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eResearch NZ 2013

02/07/2013
04/07/2013

eResearch NZ aims to connect researchers and eScience practitioners. It is New Zealand's event to celebrate and strengthen the use of technology within research of all disciplines.

Programme

2013 Programme is now online!

Registration

Registration is now open! Early bird registration has now closed. Standard pricing now applies.

Dates

2-4 July 2013

Keynotes and plenary sessions at eResearch NZ 2013

Keynotes:

J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J. Stephen Downie is Associate Dean for Research and a Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Downie is the Illinois Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). He is also Director of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) and founder and ongoing director of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). He was the Principal Investigator on the Networked Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA) project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is Co-Principal Investigator on the Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI) project, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). He has been very active in the establishment of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) community through his ongoing work with the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conferences. He was ISMIR's founding President and now serves on the ISMIR board. Professor Downie holds a BA (Music Theory and Composition) along with a Master's and a PhD in Library and Information Science, all earned at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

Bill Howe, University of Washington

Bill Howe is the Director of Research for Scalable Data Analytics at the UW eScience Institute and holds an Affiliate Assistant Professor appointment in Computer Science & Engineering, where he studies data management, analytics, and visualization systems for science applications. Howe has received two Jim Gray Seed Grant awards from Microsoft Research for work on managing environmental data, and has had two papers selected to appear in VLDB Journal's "Best of Conference" issue (2004 and 2010) for work in data-intensive computing for science. Howe serves on the program and organizing committees for a number of conferences in the area of scientific data management, and serves on the Science Advisory Board of the SciDB project, a project to build a new database system expressly for science. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Portland State University, where he studied under Prof. David Maier, and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Digital humanities and other GLAM content at eResearch NZ 2013

It’s not just hard sciences that get to have all the eResearch fun. The digital humanities and the wider GLAM sector is well represented at eResearch NZ 2013.

Submitted by Nick Jones on Fri, 07/06/2013 - 5:35pm

Promoting open and reproducible research at eResearch NZ 2013

Open access and open science/research are highly topical conversations, with increasing computational intensity of research leading to calls for open access to source code and data, in order to reproduce research outputs. Both of these topics will be touched upon at eResearch NZ 2013:

Submitted by Nick Jones on Fri, 07/06/2013 - 5:07pm

Innovation and science highlights at eResearch NZ 2013

Are you interested in the state of New Zealand’s eResearch platforms supporting innovation, or the management of eresearch in New Zealand? eResearch NZ 2013 has lots to offer people who are looking at eresearch in a broader context.

Submitted by Nick Jones on Fri, 07/06/2013 - 4:21pm

Bioinformatics highlights at eResearch NZ 2013

Are you part of New Zealand's growing bioinformatics community? The field has a strong showing at this year's eResearch NZ 2013 conference.

Here are some items from the programme that are especially relevant:

Submitted by Nick Jones on Fri, 07/06/2013 - 10:37am

Geospatial web-enablement for environmental data in New Zealand

This blog post can be seen as a sequel to a former blog post on the introduction on geospatial data sharing and spatial data infrastructures (SDI), where I explained the basics of OGC standards and web services. Quite some research organisations and governmental agencies already employ OGC standards to make data available online, often even free of charge for the public.

Submitted by AlexKmoch on Tue, 16/04/2013 - 6:05pm

Big Process for Big Data - Ian Foster

20/02/2013 11:59
20/02/2013 13:00

Ian Foster, distinguished scientist from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, will be in New Zealand to provide the opening keynote to in Multicore World 2013. As part of his visit, he has offered to present on the challenges of data management for the research sector. Remote participation is welcome.

The non-Google public domain dataset

For the past few weeks I've been working with the HathiTrust's 300,000 document non-Google digitized public domain collection. It's easy enough to get your hands on the dataset; it is, after all, public domain and as such has no access restrictions--all it takes is a quick email to HathiTrust. They prefer to distribute the collection via rsync, and once your IP address is authorized on their server you're good to go.

Submitted by robertmarchman on Sat, 16/02/2013 - 4:39pm

Summer of eResearch 2012/2013 Final Presentations

21/02/2013 10:00
21/02/2013 16:30

Victoria University of Wellington is hosting the Final Presentations of Summer for eResearch 2012/2013. Each of the students will talk about their work. The day will involve students, mentors and New Zealand's eresearch leaders discussing each of the projects' science goals, outcomes and wider implications.