Research Project
Full description The objective of the project is to demonstrate the value in better connecting eResearch infrastructure by bringing ecosystem science data streams closer to the tools in a common environment for further analysis tasks, and by supporting data publishing of the results. The project will showcase all these functionalities by implementing specific use cases, which are relevant to ecosystem science. This will promote data access in an open-standard format and domain standard encoding, use and reuse of existing analysis tools and techniques, and chain different processes and techniques to create complex analysis without leaving the environment to run different processes using various tools and scripts. Specifically, this project aims to connect existing infrastructure from ANDS, NeCTAR, RDSI, data from TERN and ALA to develop a CoESRA (Collaborative environment for Ecosystem Science Research and Analysis) virtual experimental environment. The CoESRA will use a scientific workflow engine and environment to make use of existing analysis tools from NeCTAR virtual labs to orchestrate and execute data and compute intensive applications on a NeCTAR cloud infrastructure. The CoESRA virtual experimental environment will be provided as a "Desktop as a service" from NeCTAR research cloud infrastructure.