November 7, 2024
Each year the eResearch Australasia conference provides an exciting opportunity to engage, connect and share ideas and exemplars concerning new information-centric research capabilities, and how ICT technologies can help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, find, understand, and reuse information.
This year the event took place from the 28 October to the 1 November in Melbourne, starting with a very well attended NCRIS Networking event organised by ARDC, a great opportunity to re-connect and meet other research infrastructure staff.
eResearch delivered an exciting Program, and it was a difficult decision to choose between the many streams. The ACCESS-NRI had a busy week networking, presenting, facilitating discussions and creating new collaborations.
We participated as an exhibitor along with other NCRIS facilities including Atlas of Living Australia, Auscope, Australian Access Federation (AAF), ARCD, NCI, Pawsey and AURIN.
Our Associate Director, Dr Kelsey Druken presented on: “Building the software, data and training foundations to support Australia’s climate simulator (ACCESS-NRI)
Felicity Chun, from the Model Evaluation and Diagnostics team at ACCESS-NRI, delivered a presentation entitled ACCESS-NRI: Supporting Climate Science through Robust Model Evaluation and Community-Driven Strategies.
Jasmeen Kaur, from the User training team, presented the poster: and won the ECR best poster prize.
We also co-facilitated two Bird of Feather (BoF) events:
The BoF Streamlining continuous integration/deployment of bespoke software environments and adhering to the FAIR principles and workflows was facilitated co-organised by Harshula Jayasuriya, Aidan Heerdegen, Paul Leopardi, Tommy Gatti (ACCCES-NRI), Scott Wales (Bureau of Meteorology) and Rui Yang (NCI).
The BoF “Revealing the invisible: the challenge of measuring and communicating the impact of research infrastructures” was co-facilitated by Kelsey Druken, Natalia Bateman (ACCESS-NRI), Philomena Mainfold (AuScope), Christina Hall (Biocommons), Emma Joughin (AURIN) and Kerry Mora (AAF), Jo Croucher (NCI) and Olivia Shanahan (ARDC). The outcomes of this BoF will be summarised on a report and shared with all the participants. As part of this BoF, we gave a short summary of its outcomes in another Bof organised by ARDC and entitled “Exploring the uptake of digital research infrastructure”, facilitated by Olivia Shanahan Kylie Black, Stefanie Kethers, and Mingfang Wu