1. Opportunity and accountability in the ‘eResearch
push’, Digital Humanities, 2012, Hamburg,
Germany
Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, University of Melbourne,
Australia

6. Do computational modeling,
complete data analysis,
visualize results
NCI
Pawsey
Keep data and observations,
describe, collect, share,
find, and re-use them
ANDS
RDSI
Use new tools, apps,
work remotely and
collaborate in the cloud
NeCTAR
eResearch
Infrastructure
Increased connectivity and bandwidth AREN
AAF Single Sign On, High reliance services, High reliability servers
Acknowledgement: Rhys Francis, AeRIC, May 2012

7. ToolsDataComputation
Sustain computational
resources at top 30 level
Develop a national grid
Understand requirements
• research tools
• middleware
• authorisation
Support collaboration:
• software tools
• data sharing
• workflow
Networks
Sustain computational
resources at top 30 level
Add smaller specialised
resources, bio-data/imaging
NEW Tools Infrastructure
• virtual laboratories
• research apps
• research cloud
• common authorisation
$182M to e-infrastructure
from $400M (2002-2006)
$82M to e-infrastructure
from $540M (2006-2011)
$312M for e-infrastructure
from $1100M (2009-2013)
Understand requirements
• data discovery
• data use and reuse
• data publishing
Support data:
• improve data quality
• establish a corpus of
published research
NEW Data Infrastructure
Support the data lifecycle
• capture, describe, use
• publish, discover, cite
• collect, store, reuse
NEW Two facilities able to
house future supercomputers
NEW Install two "peta scale"
supercomputers
Tools are
mission
critical
Data
volumes
explode
Systems
grow to
exascale
Global
bandwidth
scales-up
Further
funding
Australian National eResearch Infrastructure Development
NEW Research Network
• fibre backbone from Adelaide to Brisbane
• high bandwidth link to the USA, Asia and Europe
• Perth, Hobart, Townsville and Darwin connected
• metropolitan and regional access points provided
Extend fibre to Perth and to
radio astronomy facilities
Increase regional access
Increase metropolitan access
2013
The next
decade
20072002

8. Meek
Elijah Meeks: Stanford

10. ...[there are] dangers in general and especially the
issue of the turn from research to research
infrastructure...we need to be careful about defining
the difference and avoid moving into the realm of
infrastructure...those things we are still studying
(Geoff Rockwell)

12. Perhaps things like the Text Encoding Initiative
Guidelines are the real infrastructure of humanities
computing, and the consortia like the TEI are the
future of light and shared infrastructure
maintenance’

13. eResearch
• Scientific paradigm
• Generic
Infrastructure and
service focus
• Big!
Digital Humanities
• Inquiry based
• Embedded in humanities
• Accountable (peer
assessed)
• Humanities paradigm
• People as infrastructure!
Pressure on curriculum and its delivery

16. A) Do you think it is possible and desirable for the humanities
to have its own ‘conceptual cyberinfrastucture? (ie. is it
possible to design cyberinfrastucture outside of a science
paradigm and science funding?) (...or lessons learned)
B) If so, how may the digital humanities step up to the mark?