The VeRSI eResearch Awards are presented in association with the eResearch Australasia Conference where the winners were announced on October 1.
Humanities, Art and Social Sciences eResearch Award Winner
PARADISEC - Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
- Nicholas Thieberger Linguistics Department, University of Melbourne
- Linda Barwick Music Department, University of Sydney
- Janet Fletcher Linguistics Department, University of Melbourne
The selection panel commented that "PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) is an outstanding application of ICT tools in the humanities and social sciences domain that harnesses the work of scholars to store and preserve endangered language and music materials from the Asia-Pacific region and creates an online resource to make these available".
Science eResearch Award Winner
MammoSapiens: eResearch of the Lactation program
- Christophe Lefevre Institute of Technology Research and Innovation, Deakin University
- Kevin Nicholas Zoology Department, University of Melbourne
The selection panel "viewed MammoSapiens as a significant integration of a variety of technologies and techniques, which were: both imported and developed by the project; assembled and evolved hand-in-hand with the application domain researchers; of broader interest and application; and not overly dependent on extensive infrastructure".
