The DART Project: building the new collaborative e- research infrastructure Presentation to 2006 AusWeb Conference

2 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.

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

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5 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

6 DART Benefits (modified Pathways model)

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14 Questions?  DART Project  DART Project Director   DART Project Architect  