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November 2020
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Bushfire Data Challenges
Registration closes today
The Bushfire Data Challenges program is part of the ARDC’s new Translational Research Data Challenges initiative. Projects will develop innovative digital infrastructure solutions to current data challenges in bushfire research, with the aim of improving Australia’s bushfire resilience, response and recovery.
Sharing lessons and approaches to the Data Management Guide
17 Nov, 11:00am - 12:00pm, Webinar
18 Nov, 1:00 - 3:00pm, University workshop
24 Nov, 1:00 - 3:00pm, MRIs workshop
The webinar will provide research offices with a clear and consistent understanding of the data management requirements and responsibilities outlined in the Australian Code for Responsible Conduct of Research, 2018 and Management of Data and Information in Research guide. 
It will be followed by two workshops; one for university research offices and one for medical research institutions, to encourage knowledge exchange and network building and to develop solutions to research data management challenges.
Australian ORCID Community Call
18 Nov, 11:00am - 12:00pm 
The fourth Australian ORCID Community Call provides an opportunity for attendees to ask questions, share news about their current work and collaborate with Australian colleagues.
RDA Plenary Regional Event
23 - 27 Nov, 1:00 - 3:00pm daily
The week-long series of free virtual sessions, scheduled to align with Australasian and Asian time zones, will build on the discussions and outcomes of the RDA Virtual Plenary 16. Sessions include COVID-19, data versioning and data life cycle, FAIR, skills and research software.
Nectar user forum
Nectar Research Cloud User Forum
25 Nov, 10:30am - 12:30pm
The ARDC is hosting the virtual forum to allow users to provide input and feedback on Nectar Research Cloud, to encourage skills transfer and provide input into the development and future direction of Nectar. It also includes a Kubernetes tech talk.
Train the Trainer: Deep Learning, TensorFlow and Natural Language Processing
26 Nov, 10:00 - 11:30am, Intro to DL and TF
26 Nov, 2 - 3:30pm, DL for NL
These informal briefing sessions are for those interested in teaching "Introduction to Deep Learning and TensorFlow" and "Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing." They cover the course material, followed by Q&A and open discussion.
International FAIR Convergence Symposium
30 Nov - 4 Dec
The virtual event will be a forum for advancing international and cross-domain convergence around FAIR for those interested in combining data across domains for research. The ARDC will be involved in leading sessions on teaching FAIR data skills and FAIR vocabularies. 
Australian Vocabulary Special Interest Group
1 Dec, 11:00am - 12:00pm
The group's quarterly meeting features Marco Fahmi and Maria Weaver (both from Griffith University) presenting "Mapping ABS Census data vocabulary to Schema.org: A use case."
Tech Talk 2: Building Serverless Web Applications for Researchers
3 Dec, 1:00 - 2:00pm
The talk will cover the advantages, limitations and architecture of building serverless web applications in the research domain and explore data mosaic and geophysical processing toolkit applications, how they take advantage of serverless technologies and the reasoning behind the architecture.
Digital Earth Australia Quarterly Showcase
12 Dec, 1:00 - 2:00pm
Hear what Digital Earth Australia (DEA) has achieved over the year including the Landsat Collection upgrade, advances in digital Earth technologies and how a DEA scientist's work will change the way we measure, monitor, and understand our built environments and natural resources.
PIDapalooza 2021
27 Jan,  2:30pm UTC
The open festival of persistent identifiers, for people with a love of PIDs and the metadata that connects them, will be a 24-hour nonstop PID virtual happening around the world.
NISO Plus 2021
22 - 25 Feb, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization's (NISO) global, online event will bring together publishers, librarians, archivists, metadata specialists, electronic resource managers and others to solve existing problems and discuss ways to prevent future problems. 
Webinars
Webinars
Thinking like a Computer: The Fundamentals of Programming (Intersect)
24 Nov, 12:30 - 1:30pm  Register

Recordings from the ARDC webinars can be found on our YouTube channel.
 
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