NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources)

Project Name Dates Description Funding
AustESE: Australian Electronic Scholarly Editing (RT038) 2012 - 2013 eResearch tools to support the collaborative authoring and management of electronic scholarly editions. NeCTAR eResearch Tools
OzTrack (RT025) 2012 - 2013 eResearch Tools for the storage, analysis and visualisation of animal tracking data. NeCTAR eResearch Tools
The Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) Virtual Laboratory 2012 - 2013 HuNI will provide researchers around the world access to the combined resources of Australia's major cultural datasets and information assets allowing cross-dataset analysis and interpretation. UQ is a member of a consortium being led by Deakin University. NeCTAR Virtual Laboratories

Australian Research Data Commons

Project Name Dates Description Funding
ANDS Australian Research Data Commons projects 2010 - 2012 The ITEE e-Research Group is contributing to the Australian Research Data Commons through Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Fast Start, Seeding the Commons, and Data Capture projects. ANDS

Digital Humanities and e-Social-Sciences

Project Name Dates Description Funding
AustESE: Australian Electronic Scholarly Editing (RT038) 2012 - 2013 eResearch tools to support the collaborative authoring and management of electronic scholarly editions. NeCTAR
Architectural Practice in Postwar Queensland (1945-1975): Building and Interpreting an Oral History Archive 2011 - 2013 This project will document the histories of Queensland's postwar architects. It will produce a new digital research resource on Queensland architecture and an exhibition that will explore the role of climate, place, innovation and sustainability in Queensland's postwar architecture. ARC Linkage LP110100237
The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) 2009 - 2012 This is a collaboration between University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Maryland, George Mason University and the University of Qld that aims to develop a common annotation model to support interoperability across clients, servers, disciplines and platforms. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Aus-e-Lit 2008 - 2011 Collaborative integration, compound authoring and annotation services for Australian literary scholars and communities. NCRIS 5.16 NeAT Project
The Twentieth Century in Paint 2008 - 2011 This multidisciplinary project aims to generate an enduring knowledgebase that will inform the preservation of modern art in Australia and throughout the region. ARC Linkage LP0883309
Semantic Annotations for 3D Cultural Heritage Objects 2009 - 2011 This project is developing both manual and rules-based semantic annotation tools for online 3D (webGL) cultural heritage objects, to improve the search, discovery and knowledge of 3D cultural heritage objects. UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure (MEI) grant + Microsoft Research Asia e-Heritage Grant
e-Research Infrastructure for Humanities Scholars: Facilitating Literary and Narrative Studies; Children's and Popular Fictions and Film/TV Studies 2010 Expansion of the AustLit Web Portal to include children's literature, magazines and newspapers and popular fiction and the Australian Film and Television Resource. ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) LE100100079
Infrastructure for a Spatially Integrated Social Science e-Research Facility 2007 - 2008 Infrastructure to enable researchers and graduate students across the university system to investigate demographic, economic and social issues at various levels of spatial scale. ARC LIEF LE0775716
HarvANA 2007 - 2008 Harvesting and Aggregating Networked Annotations DEST SII
EthnoER 2006 - 2007 Ethnographic e-Research ARC Special Research Initiative SR0566965
Indigenous Knowledge Management (IKM) 2001 - 2006 Indigenous Knowledge Management Queensland - Smithsonian Fellowship

Biological and Chemical Sciences

Project Name Dates Description Funding
Skeletome 2010 - 2012 A Curated Online Knowledge Base Integrating Clinical and Biological Information on Skeletal Dysplasias and Related Conditions. ARC Linkage Project LP100100156
PODD 2009 - 2011 Phenomics Ontology Driven Data repository NCRIS 5.16 NeAT Project
BioMANTA 2007 - 2009 Modeling and Analysis of Biological Network Activity Pfizer
e-Science Tools for Protein Crystallography 2007 - 2011 Macrophage proteins: structure, function and e-science ARC Discovery Project DP0770465

Environmental Sciences

Project Name Dates Description Funding
NeCTAR OzTrack 2012 - 2013 eResearch Tools for the storage, analysis and visualisation of animal tracking data. NeCTAR eResearch Tools
Health-e-Waterways 2008 - 2011 Data integration service for smarter collaborative water management. Smart State NIRAP,
Microsoft Research
ARC Linkage LP0882957
Atlas of Living Australia (DIAS-B) 2008 - 2011 Collaborative database integration and annotation services for the biodiversity community. NCRIS 5.16 NeAT Project
EcoPortalQld 2006 - 2007 An e-research environmental case study. ARC Special Research Initiative SR0567393

Materials Science and Nanotechnology

Project Name Dates Description Funding
GRANI 2006 - 2007 Grid-enabled National Archive of Nanostructural Imagery ARC Special Research Initiative SR0567334
FUSION 2003 - 2005 Fuel Cell Understanding through Semantic Inferencing, Ontologies and Nanotechnology University of Queensland Development Grant

General e-Research Projects

Project Name Dates Description Funding
ARCHER 2007 - 2008 Australian Research Enabling Environment DEST SII
Metadata Schema Registry 2006 - 2007 Metadata Schema Registry DEST SII
DART 2006 - 2007 Dataset Acquisition Accessibility & Annotation e-Research Technologies DEST SII
GlobalGrid 2004 - 2007 Integrating Australia into Global e-Science DEST International Science Linkage CG050091
Vannotea 2002 - 2007 Collaborative indexing, annotation and discussion of audiovisual content over broadband networks. Grangenet
PANIC 2003 - 2006 Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia, Interactive Collections and Scientific Data. DEST SII
Virgil 2005 - 2006 Virtual Meeting Archival Grangenet
Harmony 1999 - 2002 Investigation of key issues in describing complex multimedia resources in digital libraries. NSF, JISC, DSTC