e-Research

December

• e-Research and Australian Literary Culture Symposium - December 4 - 5 2008, University of Sydney
  Digital archives and e-Research more generally have become increasingly important in humanities research internationally. In Australian research, the ARC call for network funding in 2002-3 saw the formation of an e-Humanities Network and the Cultural Research Network (CRN). A central premise of the successfully-funded CRN is that since the 1960s and 70s, theoretically-driven research in the humanities has somehow come adrift from the empirical research techniques of the social sciences and humanities, and that there is scope for a reconnection of these approaches that is at once post-theoretical and new-empirical.
  

• 4th International IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing eScience 2008
  

  December 7 -12 2008, University Place Conference Center, Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) Campus, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
  Special Session: Adding value to data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science world.
  An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net)

  The digital material used by academics is to an increasing extent being held in formal data management systems; these systems are variously categorized as digital repositories, libraries or archives.

  Modern repository systems allow us to move away from the model of a stand-alone repository, library or archive, where objects are simply deposited for subsequent access and download. Instead, researchers are developing more sophisticated models in which these containers of data are integrated components of a larger e-Science research infrastructure, incorporating advanced tools and workflows, and are being used to model complex webs of information and capture scholarly or scientific processes in their entirety, from raw data through to final publications. Repositories have been successfully combined with data grid technologies, and in addition computational grids seem to offer possible applications in digital preservation and curation, such as automatic metadata extraction and index creation.

  These systems thus could add value to the data-driven research lifecycle in e-Science.
  

• Open Access Publishing Workshop - December 4 and 5 2008, The Refectory, Holme Building, University of Sydney
  A two-day Public Knowledge Project Workshop
  
  

November

• Call for applications to NCI (formerly APAC) merit scheme
  The National Computational Infrastructure Merit Allocation Scheme provides resources on the National Facility to projects based on merit. Applications are called for grants for computational and data resources under this Scheme for the period of Jan 2009 - Dec 2009. Note: 'Start-up Grants' are also available immediately to enable researchers to assess the usefulness of the National Facility for their research and to assist in framing proposals to the Scheme.
  
  
• Building Communities in the Digital Arts and Humanities: Research Practice and Research Infrastructures - 24- 26 November 2008, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh                                                                               
  The AHRC ICT Programme and the Centre for e-Research at King's College London warmly invite you to an international expert seminar on the topic Building Communities in the Digital Arts and Humanities: Research Practice and Research Infrastructures.
  The event brings together researchers, practitioners and experts in the field who have worked to develop national and international communities of practice using ICT for research in the arts and humanities. Representatives are invited from several major international initiatives. The aim is to gather information in order to map existing activity, and to identify common agendas and opportunities for future collaborations. Outputs of the event will be:

• A map in a shared knowledge environment of current major initiatives at country and continent level;
• A brief working paper addressing key issues: future challenges, relationships with funders, successful models for such initiatives, and how they can be supported at the local, national and international level;
• An agenda for future collaboration to join up activity in this field and identify gaps in provision of support;
• Recommendations for new, distributed and collaborative structures to support research practice.

October

• Making Bioinformatics and Clinical Informatics Work for Your Research - Friday 24th October 2008, Charles La Trobe Theatre, Royal Melbourne Hospital
  University Of Melbourne Cluster (RMH/WH) Annual Research Symposium 1 UOM_Cluster_Symposium_Program.pdf

September

• Open Access and Research Conference 08 - September 24 - 25 2008 at Stamford Plaza, Brisbane.
  The Conference was hosted by Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law an Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Training (DEWR) funded project, the QUT Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support and the QUT Faculty of Law.
  
  
• e-Research Australasia 2008 conference - September 29 - October 1 2008, Melbourne.
  Workshop: e-Research in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage - 3 October

• UK e-Science All Hands Meeting - Monday 8 to Thursday 11 September 2008, The University of Edinburgh, UK
  2008 Theme: 'Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E- Infrastructures'. This is the principal e-Science meeting in the UK and brings together researchers from all disciplines, computer scientists and developers to meet and exchange ideas. The meeting is in its seventh year and normally attracts between 500 and 600 participants.

• Oxford e-Research Conference 08 - 11 -13 September 2008 at the University of Oxford, UK

  Summary: This conference seeks to stimulate and inform multi-disciplinary research on the development, use and implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in shaping research across the disciplines. It will bring together research from key e-Research projects from around the world examining the role of the Internet, Web and the Grid in research. The conference seeks to facilitate scholarly communication and publication on this topic, and help foster a broader public understanding of the significance of this area to the sciences and humanities as well as to the public at large.

August

• APAN 26 Sustainable Networking - Monday 4 to Friday 8 August 2008, Millennium Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand (pdf 175KB)
  The Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium meeting is Asia Pacific’s foremost event for showcasing advanced broadband networking applications and technologies for research and education. This conference presents demonstrations and training in network technology, application technology and sustainable networking. Presenters from across the Asia Pacific region will be showcasing applications for a range of areas, such as eCulture, medicine, earth monitoring and eScience.

• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar - Wednesday 6 August 2008, 4pm, Lecture Theatre M2, Building 13A, La Trobe University
  Dr. Ashley Buckle - " Rapid Protein Structure Determination Using Grid Computing ” - "Determining the 3D structure of a protein using the technique of X-ray crystallography can be computationally intensive. My lab has developed methods that speed up this process by a significant factor by utilizing existing computing power in the laboratory, on campus, and even across the globe. This "divide & conquer" approach allows us to run thousands of calculations in parallel, producing results in hours instead of weeks."

June

• A forum on data classification was held at La Trobe University- 26 June 2008, (Pdf 78KB)

April

• 4th Annual Metadata Management Forum - 21st - 22nd April 2008, Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne (Pdf 274KB)

February

• Regional Roadshow
  Throughout February 2008 we took the message of e-Research to the regional campuses. A series of seminars explained how e-Research can help researchers with computing, data storage and information management.
  The seminars were open to all staff and feedback surveys were used to measure awareness of e-Research and determine specific requirements of attendees. It was clear that not only is the research component critical to the University presence but that e-research techniques are even more vital for researchers that are distant from the central IT facilities and their colleagues.
  We hope to repeat the road show at a future date and will run a second workshop at Bundoora later this year.
  
  

• UK PubMed Central One day workshop - Monday 4th February 2008: 9.30am - 5.00pm @ The Wellcome Trust, London
  "The Web as a scientific communications medium for the research community"

  Focusing on potential developments for UK PubMed Central: www.ukpmc.ac.uk - UKPMC provides free access to an extensive repository of biomedical research literature, as well as an easy way for researchers to submit newly published work to meet the UKPMC Funders Group members’ Open Access requirements.  
  Following the speakers, facilitated workshop sessions will enable attendees to discuss their views about different aspects of developing UKPMC – topics such as ‘search’, ‘enhanced content’ and ‘user-specific functions’ will be considered.  A workshop report will be produced and the outcomes will be fedback to all participants.
  

• Presentations by Thornton Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Outreach, Fedora Commons- Tuesday 12th February to Thursday 14th February 2008 (PDF 77KB)
  La Trobe University Library invites you to a series of presentations by Thornton Staples about Fedora Commons and managing various types of digital content in a Fedora based environments such as the Library’s ARROW repository. Attendance at any session is open to all who are interested. Venue: Library Seminar Room, Level 1, Borchardt Library, Bundoora, with Video conferencing to Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga Campuses

• A free presentation by Dr. Leland Wilkinson, former Senior Vice President at SPSS and Professor T. Krishna:
  Tuesday 19th February, 9:30 - 11:30, Parkview Hotel, 562 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne.
  Thursday 21st February, 9:30 - 11:30, Vibe Hotel, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.
  
  Leland Wilkinson will present his research and talk about the development of visual analytics and statistics. This research has been published recently in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and presented at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  
  Visualisation is a centuries-old field. Visual analytics is relatively new. What distinguishes visual analytics from ordinary visualisation is the active role played by the computer in the presentation of information to the viewer. We have, for the first time, a marriage of analytic statistical algorithms and visual presentation in an interactive environment.
  
  Dr. Leland Wilkinson created the SYSTAT statistical software package in 1984. He was a Senior Vice President at SPSS from 1994 until 2006 were he worked on research and development of visual analytics and statistics.
  Dr. Krishna will give a short presentation on SYSTAT version 12 and what is expected in the next release. SYSTAT is a comprehensive statistical package for data analysis and visualisation which offers more scientific and technical graphs than any other desktop statistics package.