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LaRDS Showcase
Many important Monash research programs benefit from utilising LaRDS data storage services. These include:
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The Asian Music cultural archive, Prof. Margaret Kartomi and Bronia Kornhauser, School of Music.
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. |
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Gippsland historical picture collection |
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Indigenous cultural archive |
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Jewish music cultural archive, Prof. Margaret Kartomi and Bronia Kornhauser, School of Music.
The Preserving Australia’s Sound Heritage (PASH) project 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.
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Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, A. Prof. James Friend & Dr. Leslie Yeo, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
The Monash Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory conducts research on micro and nano-devices, and produces large amounts of computational research data. The data includes the output from computations, experimental video footage and measurement data, which can exceed 100GB per week. Due to the size and frequency of raw data produced by the group, local storage and maintenance was found to be impractical. After outlining their needs to the Centre, the research group begn to utilising a Samba share and now store more than 20TB of data on LaRDS. This not only includes research data, but also replicas of information stored on local PCs within the Laboratory. The storage of local PC data on LaRDS has already proven to have been effective at restoring lost and corrupt information, and is one of the key benefits that had been offered to the research team.
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Shoah Foundation - Visual History Archive, A. Prof. Mark Baker, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
The VHA 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.
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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.
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Medicinal Chemistry, Dr David Chalmers, Medicinal Chemistry. |
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Protein Crystallography published results |
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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:
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The Monash Sakai Virtual Research Environment (VRE) utilises LaRDS for secure and reliable storage of all user data. |
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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. |
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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. |
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