Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0775510
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$400,000.00
Summary
Australian Social Science Data Archive: Network Extension and Sub-archive Development. The Australian Social Science Data Archive is a national facility that allows all researchers and members of the public to access a wide range of social science data sets for on-line analysis. The archive contains data that covers forty years of social, political and economic surveys. The archive also acts as a gateway for social science researchers to access data from equivalent overseas institutions in North ....Australian Social Science Data Archive: Network Extension and Sub-archive Development. The Australian Social Science Data Archive is a national facility that allows all researchers and members of the public to access a wide range of social science data sets for on-line analysis. The archive contains data that covers forty years of social, political and economic surveys. The archive also acts as a gateway for social science researchers to access data from equivalent overseas institutions in North America, the European Union and OECD countries.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0560677
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$416,902.00
Summary
Australian Social Science Data Archive: Facility Enhancement & Network Development. This project will enhance Australia's social science research infrastructure by creating a distributed data archive with world class cataloguing, online access and analysis capabilities. It will also pilot a complementary qualitative data archive. The facility will provide improved archiving, access and online analysis to the Australian research community, and enable researchers on eight Australian and internatio ....Australian Social Science Data Archive: Facility Enhancement & Network Development. This project will enhance Australia's social science research infrastructure by creating a distributed data archive with world class cataloguing, online access and analysis capabilities. It will also pilot a complementary qualitative data archive. The facility will provide improved archiving, access and online analysis to the Australian research community, and enable researchers on eight Australian and international projects to construct consolidated purpose-built datasets for their research and dissemination to Australian researchers. The qualitative archive will develop and pilot new technology for archiving, disseminating and analysing non-numeric social data as proof of concept for the development of a national qualitative archive.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0560732
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$114,036.00
Summary
Australian Policy Online Enhancement Project. Australian Policy Online is Australia's only comprehensive gateway providing access to research reports available electronically from nearly 120 Australian research centres and other organisations. This project will broaden the range of material available, providing important new resources to users of the site, reinforcing the site's role in the national information infrastructure through its involvement in a number of innovative projects, and streng ....Australian Policy Online Enhancement Project. Australian Policy Online is Australia's only comprehensive gateway providing access to research reports available electronically from nearly 120 Australian research centres and other organisations. This project will broaden the range of material available, providing important new resources to users of the site, reinforcing the site's role in the national information infrastructure through its involvement in a number of innovative projects, and strengthening APO's international dimension. APO will be a series of datasets comparing Australia's policy performance with other OECD countries, an annotated bibliography of hard-copy material and a series of opinion surveys; these resources are not available from other online sources.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0453810
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$108,045.00
Summary
Australian Policy Online Archive Project. The project will significantly upgrade Australian Policy Online (http://www.apo.org.au), a Swinburne-based online archive of social science research from over ninety centres, institutes and departments, to create a national, searchable electronic gateway for academic researchers, librarians, public servants, journalists and students. The project will:
-deepen the APO archive by adding key reports from the past five years;
-establish thematic resource ....Australian Policy Online Archive Project. The project will significantly upgrade Australian Policy Online (http://www.apo.org.au), a Swinburne-based online archive of social science research from over ninety centres, institutes and departments, to create a national, searchable electronic gateway for academic researchers, librarians, public servants, journalists and students. The project will:
-deepen the APO archive by adding key reports from the past five years;
-establish thematic resource pages on key policy-oriented research projects, providing previously inaccessible primary and secondary material online;
-upgrade the accessibility and searchability of APO by improving our metadata protocol;
-broaden our membership; and
-incorporate archival material from several new sources.
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Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0668334
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$158,844.00
Summary
Australian Policy Online Development Project. Australian Policy Online provides easy access to a large selection of research reports, papers and articles from centres and institutes throughout Australia. In 2006, the scope of APO's listings and its related research resources will be significantly broadened, increasing the value of the site to its users, including researchers in universities and the public service, journalists, teachers and students. Australia's relations with its neighbours in S ....Australian Policy Online Development Project. Australian Policy Online provides easy access to a large selection of research reports, papers and articles from centres and institutes throughout Australia. In 2006, the scope of APO's listings and its related research resources will be significantly broadened, increasing the value of the site to its users, including researchers in universities and the public service, journalists, teachers and students. Australia's relations with its neighbours in Southeast Asia will be a particular focus of this expansion, and the APO Briefings series of short, topical books will provide an additional, innovative publishing option for researchers. Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0989700
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$175,000.00
Summary
The Australian Policy Online Full-Text Research Repository and Thematic Gateways. By bringing together the research outputs of over 160 member centres and institutes, as well as selected material from government and other sources, Australian Policy Online (APO) makes a significant contribution to the national research effort across all National Research Priorities - environmental sustainability, promoting and maintaining good health, frontier technologies and safeguarding Australia - and to the ....The Australian Policy Online Full-Text Research Repository and Thematic Gateways. By bringing together the research outputs of over 160 member centres and institutes, as well as selected material from government and other sources, Australian Policy Online (APO) makes a significant contribution to the national research effort across all National Research Priorities - environmental sustainability, promoting and maintaining good health, frontier technologies and safeguarding Australia - and to the development of well-informed public policy. This project will increase the value of APO by deepening its coverage of preventative health, planning and the environment, and citizenship; broadening its collection of research material; and offering new resources for researchers.Read moreRead less
New Methods for Researching the Existence and Impact of Political Networks on the WWW. Web mining and data visualisation technologies will be employed in a new methodology for the study of online networks built by organisations (or any entity). The methodology will provide insights into the online networking behaviour of Australian political parties, producing information on how extensively parties are using the Web to connect with other groups, which parties use it most effectively and whether ....New Methods for Researching the Existence and Impact of Political Networks on the WWW. Web mining and data visualisation technologies will be employed in a new methodology for the study of online networks built by organisations (or any entity). The methodology will provide insights into the online networking behaviour of Australian political parties, producing information on how extensively parties are using the Web to connect with other groups, which parties use it most effectively and whether they form online political ?communities?. The methodology will be embodied in an integrated software package that will be of use to researchers in academia, government and business, and hence of significant commercial potential.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0882272
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$100,000.00
Summary
Australian Policy Online Upgrade Project. Australian Policy Online is an open access archive designed to support research in all sectors of the Australian economy, especially within universities. Expected outcomes from this upgrade include improved searching and browsing capabilities, improved preservation of resources and increased sharing and interaction between users of the archive as a result of innovative social software that will allow for comments, user-generated content, tagging and pers ....Australian Policy Online Upgrade Project. Australian Policy Online is an open access archive designed to support research in all sectors of the Australian economy, especially within universities. Expected outcomes from this upgrade include improved searching and browsing capabilities, improved preservation of resources and increased sharing and interaction between users of the archive as a result of innovative social software that will allow for comments, user-generated content, tagging and personal library management. Read moreRead less