Dr Peter Sefton1, Sandra Silcott, Steve McEachern, Marina McGale
1University Of Queensland, ,
This BoF will be led by the technical leads, architects and visionaries in the HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability Program (HASS RDC and IRC) in which we will present our vision(s) for the future of the HASS RDC and IRC, reflect on what we have learned, and offer advice to other RDC projects that follow.
In eResearch in Australia there have been a number of “platform” developments, and while the metaphor of a platform suggests a horizontal surface on which to build, the disciplinary focus of many projects results in architectures that are more like (ivory) towers. This BoF will start with some short presentations about how a research data commons might be architected with services for storing, preserving and accessing tabular and non-tabular data as a true platform, or a layer of bedrock on which to build discipline-agnostic analytical services. We will show how the core strengths of the four HASS RDC and IRC partners can be merged into a new platform.
Biography:
Peter Sefton is an eResearch expert, specialising in software development, Research Data Management and metadata, currently leading the technology and infrastructure team for the Language Research Data Commons project at the University of Queensland.