“VicNode” & how it’s helping the University of Melbourne

by Neil Killeen 

The national Research Data Storage Infrastructure project (RDSI) contributed substantial storage infrastructure and middleware capability at nodes all around Australia.  In Victoria, the RDSI presence manifests as VicNode, a joint venture between University of Melbourne and Monash University.  

Building on RDSI, is the RDS (Research Data Services) project.  RDS will improve already existing RDSI and other existing research computing infrastructure (networks, virtual infrastructure and high performance facilities) by helping to build, implement and maintain tools, services and capabilities.  RDS is also operating on a national scale, with infrastructure nodes all around Australia participating in the program.  RDS is currently investing in data services in a number of key areas: Climate and Weather Science, Life Sciences (Genomics), Medical and Health, Image Publication, Astronomy, Culture and Community, Terrestrial Systems, Marine Science and Geoscience.

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VicNode is directly involved in the characterisation imaging, life sciences (mainly genomics), medical and health, and culture and community projects.  

In the Image Publication project lead by VicNode, nodes will deliver imaging services that widely support their imaging communities and systems (e.g. MR, PET, CT scanners, microscopy systems) so that more users/facilities are able to manage, distribute and process data more effectively.  

In the Life Sciences (Genomics) project lead by QCIF, work is focussing on delivering better integration between data sources (instruments and existing genomics collections) and tools analysis platforms.

In the Medical and Health project lead by Intersect, effort is being directed to provide better storage, collections, access, governance and discoverability for data across human genomics, imaging, personalized medicine, population health, bio-informatics and health informatics (leveraging, where appropriate, the imaging and life sciences projects).

In the Culture and Community project lead by eRSA, the main objectives are to create a specialised service for humanities and social science researchers by supporting usage of technical infrastructure, creating a meta-data portal (the National culture and Community Research Data store) and providing expertise that meet all ethics and discipline specific policies, procedures and practices.

For more information, contact VicNode via http://vicnode.org.au/contact or the other nodes as appropriate. Contact information for other nodes can be found at https://www.rdsi.edu.au/node-contact-directory

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