Dr Rebecca Farrington1, Dr Siddeswara Guru2, Mr Donald Hobern4, Dr Paul van Ruth5, Mr Sebastien Mancini5, Ms Peggy Newman6, Mr Josh Clough3
1Auscope, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2TERN, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Australia, 3AURIN, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 4APPF, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 5IMOS, The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 6ALA, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
Data intensity within Earth System Science is increasing as is our need to understand the past, present and future of our planet.
Australia’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) funds programs within the Geosciences (AuScope), Terrestrial Ecosystems (TERN), Plant Phenomics (APPF), Marine Observation (IMOS), Biodiversity (ALA) and the built environment (AURIN). All of these organisations fund and/or operate extensive research data systems, all are working with the FAIR data principles, all engage with international research initiatives. Yet all represent unique researcher needs and operational structures. In recent years, the National Earth and Environmental Science Facilities Forum (NEESFF) has provided a vehicle for discussions within this community of infrastructure providers. The 2020 addition of the NEESFF Information Standards Advisory Panel (ISAP) composed of representative data leaders, has focused the need for alignment within NEESFF organisations on both activities and strategies for data and information standards.
In this session, representatives from the NCRIS Earth and Environmental Sciences Research Infrastructure organisations will briefly present their respective data strategies, including FAIR data approaches, international collaborations, transdisciplinary activity, UN SDGs, etc. An interactive discussion between panellists and audience members will follow and consider the challenges and opportunities faced to provide seamless access to datasets across different organisations. How can we best share data assets and infrastructures? What cross-domain challenges are we facing? What is the innovation potential of our (soon-to-be?) interoperable data assets? What new transdisciplinary research could we support if ‘the world was our oyster’?
Biography:
Rebecca is the Director of Research Data Systems at AuScope Ltd, Australia’s national provider of Research Infrastructure for the Geoscience community. Prior to this, she was a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Geography Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and an Academic Convenor on the Petascale Campus Initiative (Chancellery) at The University of Melbourne.
With research expertise in computational fluid dynamics, she is passionate about developing community-led data and compute-intensive research initiatives and supporting the people behind them.