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eResearch Taking Off

eResearch Taking Off. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliff_robin/872775267/. Up U p and Away. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/volk/4993546679/. Collaboration. What’s on the Horizon.

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eResearch Taking Off

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  1. eResearch Taking Off http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliff_robin/872775267/

  2. Up Up and Away http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/volk/4993546679/

  3. Collaboration

  4. 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

  5. Funded Activities: • 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: • Intersect (NSW) • QCIF & QFAB (QLD) • VPAC & VeRSI (VIC) • iVec (WA) • eRSA (SA) • TPAC (TAS) Infrastructure Development http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/volk/4993546679/

  6. 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 room-based) - 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).

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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)

  10. 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

  11. National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources $47 million EIF, lead agency is University of Melbourne. NeCTAR Programs: • Virtual Laboratories • Research Cloud • eResearch Tools • National Services Program

  12. Right Now: • 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

  13. 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

  14. Australian National Data Service • Right Now: • ~150 projectsacross 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) • Three areas in universities involved or impacted by ANDS projects and ongoing: Research Office, ICT and Library • Further infrastructure development with expertise/advice • Data Connections strategy

  15. Australian National Data Service On the Radar: • 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)

  16. 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

  17. 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/

  18. Landing Near You http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_g_travels/872280324/

  19. 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 is needed from Library, Research Office, and ITC to support eResearch effectively

  20. 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!

  21. 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!

  22. 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 • Data management • Data services • Data literacy • Data citation

  23. eResearch Services + Architecture

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