International e-Research Conference 2007

The Legal Framework for e-Research Conference held on Queensland’s Gold Coast during 11 and 12 July 2007 was a great success.  

Seven international keynote speakers, together with prominent Australian research identities, provided insightful, encouraging and challenging perspectives on the issues to be considered for the development of an effective legal framework that facilitates e-Research. 

The slides of many of the presentations are available -
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Session 1:
the dimensions + possibilities of e-Research

chair: Prof Tom Cochrane
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, QUT, Chair, Australian
e-Research Infrastructure Council (AeRIC)

Dr Chris L Greer
Program Director Office of Cyberinfrastructure,
National Science Foundation
Presentation | Audio

Prof John M Unsworth
Dean and Professor Graduate School of Library
and Information Science, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Presentation | Audio

Session 2:
the legal framework for e-Research/cyberinfrastructure:
challenges + opportunities

chair: Prof Brian Fitzgerald

Dr Michael Spence
Head of Social Sciences Division, University of
Oxford, Fellow of St Catherine’s College Oxford
Presentation | Audio

Dr Anne Fitzgerald
QUT Law Faculty
Presentation | Audio

Steve Matheson
NSS Leadership Branch Head, ABS,
Australian Government
Presentation | Audio

Session 3:
data ownership, access + reuse

chair: Dr Peter Crossman
Assistant Under Treasurer + Government
Statistician, Queensland Government

Paul F Uhlir
Director of International Scientific and Technical (S&T) Information Programs,
The National Academies, and Director, US National Committee for CODATA
Presentation | Audio

John Wilbanks
Executive Director, Science Commons
Presentation | Audio

Claire Driscoll
Director of Technology Transfer for the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI, NIH), Washington, DC
Presentation

Fred Friend
Scholarly Communication Consultant, Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK
Presentation

Session 4:
international dimension

chair: Dr Chris L Greer

Prof Bernard Pailthorpe
Chair of Computational Science, University of Queensland
Presentation | Audio

Dr Michael Spence
Presentation | Audio

Gaye Middleton
Inhouse Counsel, Uecomm Operations
Presentation | Audio

Session 5:
contractual + technological frameworks

chair: Philip Crisp
Special Counsel, Australian Government Solicitor

Dr Amanda McBratney
Intellectual Property Lawyer
Presentation | Audio

John Wilbanks
Audio

James J Casey
Attorney, Consultant and UIDP Representative
Presentation | Audio

Prof Mark Perry
Faculty of Law + Faculty of Computer Science,
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Session 6:
privacy

chair: Dr Anne Fitzgerald

Prof Fiona Stanley AC
Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research, Executive Director and Australian
Research Alliance for Children and Youth
Presentation | Audio

David Ruschena
Senior Associate, Health Legal
Presentation | Audio
(BY-NC-ND)

Andrew Hayne
Deputy Director Policy, Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Session 7:
patents: research, commercialisation + licensing in an e-Research world

chair: Malcolm McBratney
Partner, McCullough Robertson

Claire Montague & Adam Liberman
Legal Counsel & General Counsel, Legal + Commercialisation,
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Claire Driscoll

Dr Richard A Jefferson
CEO & Founder, CAMBIA and the BiOS Initiative

Session 8:
australian survey on legal issues facing e-Research

Scott Kiel-Chisholm
QUT Law Faculty
Presentation

Maree Heffernan
School of Humanities and Human Services, QUT
Presentation

Session 9:
key issues to address

Professor Mary O’Kane
Mary O’Kane & Associates Pty Ltd,
Independent Director of the Governing Board of the CRC for Spatial Information,
Independent Director of the Board of Spatial Information Systems Ltd

Dr Terry Cutler
Cutler & Co.,
Member of the Board of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),
Member of the Victorian Government’s Innovation Economy Advisory Council,
Chairman of the Australasian Centre for Interaction Design (ACID)
Presentation | Audio

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The Legal Framework for e-Research project is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, under the Research Information Infrastructure Framework for Australian Higher Education, as part of the Commonwealth Government’s Backing Australia’s Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future (BAA).

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