CeRDI Research RUN Vietnam Agriculture GroupHelen Thompson
Federation University's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) is participating in the Regional University Network (RUN) Vietnam Agriculture Group. This presentation provides some background on CeRDI initiatives in eResearch.
Areas of focus include capacity building and engagement, research collaborations around soil management, water resources, land use, crop productivity, climate change and adaption, biodiversity, participatory GIS and citizen science.
Major technology and research trends link to ubiquitous high-speed broadband, the petabyte age, open data policies and the opportunities for Universities and particularly regional universities to play a significant role in generating insight from data.
Mobile technologies… App development and responsive design – for student and staff recruitment, engagement, knowledge transfer
3d and visualisation technologies… Massive innovation and research opportunities
Presenting Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation research capabilities as part of the Regional Universities Network Vietnam Agriculture Group visit.
Latin America Researc Visit to FedUni Centre for eResearch and Digital Innova...Helen Thompson
Under the Australia Awards Fellowship (AAF), the Victorian State Government’s Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources Division of International Education has organised and sponsored a delegation of Latin-American Universities’ senior research administrators and researchers to visit Victorian universities in September.
FedUni hosted the delegation on Wednesday 23 September at Mt Helen
CeRDI Research | EPA Victoria presentation Helen Thompson
Robert Milne and Helen Thompson from Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation provide this presentation to Environment Protection Authority Victoria on 22 September 2016.
The presentation introduced CeRDI's approach to eResearch and profiled applied research projects in areas including groundwater, estuaries and waterways; soil health and soil moisture probes; natural resource management planning and climate change.
Over the past ten years, Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) has established a programmatic research program in the area of agriculture.
This program is supported through partnerships with organisations including Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), grower groups nationally, the Victorian Government, Corangamite Catchment Management Authority and CSIRO.
This presentation profiles a number of research initiatives that are associated with that program.
CeRDI is able to bring both a production and catchment perspective to agriculture-related research. .
Federation University Australia is a member of the Regional Universities Network (RUN), together with the University of New England, Southern Cross University, Southern Queensland University, Central Queensland University and University of the Sunshine Coast.
In March 2015 the RUN Precision Agriculture Flagship was launched by the Hon. Barnaby Joyce MP.
CeRDI represents Federation University Australia in the RUN Precision Agriculture Flagship. As part of its participation, CeRDI was successful in receiving two PhD scholarships.
Chris Bahlo’s research is focused on advancing the management of livestock health using information systems and international standards for data exchange to be able to federate and exchange livestock health and management data from multiple organisations as well as disparate sensor technologies and proprietary systems using appropriate web-based technologies.
Thomas Hill’s research is focused on the role that legacy data plays in farm decision-making and the adoption of best practice, and seeks to build greater insight into the nature and availability of agricultural legacy data, as well as the barriers and enablers for the sharing of legacy data and information.
RINPAS Data for Decisions - Big Data and Data CommunitiesHelen Thompson
The Research Innovation Network for Precision Agriculture systems held a workshop in Sydney from 31 May to 1 June 2016 where the focus was on Data for Decisions - Big Data and Data Communities. This presentation profiles research being undertaken by Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation which includes knowledge management, spatial research and decision tools including for agriculture.
CeRDI Research | Agriculture, Climate Adaption and Citizen ScienceHelen Thompson
Over the past ten years, Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) has established a programmatic research programs in area including agriculture, climate adaption and citizen science.
These programs are supported through partnerships with organisations including Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), grower groups nationally, the Victorian Government, Water Authorities and Catchment Management Authority and CSIRO.
This presentation profiles a number of research initiatives that are associated with these programs.
CeRDI is able to bring both a production and catchment perspective to agriculture-related research through the development of innovative digital solutions which bridge the gap between academic research and government, industry and community needs.
CeRDI Research RUN Vietnam Agriculture GroupHelen Thompson
Federation University's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) is participating in the Regional University Network (RUN) Vietnam Agriculture Group. This presentation provides some background on CeRDI initiatives in eResearch.
Areas of focus include capacity building and engagement, research collaborations around soil management, water resources, land use, crop productivity, climate change and adaption, biodiversity, participatory GIS and citizen science.
Major technology and research trends link to ubiquitous high-speed broadband, the petabyte age, open data policies and the opportunities for Universities and particularly regional universities to play a significant role in generating insight from data.
Mobile technologies… App development and responsive design – for student and staff recruitment, engagement, knowledge transfer
3d and visualisation technologies… Massive innovation and research opportunities
Presenting Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation research capabilities as part of the Regional Universities Network Vietnam Agriculture Group visit.
Latin America Researc Visit to FedUni Centre for eResearch and Digital Innova...Helen Thompson
Under the Australia Awards Fellowship (AAF), the Victorian State Government’s Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources Division of International Education has organised and sponsored a delegation of Latin-American Universities’ senior research administrators and researchers to visit Victorian universities in September.
FedUni hosted the delegation on Wednesday 23 September at Mt Helen
CeRDI Research | EPA Victoria presentation Helen Thompson
Robert Milne and Helen Thompson from Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation provide this presentation to Environment Protection Authority Victoria on 22 September 2016.
The presentation introduced CeRDI's approach to eResearch and profiled applied research projects in areas including groundwater, estuaries and waterways; soil health and soil moisture probes; natural resource management planning and climate change.
Over the past ten years, Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) has established a programmatic research program in the area of agriculture.
This program is supported through partnerships with organisations including Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), grower groups nationally, the Victorian Government, Corangamite Catchment Management Authority and CSIRO.
This presentation profiles a number of research initiatives that are associated with that program.
CeRDI is able to bring both a production and catchment perspective to agriculture-related research. .
Federation University Australia is a member of the Regional Universities Network (RUN), together with the University of New England, Southern Cross University, Southern Queensland University, Central Queensland University and University of the Sunshine Coast.
In March 2015 the RUN Precision Agriculture Flagship was launched by the Hon. Barnaby Joyce MP.
CeRDI represents Federation University Australia in the RUN Precision Agriculture Flagship. As part of its participation, CeRDI was successful in receiving two PhD scholarships.
Chris Bahlo’s research is focused on advancing the management of livestock health using information systems and international standards for data exchange to be able to federate and exchange livestock health and management data from multiple organisations as well as disparate sensor technologies and proprietary systems using appropriate web-based technologies.
Thomas Hill’s research is focused on the role that legacy data plays in farm decision-making and the adoption of best practice, and seeks to build greater insight into the nature and availability of agricultural legacy data, as well as the barriers and enablers for the sharing of legacy data and information.
RINPAS Data for Decisions - Big Data and Data CommunitiesHelen Thompson
The Research Innovation Network for Precision Agriculture systems held a workshop in Sydney from 31 May to 1 June 2016 where the focus was on Data for Decisions - Big Data and Data Communities. This presentation profiles research being undertaken by Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation which includes knowledge management, spatial research and decision tools including for agriculture.
CeRDI Research | Agriculture, Climate Adaption and Citizen ScienceHelen Thompson
Over the past ten years, Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) has established a programmatic research programs in area including agriculture, climate adaption and citizen science.
These programs are supported through partnerships with organisations including Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), grower groups nationally, the Victorian Government, Water Authorities and Catchment Management Authority and CSIRO.
This presentation profiles a number of research initiatives that are associated with these programs.
CeRDI is able to bring both a production and catchment perspective to agriculture-related research through the development of innovative digital solutions which bridge the gap between academic research and government, industry and community needs.
Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engage...Muki Haklay
These slides are from a keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference in 2016, about citizen science and extreme citizen science, and their link to geographical technologies
Global Atlas for Renewable Energy - application to MauritaniaIRENA Global Atlas
One of the key activities in IRENA is the development of renewable readiness assessments (RRAs). An RRA is a holistic assessment of conditions for renewable energy deployment in a country, and the actions necessary to further improve these conditions. An RRA is a rapid assessment of how a country can increase readiness and overcome the main barriers to the deployment of renewable energy technologies. It covers all services (transport, heat, electricity and motive power), and sources of renewable energy, with countries selecting those of relevance. The RRA comprises a process and a methodology that includes completing a set of templates and a final report. On the occasion of the RRA Mauritania, the Global Atlas was presented, as a potential supplier of data, data infrstructure and education for zoning renewable energy hotspots.
Algorithmic governance in environmental information (or how technophilia shap...Muki Haklay
Presentation from a workshop in Galway, March 2016. Showing the history of linkage between environmental decision making and information systems, and the opportunities and challenges that this creates. Also the problem in terms of public access and use of information
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Frame...IRENA Global Atlas
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Framework and concept for the Global Renewable Energy Atlas.
A presentation by Nicolas Fichaux (IRENA) during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
A short introduction to GEO governance, the GEO Work Programme and the GEO community for the FOSS4G audience. Contributions on GEOGLOWS, eShape and GEOHack19 from Julia Wagemann, Valentina Balcan and Diana Mastracci.
The role of learning in citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This is a presentation from the citizen science impact event at the Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/citizen-science-impact-event-at-the-open-university/
Citizen science offer different levels of engagement to participants, which have been captured in typologies of the field (contributory, collaborative, co-created, collegial / crowdsourcing, distributed intelligence, participatory science, extreme citizen science). These typologies do no explicitly examine learning. At the same time, projects and activities striving to fulfil multiple goals (excellent scientific output, satisfying engagement, good recruitment, learning …). Within ythe range of citizen science project, we can consider different aspects of learning that are occurring in them, Projects and use examples from a range of project, and raise some aspects that can help those who are designing co-created projects.
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies of p...Muki Haklay
A persistent question about participatory methodologies that rely on technologies, such as public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), is how to integrate values, such as inclusiveness of all the people that are impacted by a decision, or identifying options that are popular by the majority but acceptable to the minority, within technologically focused projects. Moreover, technologies do not operate by themselves – they are embedded in organizational, political, and social processes that set how they are used, who can use them, and in what context. Therefore, we should explore where the values reside?
Two factors obscure our view: The misleading conceptualisation that technologies are value free, and can be used for good or for bad – which put all the weight on the process, and ignores the way in which any technology allow only certain actions to be taken. Another popular view of technology conceptualisation is to emphasise their advantages (upside) and ignore their limitations. If we move beyond these, and other “common sense” views of technologies, we can notice how process and technology intertwine.
We can therefore look at the way the process/technology reinforce and limit each other, and the way that the values are integrated and influence them. With this analysis, we can also consider how technological development can explicitly include considerations of values, and be philosophically, politically, and social-theory informed. We need to consider the roles, skills, and knowledge of the people that are involved in each part of the process – from community facilitation to software development.
The paper will draw on the experience of developing participatory geographic information technologies over the past 20 years, and will suggest future directions for values-based participatory technology development.
OKCon 2008 - Lessons from Environmental informationMuki Haklay
The presentation covers several areas of open information and access to environmental information, starting with a short overview of the background, followed by some examples of environmental information over the internet from the past 14 years, then a few examples of recent development, and a discussion of the work that we’ve been carrying out at UCL recently. Finally, there are observations on access to information in the environmental field .
Slides from my talk in the European Citizen Science Conference in Berlin, May 2016. The talk look at issues of participation, citizen science and open science, and a bit about implications. It's about participation inequality and educational attainment of participants
Paper from the Programmable City workshop data and the city. See more details on my blog at http://wp.me/p7DNf-sX for description of the workshop. The paper explores the link between citizen science and philosophy of technology
Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engage...Muki Haklay
These slides are from a keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference in 2016, about citizen science and extreme citizen science, and their link to geographical technologies
Global Atlas for Renewable Energy - application to MauritaniaIRENA Global Atlas
One of the key activities in IRENA is the development of renewable readiness assessments (RRAs). An RRA is a holistic assessment of conditions for renewable energy deployment in a country, and the actions necessary to further improve these conditions. An RRA is a rapid assessment of how a country can increase readiness and overcome the main barriers to the deployment of renewable energy technologies. It covers all services (transport, heat, electricity and motive power), and sources of renewable energy, with countries selecting those of relevance. The RRA comprises a process and a methodology that includes completing a set of templates and a final report. On the occasion of the RRA Mauritania, the Global Atlas was presented, as a potential supplier of data, data infrstructure and education for zoning renewable energy hotspots.
Algorithmic governance in environmental information (or how technophilia shap...Muki Haklay
Presentation from a workshop in Galway, March 2016. Showing the history of linkage between environmental decision making and information systems, and the opportunities and challenges that this creates. Also the problem in terms of public access and use of information
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Frame...IRENA Global Atlas
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Framework and concept for the Global Renewable Energy Atlas.
A presentation by Nicolas Fichaux (IRENA) during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
A short introduction to GEO governance, the GEO Work Programme and the GEO community for the FOSS4G audience. Contributions on GEOGLOWS, eShape and GEOHack19 from Julia Wagemann, Valentina Balcan and Diana Mastracci.
The role of learning in citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This is a presentation from the citizen science impact event at the Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/citizen-science-impact-event-at-the-open-university/
Citizen science offer different levels of engagement to participants, which have been captured in typologies of the field (contributory, collaborative, co-created, collegial / crowdsourcing, distributed intelligence, participatory science, extreme citizen science). These typologies do no explicitly examine learning. At the same time, projects and activities striving to fulfil multiple goals (excellent scientific output, satisfying engagement, good recruitment, learning …). Within ythe range of citizen science project, we can consider different aspects of learning that are occurring in them, Projects and use examples from a range of project, and raise some aspects that can help those who are designing co-created projects.
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies of p...Muki Haklay
A persistent question about participatory methodologies that rely on technologies, such as public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), is how to integrate values, such as inclusiveness of all the people that are impacted by a decision, or identifying options that are popular by the majority but acceptable to the minority, within technologically focused projects. Moreover, technologies do not operate by themselves – they are embedded in organizational, political, and social processes that set how they are used, who can use them, and in what context. Therefore, we should explore where the values reside?
Two factors obscure our view: The misleading conceptualisation that technologies are value free, and can be used for good or for bad – which put all the weight on the process, and ignores the way in which any technology allow only certain actions to be taken. Another popular view of technology conceptualisation is to emphasise their advantages (upside) and ignore their limitations. If we move beyond these, and other “common sense” views of technologies, we can notice how process and technology intertwine.
We can therefore look at the way the process/technology reinforce and limit each other, and the way that the values are integrated and influence them. With this analysis, we can also consider how technological development can explicitly include considerations of values, and be philosophically, politically, and social-theory informed. We need to consider the roles, skills, and knowledge of the people that are involved in each part of the process – from community facilitation to software development.
The paper will draw on the experience of developing participatory geographic information technologies over the past 20 years, and will suggest future directions for values-based participatory technology development.
OKCon 2008 - Lessons from Environmental informationMuki Haklay
The presentation covers several areas of open information and access to environmental information, starting with a short overview of the background, followed by some examples of environmental information over the internet from the past 14 years, then a few examples of recent development, and a discussion of the work that we’ve been carrying out at UCL recently. Finally, there are observations on access to information in the environmental field .
Slides from my talk in the European Citizen Science Conference in Berlin, May 2016. The talk look at issues of participation, citizen science and open science, and a bit about implications. It's about participation inequality and educational attainment of participants
Paper from the Programmable City workshop data and the city. See more details on my blog at http://wp.me/p7DNf-sX for description of the workshop. The paper explores the link between citizen science and philosophy of technology
Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation - Research OverviewHelen Thompson
The Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) is a Federation University Australia (FedUni) Centre focused on:
• The application of information communications technology (ICT) and the development of innovative, world class knowledge management systems;
• Significantly advancing the digital literacy and knowledge management capabilities and capacity of partner organisations;
• Fostering, development and implementation of eResearch within academia and industry; and
• Measuring the impact of eResearch and digital innovation through longitudinal research.
CeRDI is also gaining national and international recognition in innovative spatial information systems.
This presentation showcases some of the diverse range of projects are that being supported through the team at CeRDI.
Projects are at various stages of their evolution with many sharing common goals to inform ‘big picture’ understanding and enhance decision making, create greater efficiencies in communication, increase the quality of information and support policy formulation and evaluation.
The presentation was made to the Regional Development Australia Barwon South West Committee on 1 December 2016 at the Otway Estate, Barongarook.
The outcomes of the Great South Coast Digital Strategy were presented by Associate Professor Helen Thompson. Helen provided an outline of the study aims, methodology and research outputs. The Great South Coast Digital Strategy Action Plan was then presented.
The focus then shifted to a case study for Digital Agriculture. Helen used a variety of examples from the applied research of the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation to explain how information about water, soil, climate and land use could all be brought together to support evidenced based planning and decision making, investment attraction and in the future provide an evidence based to support demonstrate safe and ethical practices.
Regardless of the area of regional economic and/or social priority (e.g. food and fibre; new energy; advanced manufacturing etc) new enabling environments for digital advancement will be required (e.g. to support getting IoT data to the cloud, to link it with other relevant data and to tools for business insights and decision support.
There is an opportunity for the Barwon South West Regional Development Australia and for regional councils to provide leadership directed towards maximising the adoption of digital technologies in areas of regional opportunity and priority.
D4Science experience: VREs for increasing the sharing and collaboration in th...e-ROSA
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The hype and the hope: Progressing towards big data insights for regional com...Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson, Peter Dahlhaus & Andrew MacLeod
Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria
In this age of ‘big data’ virtually every field of research and practice is being redefined. Governments are adopting open data policies with the aim of delivering efficiency benefits, increasing evidence based planning, enhancing productivity and innovation. Inescapable discussions around big data and analytics are partly in response to an increased availability of next generation broadband and mobile technologies which have created a society that is spatially enabled and aware. Big business and citizens increasingly expect to be able to access past and current information about any location to find answers to their spatial queries. Opportunities are emerging for regional communities to take initiative and eradicate information silos which may have hindered regional collaboration and innovation. In parallel with assisting regions to embrace big data and foster data sharing a range of research questions arise:
1. What are the best methods to provide access to big and complex data, to assist decision makers?
2. How can digital technologies be used to enhance, rather than repeat, past research?
3. Can qualitative data be used to improve the accuracy of quantitative data or metadata?
4. How can we harness Citizen Science and include crowd-sourced data, while minimising subjective bias and maintaining accuracy?
Interoperable spatial knowledge systems with dynamic modelling and visualisation capabilities have been developed in response to these research challenges. Examples are provided of systems developed in a variety of fields including groundwater research, catchment management, and strategic planning for bushfire.
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
Open data & knowledge solutions - a cgiar perspective dileepFRANK Water
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Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Jarkko Siren is Project Officer in DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission.
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Western Alliance Regional Data CollaborationHelen Thompson
Western Alliance Academic Health Science Centre is a partnership of Deakin University, Federation University Australia and 11 health service providers operating across the western region of Victoria. It aims to strengthen existing collaborations by formalising relationships between the partners that have been sustained over the history of the region’s settlement and development.
On 18 July 2016 Western Alliance partners came together for a Regional Data Collaboration Scoping Workshop. This presentation was provided to demonstrate data infrastructure models that have been established in domains outside of health by Federation University Australia's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation.
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Creating virtual groundwater research laboratories through interoperable tech...Helen Thompson
eResearch
How do we provide access to big and complex data in a way that people can use easily… but without biasing the data?
How do we incorporate qualitative data and quantitative data into models and maintain accuracy?
How can we harness Citizen Science and include crowd-sourced data and maintain accuracy?
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2104 4th Annual National Higher Education Communication Officers' Conference ...Helen Thompson
Better, faster, more: Strategies for the next generation of broadband
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• Strategies: Using visual storytelling to deliver the message
• Tools to create increased audience engagement
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National broadband champion update 13 nov 2012Helen Thompson
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In discussion the follow day the Broadband Champions reflected on their involvement in 2012. Discussions with DBCDE and NBN Co representatives explored how broadband will benefit specialist fields from medicine through to business and education.
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Advanced technologies and research presentation 15 Oct 2015
1. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
Federation University Australia
Advanced technologies and research
Dr Helen Thompson
Engagement, technology transfer and capability building through
knowledge management and spatial research
15 October 2015
2. Federation University Australia
Origins: 1870 Ballarat School of Mines
Campuses: Ballarat, Gippsland, Wimmera
Faculties & Schools:
(dual sector)
Students: ~ 23,000 domestic (69%) and international (31%)
• Business
• Education & Arts
• Health
• Science & Technology
• Industry Skills
• Federation College
3. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
CeRDI - www.cerdi.edu.au
~ 30 staff – 12 research, 8 technical, 7 project, 3 administration
Unaligned to Faculties - reports to DVCR
4. Major technology and research trends
Ubiquitous high-speed broadband…
Universities have the connectivity that the rest of Australia is waiting for
The Petabyte Age…
>50% of the world’s data is being collected each year – how will this change current
research practices? What do we need to access, publish and share?
Open data policies…
Opportunities for Universities and particularly regional universities to play a significant
role in generating insight from data
Mobile technologies…
App development and responsive design – for student and staff recruitment,
engagement, knowledge transfer
3d and visualisation technologies…
Massive innovation and research opportunities
6. Research Domains:
Groundwater
Soil
Agriculture
NRM
Climate change
Urban planning
Health
History
Sports
Social science
Arts
Etc., etc.
Technology & services:
Content management
Web portals
Knowledge management
Single source publishing
Web GIS
Data interoperability
Visualisation
Web services
Training
Servers, hubs
Survey instruments
Etc., etc.
Research outputs:
Real world applications
Community empowerment
Capacity building
Government
Community
Industry
Research
Research papers
HDR completions
Impact assessment
Global collaborations
Sector development
Research-ready datasets
Etc., etc.
x =
eResearch and digital innovation
7. CeRDI
Groundwater: Challenges and Strategies - 41st IAH International Congress, Marrakech, September 15-19, 2014 7
A variety of applications:
groundwater , soils, agriculture, biodiversity, fire, history,
sports, municipal, etc.
Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets
spatial.federation.edu.au
CeRDI capability: spatial data portals
8. Example projects
Online Farm Trials – www.farmtrials.com.au
GRDC funded 2012 - 2015
All grains trials for Australia online
Working with Grower Groups, government, industry
Spatial filtering and selective keyword filtering
Brings in climate data and soils data on-the-fly
Allows data exports
Decision support tool for agronomists & growers
Research-ready data sets of all grain trials
9. CropPro – www.croppro.com.au
GRDC funded 2012-2014
CeRDI engaged in Northern and Southern projects in 2014
Online diagnostic tool for wheat and canola constraints
Uses Lucid - keying software developed by UQ
Science by DAFWA and DEPI (now DEDJTR)
Decision support tool for agronomists & growers
GRDC funded support in place for further enhancements 2015 & 2016
10. Sport and Recreation Spatial
www.sportandrecreationspatial.org.au
A national geographic information system (GIS) for presenting spatial data.
Evidence based decision making for the sport and recreation sector
Increased capacity for research, strategic planning, and development of participation
programs and facilities.
Provides FedUni and VU researchers with ready data sets to address research
questions of national and international significance
Attracting government and industry investment in research
Generating extensive research publications
Aligned with a FedUni PhD which will generate publications and Sports Injuries Atlas
11. Natural Disaster Research
Major landslide events of January 2011 in the Grampians National Park
Floods precipitated over 190 landslides, contributing significant impact to the
environment and communities surrounding the Park
FedUni engaged by Northern Grampians Shire
Investigate the social, economic and environmental impact of the events
Project not only produced traditional research report – but also maps and data and a
resource library
Benefits of this approached confirmed by the Rapid Response Team responding to
bushfires in the region 12 months later
12. Captures information and data on rare and threatened species
Very strong community engagement and support
Decision support tool for municipalities, community groups, etc.
Research-ready data sets
www.swifft.net.au
13. Climate adaption
Climate Ready - Motivating residents to
create their own interactive, personalised
action plan to prepare for the impacts of
climate change including flood, fire, drought
and heatwave
Building Resilience in Farming and
Agribusiness in the Wimmera
South West Climate change portal
14. www.vvg.org.au
Broadband grant 2011 - 2013
Federates all Victorian groundwater data
5 bore databases, spatial layers, EPA data
Predictions on the fly
User selected 3D visualisations
Allows data exports
Decision support tool for practitioners
Research-ready data sets
15. Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base
www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth
Corangamite CMA funded 2012 - 2014
Online portal that combines eLibrary of grey literature with web-GIS
Over 3000 documents and 120 layers in the system (legacy data capture)
Allows crowd-sourced soil test data (e.g. farm soil tests)
Strongly supported by government, industry and community
Allows data exports, screen capture as pdf, saved workspace links
Decision support tool for farmers, agronomists, catchment managers, Landcare
Research-ready data sets of soil and related information
16. Ballarat Historic Urban Landscapes – www.hulballarat.org.au
Captures heritage values for city planning (UNESCO approach)
Combines eLibrary, web-GIS, visualisations and social media tools
Before & after sliders, photo maps, panoramic visualisations, 3D landscape models
Liberated significant municipal data sets to online availability
Very strong community engagement and support
Decision support tool for city planners, developers, community groups, etc.
Research-ready data sets
17. CeRDI capability in eResearch?
Collaborate with our research, industry and community partners:
To take advantage of the eResearch tools to:
Interoperably integrate data (open data, research data, big data,
sensor data, legacy data, crowdsourced data… any data)
Answer the frequently asked data/information questions
Dynamically generate conceptual and predictive models
Make new discoveries from research ready datasets
Measure the impacts on decision making and facilitate practice
change
18. Potential growth opportunities
• Spatial information systems
• Expand groundwater and soil research programs
nationally and internationally
• Extend research and knowledge for agriculture
development and extension
• Knowledge management
• Extend to other Research and Development
Corporations (RDCs) and geographical locations
• Extend NRM initiatives and application of citizen
science tools
• Centre for Excellence
19. Third party e.g. ABARE, ABS, BOM, CSIRO, EPAs, Unis, ………State base mapping, etc.
Water agencies, research organisations, industry, individuals, etc.
End users, e.g. Browser, mobile application, desktop application, groundwater model, etc.
Used by: researcher, community group, farmer, environmentalist, media outlet, agribusiness, etc.
Output as:
web services (W3C, OGC
compliant)
Input as:
Data, map layers, grids, text
and imagery in native
format (or web services)
Citizen science
Landcare,
environmental and
community groups
landholders,
farmers, individuals
tourists, visitors
schools, TAFE,
University students
clubs, volunteers
GIS
SQL
Sensors
Images
Documents
Organisational
data
Sounds
CeRDI capability: interoperability