CAUL Research Repository Community Days#crcd2013

28 – 29 October 2013

Griffith University, QCA Lecture Theatre, Southbank, Brisbane

Presenter’s bios

Time / Presentation & speakers / Bio
Monday 28 October
Session 1 - Chair: Heather Gordon
10.00-10.10am / Linda O’Brien, Pro Vice Chancellor (INS), Griffith University / LINDA O’BRIEN
Pro Vice Chancellor (Information Services), Griffith University
As Pro Vice Chancellor Linda is a member of the University executive with responsibility for development and implementation of Griffith’s information strategy and management of the University's information services; including the e-learning and e-research services, the Library, University records management and University-wide information and communication technology services, systems and infrastructure. Griffith, a university of approximately 43,000 students, is uniquely positioned, providing all University information and technology services through a single division.
Linda has a Master of Public Administration from the University of Canberra, a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Science and a Bachelor of Education for the University of Sydney. She also holds a Corporate Directors Diploma. Linda has substantial senior university management experience having worked in six Australian universities in a variety of roles, including Vice Principal Information at the University of Melbourne and Vice President (University Services) at the University of Newcastle.
She has contributed to a number of state and national initiatives, including being a member of the eResearch Expert Working Group developing the 2011 national Strategic Roadmap for Research Infrastructure, Co-Principal Investigator for the Australian and New Zealand Horizon Report 2012 and is currently as a board member of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation and a member of the Queensland Public Records Review Committee.
10.10-10.15am / Housekeeping / Stacey to introduce Heather Gordon
Heather was elected President in 2013. She is currently JCU’s Director of Library and Information Services and Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University Services & Registrar and was previously a member of the Executive Committee from 2006 to 2010, chair of the CEIRC committee 2004-2006, the CAIRSS Advisory Committee from 2008-2012 and of the Research Advisory Committee in 2013.
10.15-10.30am / Opening
Heather Gordon, Director, Library and Information Services, atJames Cook University and Chair of CRAC
10.30-11.00am / Open Repositories 2013 conference
Reports from Australian and New Zealand attendees
Stephen Cramond, University of Melbourne
Maude Frances, University of New South Wales
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato
Peter Sefton, University of Western Sydney / Maude Frances, University of New South Wales
Maudemanages the Library Repository Services unit of UNSW Library. She has led several eResearch projects in which the Library collaborated with researchers and other stakeholders to develop repository-based systems for managing research assets. Prior to joining the UNSW Library in 2007, Maude managed research resources at the National Centre in HIV Social Research at UNSW.
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato
Andrea is the IRR Technical Specialist for the Library Consortium of New Zealand and is based at the University of Waikato. In this role, she is the technical person behind the institutional repositories of three universities and one polytechnic in New Zealand. Andrea has been in this role for just over three years and has been a DSpace committer for just over two years. She is also involved in a data repository project at the University of Waikato.
Stephen Cramond, University of Melbourne
Stephen is Electronic Content Manager at the University of Melbourne Library. He wears “two hats” in this role.
Firstly, he looks after – in a general sense - the Library’s acquisition of online, licenced resources, such as e-journals, e-books and related databases. Secondly, he looks after the content development side of the Library’s Digital Repository.
Stephen began at Melbourne in March 2011, having previously worked at U Adelaide. To look at the position descriptions of his Adelaide and Melbourne jobs you would think they were identical. However, the size and scale of Melbourne U and the advent of the NHMRC/ARC mandates means that he is now spending more and more time at the coal-face of the IR and less and less time worrying about COUNTER reports and definitions of multi-site access.
Peter Sefton, University of Western Sydney
Peter Sefton is the Manager for eResearch at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Before that he ran the Software Research and development Laboratory at the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland. Following a PhD in computational linguistics in the mid-nineties he has gained extensive experience in the higher education sector in leading the development of IT and business systems to support both learning and research.
While at USQ, Peter was involved in the development of institutional repository infrastructure in Australia via the federally funded RUBRIC
( project and was a senior advisor the the CAIRSS repository support service (
from 2009 to 2011. He oversaw the creation of one of the core pieces of research data management infrastructure to be funded by the Australian National Data Service consulting widely with libraries, IT, research offices and eResearch departments at a variety of institutions in the process. The resulting Open Source research data catalogue application ReDBOX is now being widely deployed at Australian universities.
At UWS Peter is leading a team which is working with key stakeholders to implement university-wide eResearch infrastructure, including an institutional data repository, as well as collaborating widely with research communities at the institution on specific research challenges. His research interests include repositories, digital libraries, and the use of The Web in scholarly communication.
11.00-11.15am / NZ Repository Community Day
Reports from New Zealand attendees
Kate Miller and Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato / Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato
Andrea is the IRR Technical Specialist for the Library Consortium of New Zealand and is based at the University of Waikato. In this role, she is the technical person behind the institutional repositories of three universities and one polytechnic in New Zealand. Andrea has been in this role for just over three years and has been a DSpace committer for just over two years. She is also involved in a data repository project at the University of Waikato.
Kate Miller, University of Waikato
Kate is the Repository Coordinator for the University of Waikato’s institutional repository Research Commons. She has been in this role for over 5 years. Based at the University of Waikato Library, she manages the repository’s content and policy as well as directing and negotiating technical developments within a consortial environment.
11.15am-12.00pm / CAUL Repository Statistics and Repository Managers Survey
Libby Cass, CAUL / Libby Cass, CAUL, Communication and Policy Officer
Libby joined CAUL April 2013, in this new role within CAUL Libby works closely with a number of CAUL’s committees, including the CAUL Research Advisory Committee.
Libby has wide experience in leadership and support for not only libraries and information services in Australia and the Pacific, but also more broadly in the aid environment.
Prior to joining CAUL she worked for GRM International and managed the AusAID Education Resource Facility Help Desk, coordinating technical advice and assistance in the education sector for AusAID staff in Canberra and internationally. From 2001 to 2010 Libby lived and worked in Fiji where she was active in library development, advocacy and access to information in the Pacific.
Libby has post-graduate qualifications in information management from UNSW, and ten years’ experience as a library manager in specialist libraries. She has been closely involved with IFLA and the library associations in Fiji and the Pacific Islands.
12.00-1.00pmLunch
Monday 28 October
Session 2 - Chair: David Groenewegen
1.00-1.30pm / Symplectic demonstration
Lisa Ogle, University of Newcastle / Lisa Ogle, University of Newcastle
Lisa Ogle is the Research Publications Librarian at the University of Newcastle, where her principal responsibility is management of the annual Higher Education Research Data Collection. Newcastle rolled out the Symplectic Elements system to their researchers on September 30 this year and Lisa was a member of the implementation team.
Newcastle and UNSW worked closely with Symplectic to develop the first iteration of the HERDC module within the Elements system. NURO represents a culture change for researchers at Newcastle, who now have control over when and how their publications appear. It has also saved Lisa from a life of drudgery, manually entering publications.
1.30-2.00pm / Clever Crosswalking – what do you take from one system to another?
Yanan Zhao, University of Auckland / Yanan Zhao, Repository Manager at the University of Auckland
Yanan looks after the library based research repository, ResearchSpace. One key part of her job is to oversee the integration between the repository and the research management system, Symplectic Elements. This includes coordination of workflows for adding and maintaining content deposited via Symplectic Elements as well as content deposited directly by post graduate students.
Yanan has previously spoken about the Repository Connection Tool Software at this conference. Her talk today will focus on the metadata crosswalk implemented between the DSpace repository and Symplectic Elements.
2.00-2.30pm / Altmetrics
Mark Fallu
Griffith University / Mark Fallu; Griffith University
2.30-3.00pm / Managing grant publication mandates @UOW: an interoperable, implementation model
Michael Organ, University of Wollongong / Michael Organ, University of Wollongong
Michael is the Manager, Repository Services at the University Library, University of Wollongong. He is responsible for both the open access, Digital Commons institutional repository Research Online, and the Content Pro digital collections management system, UOW Archives Online. Michael is a former university archivist and copyright officer who now works in the digital domain and in support of the UOW Library digitisation program.
Monday 28 October
Session 3 - Chair: Paula Callan
3.30-4.00pm / The 3D Anthropological and Archaeological Collection Repository at UQ
Prof. Jane Hunter & Damien Ayers,
University of Queensland / Jane Hunter, Director of the eResearch Lab at the University of Queensland
Jane Hunter is Director of the eResearch Lab at the University of Queensland and the facilitator of the ANDS projects at UQ. She is Deputy Chair of the National Committee for Data in Science and has published over 100 papers on data management and Semantic Web.
Damien Ayers, Software Engineer, eResearch Group at the University of Queensland.
Damien Ayers is a Software Engineer in the eResearch Group at the University of Queensland. He was the developer for the UQ Anthropology Museum online database and has developed eResearch services for anthropology and literature research communities.
4.00pm-4.30pm / Research output discoverability in Australia and New Zealand
Timothy McCallum, University of Southern Queensland / Timothy McCallum, University of Southern Queensland
Tim has been working with systems and protocols which support research output, since 2006. He assisted with installing and testing institutional repository (IR) software, developing data migration software and implementing harvesting protocols during the RUBRIC project.
Tim accepted the role of technical officer during the first round of the CAIRSS project and enjoyed working closely with the Australian IR community and agencies such as the Australian Research Council (ARC). Since then Tim has worked as a Functional Analyst and more recently a Business Analyst. Tim is looking forward to continuing in the field of search engine optimization and inclusion for research output.
Time / Presentation & speakers / Bio
Tuesday 29 October
Session 1 Chair: Natasha Simons
8.30am / Start
8.30-9.30am / Open access: policies, practices, challenges
Danny Kingsley, AOASG
Paula Callan, QUT / Danny Kingsley, AOASG
Dr Danny Kingsley has been researching and working in the open access area for a decade. Her 2008 PhD looked at the barriers for researchers in different disciplines engaging with open access. During her studies she worked in the outreach group with the Australian Partnership of Sustainable Repositories. She worked for four years as the Manager of Scholarly Communications at ANU developing policies and redeveloping and populating the institutional repository. Her current role is as the Executive Officer of the Australian Open Access Support Group.
Paula Callan, QUT
Paula Callan is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Queensland University of Technology. She has been actively involved in open access advocacy and repository management for over ten years; having established QUT's very successful institutional repository back in 2003.
Paul is also is a member of the Australian Open Access Support Group steering committee. In her current role, she provides advice and support to QUT academics in a wide range of matters related to scholarly publishing. This includes providing advice to QUT academics running open access journals with the assistance of the Library’s eJournal hosting service.
9.30-10.00am / 4A Data Management. Acquiring, Acting-on, Archiving and Advertising research data at the University of Western Sydney
Peter Sefton
University of Western Sydney / Peter Sefton, University of Western Sydney
Peter Sefton is the Manager for eResearch at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Before that he ran the Software Research and development Laboratory at the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland. Following a PhD in computational linguistics in the mid-nineties he has gained extensive experience in the higher education sector in leading the development of IT and business systems to support both learning and research.
While at USQ, Peter was involved in the development of institutional repository infrastructure in Australia via the federally funded RUBRIC
( project and was a senior advisor the the CAIRSS repository support service (
from 2009 to 2011. He oversaw the creation of one of the core pieces of research data management infrastructure to be funded by the Australian National Data Service consulting widely with libraries, IT, research offices and eResearch departments at a variety of institutions in the process. The resulting Open Source research data catalogue application ReDBOX is now being widely deployed at Australian universities.
At UWS Peter is leading a team which is working with key stakeholders to implement university-wide eResearch infrastructure, including an institutional data repository, as well as collaborating widely with research communities at the institution on specific research challenges. His research interests include repositories, digital libraries, and the use of The Web in scholarly communication.
10.00-10.15am / Moving research datasets to the cloud
Elke Dawson, Central Queensland University / Elke Dawson, Central Queensland University
Elkehas been at CQUniversity in Rockhampton since 2001 and held the positions of Technical Services Librarian, Acting Director and Deputy Director (Resource and Access Services) during that time. Her current position is Manager, Library Services at the Rockhampton campus of CQUniversity.
Prior to commencing at CQUniversity, Elke held library positions at the Goethe Institute in Sydney before relocating to Victoria where she worked at Deakin University and the Gordon Institute of TAFE in Geelong as well as the University of Melbourne. She also managed the IT Help Desk and on-campus support services at Deakin University for several years.
10.15-10.30am / ANDS update
Andrew White
Australian National Data Service / Andrew White, Australian National Data Service
Andrew is the ANDS Qld Client Liaison primary role within ANDS is to provide outreach support for ANDS activities and interests in Queensland. Based in Brisbane he works across a variety of the ANDS Programmes providing data management assistance as well as facilitating activities across a number of Queensland Universities and Public Sector Institutions.
He also works part-time for QCIF on activities related to national data management Infrastructure. Andrew has qualifications in IT and a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Management. He has worked both nationally and internationally on a range of software development projects as well as with Digital Repositories focussing on digital collection management.
10.30-11.00am / Morning tea
Tuesday 29 October
Session 2 Chair: Maude Frances
11.00am-12.00pm / Duraspace
Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace Chief Strategy Officer / Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace Chief Strategy Officer
Jonathan helps develop and implement strategic initiatives for DuraSpace, with special attention to supporting collaboration within and among open source communities, establishing effective governance, forming alignments with complementary organizations, introducing new services and technologies, and ensuring long-term sustainability. Jonathan also leads the DuraSpace Registered Service Provider, Incubator, and Corporate Sponsorship programs.
Before his move to DuraSpace, Jonathan served as Executive Director of Jasig, the global consortium of higher education institutions and commercial affiliates sponsoring a variety of open source projects for the benefit of universities and colleges worldwide. Jonathan was a leader of Jasig from its early days, helped the organization incorporate as a 501(c)3, initiated its membership program, and was a leader in the development of the Jasig Incubator.
Prior to his Jasig experience, Jonathan served as Interim Deputy Vice President for the Administrative Information Services department at Columbia University in New York, where he had overall responsibility for enterprise software applications.
Tuesday 29 October
Session 3 Chair: Libby Cass
1.00-3.00pm / Repository of the Future Workshop
David Groenewegen, Monash University
Natasha Simons, Griffith University
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato
Peter Sefton, University of Western Sydney / David Groenewegen, Monash University
Natasha Simons, Griffith University
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato
Andrea is the IRR Technical Specialist for the Library Consortium of New Zealand and is based at the University of Waikato. In this role, she is the technical person behind the institutional repositories of three universities and one polytechnic in New Zealand. Andrea has been in this role for just over three years and has been a DSpace committer for just over two years. She is also involved in a data repository project at the University of Waikato.
Peter Sefton, University of Western Sydney
Peter Sefton is the Manager for eResearch at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Before that he ran the Software Research and development Laboratory at the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland. Following a PhD in computational linguistics in the mid-nineties he has gained extensive experience in the higher education sector in leading the development of IT and business systems to support both learning and research.
While at USQ, Peter was involved in the development of institutional repository infrastructure in Australia via the federally funded RUBRIC
( project and was a senior advisor the the CAIRSS repository support service (
from 2009 to 2011. He oversaw the creation of one of the core pieces of research data management infrastructure to be funded by the Australian National Data Service consulting widely with libraries, IT, research offices and eResearch departments at a variety of institutions in the process. The resulting Open Source research data catalogue application ReDBOX is now being widely deployed at Australian universities.
At UWS Peter is leading a team which is working with key stakeholders to implement university-wide eResearch infrastructure, including an institutional data repository, as well as collaborating widely with research communities at the institution on specific research challenges. His research interests include repositories, digital libraries, and the use of The Web in scholarly communication.

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