Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

Federation University AustraliaCeRDI Research CapabilityData for Decisions - Big Data and Data Communities31 May 2016

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 Participatory approaches

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

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

Climate Adaption – South West Climate Change Portal

All hazards, all risks

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

All hazards, all risks

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

Interest Group on Agricultural Data IGAD meeting, Paris, September 2015

International data interoperability standards

Groundwater Interoperability Experiment 2 (GW2IE)

Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (Soil IE)

Collaborators include: CSIRO, European Commission, US Department Agriculture, World Soil Information (ISRIC), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Landcare Research NZ, Geological Surveys of US, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, UK, etc.

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 DEDJTR Decision support tool for agronomists and growers GRDC funded support in place for further enhancements 2015 & 2016

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CeRDI

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

Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets

spatial.federation.edu.au