Summer of eResearch 2012/2013 Final Presentations
Victoria University of Wellington is hosting the Final Presentations of Summer for eResearch 2012/2013. Each of the students will talk about their work. The day will involve students, mentors and New...
View ArticleThe non-Google public domain dataset
For the past few weeks I've been working with the HathiTrust's 300,000 document non-Google digitized public domain collection. It's easy enough to get your hands on the dataset; it is, after all,...
View ArticleBig Process for Big Data - Ian Foster
Ian Foster, distinguished scientist from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, will be in New Zealand to provide the opening keynote to in Multicore World 2013. As part of his...
View ArticleGeospatial web-enablement for environmental data in New Zealand
This blog post can be seen as a sequel to a former blog post on the introduction on geospatial data sharing and spatial data infrastructures (SDI), where I explained the basics of OGC standards and web...
View ArticleBioinformatics highlights at eResearch NZ 2013
Are you part of New Zealand's growing bioinformatics community? The field has a strong showing at this year's eResearch NZ 2013 conference.Here are some items from the programme that are especially...
View ArticleInnovation and science highlights at eResearch NZ 2013
Are you interested in the state of New Zealand’s eResearch platforms supporting innovation, or the management of eresearch in New Zealand? eResearch NZ 2013 has lots to offer people who are looking at...
View ArticlePromoting open and reproducible research at eResearch NZ 2013
Open access and open science/research are highly topical conversations, with increasing computational intensity of research leading to calls for open access to source code and data, in order to...
View ArticleDigital humanities and other GLAM content at eResearch NZ 2013
It’s not just hard sciences that get to have all the eResearch fun. The digital humanities and the wider GLAM sector is well represented at eResearch NZ 2013.One of the keynotes, J Stephen Downie, will...
View ArticleKeynotes and plenary sessions at eResearch NZ 2013
KeynotesWe are pleased to confirm the following keynote speakers at eResearch NZ 2013:J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJ. Stephen Downie is Associate Dean for Research and a...
View ArticleeResearch Australasia 2013
From the website:eResearch Australasia brings together practitioners and researchers for a stimulating week to share ideas and exemplars on new information centric research capabilities. eResearch is...
View ArticlePraise from the digital humanities community for eResearch NZ 2013
The eResearch NZ 2013 has been a fantastic success. It's very encouraging to begin to see some public endorsement come through. Penny Carnaby, Head Librarian at Lincoln University, has had this to...
View ArticleSummary of MBIE Sector Report: Information and Communications Technology
While not directly related to resarch, MBIE has delivered a significant report into New Zealand's ICT sector. I have had a read of the report from the perspective of someone in the research sector and...
View ArticleXSEDE 2013
XSEDE 2013 is the National Science Foundation's national conference for supercomputing, data mangement and computational science:XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is a...
View ArticleAnalytics for a Changing World: From Data to Decisions
The New Zealand Statistical Association and the Operations Research Society of New Zealand are holding a joint conference which will cover both of their respective areas. Some of the abstracts which...
View ArticleeResearch NZ 2014
eResearch NZ 2014 is this year's continuation of the New Zealand eResearch conference series. It is a sister event of eResearch Australasia and eResearch Africa.As a national forum for discussion, it...
View ArticleeResearch NZ 2015
Exciting changes for the eResearch NZ 2015 conference – we’re making a permanent move to summer in the alpine resort of Queenstown, shifting dates to March 23 – 25, 2015.Come to Queenstown, New Zealand...
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