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
