EIF Fast Start Activity

Funding

Key:

Single discipline (physical sciences): funding for projects which target a specific discipline within the physical sciences, such as astronomy.
Single discipline (humanities): funding for projects which target a specific discipline within the humanities, such as linguistics.
Cross-discipline (physical sciences): funding for projects which are useful for a range of physical science disciplines.
Cross-discipline (humanities): funding for projects which are useful in a range of humanities areas.
Cross-discipline: funding for projects which are broadly useful across both humanities and physical sciences.

Metadata store infrastructure

Lead institution: University of Southern Queensland
Funding allocated: $63k
Domain: Cross-disciplineDevelop a detailed specification for a stand-alone metadata store that can be used to augment either an existing institutional repository or data store, and which will manage metadata about data objects and data collections. This metadata will need to complement the existing object-level metadata. The interface will be web-based and easy to use by repository managers without specific technical skills. The metadata store will generate collection descriptions as RIF-CS and make these available for harvesting using OAI-PMH and/or direct harvest of XML.

Research Collection Metadata Exchange Hub

Lead institution: Queensland University of Technology/Griffith
Funding allocated: $200k
Domain: Cross-discipline

Build a Metadata Exchange Hub to act as a metadata collection, manipulation and transmission agent across multiple sources of University research data (including data, human resources, finance and research management information systems). The overall objective is to develop a system to facilitate the collation of new research data held within research institutions, regardless of what repository solution or database is used, and to provide a central metadata feed to the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The resulting system will be deployed at both QUT and Griffith.

Spatial Information Services Stack Deployment

Lead institution: AuScope/CSIRO
Funding allocated: $1007k
Domain: Cross-discipline (spatial data)

Build on the work undertaken in the SISS project by deploying the SISS offering at Government data providers with data holdings important to national research priorities and CSIRO flagships. By developing some of the component services needed to realise a spatial information data commons within Australia this activity will assist multiple capability areas and institutions that have interest in geospatial web service middleware and clients.

ANDS-CSIRO-ATNF Pulsar Data Management Project

Lead institution: CSIRO
Funding allocated: $482k
Domain: Astronomy

Develop tools to automate the capture of pulsar data collections from the Australia Telescope National Facility at Parkes. Make metadata available for harvesting into the Australian Research Data commons (ARDC) to increase the discoverability of these collections and their potential for re-use.

Enhanced Metadata Capture for Sustainable Management, Sharing and Re-use of APN Histopathology Research Data

Lead institution: University of Melbourne
Funding allocated: $125k
Domain: Phenomics

Develop enhanced metadata capture facilities for the Histopathology and Organ Pathology Service based at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Melbourne as part of facilitating the sharing and re-use of mouse pathology research data both now and into the future. The project will address current metadata scalability and sustainability issues associated with the service in order for the Melbourne Histopathology Service to participate in and contribute to emerging research data networks like PODD and ANDS.

The Health-e-Reef Project

Lead institution: University of Queensland
Funding allocated: $125k
Domain: Marine Science

Develop data capture and sharing services for coral-reef related data being generated by researchers at the University of Qld Centre for Marine Studies, together with their collaborators in community/volunteer groups (CoralWatch, ReefCheck) and government Develop data capture and sharing services for coral-reef related data being generated by researchers at the University of Qld Centre for Marine Studies, together with their collaborators in community/volunteer groups (CoralWatch, ReefCheck) and government organizations (EPA, DERM), by defining common metadata standards and associated services for describing, publishing and discovering these highly heterogeneous datasets. There will be particular focus on automatically capturing the metadata necessary to support discovery, decision, and reuse.

Optical Astronomy Data Capture Infrastructure

Lead institution: Australian National University
Funding allocated: $125k
Domain: Astronomy

Build the required information infrastructure for the Skymapper, WiggleZ and GAMA surveys to enable the automated capture of all the data, metadata and contextual information required to publish data sets into the Australian Research Data Commons and the International Virtual Observatory.

FieldHelper: a workflow and tools for improving fieldwork data collection and submission to institutional repositories

Lead institution: University of Sydney
Funding allocated: $250k
Domain: Cross-discipline (humanities fieldwork)

Enhancement of the existing Fieldhelper tool to develop a cross-platform user-friendly and flexible software tool and standards compliant workflows for managing the flow of research data from fieldwork-based research projects to repositories in the Australian Research Data Commons. This will lead to improved discoverability and reusability of such data through facilitating standards compliance at the time of data capture, and interoperation with other ANDS/ARCS services and projects. The tool will be designed to be adaptable to a wide range of projects, including humanities and social science projects.

Managing and Sharing Genomic data

Lead institution: University of New South Wales
Funding allocated: $125k
Domain: Genomics

Establish databases for DNA sequence information derived from next generation sequence instruments, so that users of the DNA sequencers can access their information in an efficient way. This will centralise DNA sequence data from these facilities, enable collaborative projects and facilitate data sharing. On publishing, research data will be made available for public use, contributing to the Australian Research Data Commons.

Development of Metadata Store Infrastructure with a Large Research Data Store

Lead institution: Monash
Funding allocated: $200k
Domain: Cross-discipline

Develop metadata store infrastructure to integrate with a large institutional research data store (LaRDS in the case of Monash University). This new infrastructure will manage metadata about data collections, including information to support discovery, assessment of relevance, access to and re-use of the data. The infrastructure will also provide a feed of information to the Australian Research Data Commons in RIF-CS XML form. This solution will be able to be adopted or easily adapted by other institutions.

Water Resources Observation Network (WRON) Data Management Project

Lead institution: CSIRO
Funding allocated: $506k
Domain: Water

CSIRO has key water research data holdings of national significance which are not well publicised within the science communities. CSIRO has made a commitment to populate the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). In this way, CSIRO will be able to ensure that the public data it produces can be made available and become more readily accessible for greater scientific and general community collaborations.

Publication of Data from National Research Vessels

Lead institution: Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility
Funding allocated: $325k
Domain: Marine Science

Develop infrastructure to routinely capture underway data from bluewater research vessels managed by CSIRO (Southern Surveyor) and AAD (Aurora Australis), and publish this in near real-time in a coordinated way that enables ready access to, and combination of the datasets via the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN). The data will then in turn be discoverable and accessible through the Australian Research Data Commons. These vessels are major national marine science facilities and are the source of a significant proportion of Australia’s in-situ blue water ocean research data.

Increasing the availability and discoverability of Australasian legal research data

Lead institution: AustLII
Funding allocated: $300k
Domain: Law

Enable discovery through ANDS of 300+ free access Australasian legal databases located on the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), and develop software and automation procedures to make at least 40 additional ‘public data collections’ that are important for legal research available (via AustLII) and more accessible to researchers. Outcomes will be greater awareness of accessible legal data, particularly in disciplines outside law, and improved research in a broad range of different research communities in Australia and overseas.

Australian Research Data Commons Party Infrastructure Project

Lead institution: National Library of Australia
Funding allocated: $468k
Domain: Cross-discipline

Deliver a sustainable architecture that enables the identification of parties involved in the research lifecycle through extending the People Australia infrastructure to cater for the requirements of the research sector. The project will provide interfaces that allow data contributors to discover identities and match names against the existing People Australia data corpus.

A 'turnkey' Research Data Registry solution for Australian research institutions

Lead institution: University of Melbourne
Funding allocated: $200k
Domain: Cross-discipline

Develop metadata store infrastructure to manage metadata about data collections, activities and parties, and to provide feeds of this metadata in the form of RIF-CS XML. The underlying technology will be the VITRO RDF solution being developed at Cornell.

Scoping Study for W4 Semantic Tagging Service

Lead institution: University of Queensland
Funding allocated: $50k
Domain: Cross-discipline (humanities)

Commission a scoping study to investigate the availability of suitable technologies for providing a Who/What/Where/When (W4) semantic tagging service. The aim of this service will be to enable the tagging of texts, images, maps, video and audio content - using tags drawn from controlled vocabularies, that specify people names, concepts, place names, dates/times and events. The output will be a report on the most effective approaches for a service to support both automated and manual tagging of various content types.

This report is now available.

Comprehensive Data Management for Microscopy Research Datasets

Lead institution: Monash University
Funding allocated: $125k
Domain: Microscopy

Develop software to generate experiment - and instrument - specific metadata files that are obligatorily linked to the experimental raw data at the time of entry into the data base. These write-protected raw data files will rapidly establish a data library and archiving system that is searchable and exposed to the ARDC. This approach will establish a concept for mandatory annotation of digital experimental data that will maximise the use, re-use and distribution of scientific raw data and experimental information within the expert community, and will provide a reliable link to published scientific data from the original experimental information.

Metadata management for neutron beam instrument data

Lead institution: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation/The Australian Synchrotron
Funding allocated: $940k
Domain: Cross-discipline (physical sciences)

Joint ANSTO / Australian Synchrotron project to improve data and metadata capture and establish metadata stores at ANSTO and the Australian Synchrotron.

Researcher Profile and Meta‐Data

Lead institution: Monash University
Funding allocated: $200k
Domain: Metadata

Provide a high‐quality feed of Parties and Activities information from Monash University to the ANDS Collections Registry

Linking the EMBL Australia EBI Mirror with the Australian Research Data Commons

Lead institution:
Funding allocated: $1000k
Domain: Genomics

The Australian EBI Mirror will provide high‐throughput local access to international molecular bioscience data and value‐add to international data for application to Australian problems. This project will specify and implement automated systems to extract metadata from the EBI Mirror through a persistent identifier (PID), make these metadata discoverable within the ARDC, and enable navigation from a PID to the corresponding primary data entry or section in the Mirror.

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