The RUBRIC project is sponsored by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) as part of the Commonwealth Government's Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future (BAA).

The RUBRIC Project will deploy best practice emerging from the SII first round projects known as FRODO - (Federated Repositories of Digital Objects) and other projects funded in the second round known as MERRI Managed Environments for Research Repository Infrastructure).

FRODO Projects

• ADT - Australian Digital Theses Program

• APSR - Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories

• ARROW - Academic Research Repositories Online to the World

• MAMS - Meta Access Management System

MERRI Projects

The nine projects funded in the second round of SII grants are:

• Time Sync:  Mapping the Global Financial System

• BlueNet: The Australian Marine Science Data Network

• MMIM: Molecular Medicine Informatics Model:  A Multi-Institutional, Multi-disciplinary Research and Training Platform for Clinical Research

• ASK-OSS: Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software

• MAPS: Middleware Action Plan and Strategy

• Legal Protocols for Copyright Management:  Facilitating Open Access to Research at the National and International Levels

• DART: Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility and Annotation e-Research Technology
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• E – Security Framework for Research

... and of course RUBRIC: Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively