The DART Project building the new collaborative eresearch

The DART Project: building the new collaborative eresearch infrastructure Presentation to 2006 Aus. Web Conference

But first, a word from our sponsors… § The DART project has been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) through to the end of 2006 as a Managed Environments for Research Repository Infrastructure (MERRI) project § Building (of course) on the success of FRODO! § The funding has been provided through the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) as part of the Commonwealth Government's Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future. 2

Virtual Learning Environment Undergraduate Students Digital Library Graduate Students E-Scientists Reprints Peer. Reviewed Journal & Conference Papers Grid Technical Reports Preprints & Metadata E-Experimentation Publisher Holdings Institutional Archive Local Web Certified Experimental Results & Analyses Data, Metadata & Ontologies 3 Source: Liz Lyon, e. Bank UK Presentation 5 Entire E-Science Cycle Encompassing experimentation, analysis, publication, research, learning

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Pathways Functions § DART: Research Process § Registration § allows claims of precedence for a scholarly finding § Certification § establishes the validity of a registered scholarly claim § Awareness § allows actors in the scholarly system to remain aware of new claims and findings § Archiving § preserves the scholarly record over time § Rewarding § rewards actors based on metrics derived from communication system. § DART: Annotation 5

DART Benefits (modified Pathways model) 6

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Questions? § DART Project § http: //dart. edu. au/ DART Project Director § Jeff. Mc. Donell@its. monash. edu. au § DART Project Architect § Andrew. Treloar@its. monash. edu. au § http: //andrew. treloar. net/ 14