AA4 Content Management Systems in Research Environments

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AA4 - Content Management Systems in Research
Environments

• Russell Sim

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Current Tools

• Latex, Word, Power Point
• Bibtex, EndNote
• Isolated Wikis
• Paper Journals, Weblogs
• Maple, Matlab, r, SRB ('s' commands), ...
• Most current approaches are individualistic Easy
  to lose control of their data.

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Vision

• We want a scalable, collaborative approach
• Content Management Framework
• Sharing of documents (exportable via XML),
  centralised wikis
• Sharing of journals
• Sharing of tools
• Indexed though meta-data

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Acquisition

• Unify research tools by linking Plone into
  external systems.
• Unified user interface
• Allow peers to easily view/review
• Use of a strict structure for scalability

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Access

• SRB as an institutional repository.
• Accessed via Plone
• Decentralised Authentication
• Certificate Authentication
• Semantic Map of Content
• Assist new research at the intersection of fields
• fast location of related documents
• Simple rights management
• Standardised licences (Science Commons)

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Annotation

• Integration with Annotation System (Developed at
  UQ)
• Document comments Document centric discussions
• Revision control
• Extensible Meta-Data

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Groups involved

• DART A social experiment to try and find the
  best method to use Plone.
• Earth Sciences pmdCRC currently run a Twiki
  for collaboration between Canberra, Melbourne,
  Perth and Townsville. http//www.pmdcrc.com.au/
• Marine Biology ARC Centre of Excellence in
  Coral Reef Studies
• Townsville, Canberra, Brisbane
• e-Research tools
• collaboration data sharing

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Other Requirements

• Standard portal for research communities
• Simple roll-out
• Easy Portal Administration
• Bibliographical references from documents
• Scientific work flows
• Templates and easily creatable structured content
  types (Meta-data Schemas)
• Weblog filtered aggregation through shared topics
  (categories)