RUBRIC Toolkit: Key Terminology
The Institutional Repository (IR) literature uses a number of acronymns to refer to various projects, systems, funding bodies and regulatory bodies active in the IR space. This section of the RUBRIC Toolkit provides links to explanatory information on jargon commonly used in reference to the IR movement in Australia.
Regulatory Bodies and Funding Programmes
DEST – Department of Education, Science and Training
ASHER – Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories
SII – Systemic Infrastructure Initiative
BAA – Backing Australia's Ability
Repository Projects in Australia
ADT – Australasian Digital Theses Program
ARROW – Academic Research Repositories Online to the World
APSR – Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
ASK-OSS – Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software
BlueNet: The Australian Marine Science Data Network
DART – Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility and Annotation e-Research Technology Project
FRED – Federated Repositories for Education (no website available)
FRODO – Federated Repositories of Digital Objects
ICE – Integrated Content Environment
MAMS – Meta Access Management System
MAPS – Middleware Action Plan and Strategy
MERRI – Managed Environments for Research Repository Infrastructure
MMIM: Molecular Medicine Informatics Model: A Multi-Institutional, Multi-disciplinary Research and Training Platform for Clinical Research
OAK Law – Open Access to Knowledge
PILIN – Persistent Identifier and Linking Infrastructure
RUBRIC – Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively
Repository Systems evaluated in the RUBRIC Project
DSpace – released in 2002 as a collaborative project between MIT and HP; used by a number of Australian sites involved in the APSR Project.
Fez – under development at the University of Queensland, part of the APSR Project
VITAL – under development as part of the ARROW Project
Other
ASRC – Australian Standard Research Classification
AVCC – Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Commission
Blog – communication tool (see definition)
CAUDIT – Council of Australian Directors of IT (Information Technology)
CAUL – Council of Australian University Librarians
IRUA – Innovative Research Universities Association
ISOC-AU - Internet Society of Australia
JISC – Joint Information Systems Committee
Metadata – data about data (see definition)
MOODLE - Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
NLA – National Library of Australia
RIFF – Repository Interoperability Framework
RSS - communication tool (see definition)
SUGAR – Sustainable Guidelines for Australian Repositories
Trac – communication tool (see definition)
VTLS – vendor responsible for developing VITAL as part of the ARROW Project
Wiki - communication tool (see definition)
References and Further Reading
Refer to the Further Reading section at the end of the Toolkit for bibliographic details of works referenced in this section.
“RUBRIC Toolkit: Key Terminology” produced May 2007
