Journal article

The Australia urban research gateway

RO Sinnott, C Bayliss, A Bromage, G Galang, G Grazioli, P Greenwood, A Macaulay, L Morandini, G Nogoorani, M Nino-Ruiz, M Tomko, C Pettit, M Sarwar, R Stimson, W Voorsluys, I Widjaja

Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience | WILEY | Published : 2015

Abstract

Summary The 20m Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project (www.aurin.org.au) began in July 2010. AURIN has been tasked with developing a secure, Web-based virtual environment (e-Infrastructure) offering seamless, secure access to diverse, distributed and extremely heterogeneous data sets from numerous agencies with an extensive portfolio of targeted analytical and visualization tools. This is being provisioned for Australia-wide urban and built environment researchers - itself a highly heterogeneous collection of research communities with diverse demands, through a unified urban research gateway. This paper describes these demands and how the e-Infrastructure and gatew..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the AURIN Technical Committee and Expert Groups that are directly shaping these efforts. The AURIN project is funded through the Australian Education Investment Fund Super Science initiative. We gratefully acknowledge their support.