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Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
Federation University Australia
CeRDI Research Capability
Data for Decisions - Big Data and Data Communities
31 May 2016

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Climate Adaption – South West Climate Change Portal

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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

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All hazards, all risks

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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

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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.

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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
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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