Dr Lesley Wyborn1,3,5, Belinda Campbell17, Josh Clough2, Jo Croucher3, Dr Kelsey Druken4, Dr Rebecca Farrington5, Dr Siddeswara Guru6, Donald Hobern7, Dr Jens Klump8, Dr David Lescinsky9, Kerry Levett10, Julia Martin11, Peggy Newman12, Mark Rehbein13, Clare Richards4, Dr Andrew Robinson3, Katherine Tattersall14, Sarah Thomas15, Dr Megan Wong16
1Australian Research Data Commons, Canberra, Australia, 2Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), Melbourne, Australia, 3National Computational Infrastructure, ANU, Canberra, Australia, 4ACCESS-NRI, Canberra, Australia, 5AuScope Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, 6Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, Brisbane, Australia, 7Australian Plant Phenomics Network, Adelaide, Australia, 8Mineral Resources, CSIRO, Kensington, Australia, 9Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, 10Australian Research Data Commons, Adelaide, Australia, 11Australian Research Data Commons, Canberra, Australia, 12Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 13Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 14Marine National Facility, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, 15Australian Access Federation, Adelaide, Australia, 16Australian Research Data Commons, Mt Helen, Australia, 17Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, , Australia
Biography:
Lesley Wyborn is an Honorary Professor at ANU at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and at the Research School of Earth Sciences. She also works part time for ARDC. She had 42 years’ experience in Geoscience Australia (GA) in both research and in data science/data management. Since leaving GA in 2014 has continued research in aspects of Data Science including data quality, versioning, reproducibility, operationalising the FAIR, CARE and TRUST principles and Open Science and is a player in many global informatics initiatives. Her current focus is the development of transparent high-performance aggregated national-scale datasets that are compatible with international data networks.
Abstract:
Earth and Environmental (E&E) NCRIS facilities and related government organisations participate in the National Earth and Environmental Sciences Facilities Forum (NEESFF) to better coordinate Research Infrastructure (RI) investments. With increasingly complex data coordination needs across the NEESFF facilities, the Information Standards Advisory Panel (ISAP) operates as a subcommittee comprising informatics specialists from most organisations.
Current ISAP members are Atlas of Living Australia (ALA); AuScope (Geoscience); Australian Access Federation (AAF); Australia’s Climate Simulator (ACCESS-NRI); Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN); Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC); Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN); Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW); Geoscience Australia (GA); Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS); Marine National Facility; National Computational Infrastructure (NCI); and Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN).
ISAP members are collectively working towards creating a national data ecosystem that enables data integration across all NEESFF facilities, at all processing scales and data volumes. In addition, many members participate in International RI Initiatives (e.g., TERN in the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructures (GERI); ALA in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); ACCESS-NRI and NCI in the Earth Systems Grid Federation (ESGF), whilst Auscope has formed a network with the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), US EarthScope and GNS Science Te Pῡ Ao New Zealand). These international connections provide much-needed global insights into relevant new developments which are then shared across ISAP.
This poster will outline some of ISAP’s initiatives to develop a framework for delivering integrated E&E datasets that operate on and across local, regional, national and international RIs.