September 2007
A series of one-day seminars were held across Australia during August 2007 to highlight the achievements of projects managed by The University of Southern Queensland (USQ). The featured projects are part of the MERRI (Managed Environments for Research Repository Infrastructure) projects funded under DEST’s Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII).

The 2007 roadshow seminars convened at three locations: Victoria University in Melbourne (16 August 2007); University of Western Australia in Perth (20 August 2007) and The Stamford Plaza Hotel in Adelaide (22 August 2007). Participating in the seminars were organizations whose ongoing work is related to the projects: e-Works, Westone, education.au, Flinders University and Murdoch University.

The e-Framework presentation by Kerry Blinco and Lyle Winton focused on the e-Framework Initiative’s quest for technical interoperability in the development of IT infrastructure that is needed to support education and research. Service Usage Models (SUMs) from the PILIN and FRED projects were described as examples of the e-Framework being applied.
e-Framework Presentation (Powerpoint) - 1.87Mb

Other MERRI at USQ projects presented were:

PILIN Project (Persistent Identifier Linking Infrastructure) - strengthening Australia's ability to use global identifier infrastructure. (USQ manages the PILIN project on behalf of the ARROW2 project.)
PILIN Presentation (Powerpoint) - 4.4Mb

FRED Project (Federated Repositories for Education) - supporting deployment of repository federations in Australian education and training communities via a 'services' approach.
FRED Presentation (Powerpoint) - 3.0Mb

RUBRIC Project (Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively) – addressing issues related to setting up institutional repositories by producing the RUBRIC Toolkit.
RUBRIC Toolkit Presentation (Powerpoint) - 1.22Mb

ICE-RS Project (Integrated Content Environment for Research and Scholoarship) - creating software for producing flexible documents that will foster improved efficiency, greater usability of research outputs and more sustainable research repositories. ICE allows groups of authors to collaborate on documents and publish them to the web and in print formats.
ICE-RS Presentation | HTML | HTML-Slides | PDF - 170Kb

To access all the project presentations or to read more about MERRI at USQ Roadshows 2007, go to:

http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/roadshow2007/

(Link Affiliates works with Australian communities, infrastructure projects, and with national and international standards organizations to solve real interoperability problems and is the focus for DEST-supported standards activities.)
Link Affiliates Presentation (Powerpoint) - 6.25Mb