[CAnet - news] $20 MILLION BOOST FOR AUSTRALIA'S RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

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[Thanks to David Ackerman for this pointer.  The use of SOA will have a
major impact on science publishing and research as seen by these
developments in the UK and Australia -- BSA]

http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/?p=181

An interesting thread is developing on Peter Suber's Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html about integrating online
articles with their underlying data. The first posting describes an article
(Esther Rousay et al, "Grid-based dynamic electronic publication: A case
study using combined experiment and simulation studies of crown ethers at
the air/water interface", Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society,
August 15, 2005) (open access version http://epaper.combe.chem.soton.ac.uk/)
that discusses online publication of research results accompanied by "all
the figures and data presented in the paper are linked back to the original
raw data together with a description of the processes by which the raw data
was analysed," including the "laboratory notebook." The second posting in
the thread mentions Gary Wills et al's "The Dynamic Review Journal: a
scholarly archive" in New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 11, 1 (2005)
pp. 69-89, which "describes an extended digital library environment that we
have developed for orthopaedic surgeons which assists in collating and
analysing patient data, organising internal project discussions, and
producing articles." 'http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11154/




$20 MILLION BOOST FOR AUSTRALIA'S RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

22 August 2005 MIN 1173/05

Australia's research information infrastructure will be enhanced with
today's announcement that the Australian Government will invest a further
$19.4 million to fund nine projects under the Systemic Infrastructure
Initiative (SII).

These projects will allow Australian researchers to tap into new resources
and to better share their results with the wider research community.
Multi-disciplinary projects will help researchers provide answers to many of
the emerging challenges in the environmental, health and security fields.

The research community is to be commended for continuing to work
collaboratively to build more secure research repositories and to establish
robust, appropriate access regimes to protect intellectual property while
maximising Australia's research output.

One project, Blue Net: The Australian Marine Science Data Network, managed
by the University of Tasmania, will link vast data repositories and marine
resources that currently reside in academic institutions as well as both
Australian and overseas government organisations.

Another project, Molecular Medicine Informatics Model: A
Multi-Institutional, Multi-disciplinary Research and Training Platform for
Clinical Research, managed by the University of Melbourne, will link and
provide access to a range of important types of data and innovative research
tools in medical informatics and bioinformatics.

Other projects, such as the Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility and
Annotation e-Research Technology Project, will improve access and linkage
through addressing the complex legal and technical issues inherent in the
management and exchange of research data.

These projects are part of a suite of strategic infrastructure investments
under the Australian Government's $8.3 billion Backing Australia's Ability
initiative that also includes the $542 million National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Initiative.


Further information about the new projects is at:
http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_reviews/key_i
ssues/
australian_research_information_infrastructure_committee/default.htm


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