Dr Denise de Vries

Academic Level C

College of Science and Engineering

+61 8 82013639

denise.devries@flinders.edu.au

Biological Sciences (3.24)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Denise de Vries has, since the early 1980s, developed commercial complex database systems for a variety of industry domains including local government, airline, public libraries, para-medical, diet and nutrition, commercial cleaning, automotive parts manufacturing, building and construction, inventory control, conference organisation and commercial photography.

Based on this industry experience she researches techniques to preserve digital history and data semantics including techniques to deal with changes to information in a database such as structural change, semantic change and constraint change.

Qualifications

PhD Flinders University
BSc(Hons) Flinders University
BCompInfSc University of South Australia

Honours, awards and grants

ARC Linkage Project
Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and national collection.

ARC Linkage Project
Play it again: preserving Australian videogame history.

ARC Linkage Project
Play It Again: Creating a Playable History of Australasian Digital Games, for Industry, Community and Research Purposes

State Library of South Australia
Computer disk collections at the State Library of SA: Creating disk images of born digital content

Knowledge Exchange Grant
Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives into Science and Engineering Teaching
http://csem.flinders.edu.au/thegoodstuff/IndigiSTEM/#

eResearch Summer Scholarship Program
Our Digital Heritage: Preserving early Australasian software.

Teaching & Learning Innovation Grant
Embedding Indigenous Science, Mathematics and Engineering into CSEM topics.

Local Government Research and Development Scheme
Development of Participatory Decision Making Software

CRCAH Grant
Building workforce capacity to address complex health, housing and social inclusion issues through critical systems thinking and practice.

FMC Lymphoedema Cancer Record Audit
Lymphoedema Treatment and Breast Cancer Reoccurrence

Adelaide Football Club
Data analysis of heterogenous datasets

Supervisory interests

Data integration

Data mining and knowledge discovery

Data science

Data semantics

Database evolution

Database modelling

Digital game preservation

Digital preservation

E-learning

Process modelling

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: e-Learning technologies (1), Digital Preservation (1), Data Science (1)

Associate supervisor: e-Learning technologies (2)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Business Process Modelling (1), Digital Games Preservation (1), Data Mining (1), m-Learning technologies (1), Network Communications (1)

Associate supervisor: Digital games modelling (1), e-Commerce technologies (1), e-Government (1)

Professional engagement

UNESCO PERSIST (Platform to Enhance the Sustainability of the Information Society Transglobally) project taskforce.

The UNESCO PERSIST project, a cooperation between UNESCO, the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), LIBER, the National Library of the Netherlands and the Digital Heritage Netherlands Foundation (DEN), is setting out to collect and share worldwide best practices and guidelines on selecting policies and digital strategies .

PERSIST has identified governments, heritage institutions, and the IT-industry as the three main stakeholders in the project. PERSIST will establish a platform to support dialogue and cooperation among the three main stakeholders, and to create practical solutions in the area of sustainable digital preservation

Expert for media contact

Computers

Data mining

Engineering - Computer Systems

Information systems

Internet

Technology

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Database

Digital preservation

Information Security

Process Modelling