Research Projects
The concepts of e-science and e-research have emerged from the growing use of information technologies, high-speed networks and online instruments within the research community. E-science is characterised by large-scale, distributed scientific collaborations enabled by the Internet and related technologies. E-research is the more general term, which covers e-science as well as non-scientific research, such as in the humanities and social sciences.
A feature of both e-science and e-research is their use of distributed computing resources to provide access to very large data collections, unique scientific facilities, very-large-scale computing resources and high-performance analysis, modelling and visualisation to scientists. Another important aspect of this research is the high value placed on collaboration and sharing of knowledge between researchers and across disciplines.
Current projects focus on data management, analysis, integration and visualization services for the humanities and social sciences, environmental, biological, medical, biodiversity and hydrological domains. Specific areas of interest are: the application of semantic web technologies to multi-disciplinary data integration; semantic tagging and annotation services; digital data curation and preservation.
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Open Annotation CollaborationThis collaboration between University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Maryland, George Mason University and the University of Queensland aims to develop a common annotation model to support interoperability across clients, servers, disciplines and platforms. |
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Health-e-WaterwaysThis project is a collaboration between the University of Queensland, the SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership and Microsoft Research. The team is developing a new waterways information management system that provides a significant advance on current information technology and accessibility. |
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