2019 Program

The 2019 eResearch Australasia Conference has now concluded.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

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Monday
Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday
Main Program

Wednesday
Main Program

Thursday
Main Program

Friday
Post Conference Workshops

Monday 21 October 2019 – Workshops

08:15 – 09:00

Registration, Arrival Tea & Coffee – Plaza Foyer

Room

Plaza P1

Plaza P2

Plaza P3

09:00 – 10:30

Design your community – Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) Workshop

Terry Smith

Research Software Engineers Mini-Conference

Rowland Mosbergen, Heidi Perrett, Nicholas May, Kerri Wait, Lance
Wilson

The AURIN Workbench: A hands-on exploration of data and tools around Australia’s human settlements

Xavier Goldie

10:30 – 11:00

Morning Tea – Plaza Foyer

Room

Plaza P1

Plaza P2

Plaza P3

11:00 – 12:30

Design your community – Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) Workshop

Terry Smith

Research Software Engineers Mini-Conference

Rowland Mosbergen, Heidi Perrett, Nicholas May, Kerri Wait, Lance
Wilson

The AURIN Workbench: A hands-on exploration of data and tools around Australia’s human settlements

Xavier Goldie

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch – Plaza Foyer

Room

Plaza P1

Plaza P2

Plaza P3

Plaza P4

13:30 – 15:00

Design your community – Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) Workshop

Terry Smith

Research Software Engineers Mini-Conference

Rowland Mosbergen, Heidi Perrett, Nicholas May, Kerri Wait, Lance
Wilson

Follow the Yellow Brick Road: The Career (and Learning/Skills) Journey of eResearchers Workshop

Ann Backhaus, Rebecca Lange ,Tyne Sumner

Grey research data Workshop

Les Kneebone

15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon Tea – Plaza Foyer

Room

Plaza P1

Plaza P2

Plaza P3

Plaza P4

15:30 – 17:00

Design your community – Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) Workshop

Terry Smith

Research Software Engineers Mini-Conference

Rowland Mosbergen, Heidi Perrett, Nicholas May, Kerri Wait, Lance
Wilson

Follow the Yellow Brick Road: The Career (and Learning/Skills) Journey of eResearchers Workshop

Ann Backhaus, Rebecca Lange, Tyne Sumner

Grey research data Workshop

Les Kneebone

17:00 – 18:30

Welcome Reception – Exhibition Area, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

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Monday
Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday
Main Program

Wednesday
Main Program

Thursday
Main Program

Friday
Post Conference Workshops

Tuesday 22 October – Conference Day 1

08:45 – 09:30

Registration, Exhibition, Arrival Tea & Coffee – Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Plenary Sessions – Boulevard Auditorium
Session Chair	Sam Moskwa
09:30 – 09:35	Welcome to Country Songwoman Maroochy of the Turrbal People
09:35 – 09:55	Conference Welcome Sam Moskwa, Professor Matthew Bellgard Opening Remarks – The Diverse eResearch Universe Professor Matthew Bellgard
09:55 – 10:40	Keynote Address – Data….. so what’s the problem? Rosie Hicks Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Data Commons

10:40 – 11:20

Morning Tea – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Plenary Sessions – Boulevard Auditorium
Session Chair	Matthew Bellgard
11:20 – 12:05	Keynote Address – Data, storage & information management: collaboration at the frontiers of science and technology Jakub Moscicki The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
12:05 – 12:50	Keynote Address – Unlocking Scientific Discovery with a Confluence of Simulation, Modelling and Machine Learning Andrew Underwood, APJ Chief Technology Officer, Supercomputing & Artificial Intelligence, Dell Technologies Jake Carroll, Chief Technology Officer, Research Computing Centre, University of Queensland

12:50 – 14:00

Lunch – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

From 13:00 – Solutions Showcases – Boulevard B1 Session Chair Malcolm Wolski

GSKY – a scalable standards compliant data service, Dr Nigel Rees
A national federated platform connecting primary and secondary care data for health services research, Javier Haurat
SmartFarm Data Management, Kieran Murphy

Concurrent Sessions
Room	Boulevard Auditorium	Boulevard B1	Boulevard B2	Boulevard B3	Arbour A2
Theme	Digital Humanities and Indigenous Data	National Programs and Partnerships	Data Discovery	eResearch Workforce	Data Processing and Analytics
Session Chair	Ingrid Mason	Rhys Francis	Peter Sefton	Amanda Miotto	Amr Hassan
14:00 – 14:20	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation
14:00 – 14:20	Digital humanities and indigenous culture: reconstituting the past through historic data modelling and network analysis Dr Marcus Frean, Rere-No-A-Rangi Pope.	An eResearch Strategy for a National Organisation Dr Carina Kemp	Australian ORCID Research Graph A/Professor Amir Aryani	Modelling Roles for eResearch Mr Nicholas May	New Generations of Internet of Things Datasets for Cybersecurity Applications: TON_IoT Datasets Dr Nour Moustafa
14:20 – 14:40	Indigenous Data Governance in Australia: Towards a National Framework Dr James Rose	A series of fortunate events: a decade of enabling national research access and a new era of inter-organisational collaboration Ms Elleina Filippi, Mr Heath Marks	Future Directions in Data Discovery Mr Joel Benn, Dr Adrian Burton	Multidisciplinary Data Infrastructure for South African Research: Developing a workforce for a national data node Dr Elisha Chiware	Fully Homomorphic Encryption and k-Nearest Neighbour Classification Miss Kiowa Scott-Hurley, Mr Christopher Watkins
14:40 – 15:00	Visualising the Victoria: digital reconstruction of Newcastle’s heritage-listed Victoria Theatre, 1891 Dr Gillian Arrighi	Evolution of a national support service for South African eResearch facilities Dr Dale Peters	BoF	BoF	BoF
14:40 – 15:00			Data Discovery: Past and Way Ahead Dr Jonathan Yu	Follow the Yellow Brick Road: The Career (and Learning/Skills) Journey of eResearchers BoF Mrs Ann Backhaus	Skill development programs and community building for better data use Mr David Flanders, Mr David Groenewegen, Ms Linda Kalejs, Dr Tyne Daile Sumner
15:00 – 15:20	Data Commons and the Humanities Professor Michael Haugh	Catalysing African Research: The Strategic Imperative To Optimise Shared Facilities Ms Renate Meyer
15:20 – 15:40	Research Libraries, Data Curation, and Workflows Ingrid Mason	Understanding Research Drivers for New Zealand’s Advanced Research Computing Mrs Nooriyah Lohani

15:40 – 16:10

Afternoon Tea – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Concurrent Sessions
Room	Boulevard Auditorium	Boulevard B1	Boulevard B2	Boulevard B3	Arbour A2
Theme	Humanities and Social Sciences	Cloud and High Throughput Computing	Persistent Identifiers	The Connected Researcher	Instruments and Data Capture
Session Chair	Alexis Tindall	Paul Coddington	Kerry Levett	Anne Stevenson	David Groenewegen
16:10 – 16:30	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation
16:10 – 16:30	The Social Analytics Lab – the impact of access to sensitive administrative data for research Ms Heidi Perrett	Embedded Nimrod: Enabling easy HTC in HPC environments Mr Zane van Iperen	Physical Sample Identifiers at Scale: Bringing Samples into the Linked Research Ecosystem Dr Jens Klump	Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Sharing Data Among Researchers: Designing Effective Behaviour Change Interventions Dr Michelle Krahe	Phase II of the Imaging Data Service: Expanding XNAT Dr Ryan Sullivan
16:30 – 16:50	BoF	AWS Cloud Resources as part of Scientific Workflows and Research Data Management Dr Kevin Jorissen, Mr Ben Thurgood	Feature BoF	How Research Data Outreach roles drove high adoption of an electronic research notebook system Ms Mary O’Connor, Ms Helen Foster	Shazam! La Trobe University Automated Research Data Pipeline Mr Michael Filippidis, Dr Connie Darmanin
16:30 – 16:50	HASS Research Support BoF Ms Ingrid Mason		Identifying, connecting and citing research with persistent identifiers Mr Melroy Almeida, Ms Natasha Simons, Dr Adrian Burton
16:50 – 17:10		Towards globally connected research data cloud infrastructure Dr Jakub Moscicki, Mr Gavin Kennedy		Lightning Talks	Workflows and visualisation for machine learning segmentation of massive image data sets Dr James Lefevre
16:50 – 17:10				1. Dr Tricia Kelly 2. Mr Luke Edwards 3. Mrs Jessica Cork, Mr Cameron Barrie 4.Miss Peta Ryan 5. Ms. Megan Guidry 6. Mr Earl Beutler Click here for Lightning Talk details
17:10 – 17:30		Western research Cloud Mr Darren Gardner, Mr Michael Macken, Mr Peter Bugeia			CAMERA: Focussing on instrument based research Professor David Abramson

17:30 – 19:00

Poster Reception – Poster Display Area, Boulevard Room

Including the announcement of the 2019 Visualise Your Thesis winner

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Monday
Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday
Main Program

Wednesday
Main Program

Thursday
Main Program

Friday
Post Conference Workshops

Wednesday 23 October – Conference Day 2

07:30 – 09:00

Jacky Pallas Memorial Diversity Breakfast – Podium Ballroom, Rydges Southbank Brisbane

Invited Speaker Dr Toni Collis, Chair, Women in High Performance Computing
How the lack of diversity is damaging your research and what you need to do about it

08:30 – 09:10

Registration, Exhibition, Arrival Tea & Coffee – Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Plenary Sessions – Boulevard Auditorium
Session Chair	Sam Moskwa, Matthew Bellgard
09:10 – 09:20	Welcome to Day 2 Sam Moskwa
09:20 – 10:05	Keynote Address – The answer is digital, but what’s the question? Professor Keith McNeil Assistant Deputy Director-General and Chief Clinical Information Officer, Queensland Health
10:05 – 10:50	Keynote Address – Delivering efficiencies in health care manufacturing Professor Svetha Venkatesh Co-Director, Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2) Alfred Deakin Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow

10:50 – 11:20

Morning Tea – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Concurrent Sessions
Room	Boulevard Auditorium	Boulevard B1	Boulevard B2	Boulevard B3	Arbour A2
Theme	Social Sciences	High Performance Computing	Digital Research	Workforce Diversity	Curated Exhibitor Session
Session Chair	Heidi Perrett	Wojtek Goscinski	Keith Russell	Nooriyah Lohani	David Abramson
	Presentation	Presentation	Lightning Talks	Presentation	Presentation
11:20 – 11:40	Diversity in Data, Tools, Users and Impacts: The AURIN Journey Professor Jane Hunter	Development of a High Performance Computing Capability for DST Dr John Taylor	1. Ms Irina Bastrakova 2. Mr Michael Lynch 3. Miss Kerri Wait 4. Ms Katie Hannan 5. Ms Helen Morgan 6. Mr Scott Gage Click here for Lightning Talk details	Capability Maturity Model for Diversity within organisations Mr Rowland Mosbergen	Democratizing ML for all scientists: Cloud based machine learning in science Ben Thurgood, Kevin Jorissen
11:40 – 12:00	Evaluating the Water and Energy Supply and Consumption Data Standard Dr Michael Rigby	Liquid Cooling: Exceeding the Limits of Air Cooling to Unlock Greater Potential in High Performance Computing. More than good business practice, reducing energy consumption and heat is key to computing on a global scale Dr Werner Scholz		BoF	Staying ahead of the data deluge David Honey
11:40 – 12:00				eResearch workforce 2019 – treating gender diversity like a business priority Dr Jenni Harrison, Mrs Ann Backhaus, Dr Carina Kemp, Cathy Clegg, Ms Mary Hobson	Staying ahead of the data deluge David Honey
12:00 – 12:20	Preserving the Australian Census – 250 years of population data for Australia Dr Steven McEachern	Scientific Software at Scale: Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Perspective Mr Mark Gray	Lightning Talks		Architecting Next Generation Parallel Filesystems for NVMe Matt Wallis
12:00 – 12:20			UQ-RCC Graduate Digital Research Fellowship 1. Aparna Gopal 2. Louise Martin-Chew 3. Dilrabo Tosheva Click here for Lightning Talk details
12:20 – 12:40	Data Cooperative for Social Impact and Public Health A/Professor Amir Aryani	Quantum Computing Experiments on Real Hardware and Simulators Dr Fanel Donea

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

From 13:00 – Solutions Showcases – Boulevard B1 Session Chair Andrew Bowness

Monash Secure eResearch Platform project, Mat Ishac

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Democratizing compute and storage for the research community, Ajay Radhakrishnan

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Concurrent Sessions
Room	Boulevard Auditorium	Boulevard B1	Boulevard B2	Boulevard B3	Arbour A2
Theme	Transdisciplinary eResearch	High Performance Computing	Data Culture	eResearch Engagement	eResearch Technologies
Session Chair	Jens Klump	Juan Guzman	Brett Rosolen	Aditi Subramanya	Nigel Ward
	BoF	BoF	Presentation	Presentation	BoF
14:00 – 14:20	Bringing together Smart Cities and Living Labs from around Australasia Dr Rebecca Lange	Establishing a ‘Women in HPC’ Australasia Chapter Jana Makar	RDM@UNSW: enabling Data Management “best practice” Kwun Lun Cho	Building the eResearch Support Community – A National Initiative to Uplift eResearch Support Skills and Encourage Community-Driven Collaboration Dr Nick Hamilton, Ms Loretta Davis	Graphs in eResearch BOF Dr Ian Thomas
14:20 – 14:40			How reframed/tailored RDM Plans can improve research productivity and research impact Mr Darren Gardner, Dr Anastasios Papaioannou	Creating digital stories for impact: a new take on the academic poster Ms Jennifer Warburton
14:40 – 15:00			BoF	BoF
14:40 – 15:00			Institutional Role in an Effective Research Data Culture Dr Rhys Francis	Engaging Researchers in eResearch Mrs Laura Armstrong, Dr Dharani Sontam, Ms Amanda Miotto, Mr Noel Zeng, Mrs Yvette Wharton
15:00 – 15:20	BoF	Presentation
15:00 – 15:20	The Case For National Coordination in Spatial information Dr Siddeswara Guru, Dr Michael Rigby	Simplifying the researcher experience at peak HPC facilities with federation Mr John Scullen, Dr Jenni Harrison
15:20 – 15:40		Tools for reproducible and portable research workflows at Pawsey Centre Dr Marco De La Pierre, Dr Brian Skjerven

15:40 – 16:10

Afternoon Tea – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Concurrent Sessions
Room	Boulevard Auditorium	Boulevard B1	Boulevard B2	Boulevard B3	Arbour A2
Theme	Life Sciences	Research Software Engineering	Data Management	eResearch Training	Institutions Facilitating eResearch
Session Chair	Siddeswara Guru	Nicholas May	Jenni Harrison	Luc Betbeder-Matibet	Christopher McAvaney
	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	BoF	Presentation
16:10 – 16:30	Galaxy Australia – the Bring Your Own Data platform enabling multi-omics analysis for biology researchers Dr Gareth Price	Framework for future proofing the eResearch workforce: recruitment, evaluation, upskilling and retainment of complex socio-technical problem solvers Mr Rowland Mosbergen	Patterns and Principles for Versioning of Research Data Dr Jens Klump	Training and skill building in eResearch: bringing the community together Ms Alexis Tindall, Mrs Ann Backhaus	Brief Review of eResearch Service Provision in CSIRO 2019 Mr Justin Baker
16:30 – 16:50	The Australian Bioinformatics Commons as an exemplar of international engagement in research infrastructure Jeff Christiansen	BoF	BoF		The African Open Science Platform (AOSP): Fostering a Culture of Open Data within African National Systems of Innovation Ina Smith, Susan Veldsman
16:30 – 16:50		Next Steps for the Research Software Engineering Community Nooriyah Lohani	Sensitive Data: How do you do yours… Part II Dr Frankie Stevens, Ms Ingrid Mason, Mr Richard Ferrers, Dr Steve McEachern
16:50 – 17:10	Empowering the Australian agri-food sector through a digital transformation of plant health by assimilating eResearch Dr Stanley Bellgard				La Trobe’s Collaborative Approach to Digital Research: its business as usual Dr Christopher Adda
17:10 – 17:30	Implementing FAIR in the Agricultural Research Federation Megan Wong, Kerry Levett				Towards eResearch Nirvana Professor Matt Bellgard

	Sundowner Presentation – Boulevard Auditorium
Session Chair	Sam Moskwa, Matthew Bellgard
17:45 – 18:30	Diversity and the Future of Robotics Dr Sue Keay Research Director – Cyber Physical Systems, DATA61 CSIRO Grab a drink and head into the Boulevard Auditorium to hear a special “sundowner” presentation from Dr Sue Keay

19:00 – 22:30

Offsite Cocktail Function

Dandy’s Rooftop Bar, The Fox Hotel, 71-73 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane (approx 5 minute walk from BCEC, Grey St Entrance)

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Monday
Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday
Main Program

Wednesday
Main Program

Thursday
Main Program

Friday
Post Conference Workshops

Thursday 24 October – Conference Day 3

08:30 – 09:10

Registration, Exhibition, Arrival Tea & Coffee – Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Concurrent Sessions
Room	Boulevard Auditorium	Boulevard B1	Boulevard B2	Boulevard B3	Arbour A2
Theme	eResearch Exemplars	Workflows and Reproducible Research	Trusted Data	eResearch Training	eResearch Platforms
Session Chair	Irina Bastrakova	Kerri Wait	Sue Cook	Ann Backhaus	Peter Elford
	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation
09:10 – 09:30	Australian Ocean Data Network utilises Amazon Web Service Batch processing for gridded data Dr Natalia Atkins	Running XNAT workflows on a local HPC cluster using the XNAT Container plugin, AWS, RADICAL-SAGA and Singularity Dr Stephen Kolmann	A FAIR Simple Scalable Static Research Data Repository Dr Peter Sefton	How to Run a Cost-Effective Researcher Training Service Dr Tyne Daile Sumner, Ms Sonia Ramza	Building a Tiered Digital Storage Environment Based on Metadata to Enable eResearch Mr. David Fellinger
09:30 – 09:50	Managing, manipulating and preserving data…for always Mr Gavin Stilgoe, Ms Catherine Huf	Reproducible research using electronic notebooks Mr Jake Surman	Achieving FAIR Data With Figshare Dr Mark Hahnel	Research Data Management online Training (RDMoT): What does it mean to me? Dr Adrian W. Chew	Fast for the Curious: Speeding up CloudStor’s research storage performance Gavin Kennedy, Chris Myers
09:50 – 10:10	Scalable platform for geophysical data analysis and visualisation Dr Pavel Golodoniuc	8 Reproducible Research things. Practical workshop to get people along the Reproducibility path Miss Amanda Miotto, Mrs Julie Toohey	BoF	BoF	BoF
09:50 – 10:10			Trusted Data Community: Working together to certify Australia’s repositories Dr Richard Ferrers	Project Runway: DMP Challenge Ms Erin Gallant, Ms Katie Hannan, Ms Stephanie Bradbury, Ms Liz Stokes.	Globus research data management service: Capabilities, international experiences, and future plans Ian Foster, Nick Jones, Brett Rosolen
10:10 – 10:30	Lightning Talks	Capturing (via automation) the different stages of the magnetotelluric data life cycle Dr Nigel Rees
10:10 – 10:30	1. Ms Fiona Lamont 2. Mr Nick Rossow 3. Mr Samuel Bradley 4. Mr Michael Mcguinness 5. Ingrid Mason Click here for Lightning Talk details
10:30 – 10:50		Peer Reviewing Reproducibility: The Physiome Journal: motivations, challenges and implementation Dr Karin Lundengård, Mr Simon Porter

10:50 – 11:20

Morning Tea – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

Concurrent Sessions
Room	Boulevard Auditorium	Boulevard B1	Boulevard B2	Boulevard B3	Arbour A2
Theme	Biomedical Data &Data Ethics	eResearch Sustainability	Data Packaging	Open Data	eResearch Participation
Session Chair	Jeff Christiansen	Nick Rossow	Gavin Kennedy	Kyle Chard	Alex Reid
	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	Presentation	BoF
11:20 – 11:40	Ethical considerations relating to the reuse or secondary use of social media data Ms Anne Walsh, A/ Professor Conor Brophy, Dr Marissa Takahashi	Establishment of team-based Data Stewards in a large New Zealand research institute Mrs Carmel Woods	Introducing RO-Crate: research object data packaging Dr Peter Sefton	Reaping the benefits of the Research Data Alliance in Australia Mr Keith Russell	Citizen Science & Community Engagement – Achieving Whanaungatanga and Hei hua mā te katoa (BoF) Ms Yvette Wharton
11:40 – 12:00	A situational analysis of clinical data sets for research across Melbourne Academic Centre for Health: Results and Lessons learnt for the ARDC and Australian Health Research Translation Centres A/Professor Douglas Boyle	BoF	BoF	BoF
11:40 – 12:00		Sustainable software through the research lifecycle. Who, what, when? Mr Matthias Liffers, Ms Sue Cook, Dr Mingfang Wu, Ms Heidi Perrett	Digital Preservation and Data Packaging Mr Adam Bell, Dr Peter Sefton, Ms Jaye Weatherburn, Mr Gavin Kennedy	Doing open access advocacy by stealth Professor Virginia Barbour, Ms Stephanie Bradbury
12:00 – 12:20	Using Personal Health Information in Research: A Conceptual Model to Achieve Social Licence Dr Michelle Krahe				Conference Feedback Session
12:20 – 12:40	Hybrid Training: a new model of bioinformatics training Dr Christina Hall				Conference Feedback Session

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch – Exhibition and Poster Display Areas, Boulevard Foyer and Boulevard Room

From 13:00 – Solutions Showcases – Boulevard B1 Session Chair Alfred Uhlherr

Web of Science Data as a service: 60 years of experience, Ben Clark,

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Using ReDBox 2 to link research project metadata with multiple data sources, including Google Cloud Platform. How ReDBox allows you to collate research data from external cloud sources into one centrally managed location and then combine it all as an archive, Jason Nairnsey

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Plenary Sessions – Boulevard Auditorium
Session Chair	Matthew Bellgard
14:00 – 14:45	Keynote Address – Research as a primary function of Electronic Health Records: rethinking the regulatory framework to fit consumer expectations Professor Nikolajs Zeps Director of Research and Development, Epworth HealthCare
14:45 – 15:30	Keynote Address Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi School of Data Sciences, Perdana University
15:30 – 15:45	Conference Close Sam Moskwa, Professor Matthew Bellgard