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Date: Thu Oct 30 12:49:01 2003
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diglib: FW: new Australian University Research Information Infrastructure announced
Something to be said for national
efforts.
nsh
apologies for any cross-posting
this will be of
interest to many members of the list(s). Investment is around £5 million UK
Sterling. With thanks to Alison MacDonald for drawing this to our
attention.
Neil
Media Release
THE HON PETER McGAURAN
MP
ACTING MINISTER FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TRAINING
$12 MILLION FOR
MANAGING UNIVERSITY INFORMATION
22 October, 2003
Australia’s research
information will become more easily accessible and
better managed thanks to
more than $12 million in funding to improve
infrastructure.
The new
information infrastructure will put Australian institutions in an
even better
position to take part in, and lead, national and international
research
projects. The funding was announced by the Acting Minister for
Education,
Science and Training Peter McGauran.
"Information infrastructure supports
world-class research in Australia
that is complex and continually evolving,"
Mr McGauran said. "It must
accommodate emerging technologies and changes in
research practices,
theory and priorities.
"This funding will provide
for four new projects as well as international
consultation and
collaboration. The new projects will be guided and
coordinated by the newly
established Australian Research Information
Infrastructure Committee (ARIIC)
headed by Professor Wyatt R Hume, Vice
Chancellor of the University of New
South Wales."
The agencies involved in these projects include 15
Australian
universities, Australian and international libraries,
industry
representatives and international organisations. (For more details
on
these projects see attached list.)
"As the projects progress I
anticipate that more universities will help
develop the infrastructure and
this will benefit the entire Higher
Education sector," Mr McGauran
said.
The Higher Education Information Infrastructure Implementation
Steering
Committee found there was a need to enhance the creation and
management of
information, improve access to information resources, and
facilitate the
discovery and dissemination of new information to researchers
and
institutions. This funding implements these findings.
The funded
projects are:
Meta Access Management System;
Towards an Australian
Partnership for Sustainable Repositories;
The Australian Research
Repositories Online to the World (ARROW); and
Australian Digital Theses
Program Expansion and Redevelopment.
Media contact: Yaron Finkelstein
0414 927 663
For more information
see:
<http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/McGauran/2003/10/mcg002221003.asp>