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eResearch Taking Off
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Up Up and Away
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Collaboration
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What’s on the Horizon
• Infrastructure development in Australia
• Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
• Moving on from project work to Business
as Usual
• Over the horizon: eResearch services
and architecture
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Infrastructure Development
Funded Activities:
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Australian Research Collaboration Services
(ARCS) $22.5M
Research Storage Initiative (RDSI) $97M
National eResearch Collaboration Tools and
Resources (NeCTAR) $47M
Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
$72M
NeAT $12M
EIF, NCRIS, Super Science $B
eResearch Agencies:
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Intersect (NSW)
QCIF & QFAB (QLD)
VPAC & VeRSI (VIC)
iVec (WA)
eRSA (SA)
TPAC (TAS)
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ARCS received $22.5 million from NCRIS through to 30 June 2011 for
the purpose of delivering interoperability and collaboration
infrastructure.
 Grid & Compute Cloud and ARCS Identity Provider - operated by the
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC)
 Data Services, including the ARCS Data Fabric, and the ARCS Access
Service - operated by iVEC
 Video collaboration (EVO for desktop and Access Grid for roombased) - operated by the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure
Foundation (QCIF).
 The new operators will be assisted by eResearch SA, Intersect and
the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC).
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EIF funding from 2009-2010 federal budget for data storage and
collaboration infrastructure, $97 million
 RDSI is a $50m federally funded project, for which UQ is the lead
agent.
 To enhance data centre development and support retention and
integration of nationally significant data assets into the national
collaboration and data fabric.
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 The expected benefits are to:
• improve the AVAILABILITY of quality research data for sharing and
re‐use and, as a result, expand the scale and scope of problems that
Australian researchers may seek to address;
• improve research efficiency; and reduce institutional data storage
costs and enable more extensive collaboration.
 The infrastructure may also assist institutions to:
• sustain a quality of research in the digital age that includes the
reproducibility of results;
• meet the storage REQUIREMENTS of key research activities undertaken
at that institution; and
• comply with the research data provisions of Universities Australia’s
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research.
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RDSI Programs:
 NoDe – Node Development (Data centres with high data volumes )
 DaSh – Data Sharing (Sharing and reuse of data)
 ReDS – Research Data Services (Data collections)
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Right Now:
 Storage for access and collaboration
 Workshop and consultation phase to establish frameworks for
programmes: DaSh, Node and ReDS April Tinman/strawman documents developed
 Node expression of interest, April 2011
 Recommendations for nodes, September 2011
 Updated project plan endorsed by DIISR 18 July 2011
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National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources $47
million EIF, lead agency is University of Melbourne.
NeCTAR Programs:
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Virtual Laboratories
Research Cloud
eResearch Tools
National Services Program
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Right Now:
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Town hall meetings Nov-Dec 2010
Research Cloud technical workshop March 2011
Final Project Plan August 2011
Request for Proposals September 2011
Submission date: 2 November 2011
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Australian National Data Service
ANDS received $24 million NCRIS 2007-2011 to develop data commons as
part of Platforms for Collaboration plus $48 million EIF 2008-2009 to
develop ARDC
ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National
Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program and the Education
Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative
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Australian National Data Service
Right Now:
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~150 projects across Australia in universities and the public sector
Metadata Stores; SEEDING THE COMMONS*; Data Capture; Applications
Services: Research Data Australia, Persistent Identifiers, DataCite
(Publish, Register, Identify and Cite My Data)
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THREE AREAS IN UNIVERSITIES INVOLVED OR IMPACTED BY ANDS PROJECTS
AND ONGOING: RESEARCH OFFICE, ICT AND LIBRARY
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Further infrastructure development with expertise/advice
Data Connections strategy
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Australian National Data Service
On the Radar:
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ARDC Party Infrastructure (NLA data service)
AusGOAL (formerly GILF)
Data reuse and licensing
Data citation (DataCite pilot)
ARDC Activity Infrastructure (ARC and NMHRC data services)
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Australian National Data Service
Useful links:
http://ands.org.au/guides/data-connections.html
http://ands.org.au/guides/ardc-party-infrastructure-awareness.html
http://www.ands.org.au/guides/ausgoal-awareness.html
http://ands.org.au/publishing/licensing.html
http://ands.org.au/guides/data-citation-awareness.html
http://ands.org.au/guides/ardc-activity-infrastructure.html
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Useful links:
http://www.intersect.org.au/
http://www.ands.org.au/
http://rdsi.uq.edu.au/index.html
http://nectar.org.au/home
http://www.arcs.org.au/
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Landing Near You
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eResearch Paradigm
 Why might an institution care about data? Why change?
 Research has become more data intensive
 Data is increasingly a research output, rather than a research
by‐product
 Excellence in research is correlated with size of effort and with
data outputs
 AVCC Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
 CROSS-FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT, COLLABORATION AND A SHARED DIRECTION
NEEDED FROM LIBRARY, RESEARCH OFFICE, AND ITC TO SUPPORT
ERESEARCH EFFECTIVELY
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How to Change?
 ANDS projects are a stimulus to begin building that local
infrastructure, to look at service implications, and begin
incremental change > GET INVOLVED MANY BRAINS MAKE IT BETTER!
 Researcher services run across the Library, Research Office and
ICT with relationship managers, liaison librarians and research
support officers > A SHARED SERVICE FOCUS WILL MAKE THIS WORK!
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Who Needs to Be Involved?
 Content management and metadata development are core skills
required > LIBRARIANS ARE VERY WELL PLACED TO CONTRIBUTE!
 Research patterns and scholarly assessment need to be well
understood > RESEARCH SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS HAVE THEIR FINGERS
ON THESE PULSES!
 Technology upkeep is critical > ICT
RELATIONSHIP MANAGERS HELP
MAKE IT SEEM LIKE A FLICK OF A SWITCH!
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Takeaways = Needs Analysis
 Research data needs to be
better managed and accessible
 Capabilities in data intensive
research need to be built and
supported
 Data types, generating and
seeking behaviours,
communities of practice need
to be understood
 Links to scholarly publication
and communication need to be
established
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 Data management
 Data services
 Data literacy
 Data citation
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eResearch Services + Architecture
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