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What is the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories?
The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories is in many ways, a needed national initiative, except for one small detail. It lacks courage, innovation, and risk. Learning how to keep all the files made by US software in Australian repositories is useful enough in itself, but wouldn’t it be grand if there were Australians who could…
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What to do with a million books: Innovations in Scholarly Communication
(The 'scholarly communication' in this email isn't that 'scholarly' ie. I think that Michael Hart the founder of Project Gutenburg is talking about hard-on tablets rather than e-books ie. 'bigger, faster, more'. Still, ebooks may eventually become more than just 'the delivery boy' of scholarship as Willard McCarthy of that wonderful email discussion list Humanist…
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1) Morning Coffee With Craig: When Your Hot Your Hot!
Today I talk about global warming and the need for our political systems to adapt to the politics of global warming.
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Community Engagement and ICT
For those interested in ICTs and Community Engagement, I have transcribed a list of useful sites from that wonderful publication “Towards Whole of Community Engagement: A Practical Toolkit” by Heather J Aslin and Valarie A Brown. Although none of these links particularly concern ICTs, the methodologies and approaches used in them could be applied to…
