Acting Leader: Nick Horspool
Deputy: Matthew Hughes Brendon Bradley
Deputy: -
This Technology Platform fosters the contribution to, and utilisation of, existing community databases, as well as enabling the development of new disciplinary databases, and the extension of regional databases to a nation-wide scale. Research funded via QuakeCoRE will also contain the requirement that data contributed to a relevant community database, or the open-access QuakeCoRE web repository (where a relevant community database is not currently established), be available to the entire QuakeCoRE community as well as national and international end-users, within the constraints of privacy considerations.
Key research thrust areas:
- Facilitate opportunities for linking of research and stakeholder community datasets relevant to earthquake resilience.
- Integration of multi-disciplinary datasets into existing open-source community databases to facilitate transformative research.
- Development or prototyping of database tools for understanding multidisciplinary links between datasets and facilitating database development and usage.
- Collection and/or integration of multi-disciplinary datasets into existing open-source community databases
Overarching Objectives
The key top level objectives of TP3 are:
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‘Focus on transformative datasets’: Data is critical for all aspects of QuakeCoRE research, and is collected and archived by groups of researchers already. Open-source ‘community’ datasets should be datasets that require centralized hosting (and possibly curation) because they are mission-critical to achieving strategic QuakeCoRE goals.
Principles
The underlying principles for TP3 to attain the overarching objectives are:
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Recognise QuakeCoRE’s position in the data ecosystem: Data curation and hosting is extremely expensive, and several research entities that we have interacted with (PEER/SCEC) has said that they have avoided this topic because it is a black hole for resources. We must be extremely careful not to fall into this trap. Staying true to the centralized vs decentralized mantra is one important concept, as well as the idea that in order for QuakeCoRE to continue to innovate we must continually shift resources onto new datasets. In most cases there should be an emphasis on transferring QuakeCoRE community datasets to external third parties that can provide a long-term ‘home’ for them (particularly if curator of the dataset costs more than simply server space).
Personnel
The QuakeCoRE (and aligned) staff for Technology Platform 3 (some of who are also involved in TP4) are:
Sung Bae, IT Architect (0.15 FTE)
Sharmila Savarimuthu, Software Engineer (1.0 FTE)
Key performance indicators:
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| Thrust Areas | Key tasks/Deliverables | Start | Finish | |
TP3.1 Link datasets | 1. Undertake a stocktake of metadata from Canterbury Earthquake Sequence | 1/01/2016 | 1/7/2017 | |
| 2. Develop multi-disciplinary datasets from New Zealand earthquakes |
1/7/2017 | 31/12/2020 | |||
| TP3.2 Multi-disciplinary datasets | 1. Develop a framework for the DIVE Platform | 1/1/2016 | 1/1/2017 | |
2. Assess and contribute to the development of at least 1 additional multi-disciplinary dataset initiative | 1/1/2017 | 31/12/2020 | |
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3 Database tools | 1. Select data platform for use by QuakeCoRE researchers | 1/01/2017 |
1/1/2019 | |
2. Host workshops with QuakeCoRE stakeholders to understand available relevant datasets and opportunities for integrations with research datasets | 1/01/2018 |
31/12/2018 | |
3. Contribute to the development of a national strategy for post-earthquake data management and integration with other data sources (eg: RiskScape) | 1/01/2018 |
31/12/2020 |
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2019 RfP Information
No applications or Expressions of Interest (EOI) are being sought via the RfP. The Technology Platform Leaders are responsible for delivering a long-term coordinated Technology Platform Programme; investigators are encouraged to engage with the Technology Platform Leaders to see where they may contribute to the Technology Platform Programme.
Periodic Updates:
06/10/16
Resilience to earthquake impacts requires understanding of the spatial distribution of critical societal assets such as roads, drinking water and waste water systems, electricity and telecommunications networks, and the flows of materials and goods essential for our daily lives. To better assess societal impacts, we require good information on where people are located, and what are their vulnerabilities.
The aim of this Technology Platform is to harness and expand the spatial datasets available in New Zealand to provide improved understanding of potential earthquake impacts. This includes:
- Making the QuakeCoRE research community aware of the open-source spatial data available for incorporation into their research;
- Partnering with local and regional government and other infrastructure providers to better understand their vulnerabilities and infrastructure interdependencies;
- Acting as a hub through which infrastructure-related research outputs can be disseminated and further incorporated into different research programmes;
- Working with government agencies to incorporate spatio-temporal population data into impacts simulations;
- In partnership with the aligned Technical Programme 4: Computational Simulation and Data Visualisation, using spatial data to depict earthquake impacts on the built environment and communities.
To date, there has been significant progress in using geospatial community datasets in Christchurch, New Zealand, to understand the impacts of the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence. The lessons from this event have highlighted how accurate and up-to-date geospatial data are critical for rapid post-disaster assessment and in planning for future events. To apply these lessons nationally, the Community Datasets Technology Platform will align with other national initiatives on spatial data management and provision, and work with central government agencies and city councils around New Zealand.
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If you are interested in contributing to this platform please consider submitting an EOI to the 2017 RfP, or get in touch with Nick Horspool or Matthew Hughes.