1. Designing a national “Virtual Laboratory” for the humanities Toby Burrows The Australian HuNI project

2. NeCTAR Project National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources Australian government funding programme (part of SuperScience initiative): A$47 million (2010-2013) Programmes:  Virtual Laboratories (5)  Research Cloud (4)  eResearch Tools (15)  National Servers (2) www.nectar.org.au

3. Virtual Laboratories (Stage 1) The Genomics Virtual Laboratory (GVL) (lead: University of Queensland) Climate and Weather Science Laboratory (lead: Bureau of Meteorology) The Characterisation Virtual Laboratory: Research Environments for Exploring Inner Space (lead: Monash University) The All-Sky Virtual Observatory (lead: Astronomy Australia Ltd) Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI): Unlocking and Uniting Australia's Cultural Data (lead: Deakin University)

4. Virtual Laboratories: What are they? NeCTAR criteria Cross-institutional Cross-disciplinary Integration of existing data Integration of existing tools Data-centred workflows Collaboration HuNI responses Multiple institutions (13 partners) All humanities disciplines Cultural datasets pooled as Linked Data Existing tools adapted to work with Linked Data Linked Data + tools Collaborative tools

6. HuNI: Cultural datasets Australian Dictionary of Biography AustLit (Australian literature) AusStage (performing arts) Design and Art Australia Online Cinema and Audiences Research Project AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database AIATSIS Mura catalogue (Australian indigenous materials) bonza: National Cinema and Television Database Australian Media History Database Circus Oz Living Archive Video Collection Australian Film Institute Research Collection Dictionary of Sydney Trove (National Library of Australia) ? Vocabularies:  PeopleAustralia (National Library of Australia)  Gazetteer of Australia (Geoscience Australia)  Object Name Thesaurus (Powerhouse Museum)

7. HuNI: Tools OHRM (University of Melbourne): modelling entity relationships and publishing information about collections into aggregated frameworks LORE (University of Queensland): annotation, federated searching, visualisation, aggregation and sharing of compound digital objects Heurist and FieldHelper (University of Sydney): aggregating data, modelling entity relationships and publishing collections of data to the Web (including maps and timelines) MaVRec (RMIT University): building virtual collections EoPAS (PARADISEC – Sydney and Melbourne): annotating audio and video files OCCAMS (Australian National University): annotation, analysis and management of online cultural collections AusStage (Flinders University of South Australia): visualisation and mapping VIVO (Cornell University): Linked Data storage, management and publishing

9. HuNI timeline May 2012:Contract signed June 2012: Project Manager appointed Oct. 2012:Linked Data Server, APIs for initial group of datasets – DAAO, ADB, OHRM databases, Dictionary of Sydney, AIATSIS AUSTLang Apr. 2013: Initial tools – search and browse, authentication, annotation, compound object publishing, virtual collections Nov. 2013: APIs for second group of datasets, Semantic Mediation and Mapping Service, remaining tools Dec. 2013: Completion! And handover...

10. Key HuNI personnel Prof. Deb Verhoeven (Deakin University): Community Lead Dr Toby Burrows (UWA): Information Architect & Community Liaison Coordinator Alex Hawker (VeRSI): Project Manager Conal Tuohy (VeRSI): Technical Coordinator Ingrid Mason (Intersect): Information Services Coordinator Communications Officer – to be appointed “HuNI as a scholarly collaboration system” (Steven Hayes, University of Sydney)