Month: August 2017

Mr Rob Cook1, Dr Rhys Francis2 1Pangalax, Bardon, Australia, 2eRF, Diamond Creek, Australia   INTRODUCTION Digital data is an increasingly important ingredient of research [2][3][4][7]. As part of the evolving culture of research, researchers are being asked to plan, manage,...

Ms Sarah Nisbet1, Mr Hamish Holewa2 1eRSA, Thebarton, Australia, 2Atlas of Living Australia, Canberra, Australia   SUMMARY In this presentation we will share our experiences and learnings from creating high performing cross-institutional collaborative teams. The authors of this paper have...

Dr Andrew Janke1,2, Ms Helen Morgan2 1 Research Data Services/The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, andrew.janke@uq.edu.au 2 The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia helen.morgan@uq.edu.au INTRODUCTION The University of Queensland has invested in data management systems and is building a reputation...

Ms Belinda Weaver1, Dr  Nicholas Hamilton, Dr Frankie Stevens, Dr Weisi Chen, Mr Aidan Wilson 1Software and Data Carpentry, Brisbane, Australia   ABSTRACT Training’s report card was marked ‘could do better’ in Tom Cochrane’s 2015 review of the NCRIS capability...

Mr Nick Smale1, Ms Kathryn Unsworth2, Dr Daniel Barr3 1The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, smalen@unimelb.edu.au 2Australian National Data Service, Caulfield East, Australia, kathryn.unsworth@ands.org.au 3RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, danielpbarr@gmail.com ABSTRACT Data management plans (DMPs) have increasingly been seen as a key...

Mr Lev Lafayette1 1University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia   The importance of High Throughput Computing (HTC), whether through high performance or cloud-enabled, is a critical issue for research institutions as data metrics are increasing at a rate greater than the...

Miss Sara Drieman1 1eRSA, Thebarton, Australia   eResearch hardware is typically purchased with academic grant funding, resulting in large scale solutions using current market high end hardware. Due to the periodic nature of the funding and the continuous advances in...

Mr Robbie Clarken1, Mr John Marcou1, Mr Ron Bosworth1, Dr Andreas Moll1 1Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Australia   MOTIVATION The volume and quality of scientific data produced at the Australian Synchrotron continues to grow rapidly due to advancements in detectors, motion...

Dr Dale Peters1, Dr Mark Hahnel2 1University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. dale.peters@uct.ac.za 2Figshare, London ABSTRACT Amidst a growing number of mandates for data sharing and reuse, South African universities are scrambling to provide services to the research...

Mr David Fellinger1 1iRODS Consortium, Chapel Hill, United States   In the early days of high performance research computing much of the work consisted of iterative mathematics and matrix resolution, complex system simulation, and visualization. In the US, machines like...