CeRDI Research - Presentation for Local Government Victoria
1. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
Federation University Australia
CeRDI Research Capability
Presentation for Local Government Victoria
19 May 2016
2. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
CeRDI - www.cerdi.edu.au
30 staff (22 EFT) combining research, technical and research support
8 Higher Degree Research Students
Multi-disciplinary – Work across faculties - report to DVC Research
4. 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.
x =
eResearch and Digital Innovation
5. 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
6. CeRDI
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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
7. 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
8. 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
11. 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
17. Climate Adaption - Bayside City Council, Kingston City
Council and Mornington Peninsula Shire
18. Natural Disaster Research
Major landslide events of January 2011 in the Grampians National Park
Floods precipitated over 190 landslides, contributing significant impact to the
environment and communities surrounding the Park
FedUni engaged by Northern Grampians Shire
Investigate the social, economic and environmental impact of the events
Project 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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