Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) statewide consultations. Slides from the consultations - delivered by Ian Duncan

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2. The Australian
Research Data
Commons

3. agenda 10:00 – 10:30 ARDC background, themes, strategy
10:30 – 11:00 Questions & Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 3 Questions
11:30 – 12:00 Report back and discussion, summary
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 2:30 Satellite meetings:
• Skills,
• Infrastructure (cloud and storage),
• FAIR & Trusted Collections,
• Platforms (Virtual labs and services)
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:00 Summary, next steps, close

4. ▪ Background
▪ Partners
▪ Strategy
- Priorities
- Commitments
- Principles
- Timelines
ARDC background, themes, strategy

5. ▪ >$3bn research infrastructure investment
▪ 24 active projects
▪ 200 institutions with over 1900 highly skilled
technical experts
▪ supports approximately 40,000 domestic and
international users each year
▪ Capital and Operational funding
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
(NCRIS)

6. The ARDC story
6
ANDS, Nectar, RDS
2017 – alignment of activity
2018 – integration into one virtual
organisation
2019 – integration into one actual
organisation

7. ▪ Publication Services
▪ Nectar Research Cloud
▪ Virtual Labs
▪ Trusted National Collections
and Repositories
▪ Skills and workforce
development
▪ Government Policy
▪ User Support Services
▪ International leadership and
engagement
▪ And more..
What do we do?

8. guided
by
the Cochrane review of eResearch infrastructure
the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap
the Francis eResearch Framework
Cook Future Design Advice & Transition Plan Advice
the Research Infrastructure Investment Plan
And others

9. Consistent messages?

10. deliver an
integrated
data-intensive
infrastructure incorporating physical infrastructure, policies, data,
software, tools and support for researchers

11. promote
national
coherence cloud computing, HPC, networks, access,
authentication and trusted data repositories, data,
collaboration, software, services, & skills

12. why? What’s the impact we’re aiming for?
To deliver a world-leading data advantage,
To accelerate innovation,
To improve collaboration for borderless research,
To facilitate translation of research into outputs
for a better world
Thereby making Australia’s researchers as globally
competitive and advantaged as possible

13. FAIR
Findable
Accessible
Interoperable
Reuseable
https://www.ands.org.au/working-
with-data/fairdata

14. ARDC Themes of activity:
Theme 1: Make Australian research data more FAIR
Theme 2. Make Australian research e-infrastructures more FAIR
Theme 3. Make Australian research platforms more FAIR
Theme 4: Enhance coordination and coherence of Australia's people capability
Break the transformations down into “Themes”

15. With whom
Digital Data and eResearch Platforms
eResearch Organisations
Institutions
Commercial resources
And others

16. partners

18. Supporting Australian Researchers
Making tomorrow happen today through
1600researchers
45
staff
190projects
supercomputing
data
visualisation
training &
consulting

22. strategy

23. https://www.csiro.au/en/About/Our-impact/Our-impact-model

24. Hardware Infrastructure
VL's, Clouds,
Collections,
Metrics, ..
communities,
quality,
collaboration,
skills, ..
Transformations
Resources Activities Outcomes Impact
Capital Operational

25. ARDC
Principles
Transformations – towards a world leading position on:
- Data
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Translation
Themes – our intermediate targets towards the transformations:
- Make Australian research data more FAIR
- Make Australian research e-infrastructures more FAIR
- Make Australian research platforms more FAIR
- Enhance coordination and coherence of Australia's people capability
How do we ask for and evaluate activities & resources?
ARDC Activity Principles:
- Innovation
- Transformation
- Acceleration
- National Scope and/or Scale
- Sustainability

26. Sustainability
ARDC
activity
Principles
Acceleration
Innovation
National Scope
/ Scale
Transform
ation

27. leverage &
support
NCRIS

28. ▪ Publication Services
▪ Nectar Research Cloud
▪ Virtual Labs
▪ Trusted National Collections
and Repositories
▪ Skills and workforce
development
▪ Government Policy
▪ User Support Services
▪ International leadership and
engagement
▪ And more..
reminder: what we do

29. Some of our “heavier” pieces

30. Publication
Services:
Research Data
Australia,
DOI’s
Vocabularies
..

31. Cloud
resources

32. Virtual Labs
(which we’re now
calling platforms)

33. National
Data
Collections

34. Services:
Skills,
policy,
engagement,
consultancy
..

35. “
▪ In each of these cases it’s the functionality that’s
important:
- Publication services promote and facilitate quality & accessibility
- Nectar Cloud pioneered a sector-based federated research cloud
- Virtual Labs made new spaces for collaboration and democratised access
to high quality research tools
- National Collections identified, curated, and preserved data as national
infrastructure
- Skills and workforce development enable effective use and practices
- Policy and consulting provide the frameworks within which it all works

36. ▪ 2018 – 2023 ARDC Funding:
- $110m operations
- $70m capital
▪ Around $180m (internal and external investments)
Resourcing

37. Timeline
Oct – Dec 2018 - NCRIS consultations
Nov – Dec 2018 – State consultations
Dec 14 2018 – Release of draft strategy and capital plans
Mar 2019 - strategy and capital plans delivered to DET
Mar 2019 – 2023 – investment & activity program

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39. Q&A

40. The questions for you

41. - what we should do more of (or start doing),
- what we should do less of (or stop doing),
- what should we do differently?
Questions

42. And..
Would you have answered differently if you were thinking of
where we want to be in 25 years as opposed to 5?
Questions

43. Next..
Satellite discussions –
Skills,
Infrastructure (cloud and storage),
FAIR & Trusted Collections,
Platforms (Virtual labs and services)

44. Lunch time..