Digital Songlines is an Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) project that is developing protocols, methodologies and toolkits to facilitate the collection, education and sharing of indigenous cultural heritage knowledge. The project explores the areas of effective recording, content management and virtual reality delivery capabilities that are culturally sensitive and involve the indi...

In the context of evolving intellectual property law, defining ownership of traditional knowledge can be challenging when claims of origin are conflicting and requires accepting parameters of how uniqueness is defined and patent law is applied to protect this information. For purposes of this paper, the complexities of evolving benefit sharing for custodians of traditional knowledge are discuss...

In the medical field, we are amassing phenomenal amounts of data. This data is imperative in discovering patterns and trends to help improve healthcare. Yet the researchers cannot rejoice as the data cannot be easily shared, because health data custodians have the understandable ethical and legal responsibility to maintain the privacy of individuals. Many techniques of anonymization have been p...

The aim of the research work is to mine the data set available with each custodian in a semi honest model, securely without disclosure of any data amongst various custodians involved. No custodian discloses any information. In the proposed scheme in order to reduce the computational complexity, the data partitioning has been done in the horizontal way. The proposed research work consists of a w...

We describe an architecture for a database service that does not assume that the service provider can be trusted. Unlike other architectures that address this problem, this architecture, which we call blind custodians, does not rely on encryption. Instead, it offers confidentiality by means of information dissociation: The server only stores “fragments” of information that are considered safe (...

MusicAustralia is a national music discovery service, developed by the National Library of Australia and ScreenSound Australia, National Film and Sound Archive. The service aims to provide seamless access to music and music information resources, in multiple formats, from custodians across all cultural sectors. This paper describes the development of the service, including its architecture, and...

In the context of evolving intellectual property law, defining ownership of traditional knowledge can be challenging when claims of origin are conflicting and requires accepting parameters of how uniqueness is defined and patent law is applied to protect this information. For purposes of this paper, the complexities of evolving benefit sharing for custodians of traditional knowledge are discuss...

Acknowledgement of Country In the spirit reconciliation Australian Council TESOL Associations (ACTA) acknowledges Traditional Custodians country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea community. We pay our respect elders past present extend that all Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples today. acknowledge arrival English language this continent impacted traditional language...

The Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR) is a publicly funded company that is part of an international network that facilitates unrelated bone marrow transplantation. This role means that the ABMDR has access to a large biospecimen repository therefore making it a highly valuable research resource. Recognising the potential value of these biospecimens for research purposes, the ABMDR i...

For years to come, the Russian nuclear weapons production complex will remain responsible for missions that are central to international security and nonproliferation, including: • dismantlement of retired nuclear weapons; • support to Russia’s operational nuclear warhead stockpile to assure its safety, security, and reliability; • safe and secure storage, management, and disposition of hundred...