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Improve the ROI of eprints

19-Sep-08

In an article for The Australian (newspaper), Bernard Lane points to some examples of universities re-using their publications data: publishing their research output online for easy, open access and using the repository’s bibliographic details for mandatory reports to government.
Most Australian universities have an online repository of their research papers, articles and theses. Some have adopted [...]

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Public access to govt info: submissions released

16-Sep-08

About a month ago I blogged about the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Improving Access to Public Sector Information and Data.
Submissions to the Inquiry are now available online.
I’m reasonably pleased with the Melbourne University document (PDF 1.2 Mb). M’colleague Sally and I were able to gather some useful input from well-informed people on very short notice [...]

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Getting sign-off

10-Aug-08

In project management terms, the Information Futures Commission achieved sign-off last month.
The Commission delivered three key documents to the University community:

Final Report of the Steering Committee, describing the consultation process, summarising what we learned, and analysing the major areas of contention
Melbourne’s Scholarly Information Future: a ten-year strategy (”Zis iss ze big vun,” as Otto von [...]

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Public access to govt info: call for comment

07-Aug-08

The Victorian Parliament is conducting an Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Government Public Sector Information and Data.
Public submissions are invited from individuals, groups and organisations. Submissions close on Friday 22 August 2008.
The Inquiry has produced a 50-page Discussion Paper that explores some of the questions and issues to be addressed. In particular, they are [...]

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See you at Oz-IA?

07-Aug-08

Now in its third fabulous year, the Oz-IA conference is a weekend of nerdy fun — the perfect place to meet information architects, if that’s the sort of thing you enjoy.
This September I will be presenting a short (30 minute) session at Oz-IA, a case study based on the Information Futures Commission.
Session title: “Developing a [...]

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