Become a sponsor, collaborator, or friend of ACRO

If you have an interest in collaborating with ACRO to do Research, Development, or Industrial Development in any of our areas, or if you would like ACRO researchers to collaborate with you on specific problems you are interested in, please contact us by email. We welcome postgraduate, postdoctoral, NGO, community, government, and industry collaborations. Here are some of our current R&D collaborators.

ACRO began as an Australian Research Council funded infrastructure project under the Linkage Equipment and Infrastructure Fund (LIEF). The original grant was awarded in 2002 and funded the Australian Creative Resources Archive upon which ACRO is built.

The University of Queensland extended the original ARC LIEF grant with an infrastructure grant awarded in 2003. This established ACRO. Through various internal and external funding schemes, UQ has committed almost a million dollars to the setup and running of ACRO through the Office of Research, Soc

ACRO is currently funded as a School Level Research Centre in the UQ Business School, Faculty of Business Economics and Law.

Researchers from QUT's Creative Industry Faculty and the QUT Law School have been involved in ACRO from its inception. Key collaborators include Greg Hearn, Brian Fitzgerald, Jo Tacchi , and Axel Bruns.

AARNet - Australia's Research and Education Network - provides high-capacity, cost-effective Internet services to the education and research communities and their research partners. ACRO is hosted by Aarnet and is connected directly to Aarnet's 10Gbps broadband pipe. Thanks to Jason Andrade who has organised great connectivity and service for ACRO.

Creative Commons is a not for profit organisation dedicated to developing new legal frameworks that make initiaves like ACRO legally possible. Thanks to Neeru Paharia, Brian Fitzgerald, and Marcus Bornfruend, each of whom has contributed to ACRO in important ways.

The Internet Archive is the largest of all digital archives. ACRO has received excellent advice and support from the people at the Internet Archive as well as lots of help with navigating the murky problems of copyright that we have encountered. Thanks especially to Molly Davis and Brewster Kahle.

The Distributed Systems Technology Centre, in the person of Dr Jane Hunter, has provided us with technical and strategic advice.

Strongpoint is an industry partner on the original LIEF grant. We are currently working to integrate their CMS technologies into the ACRO experience.

ANU has helped in a number of ways, firstly in the person of Tom Worthington, a CI on the original LIEF grant, and later with the help of Paul Turnbull.

The University of Waterloo (UW) has been developing a "sister" project to ACRO: the UW Digital Depot. There have been some great conceptual advances made at Waterloo in the Creative Resources field. Special thanks to the contributions made by Vic DiCiccio, Don Cowan, Darcy Kroeker, Glenn Stillar, Dave Goodwin, Scott Spidell, and Bob Kerton.

The Centre for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech has been a great supporter of ACRO and its related projects since the beginning. Special thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger and Tim Luke.

The Australasian Centre for Interaction Design (ACID) has been involved with ACRO since the original LIEF grant. Centre Director Jeff Jones is a CI and many ACID researchers are involved on an ongoing basis with related research programs.

ACRO thanks to the Canadian Government who funded research into the development of UW's Digital Depot through the grant of a Canada Research Chair to Phil Graham, ACRO's founding Director.

The Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) co-funded digitising infrastructure for UW's Digital Depot that is directly compatible with ACRO.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) co-funded digitising infrastructure for UW's Digital Depot that is directly compatible with ACRO.

Videopro is a partner on the original LIEF grant funded by the ARC. Special thanks to Paul Hayes who has worked with us to design and maintain ACRO's engine room.

Special thanks to Avid Technologies Australia whose Unity system we use to digitise and manage audio and video files.