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 UCL’s 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 Presentation Presentation BOF Industry

Big data tools

eResearch Skills development

Environmental impact The connected Researcher

14:00-14:25 High resolution imaging: Capture, storage and

access Paul Bourke

Using scenarios in introductory research data

management workshops for library staff Sam Searle

3D Sub-surface Visualization of Water Quality Data and Geological Layers for Coal

Seam Gas Fields Charles Brooking, Chih-Hao Yu

and Jane Hunter The Research Data Alliance

Stefanie Kethers, Mark Parsons, Andrew Treloar, Amir

Aryani and Simon Cox

TBA

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

Training and Education in High Performance Computing

for eResarchers Lev Lafayette

Scientific integration in the Bioregional Assessment

Programme Becky Schmidt

TBA

Services and the cloud Crowd-sourcing Ethics eResearch in Geosciences

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

The Australian Geoscience Data Cube – Progress and

Future Directions Alex Ip and Robert Woodcock

TBA

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 Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Ethics and

participant consent issues for eResearch users

Jenny Ostini, Francis Gacenga, Clemara Pocock and Eliza

Whiteside

TBA

16:00-16:30 Afternoon Tea

Presentation Presentation Presentation BOF Industry

16:30-16:55 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

Institutional Data Storage & Management: Problems Encountered & Lessons

Learnt Shane Cox, Luc Betbeder-

Matibet, David Groenewegen and Mike Baker

TBA

17:00-17:25 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 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

TBA

17:30-17:55 The Genomics Virtual Lab at work

Andrew Lonie and Ron Horst

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

TBA

18:00-19:00 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 Presentation Presentation BOF Industry

eResearch in Humanities

eResearch in the Geosciences

Research data sustainability eResearch exemplar

11:30-11:55 Nothing can ever be lost: Infrastructure for

Archival Research and Dissemination.

Marco La Rosa, Gavan McCarthy and Ailie Smith

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

Accessible research storage: RDSI project transitioning and

lessons learned along the way

Viviani Paz and Nick Tate

eResearch – developing an exemplar framework

Hamish Holewa, Amanda Nixon, Barbara Polus, Malcolm Wolski

and Nicole Crowe

TBA

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

TBA

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

TBA

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Presentation Presentation Presentation BOF Industry

Managing data eResearch in Water and

Marine Sciences Research policies and

practices Open Data

14:00-14:25 Inter-agency standardised provenance

reporting in Australia Nicholas John Car

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

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

Open Data Perspectives in Government and Research

BoF Markus Buchhorn

TBA

14:30-14:55 Establishing a Robust Data Collaborative to

Enable Distributed Research

David Fellinger

Australia’s Marine Virtual Laboratory

Roger Proctor, Peter Blain, Peter Oke, Uwe Rosebrock and

Brendan Davey

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

TBA

Case studies: user

experience Point and counter-point

Sustainability Supporting tools Linked Data

15:00-15:25 BCCVL – a case study in improving user

experience through branding, marketing,

visual design, functionality & usability. Kelly Lennon and Hamish

Holewa eResearch in Australia: From Build to Buy?

Nick Tate and Rhys Francis

Bringing TRNDiff to the Cloud: Supporting large scale

visualisation of transcriptional regulatory

networks for biological researchers

Xin-Yi Chua, Lawrence Buckingham and James Hogan

Internet of Things and Linked Data BoF

Jens Klump, Simon Cox, Paul Box and Lesley Wyborn

TBA

15:30-15:55 Improved High Performance Computing

usability and uptake through the utilisation of

Remote Desktops Jason Bell and Chris Hines

Sustainable Services for Managing Higher Degree

Research Data Arif Shaon, Eamon Smallwood,

Shane Cox, Lucian Hiss and Maude Frances

TBA

16:00-16:30 Afternoon Tea

Presentation Presentation Presentation BOF Industry

Tools for Collecting, Generating and Moving

Data Case studies

Processing and analysing data

Ethics

16:30-16:55 The All Sky Virtual Observatory

Yeshe Fenner, Darren Croton and Jon Smillie

International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) identifiers for one university’s researchers:

what, why, how Roderick Sadler and Simon

Huggard

Exploring the Transparency of Government through Big

Data on the Cloud Richard Sinnott, Yi Fang and

Edwin Pesantes

Addressing the ethics of health eResearch with human

participants Craig Fry

TBA

17:00-17:25 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

TBA

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

TBA

18:00-19:00 Pre-dinner drinks and Solutions Showcase - Exhibition Area

19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner

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 Morning Tea

Concurrent Sessions

Presentation Presentation BOF Industry

Big Data The Connected Researcher Open Source

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

Managing Research Data with Fedora 4

David Wilcox and Andrew Woods

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

12:30-12:55 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

TBA

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 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