Tuesday 28 October 2014: Conference Day 2 - Research Impact day

08:15-08:45

Registration and coffee

Plenary Sessions

08:45-09:00

Opening address

09:00-10:00

Melissa Terras
Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Professor of Digital Humanities in UCLs Department of Information Studies.

10:00-10:30

Prof David Karoly

School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

10:30-11:00

Dr Tom Caradoc-Davies
Principal Scientist - Macromolecular Crystallography | Australian Synchrotron

11:00-11:30

Morning Tea

11:30-12:00

Jane Burry
Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL)

12:00-13:00

Panel - Has eResearch gone mainstream?

Has eResearch now just become part of mainstream Research Infrastructure? Should we drop the e from eResearch? What do researchers see as the
challenges and opportunities, now and in the future, for eResearch, whatever it is called?
Melissa Terras, David Karoly, Tom Caradoc-Davies, Jane Burry, Heather Piwowar

13:00-14:00

lunch
Concurrent Sessions
Presentation
Big data tools

14:00-14:25

High resolution imaging:

Capture, storage and
access
Paul Bourke

14:30-14:55

Towards e-Entomology
with Natural Colour 3D
Insects
Matt Adcock, Chuong
Nguyen, David Lovell,
Stuart Anderson, Beth
Mantle, Andrew Young and
John La Salle

Presentation
eResearch Skills
development
Using scenarios in
introductory research data
management workshops for
library staff
Sam Searle
Training and Education in
High Performance Computing
for eResarchers
Lev Lafayette

Presentation

BOF

Environmental impact

The connected Researcher

3D Sub-surface Visualization
of Water Quality Data and
Geological Layers for Coal
Seam Gas Fields
Charles Brooking, Chih-Hao Yu
and Jane Hunter
Scientific integration in the
Bioregional Assessment
Programme
Becky Schmidt

Services and the cloud

Crowd-sourcing

Ethics

15:00-15:25

CloudStor+ tweaking a
Sync&Share platform for
research needs
Guido Aben

The Cinema Cities Index: the

potentials of engagement-led
research
Deb Verhoeven, Alwyn
Davidson, Bronwyn Coate and
Colin Arrowsmith

I'm a Sensitive Soul: How to

share sensitive data safely
and simply
Sarah Olesen

15:30-15:55

Pick, Package and

Publish research data:
Cr8it and Of The Web
Peter Sefton, Peter Bugeia
and Vicki Picasso

The Prosecution Project:

designing a digital
environment to support
research in criminal justice
history
Mark Finnane, Jeroen Van Den
Muyzenberg, Amanda
Kaladelfos, Alana Piper,
Amanda Miotto and Darcelle
Hinze

You Dont Know What You

Dont Know: Ethics and
participant consent issues for
eResearch users
Jenny Ostini, Francis Gacenga,
Clemara Pocock and Eliza
Whiteside

16:00-16:30

Afternoon Tea

Industry

TBA

The Research Data Alliance

Stefanie Kethers, Mark
Parsons, Andrew Treloar, Amir
Aryani and Simon Cox

TBA

eResearch in Geosciences
TBA

The Australian Geoscience

Data Cube Progress and
Future Directions
Alex Ip and Robert Woodcock

TBA

16:30-16:55

17:00-17:25

17:30-17:55

18:00-19:00

Presentation

Presentation

Presentation

BOF

Supporting e-health

Managing data

eResearch outreach

The connected Researcher

An Australasian-wide
Registry of Juvenile
Diabetes Patients in the
Cloud
Loren Bruns and Richard
Sinnott

Do Researchers Dream of
Data Management?
Angelica Healey, Ann Morgan
and Glynn Stringer

Facilitating at Flinders:
eResearch@Flinders after
two years
Amanda Nixon

Personalised medicine
possible with real-time
integration of genomic
and clinical data to inform
clinical decision-making.
Maureen Turner, Alice
Johnstone, Leon Heffer,
Naomi Rafael, Ivan
Macciocca, Natalie Thorne,
Tim Bakker and Clara Gaff
The Genomics Virtual Lab
at work
Andrew Lonie and Ron
Horst

The ResearchLink Initiative:

The nexus between data,
publications, and grants
Adrian Burton and Amir Aryani

What a Mission! New Skills

and Services that Support
Humanities Research
Vanessa Gibbs and Charlotte
Brown

data.gov.au the portal for

Australian government data
Simon Cox, Armin Haller and
Pia Waugh

A 3d cultural heritage and

visualisation depository for
Australia
Erik Champion

Industry
TBA

Institutional Data Storage &

Management: Problems
Encountered & Lessons
Learnt
Shane Cox, Luc BetbederMatibet, David Groenewegen
and Mike Baker

TBA

TBA

Poster reception

Wednesday 29 October 2014: Conference Day 3

07:30-08:00

Registration and coffee

Plenary Sessions

08:00-08:15

Opening Address

08:15-09:00

Larry Smarr
Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UCSD

09:00-10:00

Helen Glaves
Senior Data Scientist at the British Geological Survey (BGS)

10:00-11:00

Heather Piwowar
Cofounder of Impactstory and a leading researcher in the area of research data availability and data reuse

11:00-11:30

Morning Tea
Concurrent Sessions
Presentation
eResearch in Humanities

Presentation

Presentation

BOF

eResearch in the
Geosciences
Citing and understanding
location references for
eResearch: a case study of
the Spatial Identifier
Reference Framework (SIRF)
Paul Box, Terry Rankine, Rob
Atkinson and Simon Cox

Research data sustainability

eResearch exemplar

Accessible research storage:

RDSI project transitioning and
lessons learned along the
way
Viviani Paz and Nick Tate

11:30-11:55

Nothing can ever be lost:

Infrastructure for
Archival Research and
Dissemination.
Marco La Rosa, Gavan
McCarthy and Ailie Smith

12:00-12:25

Semantics, social linking

and humanities data in
HuNI
Deb Verhoeven, Toby
Burrows and Alwyn
Davidson

The Australian Geoscience

Data Cube A Common
Analytical Framework for
Regularly Gridded Data
Alex Ip, Ben Evans, Leo
Lymburner and Simon Oliver

Data Intensive Research

Enabling and Optimising
flexible big data Workflows
Ian Corner and Michael James

12:30-12:55

Transforming Lost Bits to

Cultural Assets: Using
Data Forensics in Digital
Humanities
Leo Konstantelos and Anna
Shadbolt

Connecting Geology with the

Internet of Things
Jens Klump, Simon Cox and
Lesley Wyborn

The Value of Research Data to

the Nation
Richard Ferrers

13:00-14:00

Lunch

Industry

TBA

eResearch developing an
exemplar framework
Hamish Holewa, Amanda Nixon,
Barbara Polus, Malcolm Wolski
and Nicole Crowe

TBA

TBA

Presentation
Managing data

Presentation

Presentation

eResearch in Water and

Marine Sciences
The Integrated Marine
Observing System: Delivering
Reliable and Usable Services
on the National Infrastructure
Peter Blain and Roger Proctor

Research policies and

practices
Opening up the dialogue on
research data: how librarians
at La Trobe University are
enabling the process.
Simon Huggard, Kerry Sullivan
and Mina Nichols-Boyd
Establishing a Research
Storage Service at UNSW.
Governance to Production to
Practice.
Luc Betbeder, Shane Cox,
Maude Frances, Mark Hoffman,
Andrew Wells, Gregory Leslie,
Grainne Moran and Denise
Black

14:00-14:25

Inter-agency
standardised provenance
reporting in Australia
Nicholas John Car

14:30-14:55

Establishing a Robust
Data Collaborative to
Enable Distributed
Research
David Fellinger

Australias Marine Virtual

Laboratory
Roger Proctor, Peter Blain,
Peter Oke, Uwe Rosebrock and
Brendan Davey

Case studies: user

experience
BCCVL a case study in
improving user
experience through
branding, marketing,
visual design,
functionality & usability.
Kelly Lennon and Hamish
Holewa

Point and counter-point

Sustainability

15:00-15:25

15:30-15:55

Improved High
Performance Computing
usability and uptake
through the utilisation of
Remote Desktops
Jason Bell and Chris Hines

eResearch in Australia: From

Build to Buy?
Nick Tate and Rhys Francis

16:00-16:30

Sustainable Services for

Managing Higher Degree
Research Data
Arif Shaon, Eamon Smallwood,
Shane Cox, Lucian Hiss and
Maude Frances

TBA

Open Data Perspectives in

Government and Research
BoF
Markus Buchhorn

TBA

Internet of Things and Linked

Data BoF
Jens Klump, Simon Cox, Paul
Box and Lesley Wyborn

TBA

Tools for Collecting,

Generating and Moving
Data
The All Sky Virtual
Observatory
Yeshe Fenner, Darren
Croton and Jon Smillie

Industry

Presentation

BOF

Case studies

Processing and analysing

data

Ethics

Exploring the Transparency

of Government through Big
Data on the Cloud
Richard Sinnott, Yi Fang and
Edwin Pesantes

Workspace: A Platform
for Delivering Scientific
Applications
Damien Watkins

Pleasant encounters of the

VM Kind Leveraging on
NeCTAR VMs to Achieve
Research Outcomes
Francis Gacenga, Nick Kelly
and Erin Rayment

Clusters in the Cloud

Shunde Zhang and Paul
Coddington

17:30-17:55

Connecting the storage

dots the RDSI DaShNet
project
Markus Buchhorn

eResearch at VUW: The

eScience Consultant's Tal
Kevin Buckley

Genomics Interlocking: An
architecture that takes
laboratory computing close to
the data
Yousef Kowsar and Andrew
Lonie

18:00-19:00

Pre-dinner drinks and Solutions Showcase - Exhibition Area

19:00-22:00

Conference Dinner

TBA

TBA
Addressing the ethics of
health eResearch with human
participants
Craig Fry

Thursday 30 October 2014: Conference Day 4 - ICT/Business Day

08:00-08:30

Registration and coffee

Plenary Sessions

08:15-08:30

Welcome

08:30-09:00

Platinum Address

09:00-10:00

Paul Sherlock
Chief Information Officer of Information Strategy and Technology Services at the University of South Australia

10:00-11:00

Ros Harvey
Founding Director of Sense-T

11:00-11:30

TBA

Linked Data

Presentation

International Standard Name

Identifier (ISNI) identifiers for
one universitys researchers:
what, why, how
Roderick Sadler and Simon
Huggard

17:00-17:25

Open Data

Supporting tools
Bringing TRNDiff to the
Cloud: Supporting large scale
visualisation of
transcriptional regulatory
networks for biological
researchers
Xin-Yi Chua, Lawrence
Buckingham and James Hogan

Industry

Afternoon Tea
Presentation

16:30-16:55

BOF

Morning Tea

TBA

Concurrent Sessions
Presentation

Presentation

BOF
Open Source

Industry

Big Data

The Connected Researcher

11:30-11:55

The effects of big data on research

infrastructure
Sakkie Janse van Rensburg and Dale
Peters

CSIRO eResearch: Building future

science platforms
John Taylor

TBA

12:00-12:25

Explorations of Big Data Analytics on

the NeCTAR Research Cloud and
RDSI Infrastructures: Global
Twittering
Richard Sinnott

Centralised IT and Research. Are

they enemies or just friends who
need counselling?
Ossie Richards

TBA

figshare and Monash University:

combining cloud management and
discoverability with institutional
storage
David Groenewegen and Mark Hahnel

e-Research at the University of Cape

Town: the role of strategic
partnerships and leadership
readiness
Gwenda Thomas, Izak Janse van
Rensburg and Marilet Sienaert

12:30-12:55

13:00-14:00
14:00-15:30

Managing Research Data with Fedora

4
David Wilcox and Andrew Woods
TBA

Lunch
Panel - Does IT matter?
Ten years after Nicholas Carr posed this question which predicted the emergence of Cloud Computing, should Universities and eResearch Service Providers
continue to invest in IT infrastructure to support research? Should they invest, instead, in the people, tools and techniques necessary to leverage cloud
providers in support of research.
Gerrit Bahlman, Sakkie Janse van Rensburg, Paul Sherlock, Peter Nikoletatos

15:30-16:00

Afternoon Tea

16:00-17:00

Closing Address
Gerrit Bahlman
Director of Information Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)

17:00-17:15

Closing Remarks
Dr Nick Tate
eResearch Conference Co-chair, RDSI Director