Intended Outcomes

RUBRIC outcomes will include:

• Research repository exemplar/s at a regional university site (USQ)

• Repository establishment and critical mass population at partner institutions

• Embedding repository services into research infrastructure

• Regional repository integration into national / international discovery services

• Platform for feedback into repository software development, ensuring regional deployment issues are covered

• Documentation for facilitating the dissemination and deployment of FRODO outcomes in a regional setting

• Documenting technical issues and resolutions

• Support mechanisms for implementers to share experiences

• Advocacy and promotional tools to assist uptake of repository infrastructure regionally

• Embedding workflows and support services in partner universities

• Promotion of and contribution to standards based approaches to information discovery, storage and sharing, benefits of which can be applied nationally

• Development of sustainability strategies in partner universities

• Articulation of repository systems with other university systems

• Understanding the relationships and integration issues between repositories

• Understanding the alignment between research and learning objects and issues surrounding their storage, curation, recombination and preservation

• Effective open linking between repository metadata and full-text resources

• Exploration of the non-technical issues to do with repository population, such as building human and organizational capability and the advocacy required to embed these technologies into the organization