Dr Ryan Sullivan1, Elizabeth Blanchard1, Antoine Blachair6, Andrew Brock9, Dr Thomas Close1,2, Mark Endrei13, Alastair Ferguson4, Dr Mahdieh Moghari1,2, Dean Taylor1,14, Craig Windell8, Fang Xu1, Prof Fernando Calamante1,2, Prof Martin Ebert14, Prof Graham Galloway13,2, AIS Oversight Groups1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15
1The University Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2Australian Reserach Data Commons, Sydney, Australia, 3National Imaging Facility, Brisbane, Australia, 4Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 5Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 6Neuroscience Reserach Australia (NeuRA), Sydney, Australia, 7Queensland Cyber Infrstructure Foundation, Brisbane, Australia, 8Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 9South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Austarlia, 10Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia, 11The Florey Insitute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia, 12University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 13University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 14University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 15University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Introduction
The Australian Imaging Service (AIS) was born out of an ARDC Platforms 2019 project between 7 universities to address common needs in the medical imaging community for trusted data management and analysis. We released the 1.0 build of AIS in January 2022 and have been transitioning from a running single project with discrete endpoints to managing an ongoing platform. We have been fortunate to be able to expand AIS functionality and membership through partnerships on 6 additional funded projects with plans for another 5 to be submitted this year. We present on the challenges that have resulted from this transition, expansion, and increased researcher demand.
Approaches
Keeping the Lights On: We have defined what “lights on” means for AIS and determined baseline resource requirement to maintain AIS at the federation level; we are working to define this at the node level which is heterogeneous.
Partner over build: With “lights on” understood, we have been devised a model for partnering with new projects to expand our infrastructure, both infrastructure focused and general research.
Knowledge sharing: Technical complexities and changes in staff have made knowledge a key sustainability requirement. We have integrated documentation into the Continuous Improvement (CI) part of our development process and work to better expand it.
Coordination: With a large distributed team, we expect challenges in contributions post project as members have different baseline resources available. We are looking at aligning of interest and clear terms of accountability for participation in the federation.
Biography:
Dr Ryan Sullivan is the Product Manager overseeing digital platforms for Characterization research at the University of Sydney. He sits across the Research Technology Group in ICT and the Operations team of the Core Research Facilities.
Ryan leads the Australian Imaging Service platform and works to bridge the research-clinical gap across all facets of characterization.