Cost and Benefit Analysis of Mediated Enterprise Search

Dr. Ross Wilkinson

Executive director of the Australian National Data Service

Date and time: 11.30am - 12.30pm, Friday 3rd July, 2009

Venue: 10.08.04 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 4)

Abstract:

The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) has been established to ensure that Australian research data is well managed, made available for access, and discoverable so that:

§         Researchers can find and access any relevant data in the Australian research data commons.

§         Australian researchers are able to discover, exchange, reuse and combine data from other researchers and other domains within their own research in new ways.

§         Australia is able to share data easily and seamlessly to support international and nationally distributed multidisciplinary research teams.

This talk will describe why it might be important for research data to be re-used, and how ANDS is helping.

About the speaker:

Dr. Ross Wilkinson is the executive director of the Australian National Data Service, dedicated to ensuring more researchers re-use data more often. His research career commenced with his Ph. D. in mathematics at Monash University before researching in computer science at La Trobe University, R.M.I.T. and at CSIRO. Some of his areas of research have been document retrieval effectiveness, structured documents retrieval, and most recently on technologies that support people to interact with their information environments. He has published over 90 research papers, has served on many program committees and was a program co-chair for both SIGIR'96 and SIGIR'98.

 

He is now leading the Australian National Data Service creating tools, information, frameworks and the skills to enable Australia's researchers to more effectively use and re-use research data, wherever it comes from.

Seminar Organisation

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