Australian Subject Gateways Forum
Issues
Regulatory Environment
Intellectual Property Rights
- Australian Digital Alliance - a good source of information on the current copyright debate
- Appendix A: Intellectual property issues, in Developing a Framework for a Useable and Useful Inventory of Computer-facilitated Learning and Support Materials in Australian Universities. Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, 2000. PDF file (2133 K)
- Guide to Digital Rights Management. Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, [2002?]. [note: no longer on DCITA site; link is now to PANDORA copy]
- Law and the World Wide Web - AusWeb2k presentation by Brian Fitzgerald
Privacy
- Information Technology and Internet Issues - by the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner Australia
Usability Studies
- ASGF usability studies - information on usability studies conducted by ASGF gateways.
Accessibility Guidelines
- Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible - a set of guidelines provided by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. Includes Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, guide to evaluation tools and a list of checkpoints.
Automatic classification
- Automatic RDF Metadata Generation for Resource Discovery - paper by Charlotte Jenkins, Mike Jackson, Peter Burden, Jon Wallis of University of Wolverhampton, UK
- DESIRE II - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education II - a European project which resulted in producing an automatic classification work package
- MODELS 11: UKOLN/mda Terminology Workshop - provides pointers to manual classification schemes currently in use
- Report on automatic classification systems - produced for the TERENA activity Portal Coordination
- The Scorpion Project - an OCLC project exploring the indexing and cataloging of electronic resources.
Thesauri
- A-Z of Thesauri - compiled for the HILT project
- Controlled vocabularies - provides an extensive list of thesauri and classification schemes; maintained by Michael Middleton of Queensland University of Technology
Date last verified: 14 December 2004
