Arcitecta takes a proactive role in the research community and has a history of collaborating with the community. Current collaborations are listed here.
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University of TasmaniaArcitecta is collaborating with the University of Tasmania, under the auspices of the National eResearch Architecture Taskforce through ARCS and ANDS, to instantiate a Marine and Climate Data Discovery and Access Project (MACDDAP) Translation Service. The project objective is to support providers of marine and climate datasets by creating services to more easily manage, translate and control digital repositories of marine and climate data for the benefit of Australian researchers. There are valuable datasets, produced over decades, in different formats and described using various metadata schemes. The process of conforming millions of metadata records from the underlying datasets to required standards is extremely costly if undertaken manually. The MACDDAP project will support the creation of a workflow that will allow the translation of pre-existing data catalogues, for example THREDDS, into standards relevant to the community requirements for search and discovery, such as NetCDF-CF. The project will provide a framework and community-accessible web-based environment to simplify and automate the translation. The project is funded by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research from 1 July 2007 to 31 December 2011. |
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University of Melbourne and Monash UniversityArcitecta is collaborating with the Centre for Neuroscience and the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne and the e-Research Centre at Monash University in an ARC funded Linkage Project. This collaboration aims to increase scientific productivity in research by developing an e-Research system that integrates data management with workflows (experimental and processing) in a distributed environment. The system will initially target neuroimaging research data and workflows, although it will be more generally applicable to other research domains. Additionally, ontology-driven semantic approaches to intelligently integrating and querying distributed datasets will be explored. The collaboration will build on the Project, Subject, Study, Dataset (PSSD) data model deployed at the Florey Neurosciences Institutes. The PSSD data model and associated reflective interfaces were designed for subject-centric research which means that they can be deployed to any appropriate subject-centric domain by specialist specification of the appropriate metadata and workflows. Likewise, Nimrod/K and Kepler support general scientific workflows and have been applied widely. The project received funding of $360,000 over 3 years from the Australian Government Australian Research Council (ARC) under the Linkage Projects program and commenced in 2011. |
