tern eco-informatics – managing and delivering ecological research data now and into the future...
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TERN Eco-informatics – Managing and delivering ecological research data now and into the future
Craig Walker Eco-informatics Facility Director
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Eco-informatics GoalsBringing ecological data together for informed re-use Priorities for NCRIS:
Negotiate sharing and access for key national ecological databases (States and Commonwealth)
Consolidate ecological datasets from across Australia Develop a national framework for describing and publishing
ecological information (“standards”) Encourage researcher uploading of data (SHaRED) Build a “One-Stop-Shop” portal for ecological data
These Goals are being addressed through the Australian Ecological Knowledge and Observation System – ÆKOS
Eco-informatics Goals cont.
Supplementary funding for projects:
Fully ingest, integrate and deliver TERN Ausplots data (EIF) Support mobile field capture platforms and data (EIF) Support the TERN Data Discovery Portal (EIF) Incorporate MSPN datasets in ÆKOS (EIF) Build SHaRED tool for Researcher Data Submission (NeCTAR) Build Soils-to-Satellites web application (ANDS)
Environmental Information Landscape for Australia
Collaborations
What is ecological “plot” data?
The ÆKOS Information Landscape
Supporting Knowledge
Models
Context
Data
RecID Species Xcoord Ycoord Height dbh1 E obliqua 56.22506 137.3208 34 362 E obliqua 34.45058 137.3557 22 333 E obliqua 34.25678 136.1189 54 794 E obliqua 35.77208 136.785 66 685 E obliqua 35.97997 136.8556 43 276 E baxteri 37.03322 138.71 56 777 E baxteri 34.61981 136.8554 33 208 E baxteri 36.0738 139.8762 22 1019 A brownii 35.1474 138.6559 25 71
10 A brownii 37.81432 136.2933 62 4211 A brownii 35.95443 138.5847 23 2212 A brownii 35.51555 139.868 42 9313 A marina 35.78676 139.8709 23 10314 A marina 37.70242 136.0484 34 7615 A marina 34.00839 137.3669 43 3316 A marina 36.74387 137.9251 34 9117 A marina 37.92455 136.7602 43 55
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The ÆKOS system
Flora Govt Ecological SurveysFauna
ÆKOS Data Repository
TERN MSPN Data Agency Datasets
Web Services Data Portal
SHaRED Tool
RIF-CSANDS, TDDP
End-user Community
AccessControl
Facilitated Ingest
ResearcherSubmitted Data
Info
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Licensing Framework
Soils-to-SatellitesALA
ÆKOS Operational Model
DataSource
ÆKOSRepository
ÆKOS Portal
Common Information Model
(Ontology)
Contextual Description
ETL Script
ÆKOS DSL
Engine
Data Portal
‘Traits
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(tags f
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vocabulary)
Data under
Comm
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Integration via a
common structure
Enrichment
Search IndexSemantics
Data Ingestion
Graph visu
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products
Key benefits Access to research data increases the return from public
investment (OECD Report 2007) Open Access promotes new areas of research and enables
exploration of topics not envisaged by the initial researcher Demonstrates delivery in 2013 of a “discipline-oriented and
purpose-specific research supporting infrastructure” under NCRIS
Key benefits for researchers ...
... as data publishers:
• Increased visibility• Attribution, citation and
acknowledgement• Minimises data misuse• Minimise loss of data
memory• Potential for increased
collaboration
... as data users:• Single point of access nationally• Enables assessment of ‘fitness for
purpose’ of data for re-use• Reduces data preparation (integrate
once, use many times)• Minimises cost of recollecting data • Integration and federation of
datasets for local-to-national scale studies
1750 2010
Key benefits for researchers...
http://www.ehow.com
Current “Beta 1.2” portal
© State of South Australia (Dept of Environment, Water & Natural Resources)
The Future Potential Extension of thematic coverage to include vertebrate and
invertebrate fauna, fire monitoring, aquatic ecosystems More data ingested to strengthen the focal point of the portal,
given that ÆKOS is generic and supports all ecological data Improvements to visualisation and analysis based on feedback
from the ecological community ÆKOS is a suitable repository for the vast volumes of hardcopy
material including an effective means of dealing with “filing cabinet leftovers” from existing databases
National method catalogue for ecological data collection Strong partnerships developed with custodians can be
extended to support capacity building within Agencies, and can optimise legacy and future investments
Thank you
Eco-informatics Facility Contact Details
Eco-informatics Director - Craig Walker [email protected]
Data and Partnerships Facilitator -Dr Anita Smyth [email protected]
Ecological Data Manager - Dr David Turner [email protected]
ICT Project Manager – Martin Pullan [email protected]
Website www.aekos.org.au