[LINK] Revitalizing Australian Research, 8 November 2006, Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

Belinda Weaver, Coordinator for e_Prints and UQ 
eSpace at University of  Queensland is speaking 
on "RQF readiness" at ANU in Canberra (details 
below). More on RQF and Repositories at 
<http://www.apsr.edu.au/rqf/helpful_documents.htm>.

I popped into the UQ to visit Belinda today. UQ's 
"eSpace" repository uses "Fez", based on the 
Fedora repository software. 
<http://espace.uq.edu.au>. Added to the 
repository is a workflow system to manage the 
process by which authors propose selected 
articles to be reviewed in the RFQ process, plus 
extra metadata about the people and articles.

The ACS is building an Open Access publishing 
system which could feed the RQF system with 
publications 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/qpublishing.shtml>. 
One problem is that the OAI metadata would need 
to be expanded to indicate which are the refereed 
papers in the journal (as opposed to the 
editorial or a book review). Also needed will be 
fields to indicate what institution the author is from.

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A reminder, that on Wednesday of next week (8 
November), Belinda Weaver, Coordinator e_Prints 
and UQ eSpace (University of Queensland), will 
discuss what institutions need to do to be ready 
to manage the Research Quality Framework (RQF) a 
particular challenge for Australian Universities 
at present. The University of Queensland has 
already done two RQF trials – the first in 2005 
using Web pages to deliver research to assessors, 
and the second in 2006 delivering research via an 
institutional repository. Belinda will talk about 
workflow issues, time and project management, 
query handling and communication.

Note the time:   NOT a lunchtime event, but a late afternoon one!

Belinda is on the sub-group of the DEST RQF IT 
Working Party. There are many questions about the 
RQF (what research gets included? who decides 
what academic work is "best", etc) and Belinda 
will try to answer a good few of these in her talk.
Topic:      RQF readiness
Speaker: Belinda Weaver, Coordinator e_Prints and UQ eSpace (University of
                Queensland)
Place:     McDonald Room, R G Menzies Building, ANU
Date:       Wednesday, 8 November
Time:      4 - 5 pm.

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