[OSGeo-UK] AURIN workshop & Smart Cities collaborations - 2nd Sep 2014

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,

Hope you are all well and enjoying Summer.  I wanted to bring this AURIN workshop at OSGIS 2014 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx  to your attention and invite those interested to attend as it will be of interest for building collaborations for Smart Cities theme.  Details below



AURIN Workshop

The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) http://aurin.org.au/  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.

 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.

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.

Who Should Attend?
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.




Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr Suchith Anand
Nottingham Geospatial Institute
Nottingham Geospatial Building
University of Nottingham  NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand

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