Current MELCOE Projects
| Project name: | Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) |
| Overview: | LAMS represents a new generation of e-learning technology for designing and delivering sequences of collaborative learning activities. It provides a drag and drop authoring environment for building activity sequences; a rich real-time monitoring environment for teachers to track learner activities, and a learner environment for delivery of activity sequences to students |
| MELCOE Contact: | James Dalziel Ernie Ghiglione |
| Web Site : | LAMS Project: www.lamsfoundation.org LAMS Hosting/Integration/Support www.lamsinternational.com |
| Project name: | Research Activity Management System (RAMS) |
| Overview: | The RAMS focuses on capturing E-Research activityflows so that they can be analysed, shared, re-used and adapted. This will lead to a national website providing a library of “actionable” best practice activityflows for common research processes and the Research Activity Management System (RAMS) to run them. This approach draws on the success of capturing and sharing “Learning Designs” within e-learning, and applies it to the challenges of people-based workflow in E-Research. |
| MELCOE Contact: | James Dalziel Ernie Ghiglione |
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| Project name: | Meta Access Management System Project (MAMS) |
| Overview: | MAMS provides support for development of prototype middleware/common technical services, to enhance national research effectiveness. The project allows for the integration of multiple solutions to managing authentication, authorisation and identities, together with common services for digital rights, search services and metadata management. The project provides a 'middleware' component to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Australia's Higher Eduction research infrastructure. |
| MELCOE Contact: | James Dalziel Bruc Lee Liong |
| Web Site : | http://www.mams.org.au http://mams.melcoe.mq.edu.au/zope/mams |
| Project name: | Australian Access Federation (AAF) |
| Overview: | The Australian Access Federation (AAF) facilitates trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between higher education and research institutions both locally and internationally as well as with other organizations. The project will develop the federation policy framework and deploy the infrastructure (based on two technologies: Shibboleth and Public Key Infrastructure) required to enable access to online resources and services for the Australian higher education and research sector. |
| MELCOE Contact: | James Dalziel Neil Witheridge |
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| Project name: | Identity and Access Management Suite (IAMSuite) |
| Overview: | IAMSuite is a collaboration toolkit that leverages on Federated ID for accessing protected data and resources. It allows users from diffrent institutions to form a Virtual Organization (VO) so they can gather and share resources without worrying about security. Single Sing-On is achieved through the use of Shibboleth-based SSO infrastructure, the authorization for which user can access which service is based on the user attributes accepted by the service. |
| MELCOE Contact: | James Dalziel Dr Alan Lin |
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| Project name: | Muradora |
| Overview: | Muradora is a web-based graphical user interface for Fedora (a well-known digital repository solution). In addition to Fedora's highly scalable architecture that can manage vast amount of digital data, by adapting Muradora & its middleware authorization components (built on XACML standards), external users with federated identities can now be granted access to the repository (via Shibboleth authentication). Because of Muradora's highly intuitive interface, access control is no longer a complicated task, greatly reducing the administration required to support the system. For organisations that plan to deploy a large-scale repository for managing their heterogeneous digital assets, Muradora is the best answer. What's more, it's totally free under the Apache 2 license. |
| MELCOE Contact: | James Dalziel Dr. Chi Nguyen |
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| Project name: | ASK-OSS |
| Overview: | The Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS) provides a national focal point for advice, management, governance, storage and dissemination of Open Source Software (OSS) for research and higher education. ASK-OSS provides unbiased, pragmatic guidance on: selection of appropriate OSS for research; choosing appropriate OSS licenses; management/governance for OSS development; and storage and community development of OSS. |
| MELCOE Contact: | James Dalziel |
| Web Site : | http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au/ |