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Treloar_Building on the Atlas-Using the ALA to demonstrate the value of bringing data together

Treloar_Building on the Atlas-Using the ALA to demonstrate the value of bringing data together

Atlas of Living Australia

August 05, 2013
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  1. Building on (the) Atlas: Bringing data together to answer new

    questions Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology 1 CC-BY @atreloar
  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 CC-BY @atreloar 2
  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. CC-BY @atreloar 3
  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 CC-BY @atreloar 4
  5. 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
  6. 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 CC-BY @atreloar 7
  7. 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 8 CC-BY @atreloar
  8. 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 10 CC-BY @atreloar
  9. 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 11 CC-BY @atreloar