Building on (the) Atlas: Bringing data together to answer new questions

Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology

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Australian National Data Service An initiative of the Australian Government being

conducted as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy ($A24M) and the Super Science Initiative ($A48M) through DIICCSRTE

A collaboration between Monash University, the Australian National University and CSIRO

30 staff, funded to mid 2015 More researchers re-using more data more often Data as a first-class object

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ANDS enables transformation of:Data that are:

UnmanagedDisconnectedInvisibleSingle use

To Structured Collections that are:ManagedConnectedFindableReusable

so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-use research data.

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ANDS Applications Program Produce compelling demonstrations of the value of

having data available for re-use that will result in data being transformed or integrated across

multiple sources to produce new forms of information that enable innovative, high-quality research outcomes

deliver value to a high-profile research champion be relevant to a range of government portfolios engage with national research capabilities

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Two ALA-related case studies Soils to Satellites Edgar

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Soils to SatellitesIntegration of disparate dataTREND & Ausplots ecological data (ÆKOS, CSIRO NSA)• Plot-based plant community data• Soil characterisation data - structure, pH ,nutrients, carbon etc

Atlas of Living Australia (spatially represented data) • Species occurrence and distribution data• Environmental characteristics

TERN AusCover (biophysical remote sensing data)• multi-spectral characteristics of site.

TREND genomics data (BPA, SARDI, BGI, BOLD)• Opaque “blobs” of genomics data including barcode sequences, Soil Metagenomics data , isotope data

Edgar – tropicaldatahub.org/goto/edgar Shows locations where a bird species has been

observed Uses this information to calculate and display how

well the climate across Australia suits that species Shows an animation of how the suitable climate

for a species may change into the future Allows registered users to improve its accuracy by

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Edgar and ALA Biocache Edgar relies on ALA data and back-end services developed

by ALA under this project as Biocache extensions Biocache designed to

aggregate occurrence data from multiple sources provide data quality checks and cleaning of the data support assertions by the data made by software or people provide webservice access to this data to facilitate re-use in other

portals. More at ap30-ala.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/final-product-post.html

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Building on Atlas

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What made these projects possible? Open access to the data Licensing that allows re-use Co-location of data and tools Web services over the data Pre-computation where appropriate

ALA as a unique national resource

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Thanks Soils to Satellites

Peter Doherty (PM) Prof. Andy Lowe, Adelaide project team

Edgar Marianne Brown (PM) A/Prof Jeremy Vanderwal, JCUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

szl61Eerfpo Prof Stephen Garnett, CDUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

g8z2yFDYwHI project team

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Questions? @atreloar

https://www.slideshare.net/atreloar/building-on-the-atlas-of-living-australia/

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