eResearch Newsletter October 2022

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National eResearch Newsletter - October 2022

Message from AeRO:

We are very excitedly looking forward to the eResearch Australasia Conference which will start next week in Brisbane. For the first time since October 2019 we will be able to meet colleagues from across the eResearch sector face-face, as well as to share experiences, findings, plans in a wide variety of eResearch domains. It is a full, varied and interesting program, which we are sure will have something to captivate all of you. We can’t wait to meet up with you next week.

Program: https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/2022-program/.

Register: https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/home/2022-registration/.

Alex Reid, eResAU2022 Program Co-Chair & Newsletter Editor (editor@aero.edu.au).

CONTENTS:
* eResearch Australasia Conference Imminent: 17-Oct.
* ARDC Industry and Research Sector Forum: 26-Oct.
* NCI Adapter Allocation Scheme – Simplified Access for EMCRs: Closes 30-Oct.
* End of Year Training Offering from NCI: from 8-Nov.
* Vocabulary Symposium 2022: 14 to 15-Nov.
* Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation Newsletter.
* The New ARDC Website Is Here.
* National GPU Service Goes Live.
* Experts Talk Closing the Digital Research Skills Gap.
* NCI Supercomputer Supporting Indigenous Health Outcomes.
* Exploring New Ways of Exhibiting and Preserving Digital Media.
* Strategic Investment in PIDs Could Save $24 Million per Year.

eResearch Australasia Conference Imminent: 17-Oct

The eResearch Australasia Conference will take place this year from 17 to 20 October 2022 in Brisbane, but will allow online enrolment (speakers must be present in Brisbane). Workshops will take place on the Monday, with the main Conference running Tuesday to Thursday. It’s not too late to register, and you can register just for one day if you wish.

Check out the final program here: https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/2022-program/.

To Register: https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/home/2022-registration/.

ARDC Leadership Series: Industry and Research Sector Forum: 26-Oct

The ARDC leadership series provides leaders, influencers and decision makers in academia, government and industry with an opportunity to work through big data challenges affecting researchers in Australia.

This 3rd forum will feature an array of high profile speakers and explore challenges and opportunities in improving research translation and the role data as a key research output can play in this space, showing how collaboration can benefit both research and industry.

When: 26 October, 1 - 3.30pm AEDT
Where: In-Person in Melbourne & Online
More Information and to Register: https://bit.ly/ARDCLeadership3.

NCI Adapter Allocation Scheme – Simplified Access for EMCRs: Closes 30-Oct

The NCI Adapter Scheme offers a streamlined path to access HPC and cloud resources at NCI to all Australian researchers. The simple application process and rapid turnaround time make it perfect for EMCRs building a track record of grant scheme success and increasing their computational science ambitions.

Postdoctoral researchers are now eligible to apply as Lead CIs, without direct funding in their name. Allocations of up to 250 thousand service units at NCI for the first quarter of 2023 are now available, with applications closing on the 30th of October.

For more information, visit https://nci.org.au/users/how-access-nci/adapter-scheme.

End of Year Training Offering from NCI: from 8-Nov

NCI is offering programming and AI/ML courses over November to conclude our training calendar for 2022 and prepare for 2023. We’re very excited to be hosting multiple teams of GPU programmers and computational scientists at NCI over the end of October and early November for an HPC-AI Hackathon.

Available to Australian researchers whether beginner or advanced, the Programming in C course on 8-9 November is a great way to build technical skills. Then, on the 15th and 23rd of November we will run two discipline-specific AI/ML on Gadi courses – Natural Language Processing and Materials Science respectively.

More information: https://opus.nci.org.au/display/Help/NCI+Training+and+Educational+Events.

Vocabulary Symposium 2022: 14 to 15-Nov

The symposium will bring together users, creators and publishers of vocabularies across domains and sectors in Australia to share experiences and identify requirements for FAIR vocabularies underpinning cross-domain data. It will cover the following:

Cross-domain vocabularies in practice
Extending vocabulary use across domains
Current best practices in vocabulary management and governance in Australia
Vocabulary services and technologies
Social and institutional challenges and opportunities in the adoption of vocabularies.

When: 14 & 15 November.
Where: In-Person & Online.
More Information & Register: https://ardc.edu.au/event/vocabulary-symposium-2022/.
Run by: ADA, ARDC, CODATA.

Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation Newsletter

The Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia has recently published its quarterly newsletter. This issue includes news about the DataPRESS project, My Farm Dashboard, improving water security for farms and lakes, and Visualising Australasia’s Soils.

To view the newsletter, visit: https://www.cerdi.edu.au/cb_pages/news/CeRDINewsletterWinter2022.php.

The New ARDC Website Is Here

Designed to meet the needs of the Australian research community, the newly refreshed ARDC.EDU.AU features a dedicated portal for researchers to find curated datasets, tools, services and guides on essential digital research skills, research software, cloud computing and more.

Explore: https://ardc.edu.au/.

National GPU Service Goes Live

Australian researchers can now reserve GPUs and large memory virtual machines for processing large datasets or images, 3D imaging, machine learning and computational modeling on the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud via the new National GPU Service.

Read more: https://bit.ly/ARDCGPU.

Experts Talk Closing the Digital Research Skills Gap

A panel of experts weighed in on uplifting digital research skills in Australia to meet the ever-changing and increasing demand in academia and beyond at the second ARDC Leadership forum.

Read the recap of the 2nd ARDC Leadership Forum: https://ardc.edu.au/article/experts-talk-closing-the-digital-research-skills-gap/.

NCI Supercomputer Supporting Indigenous Health Outcomes

NCI, Australia’s leading supercomputing and big data facility, is working with The Australian National University (ANU) to offer no-cost computing and data storage to the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG). Together, NCI and ANU are covering the costs of 10 million units of computing time per year and 500 Terabytes of data storage, $186,000 of equivalent value. This covers NCIG’s computing and data needs, and provides NCIG a reliable foundation on which to keep developing its nationally significant genomic resources.

Find out more at https://nci.org.au/news-events/news/nci-supercomputer-supporting-indigenous-health-outcomes.

Exploring New Ways of Exhibiting and Preserving Digital Media

ACMI, Australia’s museum of screen culture, celebrates the past, present and future of the moving image, across film, TV, video games, digital culture, and art.

AARNet’s high-performing low-latency network infrastructure underpins ACMI’s exhibitions and public programs, as well as collaborations with the research and academic community that are driving innovations in media, technology and user experience for museums.

ACMI is focused on addressing challenges around the preservation of digital artefacts in its own growing collection and for collecting institutions in general, to ensure that they are accessible to future generations.

Read more: https://www.aarnet.edu.au/collaborating-to-explore-new-ways-of-exhibiting-and-preserving-digital-media.

Strategic Investment in Identifiers Could Save $24 Million per Year

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and the Australian Access Federation (AAF) commissioned the MoreBrains Cooperative to undertake an analysis of the incentives for adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) by the Australian research sector. The report, published on 1 October 2022, found that using persistent identifiers in the Australian research sector could save $24 million per year and 38,000 person days in wasted effort every year.

For more information, go to: https://ardc.edu.au/article/strategic-investment-in-identifiers-could-save-24-million-and-38000-person-days-per-year/.

Alternatively, attend the Wednesday afternoon session at the eResearch Conference next week, when Josh Brown, who undertook the study, explains it all.

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