LaRDS Showcase

Many important Monash research programs benefit from utilising LaRDS data storage services. These include:

	The Asian Music cultural archive, lead by  Prof. Margaret Kartomi and Bronia Kornhauser, School of Music utilises LaRDS. Sound Footings  is an ARC LIEF funded project in collaboration with the University of Western Australia and the National Library of Australia to digitise and preserve field recordings collected from South East Asia, in particular Sumatra and Aceh. The digitised collection is accessible on-line to the research group via LaRDS, and subject to copyright constraints is being published via the Monash ARROW  repository and MusicAustralia.
	Gippsland historical picture collection
	Indigenous cultural archive
	The Jewish music cultural archive, lead by Prof. Margaret Kartomi and Bronia Kornhauser, School of Music contains the Preserving Australia’s Sound Heritage (PASH) project. PASH is an ARC LIEF funded project in collaboration with the University of Western Australia and the National Library of Australia to digitise and preserve the Australian Archive of Jewish Music, comprising works collected from Australia and Asia.  The digitised collection is accessible on-line to the research group via LaRDS, and subject to copyright constraints is being published via the Monash ARROW repository and MusicAustralia.
	The Shoah Foundation - Visual History Archive, lead by A. Prof. Mark Baker, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization is collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, in 32 languages and from 56 countries, and comprises the largest visual history archive in the world.  At Monash, we have established on LaRDS a local copy of approximately 10TB of this collection, comprising all interviews recorded in Australia, plus others of interest to Monash researchers and students.
	Pharmacy electronic lab notebook This project aims to support a pilot project to examine the utility of a data management system and selected eNotebook for use within certain departments within Monash, assess the feasibility and challenges associated with its implementation and determine its applicability to other related groups within the faculty. The e-Research Centre has provided minigrant funding to support this activity, and ITS has provided the database platform for the eNotebook using LaRDS.
	Medicinal Chemistry, Dr David Chalmers, Medicinal Chemistry.
	Protein Crystallography published results
	Researcher practice - research data management. A whole-of-faculty project in the Faculty of Law to migrate all research information, from raw data and working drafts through to final works, results and records, from individuals' PC c:\ drives and bookshelves to the LaRDS Novell service.

Systems supported by LaRDS

In addition, all data for all users of the following Monash e-Research systems are services are stored in LaRDS:

	The Monash Sakai Virtual Research Environment (VRE) utilises LaRDS for secure and reliable storage of all user data.
	Components of the Monash Campus Grid (MCG), including the Monash Sun Grid high-performance computing facility and the Monash SPONGE  spare CPU capacity harvesting activity, also utilise LaRDS, as the service provides high-speed, high-capacity reliable data storage.
	The Monash Sun Grid (MSG) high performance computing facility also benefits from utlising LaRDS, as the storage requirements for raw and processed data are considerable in important research activities such as climate modelling.