The document discusses the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) and its capabilities. CeRDI works to bridge the gap between academic research and needs of government, industry and community through applying eResearch and developing innovative digital solutions. It provides examples of several projects including an online portal for Victorian groundwater data, a soil health knowledge base, and an online farm trials website. These projects use technologies like web GIS, data visualization, and knowledge management to provide decision support tools and research-ready data to benefit various sectors. The economic futures stream of the conference will explore topics around regional prosperity, entrepreneurship and industry development.

1. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
RUN Regional Futures Conference
Economic Futures
Assoc Prof Helen Thompson
Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
22 June 2016

2. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
CeRDI Capability
The application of eResearch and development of
innovative digital solutions to bridge the gap between
academic research and government, industry and
community needs
National &
FedUni
research
priorities
Government
industry
community
needs
CeRDI

3. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
eResearch & digital innovation
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 data
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4. Economic Futures
Presentations in this stream will explore
• Regional prosperity
• Entrepreneurship
• Industry development

5. www.vvg.org.au
 Broadband Innovation Grant 2011 - 2013
 Federates all Victorian groundwater data
 5 bore databases, spatial layers, EPA data
 Answer FAQs - Predictions on the fly
 User selected 3D visualisations
 Allows data exports
 Decision support tool for practitioners
 Research-ready data sets
 Winner 2013 Victorian iAward and National iAward Merit recipient

6. Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base
www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth
 Corangamite Catchment Management Authority funded
 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
 Awarded Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award for Environmental Sustainability

7. Climate Adaption – South West Climate Change Portal

9. CeRDI capability: example projects
Online Farm Trials – www.farmtrials.com.au
 GRDC funded – currently 3,000+ trials, 29 custodians, over 20+ years across
911 trial sites across Southern, Northern, Western regions of Australia
 Major crop types – Barley 400, Canola 350, Chickpeas 100, Lentils 60, etc
 Averaging 200 unique visitors a day
 Documentary film about OFT www.farmtrials.com.au/documentary
 Spatial filtering and selective keyword filtering
 Brings in climate data and soils data on-the-fly
 Allows data exports, API
 Decision support tool for agronomists & growers
 Research-ready data sets of all grain trials
www.farmtrials.com.au/documentary

12. Economic Futures
Working together to build strong regional
futures