Month: August 2017

Karmen Condic-Jurkic1, Mark Gregson2, Steven De Costa2 1The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, karmen.condic-jurkic@anu.edu.au 2Link Digital, Canberra, Australia, mark.gregson@linkdigital.com.au, steven.decosta@linkdigital.com.au   Computational modelling has become an integral tool in almost every branch of science, including chemistry and biology. Computational chemistry...
  • August 22, 2017
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Dahlia Han1, Simon Esling2 1Libraries and Learning Services of the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, d.han@auckland.ac.nz 2Libraries and Learning Services of the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, s.esling@auckland.ac.nz   KEYWORDS Libraries; Research; Support; Collaboration; Funding; Software; Relationships, Outreach,...
  • August 22, 2017
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Mr Craig Hamilton1 1Intersect Australia, Sydney, Australia, Craig.Hamilton@intersect.org.au   DESCRIPTION TAPPAS (Tool for Assessing Pest and Pathogen Airborne Spread) is an online tool for modelling the dispersal of living organisms, developed through a CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and Intersect partnership.  TAPPAS...
  • August 16, 2017
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Mr Peter Elford1, Mr Tim Rayner2, Mr Chris Myers3 1AARNet, Canberra, Australia, Peter.Elford@AARNet.edu.au 2AARNet, Canberra, Australia, Tim.Rayner@AARNet.edu.au 3AARNet, Melbourne, Australia, Chris.Myers@AARNet.edu.au   DESCRIPTION The scale of the SKA [1] represents a huge leap forward in the engineering needed  to deliver...
  • August 16, 2017
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Mr Peter Elford1 1AARNet, Yarralumla, Australia, Peter.Elford@AARNet.edu.au   DESCRIPTION AARNet has entered into a consortium with Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra to build a new international subsea cable system that will connect Singapore and Australia. Known as Indigo, the...
  • August 16, 2017
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Dr Peter Sefton1 1University Of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia, peter.sefton@uts.edu.au   ABSTRACT Calcyte is a toolkit for managing metadata for collections of any kind of file-based data using spreadsheets – automatically generated from templates – for data entry (other methods may...
  • August 16, 2017
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Mr Guido Aben1 1AARNet, Kensington, Australia, guido.aben@aarnet.edu.au STOP WORRYING AND LEARN TO LOVE SURVEY DATA Consensus is developing among eScience policy makers, both domestically as well as overseas, that future eScience policy must contain provisions to more robustly evaluate eScience deliverables;...
  • August 16, 2017
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Ms Ingrid Mason1 1AARNet, Sydney, Australia, ingrid.mason@aarnet.edu.au DESCRIPTION This lightning talk will debate a single question: Why does Australia need to foster the development of regional communities of practice and participate in international communities of practice, linking the digital humanities...
  • August 16, 2017
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Mr Uwe Rosebrock1, Mr Simon Pigot1 1Csiro, Hobart, Australia, uwe.rosebrock@csiro.au   ABSTRACT The  Australian  Wave  Energy  Atlas  (AWavEA)  portal  provides  access  to  a  32-year  hind-cast  of  wave  data  from  the Australian region at an hourly temporal resolution. In its entirety, it...
  • August 16, 2017
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Mr Owen Oneill1, Mr Daniel Wilksch1 1Public Record Office Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, owen.oneill@prov.vic.gov.au   Abstract In June 2017, Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) implemented a new repository for publishing linked open data about the open access records in our collection....
  • August 16, 2017
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