Clever Collections: a national showcase of technical innovations
for digital collections
To
be held in association with ARROW and DART Wednesday
and Thursday, November 28 and 29, 2007.
Registrations commence at 9am and the program at 9:30am
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Digital collections of research materials are revolutionising
the way research is conducted, providing unprecedented ways of presenting, accessing,
analyzing and manipulating scholarly information. World-class innovative development
of such collections (and the systems that support them) is being undertaken
in Australia. This event intends to showcase the excellent work being done.
Clever Collections will provide a showcase of technical innovation relating
to repositories, data centres and other research collections as they are found
in universities and major research organizations. The event will favour concise
20 - 30 minute presentations, and will deliberately juxtapose innovations
from all manner of online collections, for example:
- eScience datasets
- online dictionaries and encyclopedias
- cross-disciplinary information grids
- digital libraries
- institutional repositories
- research data archives
- curated databases
- cultural and heritage collections.
Clever Collections is also designed as a celebration of FRODO
and MERRI projects conducted with Systemic
Information Infrastructure (SII) Funding provided by the Department of
Education, Science and Training. As these projects draw to a close, it is
appropriate to review the outcomes of the very considerable technical developments
which have been made possible over the duration of the projects.
Over the next five years, the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
Strategy (NCRIS) is enabling the further development of online collections
of research data. These too will have a place in this showcase.
Who should attend?
- eResearch technologists and technical support staff
- Researchers engaged or interested in innovative ways
of enhancing research through technology
- Repository developers
- Curators of databases of research materials.
Plenary speakers
- Professor Noshir Contractor,
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern
University. Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Science,
McCormick School of Engineering; Professor of Communication Studies,
School of Communication; & Professor of Management & Organizations,
Kellogg School of Management, Director, Science of Networks in Communities
(SONIC) Research Laboratory. Affiliate of the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
From Disasters to WoW:
Enabling Communities with Cyberinfrastructure
- Jock Phillips: General Editor,
Te Ara: the Online Encyclopedia
of New Zealand
Research scholars and web users –
Te Ara’s Attempt to Bridge this Digital Divide
- Dr Elizabeth Webster: Melbourne
Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
Disembodied Knowledge: The Importance of
Intangible Capital
- Dr Rhys Francis: Executive Director,
Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
Other clever speakers will include
- Dr Ashley Buckle: NHMRC Senior
Research Fellow, Monash University
The Australasian Repository for Diffraction
Images
- Dr Warwick Cathro: Assistant
Director-General, National Library of Australia
Building the Mother of all Collections:
The Future of the National Library's Resource Discovery Services
- Leo Monus: Software Engineer,
Australian National University
Integrating Repositories with Researcher
Environments
- Stuart
Ramsden: Researcher & Visualization Programmer, ANU Supercomputer
Facility
Publishing Computational Experiments at
the Australian National University - the EPINET Story
-
Alison Stevenson: Director
and Conal Tuohy, Senior Programmer, New Zealand
Electronic Text Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Nick Thieberge ARC Postdoctoral
Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Melbourne, University
of Melbourne
Doing it by Ourselves: Online Curation of
Humanities Research Output
- and
more ...
ICE Workshop
A workshop on ICE:
The Integrated Content Environment will be held on Tuesday,
November 27, by the RUBRIC Project.
Dinner
A dinner will be held at 7:00 for 7:30pm on the evening of Wednesday,
November 28 at University House on the University
of Melbourne campus. The cost of this is included in the registration
for Clever Collections.
Cost
$160.00. This charge includes lunch,
morning and afternoon teas, dinner on the night of November 28 and GST.
This amount is subsidised by the
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories and ARROW which
are funded by the Department of Education, Science and Training as part
of the Commonwealth Government's "Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovative
Action Plan for the Future".
Registration
Registrations for this event have now closed. Enquiries may be addressed
to contact@apsr.edu.au.
Cancellations and substitutions
Cancellations should be notified in writing to contact@apsr.edu.au.
Refunds will be made for cancellations notified before November 20, 2007.
Substitutions can be made but it is preferred that these be notified well
before the event.
Parking
Clever Collections delegates are advised to use public transport.
Accommodation
The University of Melbourne is located just north of the City of Melbourne
so there are many accommodation options available.
APSR has negotiated with the Rydges on Swanston (701 Swanston St and within
walking distance of Clever Collections) for their corporate rate to apply
for delegates. The Superior Suite will cost
$165 and the Parkview Suites $180. If you
require breakfast ($18), it is preferable to order this at the time of booking.
Please forward bookings to reservations_carlton@rydges.com.
Delegates might like to consider also staying at Graduate
House at the University of Melbourne. Rooms are available from $85.
