On the 19 May 2016 CeRDI researchers Assoc Prof Helen Thompson and Rob Milne presented to Local Government Victoria at their Melbourne staff meeting.

1. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
Federation University Australia
CeRDI Research Capability
Presentation for Local Government Victoria
19 May 2016

2. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
CeRDI - www.cerdi.edu.au
30 staff (22 EFT) combining research, technical and research support
8 Higher Degree Research Students
Multi-disciplinary – Work across faculties - report to DVC Research

3. National
and
FedUni
research
priorities
CeRDI Government,
industry and
community
needs
Innovative digital solutions to bridge the gap
between academic research and government,
industry and community needs
CeRDI capability:

4. 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

5. 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
Data Interoperability and Citizen Science

6. CeRDI
6
A variety of applications:
groundwater , soils, agriculture, biodiversity, fire, history,
sports, municipal, etc.
Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets
spatial.federation.edu.au

7. 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

8. Integrated Fire Management Planning
 An interoperable spatial information system for Barwon South West stakeholders
 Providing access to the most current relevant information and fire risk data
 Developing more effective partnerships and creating enhanced stakeholder
knowledge
 Supporting the community to develop integrated regional and local fire management
plans
 Technology and skills transfer achieved by embedding project staff on-site with CeRDI
team
 Emergency Management Victoria applying learnings through VINE project

9. Municipal Emergency Management Plans
– New Digital Approaches

10. Municipal Emergency Management Plans
– New Digital Approaches

11. Colac Otway Shire Maps
 Colac Otway Shire can deliver priority projects shared with external stakeholders at
local/ regional and state levels with password system in place.
 Confidential spatial information can be shared and analysed via the web mapping
platform.
Key projects being delivered in this way include Wye River/ Separation Creek Fire Recovery
 Colac Otway Shire, DELWP, Emergency Management Victoria and other agencies
are accessing information via this project portal

12. Colac Otway Shire Maps

13. Colac Otway Shire Maps

14. Climate Adaption – South West Climate Change Portal

17. Climate Adaption - Bayside City Council, Kingston City
Council and Mornington Peninsula Shire

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22.  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

23. CeRDI capability in eResearch?
Collaborate with research, industry and community partners:
Shared digital infrastructure
There are significant regional opportunities linked to overcoming the current
lack of shared digital infrastructure and advanced know how
Digital transformation and innovation
Enabling knowledge infrastructures will be critical to future health service planning and
delivery
 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
 Measure the impacts on decision making and facilitate practice change