(3) Who is the project serving?

One of our key customer groups are academic historians, demographers, members of the public who are genealogists, and those interested in coordinating and enabling access to Koori health data such as the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. This group of users will use the Koori Health Research Database (KHRD). The "research champion" for this group of users is historian Professor Janet McCalman from the University of Melbourne's School of Population Health. The existing dataset which is the core of this research domain has has a particularly difficult and fractured provenance. This group will benefit greatly from easy access (via the world wide web) to a single accurate shared online non-propritary database recording the lives and relationships of this population. Where determined by the long term data custodians (Onemda), members of the Koori community will be given extracts which provide private access to their descendants records from the database, thus supporting their sense of community and identity.

Our second key customer group are academic historians, demographers, members of the public who are genealogists, involved in the Convicts and Diggers: a demography of life courses, families and generations (ARC Discovery 2011-2013). Based on convict records from the Founders and Survivors project, birth, death and marriage registrations, World War One service records, and other historical data, this project explores long-term demographic outcomes of individuals, families and lineages. The project draws on the expertise of family historians to trace individuals and their descendants for 'Australia's biggest family history'. Some volunteers (members of the public interested in family history or their convict ancestors) may be involved in some data gathering and research tasks. The "research champion" for this group of users is Dr. Rebecca Kippen from the University of Melbourne's School of Population Health.