Systemic Infrastructure Initiative
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The Systemic Infrastructure Initiative was announced by the Government of Australia
in January 2001 as part of Backing Australia's Ability
– An Innovation Action Plan for the Future.
The Government announced that $246 million would be allocated over five years "to upgrade the basic infrastructure of universities, such as scientific and research equipment, libraries and laboratory facilities" to support research and research training.
Those eligible to apply are restricted to universities and other higher education institutions specified in Table A of the Higher Education Support Act 2003
, Bond University
and University of Notre Dame Australia
.
The Final Report of the Higher Education Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee was completed in November 2002.
announced funding for nine projects collectively known as the Managed Environments for Research Repository Infrastructure (MERRI) projects, involving over 30 Australian universities. The funded projects are:http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_reviews/key_issues/australian_research_information_infrastructure_committee/default.htm#New_SII_projects
Government of Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia is a federal constitutional monarchy under a parliamentary democracy. The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 as a result of an agreement among six self-governing British colonies, which became the six states...
in January 2001 as part of Backing Australia's Ability
Backing Australia's Ability
Backing Australia's Ability was a five year innovation plan launched in January 2001 by Prime Minister John Howard.- Previous policy :* Investing for Growth, December 1997 increased support for business innovation by providing $1.26 billion over the four years from 1998-99, including additional...
– An Innovation Action Plan for the Future.
The Government announced that $246 million would be allocated over five years "to upgrade the basic infrastructure of universities, such as scientific and research equipment, libraries and laboratory facilities" to support research and research training.
Those eligible to apply are restricted to universities and other higher education institutions specified in Table A of the Higher Education Support Act 2003
Higher Education Support Act 2003
The Higher Education Support Act 2003 codifies the existing aims of universities, recognises the status Universities of Australia in law, and introduces measures to strengthen Australia’s knowledge base.- Higher education providers :...
, Bond University
Bond University
Bond University is a private university located in Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is also the first private university established in Australia...
and University of Notre Dame Australia
University of Notre Dame Australia
The University of Notre Dame Australia is a private Roman Catholic university established in 1989 in the Western Australian port city of Fremantle, . While the University of Notre Dame Australia has "strong collegial links" with the American University of Notre Dame located in Notre Dame, Indiana,...
.
Early committees
In 2002, as part of the SII funding, the Minister committed $250,000 to two committees, the Higher Education Information Infrastructure Implementation Steering Committee (HEIIAC) and Higher Education Bandwidth Advisory Committee (HEBAC). These committees were to formulae further broad projects to be considered for SII funding in the following year.The Final Report of the Higher Education Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee was completed in November 2002.
Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee
As part of SII the Minister for Education, Science and Training, Dr Brendan Nelson, MP established the Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee (ARIIC) in August 2003 to advise the Government on the information infrastructure requirements.http://www.dest.gov.au/ministers/nelson/aug_03/n433_140803.htmhttp://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/programmes_funding/programme_categories/research_related_opportunities/systemic_infrastructure_initiative/sii_funded_projects.htm2002 round
- IMS GlobalIMS GlobalIMS Global Learning Consortium is a global, nonprofit, member organization that strives to enable the growth and impact of learning technology in the education and corporate learning sectors worldwide...
Australia - Core Funding - IMS COLIS Testbed
- Business Intelligence Lab (BIT Lab), University of New South WalesUniversity of New South WalesThe University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
- Clinical Trial Data and Information Network, Flexetrials, NHMRCNational Health and Medical Research CouncilThe National Health and Medical Research Council is Australia's peak funding body for medical research, with a budget of roughly 700 million dollars a year...
Clinical Trials Centre, University of SydneyUniversity of SydneyThe University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania... - Australian Academic & Research Library NetworkAARLINAARLIN is an Australian project to develop "a national virtual research library system that will provide unmediated, personalized and seamless end-user access to the collections and resources of Australian libraries and document delivery services." -History:In late 1999, the AARLIN project, led by...
, La Trobe UniversityLa Trobe UniversityLa Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are... - Joint Academic Scholarships On-line Network (JASON)
- Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility and Annotation e-Research Technology Project (DART)
- BIAcoreBiacoreBiacore is a life science products company, based in Sweden specializing in measuring protein-protein interaction and binding affinity. The technology is based on surface plasmon resonance , an optical phenomenon that enables detection of unlabeled interactants in real time...
3000 for Discovery & Characterisation of Novel Pharmaceuticals - Australian Research Libraries Collection Analysis Project
- Australian Partnership in Advanced Computing (APAC) 2004-2006
- Towards an Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
- Australian Partnership in Advanced Computing
Facilities and equipment
- Acquisition of next generation instruments in micro- and nano-analysis of solids and fluids in the geosciences and materials sciences, located in a purpose designed shared lab located at Macquarie UniversityMacquarie UniversityMacquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...
- High Sensitivity, High Accuracy Mass SpectrometryMass spectrometryMass spectrometry is an analytical technique that measures the mass-to-charge ratio of charged particles.It is used for determining masses of particles, for determining the elemental composition of a sample or molecule, and for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, such as peptides and...
for Advanced Molecular and Biomolecular Research, University of New South WalesUniversity of New South WalesThe University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia... - Establishment of a nanofabrication facility at the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of WollongongUniversity of WollongongThe University of Wollongong is a public university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney...
- Establishment of a Advanced Materials Manufacturing and Performance Centre, Deakin UniversityDeakin UniversityDeakin University is an Australian public university with nearly 40,000 higher education students in 2010. It receives more than A$600 million in operating revenue annually, and controls more than A$1.3 billion in assets. It received more than A$35 million in research income in 2009 and had 835...
- Provision of high through-put DNADNADeoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...
analysing machines for Population Biology Research and Research Training at La TrobeLa Trobe UniversityLa Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...
, the University of QueenslandUniversity of QueenslandThe University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...
and Monash UniversityMonash UniversityMonash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL.... - Spatial and Sonological Information Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Institute of TechnologyRMIT UniversityRMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....
. Digital Design Precinct - Integrated Microfabrication Facility, Swinburne University of TechnologySwinburne University of TechnologySwinburne University of Technology is an Australian public dual sector university based in Melbourne, Victoria. The institution was founded by the Honourable George Swinburne in 1908 and achieved university status in June 1992...
- Large Scale Experimental Building Fire Facility, Victoria University of Technology
- Improvements to the equipment and instrumentation level of the hypersonicHypersonicIn aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic. Since the 1970s, the term has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above...
s facility at the University of QueenslandUniversity of QueenslandThe University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation... - A SHRIMPSHRIMPThe sensitive high resolution ion microprobe is a large-diameter, double-focusing secondary ion mass spectrometer sector instrument produced by Australian Scientific Instruments in Canberra, Australia...
Ion Microprobe Facility for Earth Sciences, Curtin University of TechnologyCurtin University of TechnologyCurtin University is an Australian university based in Perth, Western Australia, with additional campuses in regional Western Australia and at Miri , Sydney and Singapore... - ACIGA-LIGOLIGOLIGO, which stands for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a large-scale physics experiment aiming to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scientists at MIT,...
High Optical Power Test Facility - 3D-Imaging of Intact Root Systems in soil, University of AdelaideUniversity of AdelaideThe University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...
- Upgrade of UV Radiation Monitoring Capabilities, University of TasmaniaUniversity of TasmaniaThe University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...
- Upgrade facilities at Siding Spring ObservatorySiding Spring ObservatorySiding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University , incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National...
, Australian National UniversityAustralian National UniversityThe Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
Network
Over the course of the SSI program, many improvements to the national backbone were funded:- Tasmanian Research and Education Network
- Victoria Education and Research Network (VERN)
- Marine Research and Education Network
- Australian Research and Education Network (AREN)
- contribution towards accessing the AREN from the Charles Sturt University campuses at Wagga Wagga and BathurstBathurst, New South Wales-CBD and suburbs:Bathurst's CBD is located on William, George, Howick, Russell, and Durham Streets. The CBD is approximately 25 hectares and surrounds two city blocks. Within this block layout is banking, government services, shopping centres, retail shops, a park* and monuments...
- interim solution (for 3 years) for high bandwidth connections from the Sunshine backbone to campuses in five regional centres in Queensland (JCU Cairns, CQU Mackay and Gladstone, USC Sippy Downs and USQ Hervey Bay)
- high bandwidth links between the AREN and Murdoch University's three campuses at South Street, Rockingham and Mandurah
- AREN Regional Light Up
- contribution towards accessing the AREN from the Charles Sturt University campuses at Wagga Wagga and Bathurst
- 2.5 Gbit/s backbone network from BrisbaneBrisbaneBrisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
to James Cook UniversityJames Cook UniversityJames Cook University is a public university based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The university has two Australian campuses, located in Townsville and Cairns respectively, and an international campus in Singapore. JCU is the second oldest university in Queensland—proclaimed in 1970—and the...
in Townsville - South Australian Broadband Research and Education Network (SABRENet)
- AARNetAARNetAARNet or Australian Academic and Research Network offers Internet services to the Australian education and research communities and their research partners.AARNet is a not-for-profit company limited by shares...
- improved broadband access from University of WollongongUniversity of WollongongThe University of Wollongong is a public university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney...
to Sydney - 155 Mbit/s link between Adelaide and Charles Darwin UniversityCharles Darwin UniversityCharles Darwin University is an Australian public university with about 20,000 students in 2007.The University offers a wide range of Higher Education degrees and Vocational Education and Training courses with flexible study options, including part-time, external and online.CDU has campuses in the...
- Contribution towards the cost of access from Australian Maritime CollegeAustralian Maritime CollegeThe Australian Maritime College is a tertiary education institution based in Launceston, Tasmania and is an institute of the University of Tasmania. AMC is Australia's national centre for maritime education, training and research...
- Dual 10 Gbit/s transpacific link to carry research and education traffic for an initial period of five years
- improved broadband access from University of Wollongong
- 1Gb inter-university network in Adelaide over the Electricity Trust of South AustraliaElectricity Trust of South AustraliaThe Electricity Trust of South Australia was the South Australian Government-owned monopoly vertically integrated electricity provider...
bandwidth for 15 years - provide access to two fibre pairs on the NextGen network for the Australian higher education sector and wider research community
FRODO projects
In 2003, ARIIC funded four Federated Repositories of Online Digital Objects (FRODO) projects http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw66/hunter.html:- Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
- Meta Access Management System Project (MAMS) http://mams.melcoe.mq.edu.au/zope/mams
- Australian Research Repositories Online to the WorldAustralian Repositories Online to the WorldARROW is a national demonstrator project funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, under the Research Information Infrastructure Framework for Australian Higher Education for the support of digital repositories of Australian content.The ARROW project will...
(ARROW) - Australian Digital Theses Program Expansion (ADT)
MERRI projects
On 22 August 2005 the Hon Dr Brendan NelsonBrendan Nelson
Dr Brendan John Nelson is a former Australian politician and former federal Opposition leader. He served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives from the 1996 federal election until 19 October 2009 as the Liberal member for Bradfield, a northern Sydney seat...
announced funding for nine projects collectively known as the Managed Environments for Research Repository Infrastructure (MERRI) projects, involving over 30 Australian universities. The funded projects are:http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_reviews/key_issues/australian_research_information_infrastructure_committee/default.htm#New_SII_projects
- BlueNet: Australian Marine Science Data Network
- Time Sync: Mapping the Global Financial System
- Molecular Medicine Informatics Model (MMIM): A Multi-Institutional, Multi-disciplinary Research and Training Platform for Clinical Research
- Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS)
- Middleware Action Plan and Strategy (MAPS)
- Open Access to Knowledge (OAK-LAW) (Legal Protocols for Copyright Management: Facilitating Open Access to Research at the National and International Levels (LPCM))
- EFR: e-Security Framework for Research, University of Queensland
- Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively (RUBRIC)