Prof. Richard Sinnott1
1University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project established the AURIN portal to provide seamless and secure access to urban and built environment data from over 150 Government agencies and industry bodies. The platform was designed, developed and maintained by the Melbourne eResearch Group at The University of Melbourne for almost 12 years. In that time the platform was accessed and used over 315,000 times by almost 24,000 end users with over 15,000 user sessions in the first half of 2022 alone.
The Spatial Urban Data Observatory (SUDO) will provide a data rich environment that leverages the many open source data sets and tools established by the MeG team over the last decade. This will be augmented with an array of new data sets and capabilities including: national social media data from the ARDC funded Australian Data Observatory project (ADO – www.ado.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au), national bushfire data commons data sets from the ARDC bushfires initiative, and national air quality data sets obtained from official agencies and from citizen science efforts. This talk will provide an over of SUDO and the capabilities that it brings that have been and will continue to support the broader research community.
Biography:
Professor Richard O. Sinnott is Professor of Applied Computing Systems and Director of the Melbourne eResearch Group at the University of Melbourne. He has been lead software engineer/architect on an extensive portfolio of national and international projects, with specific focus on those research domains requiring finer-grained access control (security) and those dealing with big data challenges. He has over 450 peer reviewed publications across a range of applied computing research areas.