Australian Digital Observatory Ecosystem
Marissa Takahashi1, Elizabeth Alpert1, Thai Hoang Nguyen1, Alice Miller1 1Queensland University of Technology, BRISBANE CITY, QLD, Australia
Abstract
The Australian Digital Observatory (ADO) operates as a national infrastructure facilitating research into dynamic digital data, with a particular focus on online public discourse around significant societal issues. The ADO is a co-investment platform project of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF), University of New South Wales (UNSW), and University of Queensland (UQ).
The ADO blends data science and Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) expertise to provide comprehensive data support to researchers – especially those within the Business, HASS, and Health disciplines – navigating the challenges of computational and governance requirements linked to human-related data.
The ADO is curating an ecosystem of resources for researchers working with digital human data from the internet. This ecosystem is intended to be useful to a wide range of disciplines, particularly humanities and social sciences, data science, public health, business, law, and many others. The poster will showcase the different resources within the ecosystem.
Biography
Elizabeth Alpert (Betsy) is a Senior Software Developer/Data Scientist at the QUT Digital Observatory, supporting researchers in working with human data from the internet. Her background is in server-side development and data modelling and processing. She is a keen advocate for open-source software and open data.
Boyd Thai Hoang Nguyen is a Research Data Analyst at the Digital Observatory. He has a background in Psychology and previously worked as a Product Analyst looking into digital user behaviour and sentiments. Boyd’s main development projects include ‘youte’, an open-source tool for collecting and processing YouTube metadata and comments.
Alice Miller is a Senior Data Scientist/ Developer at the QUT Digital Observatory, a research infrastructure facility that support researchers working with human-related data on the internet. Alice has more than 10 years’ experience working various roles at CSIRO, Griffith University, University of Queensland, and Queensland University of Technology. These roles focus on data analysis.
Marissa Takahashi is the Manager of the QUT Digital Observatory and the Project Manager of the Australian Digital Observatory, a co-investment platform project with the Australian Research Data Commons, Queensland University of Technology, University of Melbourne, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation, University of New South Wales, and University of Queensland. Marissa Takahashi holds a PhD in Business Information Systems, an MBA from The University of Queensland Business School and MSc in Information Engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. She has worked in the private industry and other research organisations. Her research interest lies at the intersection of business, technology, and innovation.