eResearch Australasia 2008
After a very successful inaugural conference was held in Brisbane last year, eResearch Australasia 2008 will run from 29 September - 3 October at the Sebel and Citigate Hotels in Melbourne.
VeRSI will have an active presence at the conference. We will be presenting, running a `Birds of a Feather' session, announcing the winners of the VeRSI eResearch Awards and running demonstrations from our booth.
We hope that you visit the VeRSI booth, collect further information, see ongoing video and live demos, meet our team as well as the researchers that we are supporting, and hear about the exciting VeRSI activities.
A print friendly version of this schedule is also available.
| Monday 29 September | |||
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12.00 - 12.30 |
Lunchtime demo at the VeRSI booth |
Ambulatory Motion Studies:
Rehabilitation Measurement Common Data Interface
Dr Noel Lythgo, Rehabilitation Sciences Research Centre Melbourne University & Austin Hospital |
Noel will demonstrate role management, data ingest, the repository layer for digital/binary files, as well as data analysis via the interface. |
|
1.00 - 1.30 |
Lunchtime demo at the VeRSI booth |
Uro-oncology Informatics Grid
Brian Golat, Centre for Urology Research Monash Institute for Medical Research |
Brian will demonstrate the upload/download of prostate tissue data, and privleged manipulation of data. |
|
4.05 - 5.30 |
Birds of a Feather session |
Raising Awareness and Increasing
Uptake of eResearch
Gaby Bright, VeRSI Dr Lyle Winton, eSRC, Melbourne University |
This BoF aims to explore the
various perceptions and benefits
of eResearch, the drivers for
different `domains' and how best to
communicate eResearch.
There will be a panel with the
following domains represented:
Research Support; IT Directors;
Research Offices; as well as a diverse
range of research disciplines.
All conference participants are encouraged to attend. Notes taken, and presented, during the discussion |
| Tuesday September 30 | |||
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12.00 - 12.30 |
Lunchtime demo at the VeRSI booth |
Neuroimaging
Dr Neil Killeen Centre for Neurosciences, Melbourne University |
Neil will demonstrate data-model driven adaptive Web2.0 and Java based interfaces, accessing a repository of neuroimaging projects. |
|
12.30 - 1.30 |
Lunchtime demo at the VeRSI booth |
Ecoinformatics
Jo McNeil, Research Scientist, Department of Primary Industries |
Jo will demonstrate landscape and data visualisation, and the secure eResource Centre, used by over 60 researchers int the Victorian Climate Change Adaptation project. |
|
2.20 - 2.40 |
Stream 3 presentation |
Community Engagement and Support in the use of e-Infrastructure: the JISC and VeRSI experience
Dr Ann Borda Executive Director, VeRSI |
Ann managed this program of work when she worked for JISC and will be presenting this talk on behalf of her colleagues. She will also be speaking about how VeRSI is learning from this work. |
| Wednesday October 1 | |||
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11.35 - 11.55 |
Stream 2 presentation |
Virtual BeamLine (VBL) eResearch Environment at the Australian Synchrotron
Chris Myers VBL Engineer, VeRSI |
Chris will demonstrate the VBL, focusing on remote interaction and collaboration via Web2.0 portal implementations and HD video conferencing. |
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12.00 - 1.30 |
Lunchtime demo at the VeRSI booth |
VBL Demonstration
Dr Rachel Williamson, Scientific Support Officer, Australian Synchrotron Chris Myers, VBL Engineer, VeRSI |
Rachel will demonstrate the VBL transfer agent, video interaction with scientists at he Australian Synchrotron, and the collection of data from the Protein Crystallography beamline. |
| 3.55 | Closing ceremony |
VeRSI eResearch Awards
Announcement of the winners of the VeRSI eResearch Science, and Humanities, Arts and Social Science Awards |
These awards are presented in association with eResearch Australasia and are sponsored by DELL. |
A full conference programme and further information is available on the conference website.
The activities of VeRSI and some of our collaborators at eResearch Australasia 2007 is detailed here.
At left: VeRSI's Chris Myers presenting the VBL at eResearch Australasia 2007