| 0800 – 1800 | Registration | Boulevard Foyer Registration Desk | ||||
| 0800 – 0850 | Networking Breakfast, Exhibition & Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer |
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| Session Chair | David Abramson and Frankie Stevens | ||||
| 0850 – 0855 | Welcome to Country | ||||
| 0855 – 0905 | Welcome
David Abramson, Frankie Stevens, Co-Chair, 2023 eResearch Australasia Conference |
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| 0905 – 0915 | Official Conference Opening
Joe Kelly MP, Member for Greenslopes, Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Parliament |
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| 0915 – 1000 | Collaborative, Coordinated, and Connected: Canadian Approaches to Open Infrastructure, National PID Strategy, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Clare Appavoo, Executive Director, Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) |
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | National Collaborative Endeavours | Enabling Platforms & Services | Enabling Platforms & Services | Foundational & Advancing Computation | Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair | Linda O’Brien | Luc Betbeder-Matibet | Paul Coddington | Abdullah Shaikh | Sach Jayasinghe |
| 1005 – 1025 | BoF Session
The Australian National PID Strategy and Roadmap. What is this? Why should I care? How does it benefit me? Linda O’Brien, Natasha Simons |
Unravelling Media Impact on Public Discourse: An Examination of News Framing and Sentiment Analysis using NewsTalk
Robert Fleet |
A report on two years’ work on a standards-based architecture for a Data Commons
Peter Sefton |
Building the world’s fastest* CryoEM processing platform (*under $100K)
Jason Andrade, James Bouwer |
DReSA – a story of continuing collaboration in skills training
Melissa Burke, Kathryn Unsworth |
| 1025 – 1045 | The Australian Digital Observatory: The Stories We Can Tell
Richard Sinnott |
Building Galaxy Labs to advance life science research
Gareth Price |
NeSI’s Flexible HPC – A programmable infrastructure for advanced research solutions
Jun Huh |
Kit out to amp up – The ARDC Trainer Toolkit
Adeline Wong |
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| 1045 – 1105 | From Heurist to the Data Commons: Linked Open Data for Humanities Collections
Tim White |
On-demand Research Notebooks with all the Trimmings
Alex Ip |
ASKAPsoft/Yandasoft deployment in Pawsey’s Setonix for ASKAP project
Paulus Lahur |
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| 1105 – 1145 | Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Leveraging Data Assets | Enabling Platforms & Services | Enabling Platforms & Services | Foundational & Advancing Computation | Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair | Luc Betbeder Matibet | Sara King | David Abramson | Yolante Jones | |
| 1145 – 1205 | ‘Don’t ruin it with mandatory questions. Mandatory questions aren’t cool.’: Building a popular research data manager
Andrew Kneynsberg |
Australian Imaging Service: Looking Beyond Imaging to Support Clinical Research
Ryan Sullivan |
Streamlining software deployment and access: two container stories
Mark Gray |
What does our research community need for the next generation of computing infrastructure? Australiasia Leadership Computing Symposium 2023 debrief
Jingbo Wang |
Trainstation: A unified virtual environment for programming training
Abdullah Shaikh |
| 1205 – 1225 | Searching Every Nook and Cranny – The Challenges of Locating Research Data in Universities
Dianne Brown |
An update on the NeSI AgResearch Partnership as the rubber hits the road
Georgina Rae, Ben Taylor |
Introducing ARDC’s Virtual Desktop and Jupyter Notebook services
Andy Botting |
Building Bunya: An Evergreen and Bespoke Approach to High-Performance Computing Clusters
Sarah Walters, Ashley Wright, Owen Powell |
BoF Session
How Training Development through Collaboration, can Support Organisational Strategies for Safe Data Management Yolante Jones |
| 1225 – 1245 | From UNSW Data Archives to UNSWorks – learnings from the ARDC Data Retention project
Ai Lin Soo |
Smart Compounds: Overcoming Challenges
Jan Hettenhausen, Rebecca Lang, Julie Toohey |
Presenting the idea behind SciDir – A scientific software distribution repository for bringing reproducible software containers securely to HPCs in Australia
Steffen Bollmann |
Simulating Quantum Computing on Traditional HPC Systems: Developing Tomorrow’s Quantum Algorithms on Today’s CMOS Hardware
Werner Scholz |
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| 1245 – 1305 | The ARDC Data Retention Project. Outcomes and the path to a sustainable and inclusive national research data infrastructure investment
J Max Wilkinson |
REDCap Platform-as-a-Service
Lyall Weir |
Developments in the University of Auckland’s Instrument Data Service: The move towards a production ready service.
Chris Seal |
Building custom web portals for HPC and mid-tier computing
Thomas Berger |
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| 1305 – 1415 | Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer Catering Sponsored by: |
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Enabling Platforms & Services | National Collaborative Endeavors | Enabling Platforms & Services | Enabling Platforms & Services | National Collaborative Endeavors |
| Session Chair | Jens Klump | Amanda Lawrence | Aleem Uddin & Greg D’arcy | Linda O’Brien | Jana Makar |
| 1415 – 1435 | BoF Session
Emerging Uses of PIDs in NCRIS Research Workflows Jens Klump |
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Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences – the next ten years Isabel Cereon, Amanda Lawrence, Steven McEachern, Nikita Sharma |
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Software Containers in Australian Research Sector: ARCOS Community Building and Collaboration on SciDir – a Scientific Software Distribution Project Aleem Uddin, Greg D’arcy, Steven Manos, Mark Gray, David Powell, Paul Coddington, Jake Yip, Ping Chen |
Profiling Strategies for Accelerating Neural Network Training on HPC GPU Clusters
Oliver Cairncross |
BoF Session
How do you keep the candle lit and not burn it from both ends (as a community & as a community member) Jana Makar, Aditi Subramanya, Marco de la Pierre, Adam Huttner-Koros, Kerri Wait, Loretta Davis |
| 1435 – 1455 | Introducing the IRISS Geosocial Data Integration Service: Integrating information on people, places, time, and space.
German Eduardo Gonzalez Gonzalez, Tomasz Zając
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| 1455 – 1515 | Trialling Collective Access as a data curation and hosting platform
Mike Laverick |
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| 1515 – 1535 | Afternoon Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Enabling Platforms & Services | Enabling Platforms & Services | Enabling Platforms & Services | National Collaborative Endeavours | Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair | Luc Betbeder-Matibet | Sach Jayasinghe | Jens Klump | Stefanie Kethers | Jingbo Wang |
| 1535 – 1605 | Metadata collection at microscopy research facilities: from distant goal to near future?
David Poger |
How to fight bushfires with data: aggregating, curating and harmonising data
Kylie Black |
Integrated Digital East Antarctica: consolidating a software toolkit for data-driven Antarctic Science
Michael Sumner |
Introducing Research Link Australia – A new information capability linking research, business and government
Mingfang Wu, Lyle Winton |
Upskilling researchers in Machine Learning
Jens Brinkmann, Maxime Rio |
| 1605 – 1625 | Rakeiora Genomics Platform: building a prototype for genomic medicine in Aotearoa
Claire Rye |
Presenting the Bushfire Data Commons Dashboard
Richard Sinnott |
BoF Session
Australia’s Scalable Drone Platform – What it is, Lessons Learnt, Moving Forward Jens Klump |
BoF Session
Driving community engagement with National Research Infrastructures Melissa Burke, Kerry Mora, Sarah Thomas, Emma Joughin, Aidan Heerdegen, Kelsey Druken, Kathryn Unsworth |
BoF Session
AI Skill Training Pathway: Bridging Gaps and Fostering Inclusivity Slava Kitaeff, Patrick Tung, Jingbo Wang, Maxime Rio, Mike Laverick, Mitchell Hargreaves, Mark Crowe, Abdullah Shaikh |
| 1625 – 1645 | The Atlas of Living Australia’s Journey to Empower Biodiversity Research through Public Cloud
Sathish Sathyamoorthy, Fabiana Santana |
NewsTalk: Developing a full stack data-as-a-service on the Nectar ARDC Research Cloud
Matthew Bettinson |
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| 1645 – 1705 | Early warning systems for life-threatening companion animal diseases: Heartworm and Tick Alert
Sahil Arora |
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| 1705 – 1805 | Happy Hour | Boulevard Foyer | ||||
| 0830 – 1800 | Registration | Boulevard Foyer Registration Desk | ||||
| Arrival Tea & Coffee, Exhibition, Poster Viewing| Boulevard Foyer | |||||
| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | ||||
| Session Chair | David Abramson and Frankie Stevens | ||||
| 0900 – 0905 | Housekeeping | ||||
| 0905 – 0950 | Exciting and Confronting Developments in Artificial Intelligence: What It Means for Research and the World
Michael Milford, Director of QUT Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology |
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| 0950 – 1020 | Curation. Collaboration. Commercialization. Impact led research in 2023
Dr Tomas Remenyi, Research Sector Lead, Climate Scientist-in-Residence, Eratos |
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| 1020 – 1100 | Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Applied AI | Leveraging Data Assets | Leveraging Data Assets | Enabling Platforms & Services | Delivering Institutional eResearch Capability |
| Session Chair | Ryan Fraser | Steven McEachern | Siddeswara Guru | Linda O’Brien | Adele Haythorthwaite |
| 1100 – 1120 | Empowering Research Revolution: Unleashing the Potential of AI and Advanced Analytics with Intersect’s 3AI Platform
Abdullah Shaikh |
A Methodology for Progressively Developing and Harmonising FAIR Vocabularies for Global Interoperability of Geochemical Data
Lesley Wyborn |
Curating species lists: Aggregating data to enhance context
Keeva Connolly |
Technical tools for humanities researchers: a productive placement case report
Evelyn Ansell, Simon Musgrave, Sara King |
Evolution of eResearch Services at the University of Canberra
Kyle Hemming, Anesh Nair |
| 1120 – 1140 | The role of Generative AI Test Ranges to protect online services from the impact of malicious synthetic content
Christopher Leckie |
BoF Session
A Roadmap for the Future of Shared Vocabularies in Australia: Harmonising Across Sectors, Disciplines and Internationally Steven McEachern, Megan Wong, Simon Cox, Donald Hobern, Natalia Atkins, Kheeran Dharmawardena, Lesley Wyborn |
BoF Session
Towards Semantic-enabled Data in the Earth and Environmental Science Siddeswara Guru, Megan Wong, Junrong Yu |
PAI-C, more than RDM Training: Towards Aligning Institutional RDM Policies, Infrastructure and Understanding
Adrian Wei Chew, Jacky Cho |
Leapfrogging to the Future: Transforming Otago University’s Research Landscape
John Milnes, Cate Bardwell, Rasha Abu Safieh Alfar |
| 1140 – 1200 | Developing ethical ML pipelines for Countering Child Exploitation
Ai Lin Soo |
Customising REDCap for Clinical Registries
John Liman |
Integrating Melbourne figshare into a cohesive research outputs ecosystem
Ailie Smith |
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| 1200 – 1220 | Artificial intelligence in the big-data era: an opportunity for FAIR microscopy
David Poger |
In the IRISS pipeline: A curation tool for integrated data risk assessment
Ryan Perry, Weifan Jiang |
Data governance for responsible research
Dianne Brown, Patrick Splawa Neyman |
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| 1220 – 1340 | Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Industry Updates | Leveraging Data Assets | Delivering Institutional eResearch Capability | Enabling Platforms & Services/National Collaborative Endeavours | Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair | Nichola Burton | Richard Ferrers | Jens Klump | Ove Johan Ragnar Gustafsson | Fathima Hasee |
| 1340 – 1400 | AWS – Powering faster, greener, and more collaborative research
Fabiana Santana |
Building a foundation of trust: the benefits of aligning Research Data Management and Research Integrity
Adele Haythornthwaite |
The impacts of collaborative software development between eResearch and the Australian Rivers Institute
Isaac Jennings, Jagriti Tiwari |
Planet Research Data Commons vision and recent developments
Muhammad Ali, Kerry Levett, Hamish Holewa |
Opening up the black box: New tools and methods for studying digital platforms and social data
Nicholas Carah, Amanda Lawrence, Abdul Obeid |
| 1400 – 1420 | Google Generative AI in Research and AlphaFold at Scale
Jasper Wang |
Macquarie University’s Path to Excellence in Research Data Management
Mahdieh Dashtbani Moghari |
Mapping Research Outputs to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Swinburne University of Technology
Hui Yin |
Visible & reusable workflows
Ove Johan Ragnar Gustafsson |
Different Minds: Harnessing the Latent Superpower Behind eResearch
Alfred Uhlherr |
| 1420 – 1440 | Improving ‘time to value’ for IT projects
Kon Kakanis, Jake Carroll |
BoF Session
Trusted Data Community: Learning to demonstrate trust Richard Ferrers, Siddeswara Guru, Steven McEachern |
BoF Session
What Do We Really Need to Know? Balancing User Data Privacy vs Quality of Service vs Impact Reporting Jens Klump |
BoF Session
Visible Research Software Interest Group Ove Johan Ragnar Gustafsson, Tom Honeyman |
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Head out on the HPC Highway: Opening Up HPC to Underrepresented & Cross-Disciplinary Domains Jingbo Wang, Fathima Haseen, Ann Backhaus, Sarah Beecroft |
| 1440 – 1500 | Bridging the Gap Between Cloud-Like Aspirations and Realities in HPC
Phil Nass |
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| 1500 – 1520 | Fujitsu’s AutoML platform – Empowers users to harness the power of data-driven insights
Mahesh Krishnan |
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| 1520 – 1550 | Afternoon Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Applied AI | Enabling Platforms & Services | Enabling Platforms & Services | Enabling Platforms & Services | Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair | Aditi Subramanya | Ryan Sullivan | Stefanie Kethers | Kathryn Hall | Adrian Wei Chew |
| 1550 – 1610 | Deep Learning for Text analysis
Sachin Wasnik |
Influential Nodes in the Australian PID Graph
Amir Aryani |
Growing a Culture of Service Management at NeSI
Georgina Rae |
ARDC’s Impact Journey
Liv Shanahan |
BoF Session
Towards National Consensus: Sustaining an Australian-wide Baseline RDM Training Adrian Wei Chew, Jacky Cho |
| 1610 – 1630 | BoF Session
How AI is transforming science communication tools and tactics Aditi Subramanya |
Research Data Allocation Register (RADAR): informing strategic infrastructure decisions
Scott Lewis |
BoF Session
Understanding and capturing the uptake of Digital Research Infrastructure Stefanie Kethers, Sheida Hadavi, Kylie Black, Mihail Staicu, Lesley Wyborn |
BoF Session
Putting Babel fish in our ears – creating a language for developers to talk to infrastructure designers and users for mutual gain Keeva Connolly, Winnie Mok, Kathryn Hall |
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| 1630 – 1650 | Delivering a secure, trusted and scalable infrastructure environment for data governance, control and management of sensitive data for remote analysis for the Australian landscape
Mathew Ishac, Stephen Bird |
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| 1650 – 1710 | UQ Research Data Manager (UQRDM) – A Comprehensive Solution for Efficient Research Data Management
Mariana Kaiser |
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| 1710 – 1810 | Happy Hour + Poster Session and Judging + Visualise your Thesis International Winner Announcement | Boulevard Foyer | ||||
| 0830 – 1630 | Registration | Boulevard Foyer Registration Desk | ||||
| Arrival Tea & Coffee, Exhibition, Poster Viewing| Boulevard Foyer | |||||
| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | ||||
| Session Chair | David Abramson and Frankie Stevens | ||||
| 0900 – 0910 | Housekeeping | ||||
| 0910 – 1000 | Journey through Europe’s Data Spaces and the GREAT Green Deal project
Marta Gutierrez, Community Support Specialist, EGI Foundation |
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| 1000 – 1040 | Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Enabling Platforms & Services | National Collaborative Endeavours | Enabling Platforms & Services/Leveraging Data Assets | Leveraging Data Assets | Leveraging Data Assets |
| Session Chair | Lesley Wyborn | Frankie Stevens | Paul Coddington | David Jung | Sach Jayasinghe |
| 1040 – 1100 | Building an Australian community framework for Evaluation of Earth System Models
Romain Beucher |
The future of digital research infrastructure
Keith Russell |
Image Processing Portal (IPP): A web-based solution for efficient processing of large-scale microscopy data
Nishanthi Dasanayaka
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Unleashing Research Data Management Potential: The Power of Integrations
Jan Wisgerhof |
Research Infrastructure for Sensitive Data Management: A New Secure Research Environment (SRE) at the University of Melbourne
Helena Lynn, Hywel Stoakes |
| 1100 – 1120 | Preparing geophysical data and software for Exascale: A case study from the 2030 Geophysics Collections Project
Nigel Rees |
Who is AARNet and its role in Digital Research
Ryan Fraser, Don Mackintosh |
A Cloud Native Framework for Efficient Data Management in the Great Barrier Reef Conservation
Eduardo Klein Salas |
Establishment and Exploration of a National Air Quality Database for Australia
Richard Sinnott |
UQ’s Long Term Storage Journey: Co-design, value, risk and balance
Jake Carroll |
| 1120 – 1140 | Leveraging research infrastructure for better environment outcomes: The digital journey towards a Shared Environmental Analytics Facility (SEAF)
Luke Edwards |
Unlocking the Power of Data: Streamlined ETL Solutions for the Digital Anthroposphere
Ali Asghari |
Connecting systems and process. End to end research data management at University of Canberra
Anesh Nair, Alberto Zigoni |
BoF Session
Managing research data at scale: addressing the growing data challenge together David S.R. Jung, Ai-Lin Soo, Adele Haythornthwaite, Helena Lynn, Andreas Mertin, J Max Wilkinson, Nichola Burton, Rhys Francis, Frankie Stevens, Kwun Lun (Jacky) Cho, Luc Betbeder-Matibet
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Sensitive data integration services using shared data environments
Rajeev Samarage |
| 1140 – 1200 | Building EcoCommons Australia – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Elisa Bayraktarov |
A blueprint for a systemwide approach to Trust and Identity
Nick Rossow |
Eyes off! Validating research on illegal data through the Data Airlock
Greg Rolan |
KeyPoint – A universal trusted research environment for sharing, accessing and analysing sensitive data
Peter Marendy |
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| 1200 – 1220 | eReefs Relocatable Coastal Modelling Service: high-resolution operational GBR modelling at scale, and on demand
Sharon Tickell |
AURIN: Delivering Modern Digital Infrastructure to the Urban Research Community
Loren Bruns Jr |
Knitting jumpers from steel wool and spaghetti: implementing a modified Darwin Core Event model for the Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA) to increase trust through provenance
Kathryn Hall |
Building infrastructure for sensitive data workloads
Michael Mallon |
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| 1220 – 1340 | Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Leveraging Data Assets | Enabling Platforms & Services/Leveraging Data Assets | Foundational & Advancing Computation | Leveraging Data Assets | Leveraging Data Assets/Delivering Institutional eResearch Capability |
| Session Chair | Tim Rawling | Masoud Rahimi | John Zaitseff | Peter Sefton | Max Bryant |
| 1340 – 1400 | RRR: Reliability, Replicability, Reproducibility for Climate Model
Aidan Heerdegen |
Making an Agricultural Research Dataset FAIR: A case study of the Australian Drought Monitor Dataset
Francis Gacenga, Duc-Anh An-Vo |
A Reference Architecture for Research Data Storage
David Abramson |
Implementing an integrated DMP tool at the University of Western Australia
Kate Croker |
Research Data Governance Functions of NII Research Data Cloud
Toshiyuki Hiraki |
| 1400 – 1420 | Vertical Integration of National Geophysical Data Assets to Support Next-generation Reproducible Research at Exascale
Jo Croucher |
Expanding seabed horizons: extending Seamap Australia tools and analytics for marine managers
Emma Flukes, Peter Walsh
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Pawsey Centre for Extreme-Scale Readiness
Christopher Harris
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BoF Session
Implementing a FAIR and CARE compliant access-control system for cultural data, including Indigenous and other data Peter Sefton, Robert McLellan, Jenny Fewster, Levi Murray |
A Data Spaces Example for Research Data Sharing
Carina Kemp |
| 1420 – 1520 | BoF Session
Research Infrastructures to enable an Integrated Earth: opportunities and outcomes from the 2023 Academy of Science Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference Tim Rawling, Beryl Morris, Lesley Wyborn
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Building a Collaborative Foundation for Australian Urban Digital Twins: Enhancing Interoperability as the First Step Masoud Rahimi, Pascal Perez |
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Reestablishing the Tier 2 HPC community at eResearch John Zaitseff, Luc Betbeder-Matibet |
BoF Session
Supporting, recognising and rewarding eResearch – exploring current practice Max Bryant |
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| 1520 – 1545 | Ice Cream Break, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Session Chair | David Abramson and Frankie Stevens | ||||
| 1545 – 1630 | Digital Data and eResearch Platforms (DDeRP) Panel – Addressing Grand Challenges Together
Facilitated by Frankie Stevens
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| 1630 – 1640 | Conference Close | ||||