Day 1: Tue 26 June: Welcome and pre-conference related events
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| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Australian Access Federation Reference Group Forum
UQ Centre
Attendance is open to anyone interested in the Federation.
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| 18:30 - 20:30 |
Welcome reception
UQ Centre |
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Day 2: Wed 27 June: eResearch applications in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities
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| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration and coffee
UQ Centre |
| 09:00 - 11:00 |
Opening plenary
Chair: Nick Tate, Conference Chair
Welcome: David Siddle, UQ DVC Research
Opening address: Evan Arthur, DEST
Keynote: David De Roure, Southampton University: eScience is about Scientists too
Keynote: Phil Bourne, University of California: Thoughts on the future of scientific dissemination |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Morning tea |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Stream 1: eResearch applications in materials and chemical sciences
Chair: Jane Hunter, UQ |
Stream 2: eResearch applications in life sciences
Chair: Margot Bell, DEST |
Stream 3: eResearch applications in social sciences, arts, and humanities
Chair: Adrian Burton, APSR |
Stream 4: Grid services and applications
Chair: Rhys Francis, NCRIS |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton: The CombeChem project: From smart labs to smart papers |
Neil Killeen, University of Melbourne: An informatics system for neuroscience research imaging |
Kerry Kilner, AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature |
Lindsay Hood, APAC: National Grid and applications |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Chris Myers, VeRSI: Virtual beamline development for the Australian Synchrotron |
Jeremy Barker, Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics: Bio-grids and applications |
Ross Coleman, University of Sydney Library: A maturing partnership - eHumanities and the digital library |
Ian Atkinson, JCU: Sensor grids and ARCHER |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Simon Ringer, NANO-MNRF: Microscopy & microanalysis: Challenges & opportunities in eResearch |
Ann Borda, JISC: The Integrative Biology Virtual Research Environment (IBVRE) |
Sarah Howard and John Byron, Academy of the Humanities: Humanities technologies:
Research methods and ICT
use by humanities researchers |
Nick Jones, BeSTGRID and Sam Searle, Victoria Univ of Wellington: BeSTGRID and KAREN: Collaboration capability for eResearch in New Zealand |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch
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| 13:20 - 13:55 |
Lunchtime demonstration:
eResearch tools from the DART project
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Lunchtime talk:
Richard Levy and Austin McLean, ProQuest: Institutional repositories: A gateway to e-research
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Stream 1: eResearch applications in the sciences
Chair: James Dalziel, Macquarie |
Stream 2: eResearch applications in life sciences
Chair: Marienne Hibbert, Melbourne Health |
Stream 3: eResearch applications in social sciences, arts, and humanities
Chair: Margaret Henty, APSR |
Stream 4: Tools to enable eResearch
Chair: David Bannon, VPAC |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Jane Hunter, UQ: The Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) |
Marienne Hibbert: The Molecular Medicine Informatics Model (MIMM) |
Tom Honeyman, University of Sydney: FieldHelper: A tool to assist the collation of field data and its ingestion into repositories |
Jason Lohrey: Mediaflux: A data management platform for collaborative research |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Craig Johnson, University of Tasmania: Building the eResearch Marine Science Information Infrastructure |
Peter Harris, University of Melbourne: The virtual kidney: An eResearch interface and grid portal |
Mike Briers, SIRCA: Globalising social science based e-research services: Some benefits and challenges |
Anthony Maeder, e-Health Research Centre: Data linking and integration for health applications |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Glenn Moloney, University of Melbourne: Australian participation in the world's largest eresearch infrastructure: The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and the EGEE program |
Mary Galea, University of Melbourne: Walk small, walk tall: Walking through the lifespan |
Jane Hunter, UQ: Harvesting community tags and annotations to augment institutional repository metadata |
David Abramson, Monash: Grid enabling 'real' science and engineering |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Afternoon tea |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Plenary
Chair: Adrian Burton, APSR
Keynote: Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University: Science in an exponential world
Keynote: Paul Arthur, Curtin University of Technology: Going digital - Humanities and the eResearch revolution |
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| 18:30 - 21:30 |
Conference dinner
Nathan Bindoff, University of Tasmania: Synonyms in Science  (2 Mb)
Hillstone at the St Lucia Golf Club
(Bus departs UQ at 18:15) |
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Day 3: Thu 28 June: Infrastructure and services to support eResearch
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| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration and coffee
UQ Centre |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Plenary
Chair: Patty McMillan, UQ
Keynote: Anne-Marie Lansdown, DEST: All aboard, destination: Seamless
Keynote: Rudolf Dimper, ESRF: High performance computing for synchrotron radiation research |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Morning tea |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Stream 1: Access management
Chair: Nick Tate, UQ and AusCERT |
Stream 2: Data management
Chair: Rhys Francis, NCRIS |
Stream 3: Collaboration environments
Chair: Markus Buchhorn, ANU |
Stream 4: eResearch support services and policies
Chair: Peter Nicholson, DEST |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Nick Tate, UQ and AusCERT: Overview, history and the Australian Access Federation (AAF) |
Wayne Richards, Australian Bureau of Statistics: National Data Network (NDN) |
Ian Johnson, University of Sydney: Beyond bibliographies: integrating research data in a unified collaborative framework |
Ann Borda: Expanded uptake and sustainable communities of use: JISC’s role in shaping the UK e-Infrastructure for research |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Viviani Paz and Nick Tate: Issues of policy and governance for the AAF |
Ian Atkinson, JCU: CIMA, SRB and JAINIS |
Andrew Treloar, Monash University: Supporting the e-Research lifecycle from acquisition through to annotation: the DART/ARCHER experience |
Brian Fitzgerald and Scott Kiel-Chisolm, QUT: The Legal Framework for eResearch Project |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
James Dalziel, Neil Witheridge, and Aizhong Lin, Macquarie University: The AAF and Shibboleth |
Scott Parker, Sun Microsystems: Honeycomb storage |
Toby Burrows and Elzbieta Majocha, ARC Network for Early European Research: Building infrastructures for Web-based collaboration in humanities research networks |
Paul Davis, VeRSI: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 12:50 - 13:25 |
Lunchtime talk:
Bruce Wren, Netcat: The new world of web based research collaboration
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Lunchtime talk:
Martin Flanagan, Eucalypt Software Partners: Accelerating investigative discovery
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Stream 1: Access management
Chair: Nick Tate, UQ and AusCERT |
Stream 2: Data management
Chair: Andrew Treloar, Monash |
Stream 3: Collaboration environments
Chair: Paul Davis, VeRSI |
Stream 4: eResearch support services and policies
Chair: David Abramson, Monash |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Patty McMillan, UQ: Middleware roadmap and action plan for Australian research and higher education |
Lesley Wyborn, Geoscience Australia and Robert Woodcock, CSIRO: Developing an e-Research infrastructure for Australian earth sciences: the NCRIS 5.13 AuScope Grid |
David Thorns and Mary Allan, Univ of Canterbury NZ: Access Grid, video conferencing, and real life simulation |
Keith Webster, UQ: eResearch and the future of research libraries |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Rodney McDuff and Patty McMillan, UQ: Identity data schemas for the AAF(AUeduPerson) |
Anna Shillabeer, Denise de Vries, and John Roddick, Flinders University: Data wars over data stores: challenges in medical data linkage |
Bernard Pailthorpe, QCIF: Collaborative working - from HPC, Vis to AG developments in Australia |
James Dalziel, Chi Nguyen, and Ray Warouw, Macquarie University: ASK-OSS, DRAMA and RAMS: eResearch support from MELCOE
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
James Farnhill, JISC: A view of access management from Europe |
Markus Buchhorn, ANU: The preservation and sustainability of research data |
Alan Noble, Google: Globally distributing innovation: A Google perspective |
Lyle Winton and Kerry Blinco: The e-Framework |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Afternoon tea |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Closing plenary
Chair: Nick Tate, Conference Chair
Keynote: Rhys Francis, NCRIS: Platforms for Collaboration
Keynote: Mike Sargent, eResearch Coordinating Committee and NCRIS: eResearch Strategic Positioning for the Future |
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Day 4: Fri 29 June: Post-conference workshops
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| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration and coffee
Sir James Foots Building |
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| 09:00 - 17:00 |
Workshops
Sir James Foots Building |
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| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Related event
Sir James Foots Building
Humanities Technologies: An information gathering forum for humanities researchers
Please register separately for this event by emailing sarah.howard@humanities.org.au. |
