Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

 

AAF Australian Access Federation
ac3 Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications
AeRIC Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
AMMRF Australian Microscopy & MicroAnalysis Research Facility
AARNet Australia's Academic and Research Network
ANDS Australian National Data Service
ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
APAC Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
ARC Australian Research Council
ARCS Australian Research Collaboration Service
ARDC Australian Research Data Commons
AREN Australian Research and Education Network
ASRB Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank
ASSDA Australian Social Science Data Archive
AustLII Australasian Legal Information Institute
APSR Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
ASF Australian Synchrotron Facility
CHeReL Centre for Health Record Linkage
CSIRO Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation
DaSh The Data Sharing Programme is part of the Research Data Storage Infrastructure Project
DIISR Department of Innovation, Industry, and Science and Research
DSRD Department of State and Regional Development (NSW)
DVCR Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research
EIF Education Investment Fund
eRA eResearch Analyst
eSAS Intersect's eStrategy and Services Committee
HASS Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
HPC High Performance Computing
ITS Information Technology Services
LIEF Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
MARCS Member of ARCS
MELCOE Macquarie eLearning Centre of Excellence
MMSN Molecular and Materials Structure Network
NCI National Computational Infrastructure
NCRIS National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
NeAT National eResearch Architecture Taskforce
NeCTAR National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
NICTA National ICT Australia
NoDe The Node Development programme is part of the Research Data Storage Infrastructure project
NRN National Research Network
OSMR Office of Science and Medical Research
PfC Platforms for Collaboration
QCIF Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation
RDC Research Data Commons
RDSI Research Data Storage Infrastructure
ReDS The ReDS programme is part of the Research Data Storage Infrastructure project
VeRSI Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
VPAC Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing