Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

Federation University AustraliaCeRDI Research CapabilityPresentation for Local Government Victoria19 May 2016

Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

CeRDI - www.cerdi.edu.au30 staff (22 EFT) combining research, technical and research support8 Higher Degree Research StudentsMulti-disciplinary – Work across faculties - report to DVC Research

National and FedUni research priorities

CeRDI Government, industry and community needs

Innovative digital solutions to bridge the gap

between academic research and government,

industry and community needs

CeRDI capability:

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 datasets Etc., etc.

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eResearch and Digital Innovation

Third party e.g. ABARE, ABS, BOM, CSIRO, EPAs, Unis, ………State base mapping, etc. Water agencies, research organisations, industry, individuals, etc.

End users, e.g. Browser, mobile application, desktop application, groundwater model, etc. Used by: researcher, community group, farmer, environmentalist, media outlet, agribusiness, etc.

Output as: web services (W3C, OGC

compliant)

Input as: Data, map layers, grids, text

and imagery in native format (or web services)

Citizen science

Landcare, environmental and community groups landholders, farmers, individuals tourists, visitors schools, TAFE, University students clubs, volunteers

GIS

SQL

Sensors

Images

Documents

Organisational data

Sounds

Data Interoperability and Citizen Science

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A variety of applications:groundwater , soils, agriculture, biodiversity, fire, history, sports, municipal, etc.

Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets

spatial.federation.edu.au

Ballarat Historic Urban Landscapes – www.hulballarat.org.au

Captures heritage values for city planning (UNESCO approach) Combines eLibrary, web-GIS, visualisations and social media tools Before & after sliders, photo maps, panoramic visualisations, 3D landscape models Liberated significant municipal data sets to online availability Very strong community engagement and support Decision support tool for city planners, developers, community groups, etc. Research-ready data sets

Integrated Fire Management Planning

An interoperable spatial information system for Barwon South West stakeholders Providing access to the most current relevant information and fire risk data Developing more effective partnerships and creating enhanced stakeholder knowledge Supporting the community to develop integrated regional and local fire management plans Technology and skills transfer achieved by embedding project staff on-site with CeRDI team Emergency Management Victoria applying learnings through VINE project

Municipal Emergency Management Plans – New Digital Approaches

Municipal Emergency Management Plans – New Digital Approaches

Colac Otway Shire Maps

Colac Otway Shire can deliver priority projects shared with external stakeholders at local/ regional and state levels with password system in place. Confidential spatial information can be shared and analysed via the web mapping platform. Key projects being delivered in this way include Wye River/ Separation Creek Fire Recovery Colac Otway Shire, DELWP, Emergency Management Victoria and other agencies are accessing information via this project portal

Colac Otway Shire Maps

Colac Otway Shire Maps

Climate Adaption – South West Climate Change Portal

Climate Adaption - Bayside City Council, Kingston City Council and Mornington Peninsula Shire

Natural Disaster Research

Major landslide events of January 2011 in the Grampians National ParkFloods precipitated over 190 landslides, contributing significant impact to the environment and communities surrounding the ParkFedUni engaged by Northern Grampians Shire Investigate the social, economic and environmental impact of the eventsProject not only produced traditional research report – but also maps and data and a resource library Benefits of this approached confirmed by the Rapid Response Team responding to bushfires in the region 12 months later

Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth

Corangamite CMA funded 2012 - 2014 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

www.vvg.org.au

Broadband grant 2011 - 2013 Federates all Victorian groundwater data 5 bore databases, spatial layers, EPA data Predictions on the fly User selected 3D visualisations Allows data exports Decision support tool for practitioners Research-ready data sets

CropPro – www.croppro.com.au

GRDC funded 2012-2014 CeRDI engaged in Northern and Southern projects in 2014 Online diagnostic tool for wheat and canola constraints Uses Lucid - keying software developed by UQ Science by DAFWA and DEPI (now DEDJTR) Decision support tool for agronomists & growers GRDC funded support in place for further enhancements 2015 & 2016

Captures information and data on rare and threatened species Very strong community engagement and support Decision support tool for municipalities, community groups, etc. Research-ready data sets

www.swifft.net.au

CeRDI capability in eResearch?

Collaborate with research, industry and community partners: Shared digital infrastructure There are significant regional opportunities linked to overcoming the current lack of shared digital infrastructure and advanced know how

Digital transformation and innovation Enabling knowledge infrastructures will be critical to future health service planning and delivery

Interoperably integrate data (open data, research data, big data, sensor data,

legacy data, crowdsourced data… any data)

Answer the frequently asked data/information questions

Dynamically generate conceptual and predictive models

Measure the impacts on decision making and facilitate practice change