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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hope you are all well and enjoying Summer. I wanted to bring this AURIN workshop at OSGIS 2014 <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx</a> to your attention and invite those interested to attend as it will be of interest for building collaborations for Smart Cities theme. Details below<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>AURIN Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) <a href="http://aurin.org.au/">http://aurin.org.au/</a> is a $20 Million initiative funded by the Australian Government ’s Super Science scheme. AURIN’s e-infrastructure facilitates access to federated datasets and distributed services to help urban researchers, designers, planners and community stakeholders understand patterns of urban phenomena and help navigate urban growth toward a sustainable future. AURIN has established the first ICA-OSGeo Lab in Australia at the University of Melbourne.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> AURIN is a national Australian initiative designed to connect urban researchers, policy and decision makers across the country. The AURIN Portal provides detailed datasets, information tools and a network of expertise covering every aspect of the built environment. This workshop will introduce and guide you through the AURIN portal, setting up user-specific accounts, accessing data, exploring patterns and extracting information in the form of tables, maps, charts and more sophisticated routines including walkability analysis and employment clustering.The AURIN portal provides secure access to over 600 datasets on federated servers from across Australia. Organisations contributing data include the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Geoscience Australia, Public Sector Mapping Agency, Federal, State and Local Government agencies to name a few in a growing list. This data encompasses open, public data as well as more restricted data sources where AURIN has negotiated tiered access on behalf of the urban research community. Further to this, an information systems layer of advanced spatial-statistical and analytical routines has been developed in an open environment, to give a rapid overview of the urban information landscape- and facilitate collaboration using an extensive framework of opensource components at every level. This workshop is a must if you are involved in researching urban environments, their people or open geospatial systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dr Jack Barton will run this workshop. He is the Urban Data and eResearch Facilitator for the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN). He is trained as an architect and progressively moved into the areas of urban design and planning support systems. His PhD was entitled "A Spatial Decision Support System for the Management of Public Housing" whereby he designed a three-dimensional geospatial system for assisting in the management of built environments and, importantly, the communities that live there. He has managed his own consultancy for over a decade specialising in 3D geospatial modelling, combining disciplines of research, practice and education.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Who Should Attend?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The AURIN workshop will be of interest to e-Researchers who work with any aspect of the urban environment: Government/governance, demographics, socio-economics, health, geographic visualisation or urban planning/design.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Suchith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dr Suchith Anand</span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nottingham Geospatial Institute<br>Nottingham Geospatial Building <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU<br>Tel: (0)115 82 32750<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Be part of <a href="http://www.geoforall.org/">"Geo for All"</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#02428C'><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications">Special Issue "Open Geospatial Science and Applications"</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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