I’ve been asked by Librarian Kathryn, also known as sirexkat to tell you a little bit about the RUBRIC project. RUBRIC is an acronym that means, Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively. It is a project hosted at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) and we are working with a number of regional Universities in developing sustainable infrastructure for the deployment of best practice institutional repositories.

The key thing here is working collaboratively. We call our office here at USQ, RUBRIC-Central and there is only 7 people here in the office. The other people involved in the project, such as our project partners, are spread across 8 different Universities. We need to work collaboratively in order to achieve our goals. We use a wide variety of technologies to keep the collaboration working including blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, del.icio.us feeds and the more traditional email and telephone / teleconference.

In future posts I hope to talk more about RUBRIC, the things we’re doing, and the way we’re collaborating and working together.