The document discusses the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia. It summarizes CeRDI's capabilities in areas such as content management, data interoperability, visualization, and training. It provides examples of CeRDI projects including applications and portals for groundwater, soils, agriculture, climate change adaptation, and online farm trials. These projects integrate data from various domains and sources, and serve users such as researchers, industry, government and communities to support decision making.
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1. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
Federation University Australia
CeRDI Research Capability
Data for Decisions - Big Data and Data Communities
31 May 2016
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
8. 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
10. 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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15. 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.
16. 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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A variety of applications:
groundwater , soils, agriculture, biodiversity, fire, history,
sports, municipal, etc.
Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets
spatial.federation.edu.au