TERN Eco-informatics – Overview for DCRG

Craig Walker Eco-informatics Facility Director

Meeting Objectives Revisit what Eco-informatics is doing and why Equip Data Custodians with knowledge of ÆKOS Demonstrate the (pre) Production Portal Provide information on the SHaRED tool for Researcher Data

Submission (NeCTAR) Provide information on the Soils-to-Satellites web

application (ANDS) Facilitate your input/feedback Identify potential/enhanced collaborations

TERN Community

Data Cyberinfrastructure

Physical Environment

Ecological Plot Data

Biodiversity & Physical Environment

Data Analysis & Synthesis

ACEAS – Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis & SynthesisAusPlots-F – AusPlots ForestsAusPlots-R – RangelandsCoasts – Australian Coastal EcosystemseMAST – Ecological Modelling & ScalingLTERN – Long TERM Ecosystem Research NetworkMSPN – Multi Scale Plot NetwoorkSoils – Soil and Landscape Grid of AustraliaSuperSites –Australian SuperSites Network

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TERN Central Office

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Eco-informatics Goals RevisitedBringing ecological data together for informed re-use Priorities for NCRIS:

Negotiate sharing and access for key national ecological databases (States and Commonwealth)

Consolidate ecological datasets from across Australia Develop a national framework for describing and publishing

ecological information (“standards”) Encourage researcher uploading of data (SHaRED) Build a “One-Stop-Shop” portal for ecological data

These Goals are being addressed through the Australian Ecological Knowledge and Observation System – ÆKOS

Eco-informatics Goals cont.Supplementary funding for projects:

Fully ingest, integrate and deliver TERN Ausplots data (EIF) Support mobile field capture platforms and data (EIF) Support the TERN Data Discovery Portal (EIF) Incorporate MSPN datasets in ÆKOS (EIF) Build SHaRED tool for Researcher Data Submission (NeCTAR) Build Soils-to-Satellites web application (ANDS) Extension of ontology, vocabularies (CRIS) Bug fixes, incorporate feedback, support & maintenance (CRIS)

ÆKOS Roadmap

•Alpha Portal

•Datasets ingested for SA, WA, QLD•Data licenses signed for SA, QLD

•Beta Portal •Further data ingested•Additional licenses•Ausplots

•ÆKOS Portal Release 1.0 complete•Open-source code & documentation•Contingency arrangements

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•Start SHaRED•Start Soils-2-Satellites•Start MSPN data ingestion•Start Data Transfer Tool

•Complete SHaRED•Complete Soils-2-Satellites•Start CRIS funding for AEKOS

•Complete MSPN data ingestion

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Environmental Information Landscape for Australia

Collaborations

The ÆKOS system

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Govt Ecological SurveysFauna

ÆKOS Data Repository

TERN MSPN Data Agency Datasets

Web Services Data Portal

SHaRED Tool

RIF-CSANDS, TDDP

End-user Community

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Licensing Framework

Soils-to-Satellites

ALA

• Data sourced from Govt environmental databases – observations + context• TERN-By or CC-By licences• Storage is via a no-SQL flexible

“Graph Store”• Information framework using

an ontological model and controlled vocabularies• Deliver via a Data Portal – at

present Beta 1.2• Services publish to ALA for S2S• QA/QC through DSL Model

(next slide)• RIF-CS feed to TDDP and ANDS• Once SHaRED is online then

more datasets so potential for feeds to DataONE etc

The Future Potential Extension of thematic coverage to include vertebrate and

invertebrate fauna, fire monitoring, aquatic ecosystems More data ingested to strengthen the focal point of the portal,

given that ÆKOS is generic and supports all ecological data Improvements to visualisation and analysis based on feedback

from the ecological community ÆKOS is a suitable repository for the vast volumes of hardcopy

material including an effective means of dealing with “filing cabinet leftovers” from existing databases

National method catalogue for ecological data collection Strong partnerships developed with custodians can be

extended to support capacity building within Agencies, and can optimise legacy and future investments

Standing items for DCRG agenda

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1. Data sensitivities and utilisation of ALA services by Eco-informatics and vice versa.

2. Taxonomic handling – multiple State taxonomies

3. Data governance model for annotations/Permanent Identifier for Data