The Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council

Development of AeRIC

The Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council was established by the government following the recommmendation of the NCRIS committee in accepting the NCRIS Investment Plan for Platforms for Collaboration (available from the documents section of this site).

The council held its inaugural meeting on 23 July 2007 and determined amongst other things to operate as openly as possible.

Due to the increased investment in eResearch Infrastructure announced in the May 2009 Commonwealth Budget, the role and membership of AeRIC was restructured to accommodate an enlarged activity and to align its activities as a sub-committee of the new National Research Infrastructure Council (NRIC).

Both NRIC and AeRIC are supported by DIISR and the establishment of NRIC was announced by Minister Carr on the 20th of May 2009.

Professor Tom Cochrane, nominated in the Minister's announcement as a member of NRIC, continued to Chair the revised AeRIC.

AeRIC from 2007 to 2009

Documents related to the meetings of AeRIC through to May 2009 are available here.

AeRIC Meetings

Published Minutes

Published Papers

• Meeting #12 19 October 2009
• Meeting #13 10 December 2009
• Meeting #14 17 February 2010
• Meeting #15 8 April 2010
• Meeting #16 9 June 2010
• Meeting #17 19 August 2010
• Meeting #18 19 October 2010
• Meeting #19 3 December 2010

AeRIC Membership

• Tom Cochrane as Chair and as a Member of the National Research Infrastructure Council
• Representation from the three NCRIS PfC investments:
  • Trevor Powell (Chair, Australian Research Collaboration Service, Executive Committee)
  • Ron Sandland (Chair, Australian National Data Service, Steering Committee)
  • Chris Pigram (Member, National Computational Infrastructure, Steering Committee)
• Representation from other eResearch infrastructure investments:
  • Mal Bryce, (Chair, Pawsey Centre Steering Committee)
  • Paul Sherlock (President, AAF)
• General members
  • Joanne Daly (Research member nominee of the Council)
  • Andy Pitman (Research member nominee of the Council)
  • Suzanne Miller (Member of National Research Infrastructure Council)
  • Julia Evans (Delgate for DIISR)
• Rhys Francis (Executive Director, AeRIC)