Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

RUN Regional Futures Conference

Economic Futures

Assoc Prof Helen ThompsonCentre for eResearch and Digital Innovation22 June 2016

Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

CeRDI CapabilityThe application of eResearch and development of innovative digital solutions to bridge the gap between academic research and government, industry and community needs

National & FedUni research priorities

Government industry

community needs

CeRDI

Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

eResearch & digital innovationResearch Domains:• Groundwater• Soil• Agriculture• NRM• Climate change• Urban planning• Health• History• Sports• Social science• Arts• Etc., etc.

Technology & services:• Content management• Web portals• Knowledge management• Single source publishing• Web GIS• Data interoperability• Visualisation• Web services• Training• Servers, hubs• Survey instruments• Etc., etc.

Research outputs:• Real world applications• Community

empowerment• Capacity building

• Government • Community• Industry• Research

• Research papers• HDR completions• Impact assessment• Global collaborations• Sector development• Research-ready data

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Economic Futures

Presentations in this stream will explore

• Regional prosperity• Entrepreneurship• Industry development

www.vvg.org.au

Broadband Innovation Grant 2011 - 2013 Federates all Victorian groundwater data 5 bore databases, spatial layers, EPA data Answer FAQs - Predictions on the fly User selected 3D visualisations Allows data exports Decision support tool for practitioners Research-ready data sets Winner 2013 Victorian iAward and National iAward Merit recipient

Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth

Corangamite Catchment Management Authority funded Online portal that combines eLibrary of grey literature with web-GIS Over 3000 documents and 120 layers in the system (legacy data capture) Allows crowd-sourced soil test data (e.g. farm soil tests) Strongly supported by government, industry and community Allows data exports, screen capture as pdf, saved workspace links Decision support tool for farmers, agronomists, catchment managers, Landcare Research-ready data sets of soil and related information Awarded Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award for Environmental Sustainability

Climate Adaption – South West Climate Change Portal

CeRDI capability: example projects

Online Farm Trials – www.farmtrials.com.au

GRDC funded – currently 3,000+ trials, 29 custodians, over 20+ years across

911 trial sites across Southern, Northern, Western regions of Australia Major crop types – Barley 400, Canola 350, Chickpeas 100, Lentils 60, etc Averaging 200 unique visitors a day Documentary film about OFT www.farmtrials.com.au/documentary Spatial filtering and selective keyword filtering Brings in climate data and soils data on-the-fly Allows data exports, API Decision support tool for agronomists & growers Research-ready data sets of all grain trials

www.farmtrials.com.au/documentary

Economic Futures

Working together to build strong regional futures