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    Information Futures Commission: final report of the Steering Committee, July 2008
    O'BRIEN, LINDA ; BRODSKY, MARK ; Ruwoldt, Margaret L. ; Newton, Sally ; GILBERT, LYNDA (The University of Melbourne, 2008)
    The Information Futures Commission was formed to explore how the scholarly information landscape is changing, understand what those changes mean for scholarly communication practices and make recommendations about how the University of Melbourne might respond. This report describes the Commission's extensive consultation process. We begin by briefly describing the environment in which we operate. We follow with a summary of what we have learned from our community and from assessments of the world in which we operate and our place within that world. We provide an analysis of the key points of agreement and, more importantly, the strategic questions and difficult choices that emerged from the consultation process. These are the matters where trade-offs must be made, where challenging decisions must be taken. We conclude with a set of principles derived from our understanding of the environment in which we operate. These principles have been applied in the development of the proposed strategy, providing the foundation for the choices we are about to make.
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    Melbourne's scholarly information future: a ten-year strategy, July 2008
    O'BRIEN, LINDA ; BRODSKY, MARK ; Ruwoldt, Margaret L. (The University of Melbourne, 2008)
    Universities adjust to their times, yet celebrate continuity. Since its inception in 1853 the University of Melbourne has undergone profound changes in its physical, intellectual and cultural landscapes. Yet core values remain unchanged, such as the belief that universities matter, and the understanding that a great university is founded on the strength and vigour of its scholarly community. Based on extensive analysis and consultation, this Scholarly Information Future Strategy will enhance the ability of our scholars to advance knowledge through creating, synthesising, contributing and accessing scholarly works.
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    Scholarly information in a digital age: choices for the University of Melbourne
    O'BRIEN, LINDA ; BRODSKY, MARK ; RUWOLDT, MARGARET ; Newton, Sally ( 2008-02)
    Melbourne University’s future is defined through the metaphor of the triple helix: a public-spirited institution defined by tightly-bound strands of research, internationally recognised teaching and continuous knowledge transfer, each reinforcing the other. Binding these strands is the process of scholarly communication: the creation, evaluation, synthesis and dissemination of knowledge through scholarly information and technologies. How should we develop our scholarly information and technologies, services and infrastructure to achieve our research, learning, teaching and knowledge transfer aspirations over the next decade? This consultation paper aims to stimulate a vigorous conversation among members of the University community and with relevant external stakeholders. In the paper, we consider how changes in society and technology, changes in scholarly practice, and the public mission of universities influence the place and use of scholarly information. We outline the history and current state of scholarly information at the University of Melbourne, and examines how other institutions compare and the changes they are undertaking. Finally, we examine the University's aspirations and the questions they raise for the future of our scholarly information, infrastructures and spaces.
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    Cybraries in paradise: New technologies and ethnographic repositories
    Barwick, L ; Thieberger, N ; Kapitzke, C ; Bruce, BC (Routledge, 2013-01-01)
    Digital technologies have altered research practices surrounding creation and use of ethnographic field recordings, and the methodologies and paradigms of the disciplines centered around their interpretation. In this chapter we discuss some examples of our current research practices as fieldworkers documenting music and language in the Asia-Pacific region in active engagement with the cultural heritage communities, and as developers and curators of the digital repository PARADISEC (the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: ). We suggest a number of benefits that the use of digital technologies can bring to the recording of material from small and endangered cultures, and to its re-use by communities and researchers.
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    Cities, human well-being and the environment: conceiving national regulatory knowledge systems to facilitate resilient knowledge, knowledge based development and inter-generational knowing
    VINES, RICHARD ; MCCARTHY, GAVAN ; Kirk, Chris ; JONES, MICHAEL ( 2010)
    In this paper, we discuss the idea of resilient knowledge and how the concept of knowledge-based development might be conceived as scientific discipline, and on what basis. Discussion is presented in two sections. In the first section we explore the idea of the epistemic loss of knowledge. We suggest this type of knowledge loss occurs where there is inadequate preservation of the knowledge necessary to explain the context, structure and meaning of information through time. We provide a brief overview of an emergent approach that could address this problem – an approach called contextual information management. In the second section, we document examples of how this new approach might be harnessed to create a framework for a (national) regulatory knowledge system. We draw upon one particular case study: the conception of quality standards within the Victorian Community Sector. By extrapolation, we suggest these ideas could well have wider applications – for example, the harmonisation of regulatory standards across State and Commonwealth areas of jurisdiction. By extension, it is suggested the focus of regulatory interventions should not be on compliance per se, but on creating a shared context between Government, stakeholders and citizens to support the dynamics of problem solving, knowledge acquisition and what we call evolutionary possibility.
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    New approaches to information management systems: can a distributed approach to IM be made to work?
    VINES, RICHARD ( 2009)
    This PowerPoint presentation was delivered by Richard Vines tothe VCOSS Interoperability Forum. In this introduction, it washighlighted that if data sharing occurred in a seamless way, therewould be an ability to monitor for emergent patterns acrossdifferent service systems within the Victorian community sector.It was this point that sparked the interest of the VictorianGovernment’s Office for the Community sector, which led to theestablishment of the “Better Integrated Standards and QualityAssurance Systems” (BISQAS) initiative, with the support of VCOSSrepresentatives. Subsequent to this Forum, the eSRC was invitedto tender for this BISQAS initiative in April 2009.