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Monday 27 October 2014: Conference Day 1 – Workshops
17:30-19:00
Welcome Reception - Exhibition Area
Tuesday 28 October 2014: Conference Day 2 - Research Impact day
08:00-08:30
Registration and coffee
Plenary Sessions
Grand Ballroom
Room
08:30-08:45
Opening address
08:45-09:45
Across the Humanities and Science Divide: Advanced Digital Projects in Cultural Heritage
Melissa Terras
Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Professor of Digital Humanities in UCL’s Department of Information Studies.
Harnessing the power of citizen science to model extreme weather events in Australia
Prof David Karoly
Professor of Atmospheric Science, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
Better living through Photons; Macromolecular Crystallography at the Australian Synchrotron
Dr Tom Caradoc-Davies
Principal Scientist, Macromolecular Crystallography, Australian Synchrotron
09:45-10:15
10:15-10:45
10:45-11:15
Morning Tea
10:55-11:10
11:15-11:45
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Morning Tea in the Exhibition Area)
Research Data Switchboard: linking datasets, grants and publications between Research Data Australia and Dryad
E researching dynamics in architecture
Jane Burry
Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL)
11:45-12:45
Panel – Has eResearch gone mainstream?
Has eResearch now just become part of mainstream Research Infrastructure? Should we drop the “e” from eResearch? What do researchers see as the
challenges and opportunities, now and in the future, for eResearch, whatever it is called?
Melissa Terras, David Karoly, Tom Caradoc-Davies, Jane Burry, Heather Piwowar
12:45-13:15
Research in the Era of Limitless Computation
Mark Ryland
Chief Solutions Architect, World Wide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
13:15-14:15
Lunch
z
13:45:14:00
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Lunch in the Exhibition Area)
Ethically extracting and record-linking patient-specific health data – Australia’s most prevalent tool in Primary Care – demonstrating the GRHANITE system.
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Lunch in the Exhibition Area)
Capture of multimode clinical research data
Concurrent Sessions
Rooms
14:15-14:40
14:45-15:10
15:15-15:40
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 1/2
Presentation
State 3
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 3/4
Big data tools
eResearch Skills development
Environmental impact
High resolution imaging:
Capture, storage and access
Paul Bourke
Using scenarios in
introductory research data
management workshops for
library staff
Sam Searle
3D Sub-surface Visualization of
Water Quality Data and
Geological Layers for Coal
Seam Gas Fields
Charles Brooking, Chih-Hao Yu
and Jane Hunter
Towards e-Entomology with
Natural Colour 3D Insects
Matt Adcock, Chuong Nguyen,
David Lovell, Stuart Anderson,
Beth Mantle, Andrew Young
and John La Salle
Training and Education in
High Performance Computing
for eResearchers
Lev Lafayette
Scientific integration in the
Bioregional Assessment
Programme
Becky Schmidt
Services and the cloud
Crowd-sourcing
Ethics
CloudStor+ tweaking a
Sync&Share platform for
research needs
David Jericho
The Cinema Cities Index: the
potentials of engagement-led
research
Deb Verhoeven, Alwyn
Davidson, Bronwyn Coate and
Colin Arrowsmith
I'm a Sensitive Soul: How to
share sensitive data safely and
simply
Sarah Olesen
BOF
Lake
The connected
Researcher
The Research Data
Alliance
Stefanie Kethers, Mark
Parsons, Andrew Treloar,
Amir Aryani and Simon Cox
eResearch in
Geosciences
The Australian
Geoscience Data Cube –
Progress and Future
Directions
Alex Ip and Robert
Woodcock
Service Providers
State 1/2
AeRO – celebrating our
successes and our vision
for the future
Rob Cook ,AeRO Chair and
Loretta Davis, AeRO
Executive Officer
AeRO – Improving
Nationwide eResearch
Support
Hamish Holewa, User support
PM, and Loretta Davis, AeRO
Executive Officer
Industry
TBA
15:45-16:10
Pick, Package and Publish
research data: Cr8it and Of
The Web
Peter Sefton, Peter Bugeia and
Vicki Picasso
The Prosecution Project:
designing a digital
environment to support
research in criminal justice
history
Mark Finnane, Jeroen Van Den
Muyzenberg, Amanda
Kaladelfos, Alana Piper,
Amanda Miotto and Darcelle
Hinze
16:15-16:45
16:25-16:40
Rooms
16:45-17:10
You Don’t Know What You Don’t
Know: Ethics and participant
consent issues for eResearch
users
Jenny Ostini, Francis Gacenga,
Clemara Pocock and Eliza
Whiteside
Growth & development
of future capabilities: New
Zealand eScience
Infrastructure (NeSI)
Nick Jones, Director, NeSI,
and Malcolm Fraser,
Stakeholder Engagement,
NeSI
Afternoon Tea
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Afternoon Tea in the Exhibition Area)
Cloud Bioinformatics Training Platform
Presentation
Presentation
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 1/2
State 3
Grand Ballroom 3/4
Supporting e-health
Managing data
eResearch outreach
An Australasian-wide
Registry of Juvenile
Diabetes Patients in the
Cloud
Loren Bruns and Richard
Sinnott
Do Researchers Dream of
Data Management?
Angelica Healey, Ann Morgan
and Glynn Stringer
Facilitating at Flinders:
eResearch@Flinders after two
years
Amanda Nixon
17:15-17:40
Personalised medicine
possible with real-time
integration of genomic and
clinical data to inform
clinical decision-making.
Maureen Turner, Alice
Johnstone, Leon Heffer, Naomi
Rafael, Ivan Macciocca,
Natalie Thorne, Tim Bakker
and Clara Gaff
The ResearchLink Initiative:
The nexus between data,
publications, and grants
Adrian Burton and Amir Aryani
What a Mission! New Skills and
Services that Support
Humanities Research
Vanessa Gibbs and Charlotte
Brown
17:45-18:10
The Genomics Virtual Lab at
work
Andrew Lonie and Ron Horst
data.gov.au – the portal for
Australian government data
Simon Cox, Armin Haller and
Pia Waugh
A 3d cultural heritage and
visualisation depository for
Australia
Erik Champion
18:30-19:30
Poster Reception – Exhibition Area
BOF
Lake
The connected
Researcher
Service Providers
State 1/2
AAF – simplifying Identity
Management for Research
applications
Terry Smith, Technical
Manager & Bradley Beddoes,
Technical Architect, Australian
Access Federation
Institutional Data Storage
& Management: Problems
Encountered & Lessons
Learnt
Shane Cox, Luc BetbederMatibet, David
Groenewegen and Mike
Baker
Evolution of Federated
Identity Management in New
Zealand
Sat Mandri, Service Manager,
Tuakiri, New Zealand Access
Federation Inc.
EMC – Breakdown Data
Silos and Maximise the
Value of your eResearch
Ned Shawa, EMS NAS
Specialist Engineer
Wednesday 29 October 2014: Conference Day 3
07:30-08:00
Registration and coffee
Plenary Sessions
Grand Ballroom
Room
08:00-08:15
08:15-09:00
09:00-10:00
10:00-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:10-11:25
Opening Address
Discovering the Other 90% of our Human Superorganism
Larry Smarr
Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UCSD
Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP): developing a common global framework for marine data management through international collaboration
Helen Glaves
Senior Data Scientist at the British Geological Survey (BGS)
Making it worth their while: Rewarding Open eResearch
Heather Piwowar
Cofounder of Impactstory and a leading researcher in the area of research data availability and data reuse
Morning Tea
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Morning Tea in the Exhibition Area)
NeCTAR Heat Demonstration
Concurrent Sessions
Rooms
Presentation
Lake
eResearch in Humanities
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 1/2
eResearch in the
Geosciences
Citing and understanding
location references for
eResearch: a case study of
the Spatial Identifier
Reference Framework
(SIRF)
Paul Box, Terry Rankine, Rob
Atkinson and Simon Cox
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 3/4
BOF
State 3
Research data sustainability
eResearch exemplar
11:30-11:55
Nothing can ever be lost:
Infrastructure for Archival
Research and Dissemination.
Marco La Rosa, Gavan McCarthy
and Ailie Smith
Accessible research storage:
RDSI project transitioning and
lessons learned along the way
Viviani Paz and Nick Tate
12:00-12:25
Semantics, social linking and
humanities data in HuNI
Deb Verhoeven, Toby Burrows
and Alwyn Davidson
The Australian Geoscience
Data Cube – A Common
Analytical Framework for
Regularly Gridded Data
Alex Ip, Ben Evans, Leo
Lymburner and Simon Oliver
Data Intensive Research –
Enabling and Optimising flexible
‘big data’ Workflows
Ian Corner and Michael James
12:30-12:55
Transforming Lost Bits to
Cultural Assets: Using Data
Forensics in Digital Humanities
Leo Konstantelos and Anna
Shadbolt
Connecting Geology with
the Internet of Things
Jens Klump, Simon Cox and
Lesley Wyborn
The Value of Research Data to
the Nation
Richard Ferrers
13:00-14:00
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Lunch in the Exhibition Area)
GET Galaxy - Genomics Virtual Lab
13:30-13:45
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Lunch in the Exhibition Area)
GenomeSpace - Genomics Virtual Lab
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 1/2
Managing data
14:00-14:25
Inter-agency standardised
provenance reporting in
Australia
Nicholas John Car
14:30-14:55
Establishing a Robust Data
Collaborative to Enable
Distributed Research
David Fellinger
Case studies: user experience
15:00-15:25
15:30-15:55
16:00-16:30
16:10-16:25
The reasons for code
modernization
Peter Kerney, Enterprise
Technical Specialist, Intel
Australia
eResearch – developing
an exemplar framework
Hamish Holewa, Amanda
Nixon, Barbara Polus, and
Malcolm Wolski
RDSI and Mediaflux making
data-intensive research
easy and accessible
Arcitecta
How to leverage Microsoft
Azure in your next research
project
Chris Louloudakis, Cloud
Infrastructure Solution
Specialist, Microsoft Australia
Lunch
13:10-13:25
Rooms
Industry
State 1/2
BCCVL – a case study in
improving user experience
through branding, marketing,
visual design, functionality &
usability.
Kelly Lennon and Hamish
Holewa
Improved High Performance
Computing usability and
uptake through the utilisation
of Remote Desktops
Jason Bell and Chris Hines
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 3/4
eResearch in Water and
Marine Sciences
The Integrated Marine
Observing System:
Delivering Reliable and
Usable Services on the
National Infrastructure
Peter Blain and Roger Proctor
Australia’s Marine Virtual
Laboratory
Roger Proctor, Peter Blain,
Peter Oke, Uwe Rosebrock
and Brendan Davey
Point and counter-point
Sustainability
eResearch in Australia:
From Build to Buy?
Nick Tate and Rhys Francis
Presentation
Lake
BOF
State 3
Research policies and practices
Open Data
Opening up the dialogue on
research data: how librarians at
La Trobe University are enabling
the process.
Simon Huggard, Kerry Sullivan
and Mina Nichols-Boyd
Establishing a Research Storage
Service at UNSW. Governance
to Production to Practice.
Luc Betbeder, Shane Cox, Maude
Frances, Mark Hoffman, Andrew
Wells, Gregory Leslie, Grainne
Moran and Denise Black
Supporting tools
Bringing TRNDiff to the Cloud:
Supporting large scale
visualisation of transcriptional
regulatory networks for
biological researchers
Xin-Yi Chua, Lawrence
Buckingham and James Hogan
Sustainable Services for
Managing Higher Degree
Research Data
Arif Shaon, Eamon Smallwood,
Shane Cox, Lucian Hiss and
Maude Frances
Afternoon Tea
Solutions Showcase Presentation (during Afternoon Tea in the Exhibition Area)
Virtual Hazard Impact and Risk Laboratory (VHIRL)– Reuse of generic VL infrastructure
Industry
State 1/2
The latest in WiFi
technologies and
implementations
Alan Kepper, Managing
Director, Laminar
Open Data Perspectives
in Government and
Research BoF
Markus Buchhorn
From zero to 100: develop
research storage collection
pipelines in QCIF nodes
Dr Graham Chen
eResearch Manager, QCIF
Linked Data
TBA
Internet of Things and
Linked Data BoF
Jens Klump, Simon Cox,
Paul Box and Lesley
Wyborn
TBA
Rooms
16:30-16:55
17:00-17:25
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 1/2
Tools for Collecting,
Generating and Moving Data
The All Sky Virtual
Observatory
Yeshe Fenner, Darren Croton
and Jon Smillie
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 3/4
Case studies
International Standard Name
Identifier (ISNI) identifiers for
one university’s researchers:
what, why, how
Roderick Sadler and Simon
Huggard
Presentation
State 3
Processing and analysing
data
Exploring the Transparency of
Government through Big Data
on the Cloud
Richard Sinnott, Yi Fang and
Edwin Pesantes
Workspace: A Platform for
Delivering Scientific
Applications
Damien Watkins
Pleasant encounters of the VM
Kind – Leveraging on NeCTAR
VMs to Achieve Research
Outcomes
Francis Gacenga, Nick Kelly and
Erin Rayment
Clusters in the Cloud
Shunde Zhang and Paul
Coddington
17:30-17:55
Connecting the storage dots –
the RDSI DaShNet project
Markus Buchhorn
eResearch at VUW: The
eScience Consultant's Tale
Kevin Buckley
Genomics Interlocking: An
architecture that takes
laboratory computing close to
the data
Yousef Kowsar and Andrew
Lonie
19:00-22:00
Conference Dinner – Pullman Ballroom
BOF
Lake
Industry
State 1/2
Ethics
TBA
TBA
Addressing the ethics of
health eResearch with
human participants
Craig Fry
TBA
Thursday 30 October 2014: Conference Day 4 - ICT/Business Day
08:00-08:30
Registration and coffee
Plenary Sessions
Grand Ballroom
Room
08:15-08:30
Welcome
08:30-09:00
Dell’s IT Innovation Lab – Research in the cloud
Andrew Underwood
Manager, HPC & Research Computing at Dell Australia
Supporting Research and Researchers: Challenges and Opportunities for CIOs
Paul Sherlock
Chief Information Officer of Information Strategy and Technology Services at the University of South Australia
Sense-T – Building a big data platform for research, government, business and community
Mike Briers
Director of Sense-T
09:00-10:00
10:00-11:00
11:00-11:30
Morning Tea
Enlightening talks at Showcase Theatre (During Morning Tea in Exhibition Area)
11:05-11:10 - Why eResearch needs storytellers, Patricia McMillan
11:15-11:20 What Can We Learn From 4 Years of Cloudstor Network Traffic?, Alex Reid
Concurrent Sessions
Rooms
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 1/2
Presentation
Grand Ballroom 3/4
BOF
State 3
Open Source
Big Data
The Connected Researcher
11:30-11:55
The effects of big data on research
infrastructure
Sakkie Janse van Rensburg and Dale
Peters
CSIRO eResearch: Building future
science platforms
John Taylor
12:00-12:25
Explorations of Big Data Analytics
on the NeCTAR Research Cloud
and RDSI Infrastructures: Global
Twittering
Richard Sinnott
Centralised IT and Research. Are they
enemies or just friends who need
counselling?
Ossie Richards
figshare and Monash University:
combining cloud management and
discoverability with institutional
storage
David Groenewegen and Mark
Hahnel
e-Research at the University of Cape
Town: the role of strategic partnerships
and leadership readiness
Gwenda Thomas, Izak Janse van
Rensburg and Marilet Sienaert
12:30-12:55
13:00-14:00
13:10-13:25
Room
Service Providers
State 1/2
Supporting the future for early-career
researchers
Bill Yeadon, Research & Development
Manager, V3 Alliance
Managing Research Data with
Fedora 4
David Wilcox and Andrew Woods
Lunch
Solutions Showcase Presentations (during Lunch in the Exhibition Area)
Simulation and Analysis of Natural Hazards in CSIRO’s Workspace - platform for simulation
Plenary Sessions
Grand Ballroom
How the eRSA Problem became the
eRSA Solution – why a network and
network security is imperative for
eRSA’s NeCTAR cloud
Paul Bartczak, Infrastructure Manager,
eResearch South Australia
(this presentation runs across 50 minutes
14:00-15:30
Panel - Does IT matter?
Ten years after Nicholas Carr posed this question which predicted the emergence of Cloud Computing, should Universities and eResearch Service Providers
continue to invest in IT infrastructure to support research? Should they invest, instead, in the people, tools and techniques necessary to leverage cloud
providers in support of research.
Gerrit Bahlman, Elizabeth Coulter, Peter Nikoletatos, Paul Sherlock, Sakkie Janse van Rensburg
15:30-16:00
Afternoon Tea
16:00-17:00
Closing Address
Enabling Digital Research – Future Paths
Gerrit Bahlman
Director of Information Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
17:00-17:15
Closing Remarks
Dr Nick Tate
eResearch Conference Co-chair, RDSI Director