Presentation given at Atlas of Living Australia Science Symposium 2013. Discusses Australian National Data Service Applications program and two specific projects: Soils to Satellites (also involving TERN), and Edgar Bird Species distribution.
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Building on the Atlas (of Living Australia)
1. Building on (the) Atlas:
Bringing data together to
answer new questions
Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of
Technology
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2. Australian National Data Service
An initiative of the Australian Government being
conducted as part of the National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Strategy ($A24M) and the
Super Science Initiative ($A48M) through DIICCSRTE
A collaboration between Monash University, the
Australian National University and CSIRO
30 staff, funded to mid 2015
More researchers re-using more data more often
Data as a first-class object
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3. ANDS enables transformation of:
Data that are:
Unmanaged
Disconnected
Invisible
Single use
To Structured Collections that are:
Managed
Connected
Findable
Reusable
so that Australian researchers can easily
publish, discover, access and use/re-use research data.
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4. ANDS Applications Program
Produce compelling demonstrations of the value
of having data available for re-use that will
result in data being transformed or integrated across
multiple sources to produce new forms of information that
enable innovative, high-quality research outcomes
deliver value to a high-profile research champion
be relevant to a range of government portfolios
engage with national research capabilities
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6. Soils to Satellites
Integration of disparate data
TREND & Ausplots ecological data (ÆKOS, CSIRO NSA)
• Plot-based plant community data
• Soil characterisation data - structure, pH ,nutrients, carbon etc
Atlas of Living Australia (spatially represented data)
• Species occurrence and distribution data
• Environmental characteristics
TERN AusCover (biophysical remote sensing data)
• multi-spectral characteristics of site.
TREND genomics data (BPA, SARDI, BGI, BOLD)
• Opaque “blobs” of genomics data including barcode
sequences, Soil Metagenomics data , isotope data
7. Edgar – tropicaldatahub.org/goto/edgar
Shows locations where a bird species has been
observed
Uses this information to calculate and display how
well the climate across Australia suits that species
Shows an animation of how the suitable climate
for a species may change into the future
Allows registered users to improve its accuracy by
classifying observations
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8. Edgar and ALA Biocache
Edgar relies on ALA data and back-end services
developed by ALA under this project as Biocache
extensions
Biocache designed to
aggregate occurrence data from multiple sources
provide data quality checks and cleaning of the data
support assertions by the data made by software or people
provide webservice access to this data to facilitate re-use in other
portals.
More at ap30-ala.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/final-product-post.html
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10. What made these projects possible?
Open access to the data
Licensing that allows re-use
Co-location of data and tools
Web services over the data
Pre-computation where appropriate
ALA as a unique national resource
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11. Thanks
Soils to Satellites
Peter Doherty (PM)
Prof. Andy Lowe, Adelaide
project team
Edgar
Marianne Brown (PM)
A/Prof Jeremy Vanderwal,
JCUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szl61Eerfpo
Prof Stephen Garnett,
CDUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8z2yFDYwHI
project team
ALA developers
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Not this Atlas, obviously, but still elements of standing on shoulders of giants
Co-location because the data is getting too big to moveFor the Auscover data, ALA pre-computes the value of each of the AusCover layers at each of the 40M occurrence locations