University of Sydney Brain and Mind Research Institute

The Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney utilises Mediaflux and the Distributed and Reflective Informatics System (DaRIS). DaRIS was originally deployed by the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne and is now at a number of Australian universities under the auspices of the National Imaging Facility.

Australian Government Department of Defence

The Department of Defence utilises Mediaflux to ingest, transform, locate and distribute geospatial imagery.

Australian Registry of Wildlife Health

The Australian Registry of Wildlife Health was founded at Taronga Zoo in 1985 and focuses on detecting and diagnosing endemic, emerging and exotic diseases of wildlife that could have impacts on Australia's trade, economy, biodiversity, tourism and human health. The registry is regularly used by private, government and university based veterinarians, researchers and biologists. The registry database utilises Mediaflux.

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)

KNMI is the national institute for weather, climate research and seismology. It disseminates weather information to the public at large, the government, aviation and the shipping industry in the interest of safety, the economy and a sustainable environment. To gain insight into long-term developments, KNMI conducts research on climate change.

KNMI is a long term user of SGI DMF, using it to manage large oceanographic and meteorological datasets. KNMI has adopted Mediaflux to add a metadata management capability for the organisation to facilitate the location and management of data.

Institute of Cancer Research

The ICR is Europe's leading cancer research centre and is ranked as the UK's top academic research centre, based on the results of the Higher Education Funding Council's Research Assessment Exercise. The ICR works closely with partner The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to ensure patients immediately benefit from new research. Together the two organisations form the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe. Over its 100-year history, the ICR's achievements include identifying the potential link between smoking and lung cancer which was subsequently confirmed, discovering that DNA damage is the basic cause of cancer and isolating more cancer-related genes than any other organisation in the world.

ICR has adopted Mediaflux to improve the management of its extensive genome sequence data repository.

National University of Singapore Centre for BioImaging Sciences

The National University of Singapore's Centre for BioImaging Sciences is developing state-of-the-art imaging and computational approaches to important problems in biology. The centre includes a number of optical microscopes, each of which is capable of generating 250,000 files in a single experiment. Data sets are large, ranging from 10 GB - 1 TB and need to be stored and analysed, so having a system which optimises compute, memory, I/O BW and storage that delivers both capacity and performance is important.

The Centre has adopted Mediaflux to ingest and organise the millions of files, convert them from the proprietary formats of microscope manufacturers to standard OME-TIFF format, and automatically extract metadata that can be used to support subsequent searches and to drive routing the right data to the right location for processing and transformation.

University of Western Sydney

The University of Western Sydney utilises Mediaflux and the Distributed and Reflective Informatics System (DaRIS). DaRIS was originally deployed by the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne and is now at a number of Australian universities under the auspices of the National Imaging Facility.

Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics

The Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics (QCMG) is a member of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, sequencing the genetic codes of 25,000 tumours from 50 different types of cancer over 5 years. Managing the volume of data and consequent workflow is a major practical challenge, and QCMG has adopted Mediaflux to mange the ingestion of 5TB of summarised data per week, its cataloguing, transformation and distribution. QCMG is part of the Institute of Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland.

Monash Biomedical Imaging

Monash Biomedical Imaging at Monash University utilises Mediaflux and the Distributed and Reflective Informatics System (DaRIS). DaRIS was originally deployed by the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne and is now at a number of Australian universities under the auspices of the National Imaging Facility.

University of Melbourne and Florey Neuroscience Institutes

The Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne and the Florey Neuroscience Institutes have utilised Mediaflux since 2006 to manage a repository of MR imagery and related metadata. The imagery is ingested in DICOM format and translated to NIFTI and Analyse formats for processing. Metadata are organised according to a Project, Subject, Study, Dataset (PSSD) model and capture research workflows and experimental methods. A domain specialist defines the required metadata (including experimental workflows), and role based permissions to control access to data.

The system is now known as the Distributed and Reflective Informatics System (DaRIS) and operates in a distributed topology with additional nodes, established under the auspices of the National Imaging Facility, at the University of Queensland Centre for Advanced Imaging, Monash University, the University of Western Sydney, and the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney.

Weta Digital

Weta Digital is a world leading visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand. Weta Digital provided digital effects for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, and Avatar. Weta Digital has developed an application based on Mediaflux to manage their element library.

MIMOS

MIMOS operates under the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Government of Malaysia. MIMOS is responsible for pioneering innovative information and communication technologies to grow globally competitive indigenous industries. The MIMOS-SGI Centre of Excellence in Digital Asset Management uses Mediaflux to inform and manage the explosive data growth in the digital world of multimedia.

Diamantina Institute

The Diamantina Institute at the University of Queensland utilises Mediaflux to manage its repository of data for the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research for 200 researchers.

Monash University

The Monash e-Research Centre offers collaboration services, high performance computing, data storage management and visualisation services. It empowers Monash researchers with customised ICT solutions, on-going support and platforms throughout a research project, enabling more creative research. Mediaflux offers an integrated web based data management application for flexible data ingestion and access for the research community.

National Imaging Facility

The National Imaging Facility provides state-of-the-art imaging of animals, plants and materials for the Australian research community. Mediaflux and the Distributed and Reflective Informatics System (DaRIS), originally deployed by the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, are now deployed in a distributed network at the Centre for Advanced Imaging at the University of Queensland, Monash University, the University of Western Sydney and the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney.

Queensland University of Technology

The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) provides a career-oriented education that helps graduates find employment in their chosen career, in an environment that uses the latest technology to make learning stimulating and enjoyable. The QUT Research Data Repository is built on Mediaflux. A recent project has enabled the upload of metadata describing QUT research datasets to the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Collections registry. The Research Data Repository uses a local schema with more granular metadata that is mapped to Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS) Schema and fed to ANDS.

Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing

The Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC) has established a library of oceanographic and climate data that brings together the resources and data held by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, the Australian Government Antarctic Division, the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research, and the University of Tasmania and provide access to the marine and climate scientific communities. Based on Mediaflux, translation services have been implemented to conform THREDDS catalogs to NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention, providing significant cost saving for anyone to translate these types of data.

University of Sydney

The Australian Stuttering Research Centre at the University of Sydney was established in 1996 and conducts research into the nature of stuttering. It conducts clinical trials of stuttering treatments for adults and children and trains future researchers in the field. Mediaflux is used to ingest, manage and annotate the core audio material that is a crucial ingredient into the Centre's research.

openEHR

openEHR is an international not-for-profit foundation, working towards making the interoperable, life-long electronic health record a reality and improving health care in the information society. openEHR has developed open specifications and knowledge resources and has established the Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) web portal for those who wish to participate at any level in the authoring of clinical archetypes. This will formalise the authoring, review and release process and provide an environment where interested clinicians can learn, participate and contribute to the collective effort. The web portal is build on the Mediaflux platform.

Australian Biosecurity Intelligence Network

Australian Biosecurity Intelligence Network (ABIN) aims to dramatically improve the ability of the biosecurity community of researchers, industry and governments to work together to address common problems or emerging biosecurity issues through real time access to data, information and know-how, and use of leading edge tools and technologies to generate biosecurity intelligence. WildHealth offers a platform open to biosecurity professionals, universities, scientists, researchers, environment departments, veterinarians, zoos and aquaria. Specific disease outbreaks can be tracked and documented by linking the database to generic maps to consider factors such as vegetation, topography, human use of land, and transport corridors. The Wildhealth application was built for ABIN by Arcitecta using Mediaflux as a platform.

Taronga Zoo

The Taronga Zoo has partnerships with the Australian Wildlife Health Network, the Australian Marine Mammal Research Centre, and the Taronga Training Institute and places an emphasis on scientific research, conservation and education to create direct and positive connections between wildlife and people, protect endangered species, increase understanding of wildlife and inspire community action. The Taronga Zoo utilises Mediaflux Diagnostic Imaging Network System (DINS) to enable the distributed, collaborative analysis of image data. Scanned images are are published to a secure web site where authorised individuals can view them and participate in a chat session to discuss the content.