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Platforms for Collaboration
National Collaborative Research
Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)
Dr Rhys Francis
Executive Director
Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
NCRIS: Platforms for Collaboration
Dr Rhys Francis
What NCRIS Brings
• NCRIS brings a strategic approach to
Australia’s investment in research infrastructure
• Priority capability areas for support have been
identified in the NCRIS Roadmap
• Investments will support core NCRIS goals:
support research excellence, promote
collaboration, provide national benefit
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NCRIS Investments
$540M over the five years: 2007-2011
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Evolving bio-molecular platforms and informatics •
Integrated biological systems
Characterisation
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Fabrication
Biotechnology products
Optical and radio astronomy
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Integrated marine capability
Structure and evolution of the Australian
continent
Networked
biosecurity
framework
Population health
and clinical data
linkage
Terrestrial
ecosystem
research network
Platforms for Collaboration (allocated $75M)
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Why Does ICT Matter?
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Factors over the next decade
Capacity
Moore’s law, clock speed (?), bandwidth,
storage density, nano, photonics
Connectivity
Internet, wireless, mobile, coverage, always
connected, never lost, globalisation
Content
Born digital, imaging, sensing, modelling,
simulating, aggregating, relating, sharing
Human interface
Speech, 3d projection/sound, haptics, nonrigid displays, visualisation, immersion
Products
Ubiquitous computing, smart appliances,
automation, labour reduction
Complexity
Robustness, seamlessness, selforganising, evolutionary, not understood
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Platforms for Collaboration
NCRIS ROADMAP
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RELATED ISSUES
Data access and discovery,
storage and management
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Grid enabled technologies
and infrastructures
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all systems
Allowing researchers and resource
owners to control who can do what to
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Technical expertise
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High performance
computing
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High capacity
communication networks
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Sharing researcher identities across
their resources
Expanding the e-Research
community to “non-builder” users
Engaging the broader NCRIS
community
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Investments
• Collaboration
– Discipline/Capability services (tools ((and software))
– User and Operations support
– Collaboration support services
• Data
– Outreach, curation, data management services
– Meta-services, location, access, movement
– Collections brokerage and hosting services
• Computing
– National computing facility (capability computing)
– Collaborative national computing environment
• Foundation (Access)
– Australian Access Federation
– The Australian Research and Education Network
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AeRIC
The Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
Composition
• An independent Chair
• An Executive Director
• A DEST Principal Adviser
• 8 members drawn from
providers and users of eResearch capabilities
• The executive director will have
a small secretariat to assist
programme management
Role
• Determine strategic directions and
variations to components
• Convene an e-Research community
forum to provide advice
• Review the annual business plans
prepared by the Executive Director
and PfC components
• Make recommendations to DEST and
NCRIS
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Contractual Structure
AeRIC
Agent
Computational
Infrastructure
Agent
Interoperation
& Collaboration
Infrastructure
Agent*
Data Management
Infrastructure
Executive Director
NEAT
Secretariat
AAF*
AREN
Contract between DEST and agent
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Proposed arrangement
Researchers and research communities
Resource owners and operators
Users and User-Builders
New tools, services & expertise
Data Tools
& Discipline
Services
Interoperation &
Collaboration
Infrastructure
Compute Tools
& Discipline
Services
Foundation Services: AREN and AAF
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NEAT
National e-Research
Architecture Taskforce
Researchers and research communities
Resource owners and operators
Users and User-Builders
New tools, services & expertise
Data Tools
& Discipline
Services
Interoperation &
Collaboration
Infrastructure
Compute Tools
& Discipline
Services
Foundation Services: AREN and AAF
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The Australian National Data Service
Goals:
• Research infrastructure and data should be accessible:
– to a range of users – research community, government, states and territories; and
– under controlled, authenticated but simple access regimes.
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Access should be independent of location – network infrastructure should
therefore be robust and reliable
Data should be discoverable, accessible, managed and long-lived
The effect of the investments by governments and research communities in
research and education should be maximised
ANDS will:
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deliver greater access to Australia's research data assets in forms that
support easier and more effective data use and re-use
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The PMSEIC
Data for Science Working Group
• Suggested a cooperative, Whole of Government approach
within a National Strategic Framework
• Key Recommendations included:
– National network of data repositories
– Improve sharing and collaboration
– Increase skilled workforce for best practice in data management
• Activities addressing these include:
– Research Quality Framework
– Australian Access Federation
– Accessibility Framework
– Australian National Data Services
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One map of the space
A
Community agreed
data investment;
intended for sharing
SIZE
Services:
Find
E
Mine
Access
Authorise
CRCs
MNRFs
Centres;
Data may be
used, shared
or published
B
Collections; C
Data published,
local repositories
D
Independent research;
Data used and retained
NUMBER
F
Services: stores, repositories, tools, expertise
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Institutions
Researchers
ANDS
 Develop and implement
policy on data ownership
 Determine what data to
keep, considering
research community
practice and project or
legal requirements
 Provide utilities needed
by the Data Commons
 Provide guidelines to
researchers on ownership
and their responsibilities
 Maintain durable records  Ensure research data is
retained using
on data held and ensure it
institutionally provided
is under the control of the
mechanisms (5 years)
institution where the
work was performed
 Ensure that data
retention passes to the
 Provide secure systems
institution
for holding data and for
granting access to that
data
 Keep confidentiality
where it exists
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 Broker solutions for
collections to fast track
e-Research development
 Build expertise and
provide outreach
services, ‘training the
trainers’
 Ensure promulgation
and use of simplified
legal frameworks and
access templates
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One way to the Data Commons
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But it is a much bigger problem
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courtesy Adrian Burton, Markus Buchhorn, Chris Blackall
NCRIS: Platforms for Collaboration
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courtesy Adrian Burton, Markus Buchhorn, Chris Blackall
NCRIS: Platforms for Collaboration
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courtesy Adrian Burton, Markus Buchhorn, Chris Blackall
NCRIS: Platforms for Collaboration
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courtesy Adrian Burton, Markus Buchhorn, Chris Blackall
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ANDS Objectives
• Improve data management systems
• Improve data collection and management practices
• Improve the national data management environment
• Enhance data discovery and access
• Increase data re-use
• Enable Australian participation in international and
multidisciplinary research
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ANDS Implementation
• NCRIS contract to a managing agent
• A joint venture between a small number of leading practitioner
organizations and/or institutions
• An overall ANDS Steering committee
– Members of the J/V
– Essential representatives (perhaps AGIMO, AAF)
– Selected representatives of user communities and providers
• An Executive Director and four Program Directors
– Providing the core management team, reporting to the S/C
• An implementation for each program
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Frameworks: 4-5 staff plus expertise by contract
Utilities: service development by projects and provision by contract
Repositories: a small number of centres of expertise
Researcher Practice: project activities determined with user
communities and agreed with NeAT - delivered nationally
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Start Date…
January 2008
Thank you!
NCRIS: Platforms for Collaboration
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NCRIS: Platforms for Collaboration
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