Building on (the) Atlas: Bringing data together to answer new questions Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology 1 CC-BY @atreloar

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

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

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

Two ALA-related case studies  Soils to Satellites  Edgar 5 CC-BY @atreloar

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

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

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

Building on Atlas CC-BY https://secure.flickr.com/photos/istol 9

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

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

Questions?  @atreloar  https://www.slideshare.net/atreloar/building-on- the-atlas-of-living-australia/ CC-BY @atreloar 12