RMIT University is an Australian public research university located in Melbourne, Victoria.

RMIT Universitye Research terms and definitions D to H

D

DART: Dataset Acquisition accessibility & annotation e-Research Technologies.

Data Cleaning: Deleting or editing corrupt or erroneous parts of data, to maintain data integrity

Data Curation: The process of managing data, from its creation through all its various stages, to ensure it is accessible and useable

Data Deposit: Committing data to a repository/storage facility

Data Encryption: Encoding/modifications to data to protect it from forms of unauthorised access

Data Ingestion: Transferring data to a repository or other form of archive

Data Integrity: The state of complete, accurate and error-free data

Data Mining: Applying algorithms for the Identification of non-trivial patterns from large data sets, using HPC

dCache: Disk pool management system

Data Protection: Management and processing of data which identifies individuals involved.

Data Set: A specific collection of data having common elements

Data Service: An online digital repository relating to a particular discipline/area

Data Steward: An employee responsible for the life cycle of a set of research data, such as the Principal Investigator (PI) of a project

DBI: Department of Business and Innovation (Victoria)

DBMS: Data Base Management System; a DBMS is computer software that manages databases

DEEWR: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (Australia) (Defunct; now the Department of Education and Department of Employment)

Digital Migration: Transferring data from one format or software platform to another

Digital Preservation: The set of processes, activities and management of digital information over time, ensuring long-term accessibility

Digital Repository: A facility for secure storage and reliable access to data

DIISR: Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (Australia)

DOI: Digital Object Identifier; A name which provides a means of persistently identifying a digital object. This could be a data set - which could then be dynamically related to current data in a structured manner

DPI: Department of Primary Industries (Victoria)

DPM: Disk Pool Manager

DSE: Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria)
E

e-Science: High performance computing to support scientific research, commonly used in the UK

EGEE: Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

Embargo: A period in which access to research data is not permissible for certain users. This is either to protect the revenue of the actual publisher or the interest of a research group or organisation

eRCC: National e-Research Coordinating Committee

eResearch SA: eResearch South Australia

eRT: eResearch Tools
F

FOSS: Free and Open Source Software

FOI: Freedom Of Information; FOI is the right of the general public to access information held by a country’s public authorities

ftp: A protocol or utility for transferring files over a network connection
G

GPU: Graphics cards contain GPUs, or Graphics Processing Units, for processing visual data. These processors have a different architecture from standard CPUs, and are also considered a more recent and highly effective technology used for carrying out parallel processing (with the potential to replace some of the more traditional supercomputers)

GSI: Grid security infrastructure

GUI: Graphical User Interface; a GUI is a visual medium for users to input commands, i.e. using the mouse and keyboard as opposed to a Command Line Interface, which uses typed commands
H

HPC: High Performance Computing; HPC is the term often used for large-scale computers

HuNI: Humanities Networked Infrastructure

Hydra: Distributed key management

University profile:

Type Public

Established 1887 (college)

1992 (university)

Endowment A$1.163 billion (2015)

Chancellor Ziggy Switkowski

Vice-Chancellor Martin G. Bean

Academic staff 4,947 (FTE, Australia)

Students 83,025

Undergraduates 44,402 (on campus)

Postgraduates 12,079 (on campus)

Other students 26,544 (VET & OUA)

Location Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Campus Urban

Colours Dark green, gold and white (red and black)

Affiliations ASAIHL, ATN, GU8, OUA