eResearch Newsletter June 2024

Dear Alex, here is the Australasian eResearch Newsletter.

Australasian eResearch Newsletter - June 2024

Message from AeRO:

As eResearch-Australasia Co-Chair, I am writing to provide you with an update on our program for this year and encourage you and members of your organisation to join us in Melbourne at the Pullman from 28 October to 1 November.

As our call for papers comes to a close, we are pleased to let you know that we have had a great response with over 185 submissions for our program committee to review and schedule. With more poster submissions still to come this may be our largest number of submissions ever. Last year we had 484 registrants, bouncing back to our pre-Covid numbers. This gives me great confidence that we will have lots of great content for our community with a good mix of workshops, BOF sessions, oral presentations, lightning talks and posters.

Most importantly, for me, will be the hallway conversations as we share what we are working on with each other. Invaluable opportunities for networking, building our eResearch community and developing the thought-leaders of our workforce. I look forward to catching up with many of you there.

Luc Betbeder-Matibet, eResearch Australasia co-Chair and on behalf of AeRO Exec.

CONTENTS:
* HASSI Research Data Commons Symposium 2024: 18 to 19-Jun.
* TechTalk 27: Service Mesh Overview and Anatomy: 20-Jun.
* ARCOS Symposium 2024: 27-Jun.
* ARDC Annual Survey 2024 Now Open: by 28-Jun.
* eResearch-Australasia Conference Keynotes Announced.
* AeRO Forum 2024: 26-Jul.
* RDA Sarah Jones Memorial Award: closes 12-Sep.
* ARDC Stakeholder Action Groups.
* Research Link Australia Goes Live.
* Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation Newsletter.
* QCIF Principal Data Scientist for Sustainable Futures.
* Resources for Bushfire Research.
* Skilled Research Infrastructure Workforce Forum Outcome.

HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Symposium 2024: 18 to 19-Jun

The ARDC HASS and Indigenous RDC is establishing long-term, enduring national digital research infrastructure. It supports researchers in harnessing research data to enhance Australian social and cultural wellbeing, and helps us understand and preserve our culture, history and heritage.

Join the ARDC for a 2-day showcase of research infrastructure and future visions for the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. Partners from the HASS and Indigenous RDC will outline achievements, impacts and the potential for improved research outcomes that the RDC supports.

When: 18 - 19 June 2024.
Where: Naarm/Melbourne and Online.

More information and to register: https://ardc.edu.au/event/hass-and-indigenous-research-data-commons-symposium-2024/.

TechTalk 27: Service Mesh Overview and Anatomy: 20-Jun

This presentation explains how a Kubernetes cluster can use a service mesh to abstract the network away, resolving many of the challenges arising from talking to remote endpoints within a Kubernetes cluster. A service mesh is a tool that inserts security, observability, and reliability features to applications at the platform layer instead of the application layer. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services. Service mesh is not a network service for establishing connectivity between the microservices, instead, it has policies and controls that are applied on top of an existing network to govern how microservices interact.

Who: Ping Chen, ARDC Nectar core team senior DevOps engineer.
When: 13:00-14:00, AEST, Thursday, 20-Jun-24.
Where: online via Zoom.

More info & register: https://sites.google.com/ardc.edu.au/techtalk2020/talks.

ARCOS Symposium 2024: 27-Jun

The Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) is a community driven by national institutions that aims to establish capabilities in building reproducible and scalable digital research outputs using containers and Kubernetes.

Join the ARCOS Symposium to share use cases and expertise and advance new capabilities. Talks will cover:

Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management using the ClusterAPI;
research project talks on Kubernetes implementation;
containers use cases on HPC infrastructure;
industry or CNCF.

When: 27 June 2024
Where: Naarm/Melbourne and Online.

For more information and to register: https://ardc.edu.au/event/arcos-symposium-2024/.

ARDC Annual Survey 2024 Now Open: by 28-Jun

Do you use ARDC services and resources? Do you work with the ARDC? Take the anonymous 5 min survey now. The survey closes COB Friday 28 June 2024.

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) invites the Australian research community to take a short survey about your interaction with the ARDC and use of our national research infrastructure and services.

We will use the information you provide to improve the services we deliver and report on user satisfaction to the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program.

Please take a few minutes to provide your input at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2024ARDCAnnualSurvey.

eResearch-Australasia Conference Keynotes Announced

Keynote speakers at eResearch Australasia this year (Melbourne, 28-Oct to 1-Nov) will cover major infrastructures, challenging data and compute problems and new emerging techniques, with the following now confirmed:

Sarah Peace. SKA Low Telescope Director and Chief Scientist, CSIRO.
Kerstin Lehnert. Senior Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Kate Mitchie. Structural Biologist. Chief Scientist, Structural Biology Facility UNSW.

We also plan to run a panel session on the challenges of building and sustaining research infrastructures with panellists representing institutional (UQ), cross-institutional (Intersect), NCRIS capability (ARDC) and the vendor perspective from our platinum sponsor.

Registration is now open, with Earlybird discounts available until 13-Sep-24. See https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/registration/.

AeRO Forum 2024: 26-Jul

The AeRO Forum 2024 is set to guide sector leaders in pinpointing the technological advancements and transformative strategies essential for Australasian eResearch to solve today's data-intensive challenges. Through a series of presentations and panel discussions, participants will explore common use cases and share case studies, illustrating how research groups and facilities are effectively managing data movement and storage.

We hope you can join us on Friday 26 July at the Odeon Room, La Trobe University in Bundoora!

The AeRO Forum will be run as a separate stream within the CAUDIT Communities Conference (see last month’s newsletter).

Find out more or register: https://caudit.eventsair.com/2024-communities-conference/aero-forum.

RDA Sarah Jones Memorial Award: closes 12-Sep

On the occasion of what would have been Sarah’s 43rd Birthday, the Research Data Alliance is pleased to announce ‘The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in Open Science.’

Sarah Jones was an esteemed member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Council, former member of the Technical Advisory Board (TAB), and RDA community member since 2014.

This annual award honours Sarah’s memory and her significant contributions to the Open Science community globally.

For more information, including tributes to Sarah, or to make a donation, or to nominate someone for the award, go to: https://www.rd-alliance.org/the-sarah-jones-award-terms-of-reference/.

ARDC Stakeholder Action Groups

The ARDC is coordinating three national Stakeholder Action Groups - one group each for funders, institutions and NCRIS facilities - to enable the National PID Strategy and contribute to the National Collaborative Roadmap. The Groups will facilitate discussion and alignment in implementing PIDs among stakeholders with similar interests and produce shared outputs including:

Capability Maturity Model
Collective Stakeholder Action Plan
Guidance for stakeholder implementation
Identification of potential collaborative projects
Gathering baseline statistics to measure success.

For more information and to express interest (should have been done by 14-Jun), go to: https://pidroadmap.ardc.edu.au/pids/stakeholder-action-groups.

Research Link Australia Goes Live

The ARDC is pleased to announce the release of the Research Link Australia (RLA) service, which allows you to find information about Australian research and innovation activities, and the research, government and industry stakeholders involved in them. It is a significant milestone towards a collaborative and innovative research and translation ecosystem.

For more information, go to: https://ardc.edu.au/article/research-link-australia-connecting-research-industry-and-government-through-information/.

Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation Newsletter

The Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University recently published its quarterly newsletter which includes the following research updates:

CeRDI 25-year Anniversary: Showcasing Another Five of our Best Projects
Visualising Australasia’s Soils
Securing the Future of the Gippsland Lakes: Report
AgTech Finder Podcast: Data Codes
Draft Data Interoperability Framework
Soil Indicators Project: Update
Central Highlands Grower and Producer Research
Valuing Urban Wetlands: Launch
News Snippets, Staff profile, HDR news.

To view the newsletter, visit https://www.cerdi.edu.au/CeRDINewsletterAutumn2024.

QCIF Hires Principal Data Scientist for Sustainable Futures Portfolio

QCIF is excited to announce the appointment of Dr Sebastian Lopez Marcano as our new Principal Data Scientist for QCIF’s Sustainable Futures portfolio.

In his new capacity as Principal Data Scientist, Sebastian will lead a team of data scientists and software developers to operate and develop platforms such as EcoCommons and the Wildlife Observatory of Australia, focusing on developing cutting-edge digital research infrastructure capabilities in conservation, climate and diversity as part of QCIF’s Sustainable Futures portfolio.

To learn more about Sebastian’s role, visit the QCIF website: https://www.qcif.edu.au/news/qcif-hires-principal-data-scientist-for-sustainable-futures-portfolio-.

Resources for Bushfire Research

ARDC and partners from research, government and industry have identified digital infrastructure solutions for bushfire-related research, development, planning and response, specifically for:

fuel data
health data
ecological data
data governance
a bushfire data commons.

Through ARDC’s Bushfire Data Challenges program, these solutions have now culminated in a wide range of datasets, tools and platforms, and other resources, ready to be used by the bushfire community. Find a list of the resources below and use them today. More resources will be available in due course.

More information: https://ardc.edu.au/resource/resources-for-bushfire-research/.

Skilled Research Infrastructure Workforce Forum Outcome

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) recently held its second leadership forum for 2024 on “The Skilled Research Infrastructure Workforce: Pathways and Support to Enable Effective Research”. The forum brought together key stakeholders in the research sector to discuss pathways and support that help address digital skills gaps to enable effective research.

The forum was held in Naarm at the University of Melbourne on 21 May 2024. Over 55 people attended in person and over 90 participated online.

A recording of the forum is now available along with the slides for the introduction by Rosie Hicks, CEO, ARDC, at: https://ardc.edu.au/article/the-skilled-research-infrastructure-workforce-pathways-and-support-to-enable-effective-research/.

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