A collection of links and short summaries of who is doing what in e-research at Go8 universities. The list is not comprehensive, representative and inheritably not objective. Nevertheless, might be useful.
Last updated: 25-07-2007
University of Adelaide
Distributed and High-Performance Computing Group (DHPC)
High-performance parallel computing, grid computing, and data grids (large-scale distributed data archives).
Australian National University
*Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region.
*Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON)
Empirical social science research into online networks and developing e-Research tools to facilitate this research.
University of Melbourne
*Ethnographic E-Research (EthnoER)
The project for online annotation of media, especially video, methodologies for collaborative research based on large digital media datasets, using high-speed networks and large data repositories. Led by the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics.
*eScholarship Research Centre (formerly the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre)
Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), Web Academic Resource Publisher (WARP) and similar e-research activities, mainly related to the history and heritage of science, technology and medicine.
Monash University
Monash e-Research Centre
Support of e-Research at Monash. Currently operates the following pilot services: Monash Sun Grid - High performance compute facility; LaRDS - Large research data store.
*Australian Research Repositories Online (ARROW)
Information repositories and associated resource discovery mechanisms (led by Monash).
*Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility and Annotation E-Research Technologies (DART)
A proof-of-concept project to develop tools to support the new collaborative research infrastructure. Aims to enable researchers and reviewers to access original and analysed data, collaborate around the creation of research outputs, stored publications, etc. It will also look at the collection of large datasets, including the remote control and automated data collection (led by Monash).
University of New South Wales
Ad-hoc DAta Grids Environments (ADAGE)
Efficient management of information resources over ad-hoc data grids. Investigate how to efficiently gather, store, retrieve and process ad-hoc data grids from both a manager and an end-user perspective.
Other Computer Science and Engineering projects
University of Queensland
eResearch Centre (School of IT and Electrical Engineering)
The research activities include a range of topics: annotation services; collaborative tools; digital preservation; dynamic publications; indigenous knowledge management ; information integration; multimedia indexing and semantics; repositories and digital libraries; security; semantic web/grid.
University of Sydney
*Sydney eScholarship
A set of services for the University of Sydney that integrates the management of digital content with new forms of access and scholarly publication (library's initiative).
*The Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
Provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full text databases, primarily texts within the humanities.
*Archaeological Computing Laboratory (ACL)
Information management and delivery for the Humanities, with particular emphasis on the spatial and temporal dimensions (event modelling, spatial searching, mapping and map animation) and on new opportunities presented by the Internet (academic knowledge management, online databases and web mapping). Projects: FieldHelper, Heurist, etc.
Australian eHumanities Network
Hosts only.
University of Western Australia
Western Australian Supercomputer Program (WASP)
Research and teaching by integrating advanced computing and visualisation for research and academic staff and students of the UWA.
For more see ARIIC projects and the full list of SII projects.
(*) potentially most relevant websites/projects for HASS.