The Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council

The Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council has been etsbalished by DEST 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.

Documents related to AeRIC meetings are available as follows:

• Meeting #1 23 July 2007
• Meeting #2, 31 August 2007
• Meeting #3, 10 October 2007
• Meeting #4, 20 November 2007
• Meeting #5, 22 February 2008
• Meeting #6,15 April 2008
• Meeting #7, 29 May 2008
• Meeting #8, 5 August 2008

To assist with discussion around PfC activities, the following documents may be of interest.

• A handout outlining the overall purpose of AeRIC (download)

• The further advice provided to NCRIS as part of the PfC report (download)

• A working document on the purpose of the Australian National Data Service which was reviewed and broadly endorsed by stakeholders at a meeting in May 2007 (download)

Further details of the May 2007 ANDS workshop, including capability statements provided by the participants following the workshop, are available here.

An AeRIC web presence will be developed shortly and additional information provided.

In the meantime, further documents will be posted here as they are finalised. These are expected to include

• Responsibilities and Mode of Operation for NeAT
• A further definition of ANDS suitable for eliciting "expressions of interest"

A recent set of slides about the development and the investment plan and the arrangements that are being put in place is available for download here (3.9Mb ppt).