e-Research examples
While e-Research is relatively new as a structured concept, exploitation of Information Communications Technology (ICT) now underpins all research disciplines, including the social sciences and humanities. For example:
- A small team of researchers located in various parts of Australia use electronic data stored in one or more of those locations in their computational analysis or simulations and towards the preparation of a joint publication. This data is made easily accessible electronically to other researchers and the public by posting it on a public repository. See Towards the Australian Data Commons: A proposal for an Australian National Data Service (PDF file, 2.6mb).
- The High-Speed Digital Information Transfer Pilot uses high speed networks to transfer high quality digital video files of examples of top athletes performance, accompanied by analysis and commentaries by other top athletes. This information is distributed to coaches and athletes around Australia, to improve performance.
- The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources (PARADISEC) project, a collaborative project between three universities, is actively digitising analogue recordings of languages and music of thousands of endangered languages in the Asia-Pacific area. It pays special attention to the issues around differing access rights of users, depending on where they are in the social structure.
- Scientific instruments such as telescopes and microscopes are manipulated over the internet and data captured (ie telepresence work).
For more information on Australian Government investment and international trends see An e-Research Strategic Framework Discussion Paper 2005 (PDF file, 156kb)
See also Media releases