Infrastructures Supporting Inter-disciplinary Research - Exemplars from the UK
. Talk given by Richard Sinnott at Urban Research Infrastructure Network Workshops, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, September 2010.

1. Infrastructures Supporting Inter-disciplinary Research - Exemplars from the UK Professor Richard O. Sinnott eResearch Director, University of Melbourne 9 th September 2010 [email_address]

2. Me Job description in a nutshell… make “e-” happen (Project Consultant on AURIN)

6. e-Health Vision Nucleotide sequences Nucleotide structures Gene expressions Protein Structures Protein functions Protein-protein interaction (pathways) Cell Cell signalling Tissues Organs Physiology Organisms Populations SECURITY!!! + environmental, social, geographic …

9. AURIN Work Streams = e-VOs . . . {Resources} {Users} Org 1 {Resources} {Users} Org n VO VO specific agreements

11. Privileges, Resources, Access Control and Trust Service provider Shib Frontend 5. Pass authentication info and attributes to auth Z function Grid Portal 6. M ake final AuthZ de cision Identity Provider Home Institution W.A.Y.F. Federation User AuthN AuthZ uid ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1. User points browser at Grid resource/portal 2. Shibboleth redirects user to W.A.Y.F . service 3. User selects their home institution 4. Home site authenticates user and pushes attributes to the servic e provider LDAP LDAP

18. NeISS Tools Workflows

21. NeISS Infrastructure – Exemplars Each synthetically generated member of a population in a city, region or neighbourhood can be linked, e.g. to BHPS, by matching their demographic characteristics. From this process, additional characteristics can be assigned to the synthetic database using the profiles in the BHPS. The power of this lies in the fact that while the PRM generates in the order of 10 demographic and household attributes, the BHPS has over a thousand attribute fields. In this way, many spatial patterns can be newly inferred. Distribution of elderly people around Newcastle

22. NeISS Infrastructure – Exemplars DSM uses a series of sub-models representing key demographic transitions, e.g. marriage, migration, pro-creation, death and so forth Dynamic simulation showing proportional population change between 2001 and 2031 in Birmingham.

23. NeISS Infrastructure – Exemplars Three scenarios – congestion charging, road pricing and promotion of non-vehicular alternatives to commuting. For example, would policies on financial alternatives to leave a car at home and travel to work by bicycle actually work? Float idea to general public via tools like SurveyMapper – use results to gauge public response and inform policy makers, and as basis for calibration of simulation tools. Traffic scenarios