APSR Project

This project concluded in August 2006. The final PDF report, "Sustainable paths for data-intensive research communities at the University of Melbourne: a report for the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories" can be downloaded from: http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002731/.

Overview and Context

APSR (as part of their AERES project) is coordinating a broad survey of sustainability in research communities at the University of Melbourne, whose work is data-intensive and who have an identified need to store and share that data.

The purpose of this project is to work directly with some of the data-intensive research communities at the University of Melbourne as part of this APSR national survey. Our project aims to conduct an audit of ten to twelve data-intensive research communities across a variety of disciplines, documenting the data management issues for each community. The project team will work more closely with a small number of these research communities to develop a framework for e-Research and sharing of best practice. The learning from this process will be fed back to the National AERES project.

Objectives

The project objectives are a localised adaptation of the National project objectives:

1. to conduct an audit of ten to twelve data-intensive research communities across a variety of disciplines
2. to document the data management issues for each community as identified during the audit
3. to work closely with three to six communities to implement change
4. to develop a framework for progress for each of these communities
5. to draw broader conclusions from these sample communities