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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear students<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Curtin University is participating in a national research
data management initiative and some of the staff in our Department will be
involved in it. There is an opportunity for at least one (there could be
more) student research project to commence in semester 1, 2011, under our
supervision.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The major project is to improve the use and management
of research data. The project is partly funded by the Australian National Data
Service (ANDS). Project objectives are to develop a policy framework,
streamlined processes and infrastructure for capturing valuable descriptive
information about research outputs; and seeding the Australian Research Data
Commons with descriptions about past research outputs. The proposal is to link
existing systems that contain information about projects, publications and
research data (primary and secondary) and generate useful descriptions about
research data collections for voluntary submission to a national registry, without
the need to rekey this information. Curtin University is participating in
<i>Seeding the Commons</i> to input descriptions about existing research data
collections into Research Data Australia (the data commons). The University is
also developing a <i>Data Capture</i> project to automatically generate
descriptions for new research projects and provide a pathway for submission to
the data commons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The research student/s will not be paid, rather undertake an
element of the above major project as part of their research studies. If
you are interested in participating you will be invited to an information
session. You will be provided with an overview of the proposal and an
opportunity to answer any questions you may have. Following the information
session you will be ask to provide a CV and, if relevant, an idea about what
you would like to research.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Please email me by cob Friday 15<sup>th</sup> October 2010 if
you are interested in learning more about this possibility. You will need
to enrol in the research project unit/s of the Masters of Information Management,
or honours for the BA (LCIM) starting semester 1, 2011, to participate.
I am not sure how we would manage an interstate enrolment as there are local
meetings to attend, but if any interstate students have a burning passion to do
this work, please let me know and I will find out if such is possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Kerry<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Assoc
Prof Kerry Smith, FALIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";
color:#AB8303'>Head| Department of Information Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";
color:#AB8303'>School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts<br>
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