The call for participation closes on the 6th of June so it’s time to start submitting your papers! We invite you to participate as a practitioner, a researcher, an educator and an influential exemplary in your field. You have multiple opportunities to participate including:
If you would like to participate, follow these steps to make a submission:
All submission types except posters and showcases are due by 6 June 2014.
For more information about the conference please visit:
https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/eres2014/participate/
Register as a delegate: eResearch focuses on technological platforms that enhance the researchers’ ability to generate, collect, share, analyse, store and retrieve information.
This year the conference theme is ‘Towards Unified Global Research’
Register now and take advantage of the early bird rate.
To register, please visit https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/eres2014/registration/
Featured Speakers: We are delighted to present six outstanding Featured Speakers for the 2014 conference:
For more information, please visit https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/eres2014/featured-speakers/
Become a sponsor: The conference provides an excellent opportunity for your Organisation to:
AARNet is rolling out new high-speed data connections to eight RDSI (Research Data Storage Infrastructure) Nodes as part of the DaShNet project funded through the Federal Government¹s National Research Network(NRN) Program. The University of South Australia is the lead agent for the NRN, an initiative of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
The project, DaShNet, will enable researchers nationwide to quickly and easily access, use and share research data collections stored at the Nodes. Each Node will have resilient 10Gbps connections to both the AARNet routed backbone and a virtual private network (VPN), inter-connecting the Nodes. In order to ensure that each Node can use these connections to their full capacity, AARNet is deploying ‘Science DMZ’ architecture at each site. The Science DMZ approach ensures that that data to and from the RDSI Nodes can be transferred across Australia and internationally at a full 10Gbps, well beyond typical performance seen without special tuning.
RDSI investment opens the door for Geoscience Australia to provide access to Earth Observations from Space
Since 2005, Dr Adam Lewis and the team at Geoscience Australia’s National Earth & Marine Observations Group have worked to maximise the value and impact of images taken from space by earth observation satellites.
Their Data Cube prototype, using high performance computing and RDSI-funded storage facilities at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), represents a new paradigm in analysing and providing public access to these massive datasets.
“The Data Cube evolved because we’ve become good at receiving and calibrating large amounts of satellite data,” says Dr Lewis. “We now have hundreds of Terabytes of data covering all of Australia going back 30 years, and we wanted to begin applying it to big problems. Once we knew this is what we wanted to do, it became clear we needed to organise the data differently.”
The Australian National Data Service will host a webinar in early July featuring Dr Virginia Barbour of PLOS discussing the open access journal’s new data policy.
Dr Barbour, founding co-editor of PLOS Medicine, will also talk about the development of PLOS article level metrics and the use of ORCID identifiers.
The webinar will take place on Thursday, 3 July, 12:30pm–1:30pm AEST. Please register.
Sooner on the ANDS calendar is a webinar on Thursday, 5 June, 12pm–1pm AEST, with Natasha Simons providing practical examples of how one university – Griffith University – has approached data citation. Please register.
Natasha recently joined ANDS as a Senior Data Management Specialist, based at Griffith University. She has spent the last two years as the Senior Project Manager for the ANDS-funded Griffith Research Hub.
AARNet wishes to recognise the innovative leadership and technical engineering expertise of the Australian Research & Education community for their use of AARNet’s high-speed network or services that have led to any single or combination of the following outcomes:
AARNet is delighted to have the support of QUESTnet for the 2nd annual AARNet Excellence Awards. QUESTnet is the premier annual conference for the University IT technical community. The Awards will be presented at the QUESTnet Conference Gala Dinner on July 3, 2014.
We welcome submissions from the IT Services community that demonstrate the value of the services they deliver to educators, researchers, staff and students. The deadline for submissions is midnight AEST June 27, 2014.
For more information and submission details see: http://news.aarnet.edu.au/aarnet-excellence-awards-2014/
eResearch NZ 2014, the sister event to eResearch Australasia 2014, is being held in Hamilton at the University of Waikato between 30 June and 2 July. The conference is a national forum for discussion and aims to promote shared approaches to supporting eResearch needs, across institutions and disciplines. Presentations will highlight current and emerging research priorities, discuss how eResearch can enable research and share progress with the rest of the community.
http://ernz2014.eresearch.org.nz/
The RDSI/CAUDIT Vendor Panel continues to accept Request For Proposals (RFPs) on an ongoing basis. The Vendor Panel has been set up to support the procurement of data storage infrastructure by the RDSI Nodes, higher-education and research sector in Australia and New Zealand.
Vendor Panel applicants can apply any time and will be assessed in accordance with the compliance and evaluation criteria by an independent Vendor Panel Evaluation Committee
Current members will remain on the Vendor Panel and do not need to reapply.
Further Information and forms are available from https://www.rdsi.edu.au/join-vendor-panel
Enquiries: vepa@rdsi.uq.edu.au
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