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Sharing Australia’s Nationally Significant Terrestrial Ecosystem Data: a collaboration between TERN and ANDS
Presenter: Dr. Xiaobin Shen
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OUTLINE
• Overview of ANDS and TERN
• ANDS National Collections
• Case Study: TERN National Collection
• Demo and Future Works
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Australia eResearch Infrastructure Overview
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WHAT IS ANDS?Funded by Australian Government• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
Strategy (NCRIS)• Education Investment Fund (EIF)• Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
(CRIS)• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
Strategy 2 (NCRIS 2)
A collaboration between Monash University, Australian National University and CSIRO
HOW DO WE MAKE DATA MORE VALUABLE?
Value
So that researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use research data through the Australian Research Data Commons.
THE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH DATA COMMONS
HOW HAVE WE DONE IT?• Helping Universities and Research Institutes to establish
significant research data collections by• Investing $69.5 million dollars • Working with 68 institutions across Australia • Funding 382 Projects
● Establish a set of national services to support the Australian Research Data Commons
● Supporting Institutional Research Data Management with a range of services
● Helping to establish institutional research data infrastructure
WHAT IS TERN
• National Infrastructure for collecting, storing and sharing Australia’s terrestrial ecosystem data sets and knowledge.
• Builds on past and current data collection activities by all level of government, non-government and research organisations.
WHAT IS TERN
Funded by Government of Australia via• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
Strategy (NCRIS)• Super Science Initiative -Education Investment Fund
(EIF)• Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (CRIS)• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
Strategy 2 (NCRIS 2)
TERN KEY OBJECTIVES• coordinate and build national network for terrestrial
ecosystem research and management
• provide and facilitate open access to ecosystem science data
• build a strong ecosystem science community to solve problems facing Australia’s ecosystem
• enable to identify the gaps in data to understand Australia’s ecosystem.
How TERN worksNetwork of Facilities to meet TERN overall objective
Each Facility deals with particular domain of ecosystem science
Biogeophysical Data• AusCover• Australian Coastal Ecosystem Facility• OzFlux• Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia
Ecological Data• Multi-Scale Plot Network• Eco-informatics
Analysis, Synthesis and Modelling• Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis
and Synthesis• Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling
Infrastructure
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OUTLINE
• Overview of ANDS and TERN
• ANDS National Collections
• Case Study: TERN National Collection
• Demo and Future Works
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ANDS NATIONAL COLLECTION• Focus on Australia’s data assets nationally and
internationally
Approach:• Partner with institutions to identify nationally
significant dataset
• Describe in a way to enable flexibility in presentation
• Highlight for discovery and reuse
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VALUE OF ESTABLISHING NATIONAL COLLECTION • Have collections of data enable big problems to be
addressed
• Have reference collection enables researchers to compare
• A locus where of all research data of a particular form can be explored
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WHAT IS A NATIONAL COLLECTION?
National Collection is a research data asset, which is:• Significant and valued by the Australian research
community
• Widely used by the research community
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DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS OF NC• The collection is well described
• Data is accessible to the Australian research community
• Data is available through open licensing
• The collection is easily cited
• The collection is well curated
• The collection is well preserved
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TYPES OF NATIONAL COLLECTIONS
• Curated by a single institution (e.g. ABS Census)
• Distributed across multiple institutions• Collaborative initiatives (e.g. TERN, AURIN)
• Topics (e.g. Urban Water, Climate Change)
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BENEFITS TO RESEARCHERS
• Enhanced reputation for creator and owner
• More comprehensive view of a research topic
• Access to authoritative collections
• Bring data and related services together
• Security of ongoing and reliable access to data
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BENEFITS TO ORGANIZATIONS• Enhanced reputation for organisations
• Enhanced reuse of organisational data assets
• Enabled organisation to align its collections with nationally significant research challenges
• Enable improved collaboration
• Show case data outputs from national initiatives and collaborations
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OUTLINE
• Overview of ANDS and TERN
• ANDS National Collections
• Case Study: TERN National Collection
• Demo and Future Works
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OVERVIEW OF TERN DATA COLLECTIONTERN data can be classified into: • Ecology Data• Biogeophysical data
Ecology data: focus on Flora and Fauna in geographical area
Biogeophysical data: deal with interaction of biological, geological and physical process
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TERN ECOLOGICAL DATASETS• Plants and species distribution survey information
• Vegetation distribution survey information
• Vegetation and species distribution survey data
• Australian Ground Cover References Site Data
• TERN AusPlots Rangelands
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TERN BIOGEOPHYSICAL DATASETS• 41 Satellite and remote sensing data products
• 20 Flux tower datasets spanning across all the states of Australia
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OZFLUX FACILITY OVERVIEW• OZFlux is part of global network of flux towers called
FluxNet (www.fluxnet.ornl.gov)
• Provide an opportunity to measure the carbon exchange in atmosphere at global scale
• Enable flux community to develop data products that are useful
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SIGNIFICANCE OF OZFLUX DATA COLLECTIONS• Well described: well described at collection level• Accessible to Australian research data: accessible
to national and international research communities• Available through open licensing: OzFlux data is
available through TERN-BY-SA (http://tern.org.au/datalicence/TERN-BY-SA/1.0/)
• Easily cited: OzFlux data has citation information• Well curated: automated data capture processing,
standardised across all flux towers. • Well preserved: hosted at Monash University
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ANDS RIF-CS SCHEMA
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TERN NATIONAL COLLECTION IN RIF-CS
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OUTLINE
• Overview of ANDS and TERN
• ANDS National Collections
• Case Study: TERN National Collection
• Demo and Future Works
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TERN NC IN RESEARCH DATA AUSTRALIA
http://demo.ands.org.au/terrestrial-ecosystem-research-network-collection
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TERN NC IN RESEARCH DATA AUSTRALIA
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FUTURE WORKS• Work closely with researchers to solve some
research questions
• Bring more terrestrial and ecosystem related data assets from other Australian Universities/public agencies
• Bring data related services near the data
ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program and the Education
Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative