previously public servants could write relatively freely in an internal file, on the assumption most of it would never be made public and what was would be carefully checked before release. If electronic records are freely available, they can be pured over by millions of eyes (and automated search programs) looking for embarrassing, or financially useful, information.There are other reforms that we believe should be considered as part of a wider review of the Act’s operation. Modern information technology (ICT) enables the large scale disclosure of government documents to be achieved at very low cost. ICT allows all documents created by government organisations to be automatically uploaded and published on websites at the time of their creation. There is no reason why this should not be done for all documents except those protected by privacy legislation and the specific, narrow legislative xemptions.
By default, electronic documents would be released to the public, leading to large cost savings in the administration of FOI legislation. Contests would be limited to those few cases in which non-disclosure was based on claims that a document’s disclosure would be contrary to the public interest. ...
From: Be Honest, Minister! RESTORING HONEST GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA, Accountability Working Party, Australasian Study of Parliament Group, 2007
Labels: Australian Government, Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories
ICT Standards for Civil Society, Commerce and Government
What are we trying to accomplish with the Internet, web and broadband? In a series of talks and training courses over the next few months I will discuss how to reduce carbon emissions, sell goods, publish and preserve information using ICT. The Internet now provides a common wired and wireless platform for communications and the web a platform for publishing and, increasingly, for data applications.
Increasingly computer systems are using a common set of Internet and web based standards for publishing, commerce, government business and personal communications. What these have in common is that it is to allow people to work together more efficiently and creatively. The application might require a commercial business plan, a government policy, a communial agreement, or just an nod from friends having lunch, but they will all use similar technology with similar ways of working and aims.
Labels: alternative energy, Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories
Recommended:ALIA URLs (ACT) is delighted to announce that our first speaker of 2007 will be Dr Markus Buchhorn, Director of Information and Communication Technology Environments in the Division of Information at the Australian National University. Markus will talk on "The Preservation and Sustainability of Research Data in Australia", based on his recent talk to Information Online in Sydney in January.See also:
In 2006, Markus worked with Paul McNamara of the ANU Library on the Australian eResearch Sustainability Project (AERES). The AERES report was mentioned favourably in the December 2006 Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) Working Group report - From Data to Wisdom: Pathways to successful data management for Australian science.
When: Thursday March 15 4:30 - 5:30pm
Where: Baume Theatre, Australian National University ...
Margaret Henty
National Services Program Coordinator
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
W. K. Hancock Building (#43)
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, 0200, AUSTRALIA
Labels: ANU, Electronic publishing, Electronic repositories
Labels: ACS, ACS Digital Library, ANU, Electronic publishing, Electronic repositories
A folksonomy is an Internet-based information retrieval methodology consisting of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. A folksonomy is most notably contrasted from a taxonomy in that the authors of the labeling system are often the main users (and sometimes originators) of the content to which the labels are applied. The labels are commonly known as tags and the labeling process is called tagging.
The process of folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easier to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to its primary users. Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and Del.icio.us, although it has been suggested that Flickr is not a good example of folksonomy.[1]
From: Folksonomy, Wikipedia, 2006
The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site came online in late 2003 and was founded by Joshua Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool. It is now part of Yahoo!.
A non-hierarchical keyword categorization system is used on del.icio.us where users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords (cf. folksonomy). A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki" displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users.
From Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, 2006
The Library of Alexandria was destroyed by fire around 48 BC and opened again for business in 2002 AD. Some ways libraries and publications work have not changed in 2000 years, despite the use of computers, but the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has gone hi-tech:The Bibliotheca Alexandrina intends to become an active member among the leading digital institutions in the world. Towards that goal, the BA has embarked on a whole array of ambitious projects, in partnership with world class institutions. These range from hosting a mirror site for a significant part of the Internet Archive, participating in the Million Book Project, organizing the digital archive of the Gamal Abdel Nasser collection, presenting the first ever complete digital version of the Description de l'Egypte, to participating in advanced research such as the Arabic component of the UN-sponsored Universal Digital Language computerized multi-language translation program and offering the most advanced 3D virtual imaging techniques in an virtual immersive environment for Science and Technology (S&T) applications. Thus, despite being barely four years in existence, the BA has already a substantial record of achievements.From Born Digital The New Bibliotheca Alexandria, Ismail Serageldin, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 01-10-2006, http://www.bibalex.org/english/Publication/Attachments/Files/BornDigital_links.pdf
Labels: Electronic repositories, Libraries
Labels: Australian Flexible Learning Framework, CMS, course management system, edocument elearning course, education, Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories, flexible learning centre, How to Create On-line University Courses in Electronic Archiving, Information Management Course, universities
The request <http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/index/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats> returns what formats the data is available in:
Repository Name ACS Digital Library Base URL http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/index/oai Protocol Version 2.0 Admin Email dl@tomw.net.au Earliest Datestamp 2006-12-05T00:40:05Z Deleted Record Handling no Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ Compression gzip Compression deflate Other Information
oai-identifier:
scheme: oai
repositoryIdentifier: acs.ojs.journals.sfu.ca
delimiter: :
sampleIdentifier: oai:acs.ojs.journals.sfu.ca:article/1
Prefix=[oai_dc]List sets <http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/index/oai?verb=ListSets> lists the publciations in the repository:
NameSpace=[http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/]
Schema=[http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd]
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NameSpace=[http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim]
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NameSpace=[http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1807.txt]
Schema=[http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/rfc1807.xsd]
Australasian Journal of Information Systems
set description: dc: description:
Editorial
set description: dc: description:
AJIS Featured Theme
set description: dc: description:
Articles ...
Labels: ACS Digital Library, Electronic publishing, Electronic repositories
The Research Quality Framework (RQF) will require that the research assessed in the first cycle be stored in a digital storage system (repository) wherever possible. The Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories (ASHER) programme will assist universities to meet this requirement during the first RQF cycle.The universities only have to show each paper stored in the system to a handful of assessors. But hopefully they will take the opportunity to build a publicly accessible repository so that any academic, business person or member of the general public can see what good work they have been doing. It would be a shame to spend tens of millions of dollars to build an electronic publishing system for a handful of people to use.
The Australian Government is providing $25.5 million through the ASHER programme over three years to assist with the establishment of digital repositories in Australian universities. This will allow institutions to place their research outputs, including journal articles and less traditional outputs such as digitised artworks or x-ray crystallography images in an accessible digital store for the RQF assessment.
Labels: Electronic repositories, ICT Research, RQF
Labels: ANU, Electronic repositories, museums, Northern Territory, South Pacific, Yolngu people
Labels: Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories, Information Management Course
"There is scope for the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to play a more active role than they currently do in promoting access to the results of research they fund. They could require as a condition of funding that research papers, data and other information produced as a result of their funding are made publicly available such as in an 'open access' repository."Unfortunately (and ironically), many will not be able to navigate their way through the complex way the report has been published on-line. The Commission has obviously tried to make the information available, but has tried too hard providing too many documents to have to choose from. There are:
From "Overview", Public Support for Science and Innovation, Productivity Commission, 2 November 2006
Labels: ACS, Electronic publishing, Electronic repositories
You say in the first paragraph, 'The ANAO recommended training in recordkeeping.' And, it seems that you have been asked to create new courses based on this recommendation. Since none of the recommendations in the Report refer to training specifically, would you be able to post a comment explaining what where the ANAO made this recommendation. The [agency name deleted] has a policy of trying to comply with all recommendations, hence our interest.The Audit report didn't actually say Archives should provide "training", it said "further practical guidance":
22. To assist entities in meeting their recordkeeping responsibilities, the ANAO considers that Archives should, in consultation with relevant entities, set minimum recordkeeping standards and requirements and develop further practical guidance. Archives should also coordinate, and periodically publish, details of the legislation, policies, standards, and guidance that impact on entities recordkeeping responsibilities. ...But from having chaired an interdepartmental committee which previously wrote such guidance, I think few are going to read it, unless you rub their faces in it, by sitting them down and telling them about it. Thus the need for training courses.
3.7 The ANAO also considers that Archives should coordinate, and periodically publish, details of the range of legislation, policies, standards, advice and guidance that impacts on the recordkeeping responsibilities of individual entities. This task would require ongoing liaison with those entities that periodically issue, in the context of their particular responsibilities, such material. The coordination of existing material may also offer opportunities to identify any duplication or overlap that warrant its rationalisation. ...
3.49 To assist entities to improve their recordkeeping guidance, the ANAO considered that Archives should supplement its existing range of guidance, with more practical guidance. Such guidance could usefully address issues relating to the handling and management of email, documents in shared folders and information in electronic systems, as well as the use of scanning in an electronic recordkeeping environment. The guidance may also assist entities to:
- determine for a particular business activity the information that should be created and received, and then determine the information that needs to be maintained as a record of the business activity in entities’ recordkeeping systems; and
- how the record of a business activity is best managed in the context of entities’ recordkeeping responsibilities.
5.42 To assist with the implementation of a recordkeeping framework it is important for an entity to provide appropriate training to record users. This should include a combination of formal training and awareness raising activities that alerts and reminds staff of their recordkeeping responsibilities.Recordkeeping training should address the management of both paper and electronic records, IT security awareness, and assessing and assigning appropriate security classifications to sensitive information.But it would seem difficult and wasteful for each agency to prepare and provide its own training program on what is essentially a standardized government wide function.
Labels: course management system, Electronic Records Management, Electronic repositories, Information Management Course
Digital Culture Talk: Electronic publishingSome books:
Some recent developments in Australian universities
The speaker is Vic Elliott, Director, Scholarly Information Services and University Librarian at The Australian National University. Vic Elliott has also worked as University Librarian at the University of Tasmania and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Time: 12.30 to 13.30
Date: Monday, 27 November 2006
Venue: Library Theatre
Entry: Free
The speaker will be introduced by Paul Hetherington, Director Publications & Events, National Library of Australia
This talk is open to the public. ...
Bobby Graham
Web Content Manager
Web Publishing Branch
National Library of Australia
Canberra
Parkes ACT 2600
Labels: ANU, Electronic publishing, Electronic repositories, Scholarly Publishing, universities
