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| Name, email, where you work? | Project title? | Which NeCTAR program? | Describe your proposal? | Research communities supported | Field of research codes | Benefits? | Leading the proposal? | Other participating groups? | eResearch partners? | Can others contact you? | |||||
| Mark Balnaves, Professor of New Media m.balnaves@curtin.edu.au Curtin University Co-ordinator, Your Australian Research Network | YARN (Your Australian Research Network) | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Your Australian Research Network (YARN) brings together a set of national and international partners with well established successful repositories and practices that can be enhanced through NeCTAR funding. The international trend is towards strategic collaborations where university Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) researchers, university libraries and public libraries collaborate in planning, funding and operation of online resources. The National Library’s Trove, a key partner, through the National and State Library Association (NSLA) is an outstanding example of the success of participative editing and annotation, where the digital content is not only physically there but it can be enhanced by participative tools. Trove, an outcome of the joint university and library project, ARROW (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World), now has nearly 250 million Australian and online resources, books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives. The growth of active content producing communities has required new and different tools to facilitate interaction among those communities and repositories. The BBC, for example, an international partner, has its innovative digital public space project that aims to open up its digital repositories for researchers. Locally, the State Library of Queensland’s Queensland Stories initiative is an end-to-end program designed to enable community members to partner with a cultural institution in the preservation and representation of cultural identity. Queensland Stories is a good example of active, participating and creative researchers and communities exploring shared history through narrative, photography, audio and video. The YARN VL is a genuine library and university partnership. | Humanities, arts, social sciences, citizens and non-university community scholarship (and repository managers) | Groups: 1901 Art Theory and Criticism 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media 1903 Journalism and Professional Writing 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing 1905 Visual Arts and Crafts 1203 Design practice and management 1601 Anthropology 1603 Demography 1605 Policy and Administration 2001 Communication and Media Studies 2002 Cultural Studies 2003 Language Studies 2004 Linguistics 2005 Literary Studies 2102 Curatorial and Related Studies 2103 Historical Studies | World's best practice digital public space VL for the HASS researcher community, independent scholars and citizens. | Curtin University | National and state libraries (NSLA), national and international broadcasters, RMIT, Curtin University, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, University of South Australia, University of Melbourne, select galleries and museums | iVEC | Yes. Mark on 0431 658 123. I will shout coffee. | |||||
| Guido Aben guido.aben@aarnet.edu.au AARNet director, eResearch | Service Centre Data Handover System | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | This proposal attempts to solve the ‘data handover’ problem. That problem has two facets. The first is that the data must be delivered to the researcher. This is typically accomplished via a different means for every service centre, often through the delivery of physical media. The second is that a job must be specified and tracked manually by bother researchers and labs. That is, tracking of samples by ID, and association of of ID’s to resultant datasets, is accomplished via a different means for every service centre, which is error prone and burdensome. Proposal The project proposes building a job-submission and data delivery system that can be used at service centres. The proposed system comprises • A configurable job submission component would allow clients of the centre to specify their sample identifiers and select for each the analyses to be conducted. This component would be configurable to the extent required by the collaborating service centres. Configuration would include provision of new analysis types. • A data delivery component that allows clients to retrieve their data on the completion of their job. This component includes support for very large files, structured data (including Q/A data) and integration with the job submission component so that ID’s etc are tracked automatically Possible extensions Depending on the nature of the collaborators for the project, possible extensions to the system would include • The job-submission component to generates pricing information • A data extraction component for some range of instruments, automating extraction of data and packaging into the data delivery component. | all communities that rely on external processing of their data sets | The project proposes three related pieces of functionality 1. A job-submission system, wherein researchers can request a specific services from a lab, notifying the lab of the number and type of samples they will send, and the analyses they require. 2. A data extraction system, to assist laboratories in keeping track of data (including Q/A data) associated with jobs, and amalgamating that data so that it is ready for delivery. 3. A data-delivery system, used by labs to deliver the data derived from processing samples. This would replace existing systems of delivery such as physical media (CDs, hard disks) and email. | Intersect Pty. Ltd. | CSIRO • AARNet • The Ramaciotti Centre (UNSW) • Southern Cross Plant Sciences (SCU) • The Environment Analysis Laboratory (SCU) • Bioplatforms Australia | AARNet • Intersect • CSIRO | yes | ||||||
| Judy Kay judy.kay@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Professor - School of IT | Healthy Campus Wireless Device | eResearch Tools | This project aims to develope a wireless device which can be clipped to a human and it reports on their behaviour. The University of Sydney's Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease is keen to explore this as a potential NeCTAR project for the Healthy Campus Initiative. | University of Sydney | Yes | ||||||||||
| Christo Willemse christo.willemse@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Relationship Manager | Instrument Booking and Management System | eResearch Tools | Enable researchers to book instruments - Manage everything to do with the booking - Provide metrics about instrument usage - Provide billing information for billing instrument users/institutions - Manage maintenance of instruments. | Higher utilisation rates of key, scientific instruments. | University of Sydney | AMMRF, BMRI, ANFF, NIF | Yes | ||||||||
| Jane Carpenter jane.carpenter@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Project Manager | Breast Cancer Tissue Bank Research Collaboration System | eResearch Tools | It is a condition of use of the Tissue Bank that researchers return any scientific results they have generated on the material we provide them with. As we are a relatively fledgling organisation and we don’t ask for the results until after the work has been published (or after 3 years if no publications have been made) we have not yet had to develop a system for how we will manage and store this data. It has the potential to be very complex as we may receive, for example large sets of genomic data, proteomic data or any combination of a number of different data sets in different formats. Ideally we would like some way of linking this to individual specimen records to enhance the dataset on each tissue donor and we would also like to be able to mine the data should a relevant research question be asked. | Allowing secure and accessible storage for data. Allowing increased analysis of data contained in the database. Greater sharing facilities to enable researcher collaboration. | University of Sydney | Yes | |||||||||
| Monika Dzidowska monika.dzidowska@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Executive Officer | PoCoG Database | eResearch Tools | Creation of an electronic tool for managing research data and membership services data for he Psycho-Oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG). The tool will facilitate large scale (Australia-wide), multi-centre clinical trials research. | Facilitate large-scale and Australia-wide, multi-centre clinical trial research. Enable collaborative data entry, authorised access and sharing of data with over 700 psycho-oncology researchers and clinicians who participate in PoCoG's research. | University of Sydney - School of Psychology | Yes | |||||||||
| Linda Barwick linda.barwick@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Director of PARADISEC | PARADISEC upgrade (Cloud deployment) | eResearch Tools Research Cloud | Upgrading the The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) system, “Azoulay,” to operate in the cloud. | Avoid hard drive failures that have been occuring regularly in the current system. | University of Sydney - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Yes | |||||||||
| Sarah Colley sarah.colley@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Senior Lecturer | NSW Archaeology Online Digital Archive | eResearch Tools | Continue work on collating and digitally archiving archaeological reports so they are accessible via a user-friendly interface for students, researchers and the general public. | Enable external trusted agencies, students, researchers and the general public to easily search for, access and upload archaeological materials. Reduced cost on the university to archive archaeological material. The pilot of an interface to allow external users to upload data to the archive will allow the AOL team evaluate the process, and identify and resolve issues relating to the external upload of material | University of Sydney | Yes | |||||||||
| Cassandra Pybus cassandra.pybus@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney | Black Loyalist | eResearch Tools | Black Loyalist is a complex repository of historical data about the enslaved African Americans who left America with the British between April and November 1783 and whose names are recorded in the Book of Negroes. The existing repository focuses on the data that allows researchers to construct individual biographies and visualize kin relationships, but a new range of services and features are required to take the research to next stage, including improved querying of data, sharing data via api's, sharing of the tool by making it available as open source, and building a research community around the repository. | Recover stories of individuals from the colonial archives and construct their life narratives in multiple colonial settings. | University of Sydney - FASS, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry | Yes | |||||||||
| Ross Coleman r.coleman@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Director of eScholarship | Metadata Aggregation for Research Data | eResearch Tools | This project aims to provide an institution-wide approach to metadata about research data collections. The project will design and implement an institution-wide metadata store. AKA METARD. (ANDS DC2F) | High level aims of the Metadata Aggregator project: • To provide user friendly mechanisms to enable University of Sydney Researchers to manage their research data responsibly, and make their research data collections discoverable to peers through Research Data Australia (RDA) The metadata aggregator project is looking to provide a solution that is able to provide the following functionality: 1. Provide mechanisms for Researchers to be able to publicise their research data collections in RDA. These research data collections may be stored in the University RDS or elsewhere. 2. Provide mechanisms that facilitate responsible data management through the structuring of RDS held research data into Research Groups, Research Activities, and Research Data Collections. 3. Provide mechanisms to enable Researchers to allow collaborators access to RDS held research data: a. Collaborators may be internal or external to the University. b. Research data access permissions should be sufficiently fine grained to allow access at various levels (e.g. Research Activity, Research data collection) 4. Where authorised by Researchers, provide mechanisms for direct peer access from RDA to research data held in the RDS. 5. Provide mechanisms to aggregate metadata generated through Data Capture projects DC2B, DC2C, DC2D and DC2E, and feed this into RDA where appropriate. | University of Sydney Library | Yes | |||||||||
| Dr Alastair Blanshard Alastair.blanshard@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Senior Lecturer | Mapping Grecian Travellers: Bringing Ancient Greek travellers to life. | eResearch Tools | This project seeks to develop a Global Interactive Education Platform focussing on Ancient Greek Travellers. Specificially, to create the ability for users to click on something like a Google-maps interface and bring up text, images, data linked via GPS coords to particular sites/locations of interest in Greece which relate to historical travel writing about this region. | Increase interactivity & access to ancient greek studies. Facilitate the "bringing to life" of ancient greek traveller stories through interactive means. | University of Sydney - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SOPHI, Greek History) | Yes | |||||||||
| Mark Gillies mark.gillies@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health | Fight Retinal Blindness | eResearch Tools | The aim of this project is to streamline the data collection process for the FRB project and to increase the data quality. | Clinical staff no longer requires to assist patients to complete the paper based questionnaires as they will use ‘Hand Held’ device. Data entry cost saving under the current load. Reduction in support calls due to availability of Help functionality. | University of Sydney - Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health | Yes | |||||||||
| Mark Ainsworth mark.ainsworth@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Chief Operating Officer, CODCD | Client/Patient/Research Cross Reference Database | eResearch Tools | This project will involve establishing a database at the Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease that works across multiple disciplines. | Specifically, the CODCD DB will contain data and meta data to allow CODCD to cross reference, client/patient with researcher, with results with discipline and research outcomes. | University of Sydney - Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease | Yes | |||||||||
| David Kirk david.kirk@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney eResearch Project Coordinator | Mobile Archeological Computing | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Shawn Ross is an archaelogist who would like Nectar Funding to develop an android tablet application for offline data input when they are in the field. This project could tie into the fieldhalper application. He would also like the application to be interoperable with commercial software. May be related/possible extension of the Fieldhelper software. | The project would an extensible, widely applicable, and integrated system for archaeological data management, the most important features of which include: • Mobile computing applications for collection of archaeological data in the field. • Computing application to assist the digitisation of legacy data. • GIS / database infrastructure to support mobile computing and data management and analysis. • Software for the export of data from internal databases to digital CHM registries. A range of peer-reviewed publications is also envisioned, including: • A stock-taking of digital registries in Australia • An exploration of usefulness of the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria for landscape archaeology, despite its origins as a CHM registry. • Empirical studies of efficiency gains through the application of a mobile computing system to fieldwork. • Analysis of the usefulness of mobile computing for landscape archaeology and CHM. • Site- or project-specific applications undertaken by investigators. | University of Sydney | Flinders, La Trobe, UQ, 6 architecture consultancies | Yes | ||||||||
| Cassandra Pybus cassandra.pybus@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney | Billy Blue Augmented Reality Pilot | eResearch Tools | "This project is a pilot for a larger project for a map based and web based repository of data and a mobile augmented reality visualisation of the data." | The Mobile Reality (Billy Blue’s Harbour) project is expected to provide the following benefits: • Making history accessible to the general public through innovative information delivery methods • Publishing important historical information about the African diasporas in Australia • Pioneering development of a young technology (Augmented Reality technology) • The development of applications that support exploration of spatial history, an emerging academic field that involves “…seek[ing] to understand how space has been constructed and has influenced historical developments in different times and places.” | University of Sydney - FASS, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry | Yes | |||||||||
| Paul Bonnington Paul.Bonnington@monash.edu Monash University Director, Monash e-Research Centre | myTARDIS - A Research Data Management Tool for Characterisation | eResearch Tools | This project establishes Research Data Management (RDM) tools for areas of research involving characterisation, particular areas dependent on capturing imaging data (e.g. EM, XRay, Optical etc). These RDM tools will facilitate collaborative research by making it easier to share and reuse research data; enhance research practices, by automating aspects of them; and enhance research impact, by making it easier to publish and disseminate imaging research data. This project will integrate RDM tools with key imaging instrumentation, analysis tools, and processing facilities (such as MASSIVE); support automation through workflow technology; and enable publishing and dissemination of research data to journals and research community repositories. This project will customise and shape the existing successful myTARDIS RDM tool (initially developed to manage collections of x-ray diffraction images from the Protein Crystallography community) to meet the requirements of other imaging modalities. The NeCTAR cloud will be used to host the platform and RDSI will be used for storing and archiving research data. This e-Research Tool is an integral component of the proposed Virtual Lab project - Australian Characterisation VL Environment. | Scientific communities who use imaging facilities and broader characterisation facilities including AMMRF, NIF and Australian Synchrotron. | Various; including: physical, chemical, earth, biological, medical & health sciences, and engineering. | Facilitate collaborative research; enhance research practices; and enhance research impact | Monash University to be lead agent for the tool development | TBA | Monash e-Research Centre and a number of institutional partners | Yes | |||||
| Professor Cassandra Pybus cassandra.pybus@sydney.edu.au The University of Sydney Professor of History | New Forms of Mobile Spatial History: Billy Blue's Harbour | eResearch Tools | This project, focusing on Australian convict period data, is a pilot for a larger project for a map-based and web-based repository of data accompanied by mobile augmented-reality visualisation. The pilot will focus on convicts in early Sydney with an augmented reality component centred on the celebrated Billy Blue, the original ferryman and constable of Sydney Harbour. Augmented Reality technologies allow digital information to combine with real experiences. To illustrate, someone in Circular Quay could point their smart phone at The Domain and a 3D-generated image of Billy Blue's house would appear on their phone. This in-situ visualisation is a compelling and innovative method of delivering historical information. Rich media such as video, sound and 3D objects is a main feature of Augmented Reality experiences. Hence, a service that enables researchers to work with complex Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data needs to be developed so that they can author Augmented Reality components without in-depth technical knowledge. The service would use the Layar Reality Browser which is an Augmented Reality application tailored for the iPhone, Android and Symbian devices. The authoring service will be developed as a plug-in to the existing software used on the http://www.blackloyalist.info/ repository; this will build on existing work and accelerate the progress of the project. It's envisaged that the plug-in will be released as a piece of open source software for other researchers to use. | Researchers in History, Architecture and the Arts | 2103 Historical Studies, 1201 Architecture, 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media | The project will deliver software enabling Augmented Reality projects to be realised more easily, enabling researchers to work with GIS data to author augmented reality applications. | The University of Sydney | UNSW - iCinema, Faculty of the Built Environment | Intersect | Yes | |||||
| Nathan Bindoff n.bindoff@utas.edu.au University of Tasmania Prof of Physical Oceanography, on study leave, Director of TPAC when not on study leave | Climate Model Discovery and Analysis System | Virtual Laboratories Research Cloud National Server Program | An analysis system is proposed for more rapid discovery and analysis of the models used in the assessments of climate change (eg CMIP5 data sets). The analysis system would be tiered or layered. It would include adapting established tools, standards and technologies h (developed nationally and internationally) for model discovery, model visualization, and model analysis. It would also include diagnostics for model validation and comparison with observations. The analysis environment would allow blue sky techniques and methods (using cloud computing and well established climate model analysis tools), as well as portals that deliver standard analyses and climate model products. The design would allow efficient analysis of the underlying model simulations (100's Terrabyte to Petabytes sizes). It would use the cloud for computation where appropriate (NECTAR), and the research storage infrastructure (RDSI) and the AAF. The products and analysis services create a virtual environment for the climate research community to use, recognising the very wide range of skills and capabilities for these communities to use and re use these analyses. | Australia and International climate research community who use climate model outputs like those used in IPCC assessments. | The climate community cuts across the Field of Research Codes, but the primary codes are those associated with meteorology, oceanography, earth sciences, physical geography. These are the 04 codes at the two digit level. The principle codes are Meteorology, | Faster, more copmplete and detailed analyses of climate model data. The products of these anayses and products can be reused for climate community, including the impacts, adaptation and policy makers.. | UTAS | To be negotaiated, but likely to include Monash University, UNSW, Bureau of Meterology and other organisations | NCI, RDSI node members, NECTAR cloud members | Yes | |||||
| Richard Kingsford Richard.Kingsford@unsw.edu.au University of New South Wales Professor, Director of Australian Wetlands & River Centre | Connecting information on rivers and wetlands – the WISE (Water Information System for the Environment) solution | eResearch Tools | Water and its management are among the most important environmental policy issues for governments. To do this effectively, information is fundamental but is increasing at an exponential rate with easy access to catchments and rivers, the basic unit, not often possible. Researchers, communities and governments need timely access to scientific research for planning investments and also informing policy. Policy makers also need to invest in research. WISE provides a rigorous analysis of information available and not available (gap analysis) from a wide range of sources for researchers. It can save time and money. It is a national system that can be applied to any river catchment or underground water resources. The development of a ‘Wiki’ function will provide the mechanism for sharing information among the community of water researchers in tertiary institutions and research centres in government. It will allow the software self-maintaining, utilising ‘cloud’ resources. Researchers directly benefit by providing their work at the spatial scale necessary for management and policy (i.e. catchment). Improvements and expansion of the WISE software directly aligns with the priority of “smart information use”, informing the public about science in water. WISE is an interactive system running on common browser platforms with broadly used and familiar navigation tools. It aims makes existing scientific more widely available and accessible. It contributes to the national priorities of sustainable use of water, increased protection of rivers and groundwater. WISE provides a central system for information on these issues and other natural resources and their sustainable use. | Water related scienctists, research on water dependant ecosystems and biota, natural resource and cultural heritage managers and | 050202 30% 060204 30% 050205 30% 050203 10% | Benefits of the database include immediate relevance to natural resource managers, policy makers and communities; access to the most up to date scientific information for policy and management, improved community relations, education and better-informed natural resource and cultural heritage management. The system saves considerable amounts of time and money by providing a rigorous analysis of what information is available and not available (gap analysis) from a wide range of sources. | University of New South Wales | Griffith University, Monash University, Charles Sturt University, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, UTS | Intersect | Yes, where there is a need identified and required expertise available | |||||
| Flora Salim flora.salim@rmit.edu.au RMIT University Research Fellow | Integrating Architectural Design, Services Engineering Design and Energy Simulation on the Cloud | Virtual Laboratories Research Cloud | There is a need to facilitate and streamline collaborative decision making processes, involving architects and engineers, to influence energy performance outcomes. To do this, both design and energy simulation parameters and constraints need to be integrated in the design process, enabling architects and engineers to perform effective design decision making over multiple design options generated throughout the collaboration process. An initial prototype of an integrated web services and data management system that consolidates architectural and thermal modelling and energy simulation processes have been developed. Further research and development is required to integrate and simulate material properties and behaviour in the early stage building models. The system needs to be optimised further using resources on the cloud, enabling real-time collaborative design between architects, engineers, and non-expert clients. | Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Urban design, Urban and Transport Planners | 080504 Ubiquitous Computing (30%), 080605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems (20%), 120101 Architectural Design (50%). | The building sector is the single largest emitter of greenhouse gases, responsible for almost half of all CO2 produced. The research proposed in the system will influence the modelling and design decision making processes throughout different stages of building and large scale construction design, involving many specialised experts and non-expert users, with an online and real-time decision support system. | RMIT University | QUT, Project Services | RMIT e-Research | Yes | |||||
| Mingwei Zhou Mingwei.Zhou@csiro.au CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences Principal Research Scientist | Urban Environment Research Platform | Virtual Laboratories | To develop a shared platform to enable integrated modelling and simulation of our urban environment, therefore facilitae a more comprehansive assessment and optimisation of the design and planning of our built environment in a changing climate. | Urban systems, urban planning, ecosystems, climate adaptation, energy and resources planning. | 1205 Urban and Regional Planning 200% 1203 Design Practice and Management 20% 0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering 20% 080110 Simulation and Modelling 40% | Enabling interdisciplinary collaboration in urban built environment research. | CSIRO | Universities, ANDS, AURIN | Yes | ||||||
| Professor Deb Verhoeven deb.verhoeven@deakin.edu.au Deakin University Chair, Media and Communication | Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | A Virtual Laboratory and associated Research Tools which are designed to enhance interoperability between Australia's most significant cultural datasets, enable the expansion of this capacity into the future, support collaboration and data-sharing between humanities researchers, and extend the engagement of researchers, policymakers and the community with this research environment. The proposal will have the following main components: · an open data infrastructure which draws various major national cultural datasets into a linked national capability; · a platform for the future expansion of this capability; · tools for exposing existing datasets within this infrastructure; · tools for managing research workflows; and, · tools for capturing and sharing research data and results. | This proposal will benefit a broad range of communities and stakeholders including individual researchers in the humanities, national humanities research groups, custodians of cultural archives and datasets, policymakers and members of the public. | Various humanities FORs, particularly those in divisions 19, 20, 21 and 22. | HUNI will: · Enable humanities researchers to work with cultural datasets more efficiently and effectively, and on a larger scale than is presently possible; · Encourage the systematic sharing of research data between humanities researchers and cultural institutions; · Encourage a higher level of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, both within the humanities and between the humanities and other disciplines; · Ensure that Australian cultural datasets and the research associated with them become part of the emerging international Linked Open Data environment. | Deakin University | Flinders University, University of Queensland, UNSW, ANU, University of WA, University of Melbourne and others including various national cultural institutions. | VeRSI, Intersect | Yes | |||||
| Prof Graham Galloway g.galloway@uq.edu.au National Imaging Facility Director of Operations | Australian Characterisation Image Analysis Environment | Virtual Laboratories | The proposal is a remote virtual environment for the characterisation community, incorporating: • A virtual scientific desktop for the analysis and integration of data that is generated by a wide range of microscopy, microanalysis, and imaging instruments across Australia; • A common environment supporting distributed research projects and distributed instruments across a range of sciences; • An informatics repository for the Australian characterisation community to publish, manage and share data, collections, tools, software and techniques; • Workflows to integrate instruments, data repositories and high performance computing. | Scientists who use characterisation facilities, including those provided by AMMRF, NIF and Australian Synchrotron | Too many to list | The proposed VL will: a) provide a high-end, managed environment for a broad range of Australian scientists allowing them to unlock knowledge through the analysis of collected data, b) provide easy access to analysis tools and techniques that can be applied to data sets from a broad range of microscopy and imaging modalities and dimensions, c) stimulate multi-scale and multi-modal imaging, d) provide easy access to a wide range of imaging tools and techniques, e) provide a common environment for multi-institutional and geographically dispersed research groups. | The University of Queensland | Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility, National Imaging Facility, The Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO, MASSIVE | Monash eResearch, UQ, UMelbourne, Intersect | Yes | |||||
| Patricia McMillan patricia.mcmillan@caudit.edu.au CAUDIT Manager Strategic Initiatives | eResearch Store | eResearch Tools | CAUDIT has recently launched an eResearch app store at http://eresearch.caudit.edu.au. The store store provides a single access point and a repository of information relating to eResearch services available to researchers in Australia. The store also provides important, standardised information about these eResearch services and applications, such as what the support arrangements are, whether it is a developmental or production service, whether it is available only to Australian researchers or to anyone, and whether there are fees involved for using the service. The NeCTAR project proposal will describe a re-architecture and major enhancement of the store, to make it available as a multi-tenancy Software as a Service for universities and research organisations to use and customise. This would enable them to add their own services and applications to those already populated in the store, and allow them to put their own skin on it to be used as a resource for researchers in their own organisation. Individuals who use the services in the store will be able to share information about the services to others in their collegial networks, and they will be able to provide their own information and tips about using the services and applications for particular purposes. Authentication to the store will be via the Australian Access Federation (AAF). | All research communities | The proposal will represent a de-duplication of infrastructure and service delivery for all Australian universities and research organisations that want to provide an access point to eResearch services and applications, whether those are national, state-based, or related to a particular research community or institution. | CAUDIT | The University of Tasmania, The University of Sydney, UTS, Newcastle University, The University of Wollongong, Intersect | CAUDIT, The University of Tasmania, The University of Sydney, Intersect | Yes, definitely | ||||||
| Melanie Price melanie.price@sydney.edu.au University of Sydney Executive Director PoCoG, Senior Research Fellow | CeMPED Central | eResearch Tools | To provide CeMPED (Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence-based Decision-making) with a secure and centrally accessible means of storing and sharing files, documents and other information resources across its three member departments - School of Psychology, the School of Public Health and the Department of Medicine. | Reduced IT administration costs due to consolidation of three separate departmental IT resources into a single shared resource. Increased productivity due to a centralised, secure, standardised, and searchable file/document management facility – expected to reduce time required in storing, retrieving and sharing information. Easier sharing of information and improved collaboration across CeMPED’s three member departments. Easier administration of users and their access permissions. In the past there have been procedural bottlenecks with granting of permissions across departments. | University of Sydney - School of Psychology | Yes | |||||||||
| Gavin Kennedy gkam08@gmail.com Australian Plant Phenomics Facility IT Consultant/IT Project Manager | Phenome to Genome Virtual Laboratory Environment | Virtual Laboratories | This proposal builds upon the NeAT funded Phenomics Ontology Driven Data (PODD) repository project. PODD was developed to capture data generated by a variety of plant and mouse phenotyping platforms, as well as capturing the contextual metadata associated with the organisms genotypes, treatments and environmental conditions. PODD publishes data to the research community and provides the opportunity for phenomics information to be retrieved and analysed. The objective is to develop a Virtual Laboratory Environment (VLE) that would be used to apply computational processes, analyses and visualisation tools to PODD based phenomics and environmental data in combination with significant national and international biological data resources. These processes would assist researchers in uncovering the molecular mechanisms that give rise to the organism’s phenotypic traits. This VLE would be a semantic web-based application that would support both the manual and automated analysis of biological data through workflow processes composed of modularised software components. Like PODD the VLE would be a semantic web-based application that would utilise current data linkage and interchange methods to not only discover and combine data resources, but to provide the underlying structure that drives the functionality of the VLE. | Plant Phenomics, Mouse Phenomics, Repository Users | DIVISION 06 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 40% DIVISION 07 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES 30% DIVISION 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 30% | This project addresses the information gap between having having a phenotype of interest and the environmental conditions under which it arises, and knowing the exact nature of the genome variance that caused the phenotype. | CSIRO | Australian National University, Monash University, University of Queensland, University of Adelaide | ANDS, NECTAR, NCI, etc | Yes, ofcourse. | |||||
| Nicolle Packer nicki.packer@mq.edu.au Macquarie University Professor | UniCarbKB | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Macquarie UniversityUniCarbKB is a new initiative based at Macquarie University, in collaboration with world class laboratories in Australia (NSW, Queensland, Victoria), Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, England, Ireland, USA and Japan, which will focus on providing a universal knowledgebase that hopes to bring together glycoscience data to support glycobiology research. The mission is to provide a comprehensive, high quality catalogue of information on carbohydrates, and to continue efforts to advance the interpretation of captured data through the development of novel data analysis methods and algorithms for the efficient representation and mining of large experimental data sets. The initiative will build on our previous efforts and those of our international collaborators to construct UniCarbKB, utilizing multidisciplinary/inter-sectorial techniques (state-of-the-art) and developmental capacity (innovation) to support research and its translation to medicine and the biotechnology industry. | Life Sciences, Medical, Biotechnology | 0601/0602/0606/0609/0614 - 50% 0304/0303/0306-25% 1101/1106/1102/1112/1102/1107 -25% | Despite the success of several international initiatives the glycosciences still lack a managed infrastructure that contributes to the advancement of research through the provision of comprehensive structural and experimental glycan data collections. UniCarbKB is an initiative that aims to promote the creation of an online information storage and search platform for glycomics and glycobiology research. The knowledgebase will offer a freely accessible and information rich resource supported by querying interfaces, annotation technologies and the adoption of common standards to integrate structural, experimental and functional data. The UniCarbKB framework endeavours to support the growth of glycobioinformatics and the dissemination of knowledge through the provision of an open and unified portal to encourage the sharing of data. In order to achieve this, the framework is committed to the development of tools and procedures that support data annotation, and expanding interoperability through cross-referencing of existing databases. | Macquarie University | University of NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Institute of Glycomics, Griffith University, Queensland ARC CoE in Plant Cell Walls and Bio21, University of Melbourne and the BioPlatforms Australia Recombinant Protein manufacturing facilities in Melbourne, Sydney , Adelaide and Brisbane. University of Gothenburg, Sweden ,National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Dublin, Ireland,Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Berlin, Germany | Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Sydney, Australia;Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland | yes | |||||
| Steve Quenette steve.quenette@monash.edu Monash University Strategic Initiatives Manager | Monash production genomics facility | Virtual Laboratories | The Gandel/MHTP genomics facility, situated within the Monash Istitute for Medical Research at Monash Hospital Clayton, has operated with ISO15k certification as a prolific service provider to the precinct (Southern Health, Prince Henry's Institute, MIMR) and beyond for both healthcare and research applications. Recently the facility has acquired a new 'next gen' sequencer. This proposal is to compliment the series of investments designed to ensure the facility upgrade continues its research outcome impact. This proposal will integrate the production and analysis workflow of next gen oriented genomic analysis for this facility and its user base. The facility will need to include at least production processes such that researchers can logistically transfer results. Our current approach is to concurrently deploy LifeScope (commercial package bundled with the instrument) for quick uptake and verification, and Galaxy (open source). There could be more than one Galaxy instance across the University and the precinct. We are configuring pipelines specific to the research interests of the clientele. Specifically to integrate - * the large local storage cache * the newly upgraded to 20Gb/s link from hospital to Clayton compute centre * the very large memory machines for denovo assembly (Cluster of 1TB machines) * the Monash Sun Grid for remaining compute We have begun this project, with both a seeding deployment of OpenStack and Galaxy. We have had initial discussions with UQ and UoM. | The MHTP (Monash, Prince Henry's Institute, South Health) and AMREP (Monash, BakerIDI, Burnett, Alfred Hospital) precincts which represents 35% of Victoria's ARC and NHMRC income, and beyond. | 11**** (eg.1112** ) 080301 | The bulk of this community are not researchers in bioinformatics. This environment allows these researchers to more readily integrate high throughput genomics into the evidence base of their research programs. | Monash University | Those with the need for transitional pipelines in the MHTP and AMREP precincts. The approach is common with UQ and UoM discussions on a genomics cloud template. | Monash eResearch Centre | Yes. | |||||
| Paul White paul.white@uwa.edu.au University of Western Australia Manager Informatics Systems Development | Cloud-based Bioinformatics Tools | eResearch Tools | The eResearch tools proposed will provide the cancer medical research community with a range of web-based tools that can be applied across the spectrum from early stage research, through clinical trials and into the translational domain. Tools will be developed and supported to aid in the conduct of research studies and clinical trials, to support the analysis of research and clinical trial data and to enable risk models to be accessed by physicians and patients through the deployment of user-friendly web-based risk management decision support tools. | Medical research community | 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis - 70% 080301 Bioinformatics Software – 30% | Enhanced ability to cost-effectively manage the collection and analysis of cancer research data and biospecimens; improved access to existing and new data and biospecimen resources, greater access to analysis resources, improved cross-research group collaboration, greatly improved access to risk management decision support tools by physicians and patients. | Uni of Western Australia Centre for Genetic Epidemiology & Biostatistics | St John of God Hospital, Uni of Melbourne Centre for Mega Epidemiology, Australian Twin Registry, McGill University, Clinical Oncological Society of Australia | Uni of Western Australia Centre for Genetic Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Uni of Melbourne Centre for Mega Epidemiology, Australian Twin Registry, McGill University | Yes | |||||
| Clare Sloggett sloc@unimelb.edu.au Life Sciences Computation Centre, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, University of Melbourne Research Scientist / Bioinformatician | Genomics Virtual Laboratory | Virtual Laboratories | We propose a Genomics Virtual Laboratory (GVL) be established to provide rolling best practice genomics tools and data to genome researchers nation-wide. Physically, the GVL will consist of local instances of centralised scalable genomic informatics platforms, data repositories and support services in research precincts housing high throughput genomics technologies. The GVL will provide a vehicle for collaboration, training, support and outreach, and ongoing strategic planning and strategic coordination, including the development of informed and timely applications to national agencies to upgrade and expand the facilities. The specific objectives of the GVL will be to: 1. provide infrastructure tailored to the unique data-intensive demands of genomics; 2. provide a forum for researchers to collaborate and share data and workflows; 3. coordinate with the multiple genomics groups Australia-wide, promote the understanding of the unique needs of genomics and coordinate and participate in grant applications necessary to secure ongoing state, federal, and international funding; 4. provide a platform for outreach, learning and dissemination of new tools and techniques; 5. build informatics platforms on national infrastructure in a way that can be extended to other -omics in the future; 6. build computational skills in existing and potential genome research groups (which include biologists, clinicians, and others who may have little or no formal training in computer programming or the use of HPC systems), and 7. involve the genome research community in defining future computational needs to help sustain and promote genomics in Australia. | Genomics around Australia, extensible to other -omics. Fundamental, biomedical and primary industries genomics researchers. | 0604 Genetics 0605 Microbiology 060102 Bioinformatics 080301 Bioinformatics Software | Reduced price of entry' best practice genomics; integration of analysis tools, public and private datasets, and visualisation platforms; scalability; collaboration tools and platforms; reproducibility and research provenance. | University of Queensland | VLSCI, University of Melbourne Research Services, VeRSI, University of Queensland Genome Research Computing, QCIF, Galaxy developer team (international), QFAB, IMB, various research institutions involved in evaluation, outreach and training | University of Melbourne Research Services, VeRSI, VLSCI, QCIF (also see participating organisations) | Yes | |||||
| Ken Reed ken.reed@acspri.org.au Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated Executive Director | Computer assisted survey information collection (CASIC) | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Survey research produces the most common form of data in the social sciences. Current technologies for computer-assisted survey research are a hybrid mix that reflects their historical origins -- technologies for computer-assisted telephone interviewing do not share common methods with online surveys, for example. In addition, surveys are discrete projects, whereas survey technology platforms depend on long-term infrastructure. We propose to make available to Australian social science researchers a new software platform and survey tools based on the queX suite. We have developed the queX suite as a collection of open source, web-based software for survey data collection in multiple modes, with associated systems for sample management, survey metadata, and survey response coding. Currently these modules do not operate seamlessly, and require of researchers a high level of technical expertise for installation and, for some features, operation. The new system will comprise an integrated computer-assisted survey information collection system that: uses cloud computing to smooth infrastructure use across projects; allows surveys to use the same instruments for multiple survey survey modes; collects workflow information to the appropriate international standard for survey data (DDI v3); reduces the time needed to make data available for research purposes; and automates ingest processes for depositing data into the Australian Data Archive. | Quantitative social scientists | 10% 1603 Demography 10% 1604 Human Geography 10% 1605 Policy and Administration 30% 1606 Political Science 30% 1608 Sociology 10% 1699 Other Studies in Human Society | This Virtual Laboratory and associated eResearch Tools will provide: * Increased efficiencies, more flexibility and better economies of scale in academic survey research; * Faster availability of research data; * Technical and methodological expertise embedded in data collection technology; * International community standards and protocols, embedded in data collection technology; * Automated data archiving and data dissemination for data appropriate to the Australian Data Archive. | Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated | Australian Data Archive, ANU | ANU Supercomputer Facility | Yes | |||||
| Janet Newman janet.newman@csiro.au CSIRO Material Science and Engineering Principal Scientist | Bridging the gap – Synchrotron enabled real-time optimisation for crystallisation | Virtual Laboratories | Producing well diffracting crystals is one of the bottlenecks of structure analysis, and a lot of effort has been put into building automation to enable high-throughput macromolecular crystallisation. We still need to address the problem that most protein crystals do not diffract X-rays sufficiently well to be used for structure determination. The Australian Synchrotron has a program for in-situ screening of crystals, which would allow rapid feedback into crystallisation optimisation. What we plan on building is a web-tool which displays crystallisation images, allowing crystals to be identified. These regions of interest, along with information about the plate (location, barcode, etc) will be passed to the synchrotron, and requests for plate retrieval from the home facility to the Synchrotron generated. Once the in-plate screening has been completed, the diffraction images will be passed back to the user at the relevant crystallisation facility using the TARDIS technology which is already in place. We envisage that the web-tool is a crystallisation facility independent ‘light’ application (Crystal Regions of Interest for Synchrotron Screening – CRISS), suitable for smart phones and tablet computers, which accepts images from anywhere, providing a uniform portal for researchers all over Australia to access this service of the Australian Synchrotron. | Structural biology | 060112 Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling) 80% 080612 Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services 20% | This would enable the research community to more usefully use the australian synchrotron, and would allow pertinant feedback into the crystallisation optimisation process. | CSIRO | Australian Synchrotron, University of Queensland, Monash University | VeRSI | yes | |||||
| Luke Edwards luke@ivec.org IMOS / iVEC / WAMSI / Curtin University Marine Data Manager | National Video Monitoring System for Marine Ecology | eResearch Tools | The aim is to link together existing workflows, hardware and software to create infrastructure that enables the establishment of a monitoring system for marine ecology using processed data from underwater video, specifically BRUVS (Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations). | Marine research community | 060205 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology) 0502 Environmental Science and Management 0704 Fisheries Sciences | Marine research has traditionally been good at measuring and monitoring the physical parameters of the ocean however there has been a lack of coordination in monitoring marine ecology. The increased use of Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) and other underwater video technologies has led to an opportunity to address this gap. These technologies have many benefits over traditional ones however there are issues with current management of the data that restrict full value being derived. Issues include the poor management of the ever-increasing volume of video footage and lack of access to the raw and processed observation data (e.g. lengths / counts of fish which leads to fragmented collections and no coordinated monitoring of marine and fish ecology. By linking together existing workflows, hardware and software a national infrastructure can be established for the improved management of Australia’s marine environment. | iVEC / AODN | IMOS, AODN, ANDS, Euan Harvey - UWA, Australian Centre for Field Robotics - USYD and other State and Commonwealth marine agencies (in discussion with at the moment) | iVEC, IMOS, AODN | Yes | |||||
| Paul Roe p.roe@qut.edu.au QUT Professor | An Online Acoustic Workbench for Monitoring Biodiversity | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Monitoring biodiversity is vital to assessing the impacts of climate and land use change; current fauna monitoring approaches are manual and don’t scale. Acoustic sensing represents a promising approach to scaling biodiversity monitoring through listening for vocal species such and birds and frogs. This involves the collection of large quantities of data: our current sensors collect 1.3GB per sensor per day. The analysis of large volumes of sound for biodiversity monitoring is challenging: traditional sound analysis approaches as applied to e.g. speech recognition do not work. We have developed a toolbox of sound analysis techniques including: manual, automatic, human in-the-loop and citizen science approaches. This is an area where Australia leads the world. We propose to scale our approach through a publically accessible collection and analysis tool/site which would support the collection and analysis of Australia wide soundscape datasets. | Ecologists, TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) | 050206 80% 080399 20% | Scalable biodiversity monitoring, monitoring the impacts of climate change, land use change, biosecurity (invasive species monitoring) | QUT, Paul Roe | TERN, QCIF, UQ, USC | QCIF | yes | |||||
| Louis Moresi louis.moresi@monash.edu Monash University Professor | Australian Continental Dynamics Virtual Laboratory | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Building upon software and data infrastructure developments made under NCRIS, this virtual laboratory provides a workflow from geophysical data collection, interpretation, through 3D geological mapping to thermal and mechanical modelling. Key elements are 1) the capacity to link 3D geological mapping tools with HPC forward modelling codes developed through AuScope / NCRIS; 2) a centrally accessible community model library; 3) uncertainty quantification for model parameters tied to contents of community model library. | Geodynamics / structural geology / geophysics | 0403 - 40% 0404 - 40% 0806 - 10% 0805 - 10% | Providing a centralised modelling resource to connect field geologists, data collections and 3D / 4D modelling tools. The capability targets - brown and green-field mineral exploration; geothermal exploration; groundwater utilisation; carbon sequestration; integrated large basin resources analysis and management. | Monash University | Australian National University, Macquarie University, Melbourne University, Sydney University, University of Queensland | Monash University eResearch Centre, | YES | |||||
| Jeremy Barker j.barker@qfab.org QFAB CEO | Bioinformatics Project Participant | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | QFAB is a leading bioinformatics services provider within Australia and supports a diverse range or life science research orgnaisations. Bridging the gap between ICT and biological research, QFAB delivers tailored solutions to the scientific community. It is engaged in a number of initiatives including a virtual laboratory bid. QFAB not only delivers bioinformatics solutions but can translate the requirements of the biologist to those providing cloud and eResearch capability to ensure rapid uptake especially where high throughput technologies are utilised. (www.qfab.org) | The life science research community generally. QFAB will provide support to research organisations in the field of biological science especially those with projects involving 'omics' technology | .n/a | Projects requiring in depth and experienced delivery of bioinformatics skills will benefit from QFAB's proven record of delivering relevent solutions | QFAB operates throughout Australia | NCI SF in Bioinformatics, at least | Yes | ||||||
| Dr G. Falzon gfalzon2@une.edu.au University of New England- C4D: Spatio-temporal analysis support unit Research Fellow | Spatio-temporal modelling tools supporting the next generation of research and innovation in the Australian livestock industry | eResearch Tools | This objective of this project is to develop a world-class ICT enabled platform to drive the next generation of research and innovation in the Australian livestock industry. Advanced, spatio-temporal livestock monitoring movement models combined with state-of-the-art spatio-temporal data interrogation and visualisation applications will be developed as a module in a software package which combines a free and open source geospatial information system (GIS) such as GRASS GIS with R statistical computing software. These software tools will extend upon the existing functionality provided by current GIS software but will also provide a specific and highly demanded modelling tools to the Australian agricultural community. Specifically the software that is proposed will allow the implementation of a host of advanced spatio-temporal data analysis methods as well as custom-designed high-performance computing algorithms that will enable the analysis of large herd scale data sets. | Agriculture with potential flow on benefits to ecology and statistics. | 090903 Geospatial Information Systems 010401 Applied Statistics 070104 Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling 070203 Animal Management | The software tools proposed will provide livestock scientists with the quantitative means to study animal behaviour using the extremely large volumes of data derived from livestock tracking devices. Livestock managers will also benefit from these same tools which, when operational, will assist with the assessment of a variety of management strategies designed to increase production efficiency, improve animal welfare and increase survival rates. Activities aimed at addressing current gaps in scientific knowledge as well as demonstrating the practical relevance of outcomes to livestock industry will ensure a line-of-sight between the scientific endeavour and practical utilisation pathways. | University of New England | Meat & Livestock Australia, Dairy Australia, NSW Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Landgate, Milne Agrigroup, Sundown Pastoral Group, Central Queensland University, Curtin University, Grains Research & Development Corporation, Charles Sturt University & Evergraze Program, University of Sydney, University of Southern Queensland, University of Queensland, Victorian Department of Primary Industries, NSW Industry & Investment | Intersect | Yes | |||||
| Deborah Mitchell Deborah.Mitchell@anu.edu.au Australian Data Archive Director | ADA Virtual Laboratory | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools Research Cloud | A series of inter-related work packages to support data visualisation for on-line analysis; data curation and metadata curation for audio, visual and qualitative data; improved longitudinal and panel data analysis tools. Creation of a Secure Data Service to support access to restricted and confidential data sources. | Social sciences, economics and business, humanities, Asia-Pacific area studies | Family and Household Studies Australian Government and Politics Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment Social Policy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | To build on the new ADA suite of services (http://ada.edu.au/ada/home), extending advanced analytical capacity for researchers in the Higher Ed, government, NGO and private sectors. | Australian National University | Uni of Queensland; Uni of Melbourne; Uni of Technology, Sydney; Uni of Western Australia | ANUSF - data cloud services and e-Research tool developers | Yes | |||||
| Dr Joe Thurbon joe.thurbon@intersect.org.au Intersect Member Services Manager | Capability Partner, Project Participant | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Intersect (www.intersect.org.au) is the N.S.W. state eResearch organisation. We have a strong track record in software and infrastructure delivery across many research disciplines, especially health, biological sciences, Intersect is owned by the Universities of N.S.W. Intersect is well positioned to be a capability partner for NeCTAR projects, across analysis, software development and infrastructure delivery. We have strong connections with many research groups across N.S.W. universities and state research bodies, so may be able to assist in helping build relationships around your project proposals. Similarly, we are assisting in the project proposal process for a number of disciplines, and would be able to put researchers in contact with those proposals as they mature. | As a capability partner aim to support all research disciplines. | n/a | Intersect has a strong track record in delivering software and infrastructure, with an experienced team of project managers, analysts, user interface designers, software engineerings and quality assurance specialists. We have significant experience working with researchers, and in delivering software into research organisations. | n/a | n/a | Intersect. | Yes. | |||||
| Michael Briers michael.briers@sirca.org.au Sirca CEO | Linked Australian Corporate History | eResearch Tools | The eResearch tool being proposed will present researchers in business, economics and finance with an integrated view of a broad range of Australian corporate attributes. The tool will support a large community of academics and research students at 30 universities (estimate is over 1,000 active users). Researchers in the areas of business, economic and finance rely heavily on data from multiple distributed sources relating to various dimensions of corporate activity– including market returns, financial statements, ratings, company announcements, governance, environmental, economic and regulatory attributes. These data sources are very difficult to cross-reference in the absence of persistent identifiers and, as such, imposes a labour intensive burden on researchers and unduly constrains the type of research that can be undertaken in the Australian context relative to that which is possible in other countries. The proposed solution is to develop a portal, which uses standards-based methods to provide cross-linked access to otherwise, siloed databases hosted by Sirca and other publicly available sources. The cross-linking will be based on publicly available finance related ontologies and will be implemented using RDF standards. | Business, Economics and Finance | 25% 1501 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability 25% 1502 Banking, Finance and Investment 20% 1503 Business and Management 20% 1402 Applied Economics 10% 1605 Policy and Administration | The tool will result in a substantial improvement in research scope and productivity. Analysis of five of the top ranked journals in business, economics and finance shows that 51% of all published papers are using 2 or more data sources. At the moment the linking of these data sources is a time consuming manual process. The proposed tool will eliminate much of this repetitive manual labour, empowering researchers to concentrate on an expanded range of research questions. | Sirca | University of Technology - Sydney, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, Australian Centre for Financial Studies, ASX | Sirca, Intersect | Yes | |||||
| Professor Anna Stewart A.Stewart@griffith.edu.au Griffith University Professsor | Crime data laboratory | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | Empirical crime research in Australia is rare compared to overseas. The primary reason is lack of access to spatially recorded crime data. We propose to establish a research data laboratory at Griffith University that meets national standards for data security, allowing for the storage and analysis of police recorded crime data within a secure university environment. The Queensland Police Service is enthusiastic at the production of analytic products that are operationally relevant, but underpinned by academic rigor. This project will focus on adapting and developing systems, software tools, techniques and methods to transform operational data from police agencies into a range of cleansed, processed and pre-analysed data sets for research use. The data lab is modelled on two similar facilities at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada and the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London (UK). The Griffith University researchers have a strong record of collaborating with these research groups and both have agreed to provide support for the establishment of our laboratory including the sharing tools and processes for adaption to meet Australian requirements. | The proposed research laboratory would attract the research attention of many disciplines, including criminologists, psychologists, geospatial and urban researchers, computer scientists, economists, public health and information technology engineers. | 160200 Criminology | The proposed secure datalab would have four major impacts on crime research in Australia. First, access to geospatially coded police crime data will facilitate the ongoing development of advanced crime analysis methods and tools. These tools will benefit operational policing and crime control resulting in a reduction in crime and safer communities.Second, incorporating additional geocoded databases with police crime data combined with sophisticated analytical techniques (ie place, route and temporal algorithms, spatial autocorrelation and regression, spatial interpolation and interaction and multiple-point geostatistics analyses) will provide better depictions of the criminal environment. These understandings will enhance policing practice. Third, this facility will provide opportunities for training and skill development both for students and scholars as well as operational police analysts. Access to these datasets will provide opportunities for HDR students and the professional development of crime analysts in police agencies across Australia. Finally, the data laboratory, the first of its kind in Australia and developed in conjunction with international partners, will establish data sharing protocols and agreements, data standards and metadata, data architecture and future enterprise architecture. While at this stage the proposal is limited to one jurisdiction (Queensland) researchers and police agencies in other jurisdictions will access these data and facilities. Eventually, police data from all jurisdictions in Australia could be accommodated in this facility. | Griffith University | Queensland Police Service, Australian Institute of Criminology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security | Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF), Griffith eResearch Unit | yes | |||||
| Dietmar Muller dietmar.muller@sydney.edu.au The University of Sydney Professor of Geophysics | VIRGO – National VIRtual Geological Observatory | Virtual Laboratories | Earth Science is data rich and information poor, a balance worsening year by year, especially due to a flood of remotely-sensed data. Earth's hothouse climates and ice ages have left a rich geological record spanning hundreds of millions of years. Deep Earth resources such as mineral or hydrocarbon deposits typically form over similar time periods. Turning the diversity of available geodata, attached to shifting tectonic plates through time, into knowledge about processes driving climate change or where to find deeply buried ore deposits, calls for a Virtual Geological Observatory. We propose to turn a well-established e-research infrastructure, the GPlates software and information model (www.gplates.org), into the National VIRtual Geological Observatory (VIRGO). It will be web-enabled to connect to distributed data sources on the internet and powered by a flexible and extensible set of spatio-temporal data analysis tools via a plugin infrastructure. The primary motivation of a Virtual Geological Observatory is in abstracting the complexity of the massive underlying architecture, thus providing a clear and direct channel for carrying out required use-cases. An established VIRGO will provide a coherent interface between a diverse assemblage of users spanning science, industry and education, and a collection of Australian infrastructural investments including the GPlates analysis software, the Spatial Information Services Stack, Cloud and remote processing services, as well as a large number of distributed geo-databases. | The geosciences/earth sciences in general | 0402 Geochemistry 0403 Geology 0404 Geophysics 0405 Oceanography | Building upon existing eResearch infrastructure (such as AuScope), VirGO will enable the fusion, visualisation and mining of diverse sets of geodata and high-performance computer model outputs made available on the AuScope Data Grid via the Spatial Information Services Stack. This multi-dimensional information content will be provided in a plate tectonic framework from continent-wide scales to regional exploration target scales, making it relevant and attractive to University, government and industry researchers alike. The infrastructure will be a consumer of data sources already provided in Australia, thus facilitating a return on investment regarding these. The virtual observatory paradigm lends itself to both the depth and breadth of use cases required. | The University of Sydney | Spatial Information Services Stack, Geoscience Australia..more to come | Yes | ||||||
| Martin Sevior martines@unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne Associate Professor | High throughput computing for High Energy Phsyics | Research Cloud National Server Program | We propose to employ NeCTAR facilities to analyse the vast quantities of data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN and the Belle II experiment located at the KEK laboratory in Japan. | High Energy Physicis | 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics | Both the ATLAS and Belle II experiments will generate many petabytes of data. The analysis of this is beyond the capabilities of any one organisation and will requires a coordinated global response. NeCTAR will provide Australia's contribution to this global effort. | University of Melbourne | University of Sydney, Adelaide University, Monash University | CERN, TRIUMF, KEK, PNNL, University of Geneva, Fermilab, Brookhaven National Lab | yes. | |||||
| Phil Tannenbaum philt@vpac.org VPAC Centre Manager | Development activities | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools Research Cloud National Server Program | VPAC is able to support development and operations across the range of tools, cloud computing, informatics, portals, applications development, integration, data management, and operational needs. VPAC are interested to joining collaborative projects in any of the above areas, and would be especially interested in a project to merge the Grid with the Cloud. | All | VPAC underpins realisation and delivery of the primary project, as a supporting organisation. | VPAC provides expertise and project management skills, and has a successful track record delivering advanced computing outcomes. | VPAC can work nationally. | Seeking lead organisations for collaborations | yes | ||||||
| John La Salle john.lasalle@csiro.au CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences Director Australian National Insect Collection | Australian Virtual Taxonomy Laboratory | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools National Server Program | The Australian Virtual Taxonomy Laboratory (AVTL) will collaborate with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and make use of the ALA as a distributed national biological collection. It would build upon existing initiatives, and bring them together to create an integrating and collaborative environment in an innovative way which would provide national and global leadership in this arena. The AVTL will provide a virtual laboratory space and a new set of modern taxonomic eResearch tools to enable a significant acceleration in the delivery of collaborative taxonomic research and products which will support biodiversity, biosecurity and sustainable agriculture. The AVTL would be able to incorporate or build upon: - A pilot Virtual Taxonomy Laboratory established between insect collections in Canberra and Beijing. - Taxonomic eResearch tools being developed in the CERF funded TRIN Taxonomy Network. - A remote microscope network established to support biosecurity. - Morphological ontologies, accelerated phenomics and rapid genomic capabilities currently under development here and overseas. - “ Collections on-line” whole drawer imaging of collections. - Dynamic delivery of publications, diagnostic guides and reports. - Various analysis tools, mapping tools etc (many of which are already delivered through the ALA). - Crowdsourcing to enable internet volunteers to assist with collection digitisation and databasing. This proposal will build on established collaborations which already exist between CSIRO, State Museums, Atlas of Living Australia, various Councils of Heads of the biological collections, and government departments such as SEWPAC (containing Australian Biological Resources Survey). | Taxonomy, biodiversity, biosecurity | 0603 Evolutionary Biology 0602 Ecology 0607 Plant Biology 0608 Zoology 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity 0701 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management | Improved capacity for biosecurity and sustainable agriculture. Better ability to inform policy and operational outcomes in biodiversity conservation. | CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences | Existing Atlas of Living Australia partners, including State Museums, biological collections, ABRS (SEWPAC) | Atlas of Living Australia and existing partners | Yes | |||||
| Craig Walker craig.walker@adelaide.edu.au The University of Adelaide Eco-informatics Coordinator | A Semantically-enabled Researcher Data Submission Tool | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools Research Cloud National Server Program | TERN Eco-informatics is building a federated, integrated repository and a one-stop-shop data portal for plot-based ecological data through TERN. This requires leading-edge semantic data integration built around an ontological model for ecological data. We would like to extend the value of this initiative by building an integrated researcher data submission tool (RDST) utilising the same ontological model. This would enable upload of researcher data, ensuring that the metadata is structured around controlled vocabularies and is therefore semantically searchable, thereby greatly enhancing the discoverability of these autonomous data sets. The RDST would be fully integrated with the data portal, so that retrieval of integrated data and RDST datasets would be possible from a single query. | The ecological research community, including "big picture" research such as for Climate change | 080612 33% 080603 33% 080704 34% | Greatly enhanced ability to securely store, retrieve and utilise ecological datasets for science and policy | TERN Eco-informatics | NERP, NPEI, TERN LAMPS/Ausplots/LTER/Supersites, ALA, ANDS | eRSA | Definitely YES | |||||
| Prof. Richard Maltby Richard.Maltby@flindes.edu.au Flinders University Executive Dean, Faculty of Education, Humanities & Law | Towards A Digital National Cultural Archive: A Virtual Laboratory to improve the interoperability of Australia’s cultural datasets | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | This Request for Proposal will build capacity within, and enhance interoperability between, Australia’s most important cultural research and information assets. To date, significant collections of cultural data in Australia have been developed along either disciplinary (e.g. literature, performing and creative arts, cinema, archaeology) or institutional lines (NLA, NFSA, AIATSIS and so on). Each repository defines and manages authoritative data, research tools and information delivery services according to community defined expectations. Within the terms of their own focus these datasets describe Australia’s various creative industries and the institutions and organisational structures that surround them; from the conception and production of cultural artefacts through to their consumption and continuance over time. Taken collectively, these datasets offer the unrealised promise of a distributed national cultural archive. This proposal will advance the expansion of knowledge about Australia’s cultural life by enabling an integrated, nation-wide, cross-disciplinary approach to these various humanities and creative arts repositories of primary and secondary data. | The members of the Cultural Datasets Consortium putting forward this proposal represent the key institutional data collections in Australia. We are experienced at developing information infrastructure for Australian researchers in humanities and creative arts. We aim to provide all stakeholders with opportunities to find value in the data, tools and services we have been creating over many years. The broader humanities and creative arts research community that will be supported by this proposal represents a third of all researchers in Australia. | 2-digit FoRS 12, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22 | This Request for Proposal will build capacity within, and enhance interoperability between, Australia’s most important cultural research and information assets. Taken collectively, these datasets offer the unrealised promise of a distributed national cultural archive. This proposal will advance the expansion of knowledge about Australia’s cultural life by enabling an integrated, nation-wide, cross-disciplinary approach to these various humanities and creative arts repositories of primary and secondary data. | Deakin University | Flinders University, University of Queensland, UNSW, ANU, University of Melbourne, RMIT University, UWA, Maquarie, University of Sydney, RMIT, Victoria University. | VeRSI, Intersect | Yes | |||||
| Aaron Thornton aaron.thornton@csiro.au CSIRO Research Scientist | Centralized-Simulation, Prediction, Analysis and Collection Environment (C-SPACE) for Material Research | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools | C-SPACE is a web-service environment that aims to accelerate, unify and guide material research by providing the following capabilities: 1. Industry targets for material properties, 2. Database of materials and their properties, 3. Predictions for instrinsic material properties, and 4. Overview workflow system monitoring and displaying current research. The range of materials will include zeolites, silicas, metal organic frameworks, carbons and nanoparticles for applications such as gas/liquid/vapour separation membranes, adsorbents, catalysts, drug delivery and sensors. | Materials Australia, Membrane Society of Australasia, Australian Water Association, Center of Molecular Simulation. | This proposal will encourage collaboration, guide future research, link fundamental research with industry, achieve world recognition. | CSIRO Computational and Simulation Science, Aaron Thornton | Membrane Society of Australasia and Center of Molecular Simulation | CSIRO Advanced Scientific Computing Center | Yes | ||||||
| Timothy D. Smith tim@variome.org Genomic Disorders Research Centre Laboratory Liaison Officer | Human Variome Project Australian Node | eResearch Tools | The Human Variome Project Australian Node is a national repository of genetic test results and interpretations as reported by Australian diagnostic laboratories. It has just completed its pilot phase in which we demonstrated the ability to semi-automatically collect and transfer data on the genes involved in three diseases from the existing information management systems of three laboratories. Access to data in the Node is available to diagnostic lab staff, doctors with patients with inherited diseases and certified genetic counsellors. This project would see our collection tools roll out to all Australian laboratories performing genetic testing and increase collection to all genes tested in Australia. In addition, we would link the molecular data contained in the Australian Node repository with existing and new clinical repositories in a de-identified manner. This linkage would provide a novel platform for research into the cause and effects of genetic diseases, such as Alport Syndrome, breast cancer and Long QT Syndrome. We have identified a specific research community that we will be working with: the International Alport Mutation Consortium. They have previously published maps of the collagen IV gene by combining molecular, clinical and physiological data on the syndrome. These maps have allowed them to distinguish pathogenic from normal variants, predict clinical phenotype and severity of the syndrome and increase understanding of the biochemistry of the collagen IV network. The Human Variome Project Australian Node will assist them in the creation of further maps of other genes. | International Alport Mutation Consortium and other genetic pathologists | 110316 Pathology (excl. Oral Pathology) - 40% 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics) - 20% 111203 Cancer Genetics - 20% 060411 Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics - 10% 060102 Bioinformatics - 10% | The linking of national repositories of clinical and molecular data in the area of inherited disease | Genomic Disorders Research Centre | Univeristy of Melbourne Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Queensland Pathology, Westmead Hospital, SA Pathology, International Alport Mutation Consortium, others TBA | Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing | Yes | |||||
| Donald Hobern Donald.Hobern@csiro.au CSIRO Ecosystem Services Director, Atlas of Living Australia | Closing the data quality loop | eResearch Tools | Central data portals providing aggregated access to many data sets (as is the case with the Atlas of Living Australia) are frequently optimal entrypoints for user annotations and machine analysis to improve data quality. There are however significant challenges around ensuring that these annotations are handled correctly. The curators of the original data sets need to be notified of the issues, provided with simple workflows for response, and (optimally) enabled to incorporate proposed fixes into the source databases. Subsequently users accessing these data need to be able to understand whether and how the annotations have been handled. This project aims to use messaging technologies to connect the ALA data portal directly with a several natural history collection back-end databases to develop a robust workflow management solution to this problem, for the benefit both of researchers and of data provider organisations. The solution would have application in other contexts in which data discovery and use occurs through portals rather than as part of the originating database. | Natural history collections, ecological researchers, taxonomists | 0602 Ecology 40% 0607 Plant Biology 30% 0608 Zoology 30% | Improved data management, quality control, shared annotation of data | CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences | Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections | Atlas of Living Australia | Yes | |||||
| Guido Aben guido.aben@aarnet.edu.au AARNet director, eResearch | AARNet are capability partners, with a focus on Internet/networking -- we are here to help others realise their proposals | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools Research Cloud National Server Program | AARNet (http://www.aarnet.edu.au ) are the Australian university sector's Internet / data communication service provider; a collaboration platform provider much like ANDS, RDSI and NeCTAR are. You may have heard about our CloudStor large data transfer service, or our NVCS national video conferencing service. We're wholly owned by the universities and the CSIRO; our mission is to assist in your research using the data comms network and associated capabilities that we have available. ANybody who is considering putting in a proposal that has networking or file transfer as a component is encouraged to get in touch with us and suss us out for synergies. | all: AARNet are keen to aid every discipline | all | We'd love to hear from anybody who is considering submitting a proposal to NeCTAR that relies on (fast) file transfer or remote data access or, inversely data access for remote or even overseas parties. There's a good chance we can make those go smoother and faster and we believe we can help you avoid reinventing the wheel. | we are open to all organisations to contact us | yes, we are keen to provide the | |||||||
| Ryan Fraser ryan.fraser@csiro.au CSIRO Research Project Leader | SISS in the Cloud | eResearch Tools | The Spatial Information Services Stack (SISS - http://siss.auscope.org) is an interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) package that exploits open-source tools. The SISS enables stakeholders such as organisations, agencies, communities and individual researchers to exchange their information in an interoperable standardised manner. This project will focus on making the eResearch tool - SISS available in the NeCTAR Research Cloud. This will ease the setup process and hardware resourcing issues that can hinder exposure of data by a stakeholder. The project will support an array of use cases to ensure maximum researcher uptake of the technology and the data that it will expose. | Research communities with Spatial Information/data | Highly applicable - Earth Sciences (04) Environmental Sciences (05) Information and Computing sciences (08) Biological Sciences (06) Highly Probable - History and Archaeology (21) Built Environment and Design (12) Potential: Agricultural and Vet Sciences (07) Medical and health sciences (11) | Scalable Spatial data infrastructure, ease setup/configuration, maximise community uptake, standardise spatial data delivery | CSIRO | Geoscience Australia, NCI, iVEC | NCI, NeCTAR (Uni Melb), iVEC | Yes | |||||
| Scott Bainbridge s.bainbridge@aims.gov.au Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) GBROOS Project Manager | The management, access and delivery of real time observational scientific data using cloud computing | eResearch Tools | There are a number of projects (e.g. IMOS, TERN) and agencies (e.g. BoM, CSIRO, AIMS, etc) that routinely collect scientific observational data. Through standards and protocols such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) it is now possible to build a single cloud based repository for the storage, access and management of a range of real time observational data. Such a repository would provide a single point for access to an enormous range of science data that currently, while freely available (via projects such as eMII-IMOS), is located in disparate agencies and is difficult or impossible to integrate. Driving this need is the realisation that multi-parameter data sets are required to understand the complexity of natural systems and the environment that drives them. The creation of a single platform for all observational data allows scientists to access a range of data to address particular issues. The provision of such a service will then enable other services and clients to be built allowing a full end to end data management and access systems to be built around the core set of services. The proposal is to take the existing protocols and standards and to build a core set of data services for the storage, access and delivery of observational data with a focus on real time data. The second stage is to develop ‘smart’ clients to allow for the discovery and access of the data and then an event detection engine to extract the knowledge within the data. | Observational Community, especially IMOS, TERN | 0502 Environmental Science and Management - High 0501 Ecological Applications - High 040503 Physical Oceanography - High 040502 Chemical Oceanography - Medium 040104 Climate Change Processes - Medium 040603 Hydrogeology - Medium 080605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems - Low 080612 Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services - Medium 100204 Environmental Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors) - Low 100205 Environmental Marine Biotechnology - Medium | The proposal would dramtically improve access to observational data, with an emphasis on real time and near real time data, as well as providing tools for the discovery, use and knowledge extraction from the data. This would integrate into projects such as IMOS and TERN to deliver new outcomes from these investments. | Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) via the University of Tasmania | AIMS, CSIRO, BoM, University of Melbourne / ISSNIP | University of Melbourne, TPAC, iVEC | Yes | |||||
| Hamish Holewa h.holewa@cqu.edu.au CQUniversity Program Manager (research) | Quadrant - Qualitative and Mixed Methods Project Management | eResearch Tools National Server Program | Quadrant is a software solution to the ongoing challenges faced by Qualitative and Mixed Method research groups. Quadrant is an online qualitative and mixed methods project management and analysis software package designed to allow teams of researchers to work collaboratively on research projects. Quadrant’s information architecture focuses on the participant, ensuring that research teams are able to efficiently store all data, communications and decisions pertaining to a research project in a central secure location. Specifically, Quadrant assists researchers in purposive sampling, participant enrolment and scheduling, data storage, analysis, project communications and reporting. Quadrant mimics the processes and methodology that is used in a collaborative qualitative or mixed methods research project. Quadrant achieves this through the organisation and storage of data according to project, participant and workflow stage and task. | Quadrant meets the needs of researchers and research teams using qualitative and mixed methods methodologies. Qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies account for a significant proportion of methodologies used in fields such as Health, Humanities, Social Science, Politics, Marketing, Communications, Criminology, Sociology, Education and Anthropology. The service is not location or topic specific. | 1117.1199.1110,13.x, 16.x, 15.x,17.x,18.x,20.x, 21.x, 22.x Please note, Quadrant is not research discipline specific. It is intended to be used for any research that uses Qualitative and Mixed Methods research. Above FoR codes are not comprehensive. | Quadrant offers Qualitative and Mixed Methods researchers a secure and ethically compliant collaborative space to undertake research. Quadrant delivers benefits such as: greater research efficiency; greater transparency and audit capabilities in research decisions; decreased task duplication; automatic collection of meta-information and one-click data de-identification and archive capabilities. | CQUniversity | Griffith University, LaTrobe University, New Business Media, Curtin University, University of Western Australia | NSP, CQUniversity, Griffith University, New Business Media, QCIF (to be confirmed) | Yes | |||||
| Ben Evans Ben.Evans@anu.edu.au Australian National University Head, ANU Supercomputer Facility | Cloud | Research Cloud | We would like to consider augmenting our Cloud as a broader service through the NeCTAR program. | Astronomy, Earth Systems Science, Social Sciences, Geophysics, Earth Observation, TERN, NCI | Releasing more resources to the communities that we have established a working relationship. | ANU | CSIRO, BoM, GA | NCI | Yes, happy to consider. | ||||||
| James Boyd j.boyd@curtin.edu.au Curtin University Associate Professor | Centre for Data Linkage | eResearch Tools Research Cloud | In the past, production linkage systems have been limited by their inability to handle large data sets. The major reason for this poor scalability is the exponential growth in the number of possible matches as the “master datasets” extends. We intend to investigate and develop tools to ensure that linkage systems can manage and transform datasets as the demand, complexity and size grows. The focus will be on developing cost effective linkage infrastructure to support national and international population health research collaboration. The proposed research tool will allow the research community to schedule and run large scale linkages efficiently using the NeCTAR infrastructure. | Population Health Research (but Potentially and field requiring data linkage) | 1117 (30%) 0806 (45%) 0104 (25%) | Cost effective infrastructure to support national and international population health research collaboration. | Curtin University | iVEC | Yes | ||||||
| richard sinnott rsinnott@unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne Director, eResearch | Many: DSD-VRE; AT-VRE; HumanitiesVRE (*2); Security4All; NationalCodeandProjectMgtRepository | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools Research Cloud National Server Program | A range of projects in the clinical/biomedical domain; arts and humanities research environments; national code/project management repository; helping folk achieve finer grained access control (security) | Clinical/biomedical/arts and humanities/others | 1112; 1114; 0803; 0805; 2002; 2004; | Cure cancer; find Higgs Boson; and too many others to document here | University of Melbourne (and probably others to be decided) | Too many to list here: probably 5-10 in each bid. | University of Melbourne (and probably others to be decided) | yes | |||||
| Nick Jones n.jones@auckland.ac.nz NeSI Director | NZ eScience Infrastructure | eResearch Tools Research Cloud | Collaboration with NeSI, to establish shared international infrastructure platforms | Radio Astronomy, Genomics, Chemsistry, Nanomaterials | 0601 1007 0307 0201 | Large scale shared capabilities, closer to sustainability | NeCTAR | NeSI, NZ Genomics, MacDiarmid Institute, Bioinformatics Institute, ICRAR | NeCTAR, NeSI | Yes | |||||
| Mark Kosten M.Kosten@latrobe.edu.au La Trobe University Director, eResearch | 2 proposals: Virtual Laboratories for nanotechnology/Research VRE across multi-organisations | Virtual Laboratories eResearch Tools Research Cloud | 1. Bring together most/all surface science labs in Aus into a uniform RLI, data and collaboration space; 2. Extend sharepoint collaboration environment RIC to a University private cloud (Azure) platform & integrate with RDSI/local storage | All surface science labs in Australia extending to overseas/General research communities | 0204 for surface science All divisions (1-22) for VRE | 1. Standardise and harmonise surface science collaboration and data sharing reducing confusion, costs and increasing Aus presence in the field 2. VREs are well-known to increase researcher productivity but have been too specific, limited and difficult. The widespread use of sharepoint allows building a widespread, easily maintainable platform that can extend to multiple sites with Azure, increasing productivity and efficiency. | La Trobe University |
"1. ANU, Deakin, USyd, Monash, others/ 2. USyd, VU, Otago VeRSI For the Australian Synchrotron ANSTO Deakin U AMMRF through Tim White at ANU Internationals Peter Cumpson - National ESCA Facility Univ of Newcastle UK |
All above | Yes |
