DReSA – start sharing your training in 5 minutes

DReSA – start sharing your training in 5 minutes

Nicholas May¹, Kathryn Unsworth², Melissa Burke³, Mark Crowe⁴, Kay Steel⁵, Ann Backhaus⁶, Frederick Fung⁷, Anastasios Papaioannou<sup>8

1</sup>La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
²Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
³Australian BioCommons, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
⁴QCIF, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
⁵Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
⁷National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
⁸Intersect Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
⁸Intersect Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Abstract

Find the training you need. Fast.

At the heart of good research is a highly skilled research workforce. But who doesn’t struggle to find the training they need?

Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA) [https://dresa.org.au] is an online and freely accessible registry that describes and links to digital research training events, materials and trainers. It’s a training community initiative born out of the need to improve the discoverability of training to upskill the research workforce on digital research methods and technologies. DReSA launched at eRA21.

More providers, more content, one location.

A key driver for the development of DReSA was to provide a comprehensive view of the research sector’s digital research skills training. We have twenty-four providers already listed in DReSA. To be effective and sustainable, we need more providers sharing their training in DReSA. Our lightning presentation will demonstrate how easy it is for providers to register and start contributing content.

How easy is it, you ask?

It’s pretty straightforward. Learn how to log in, register a provider account, provide approved editors, edit and delete accounts. We’ll also share the current ingestion tools and provide information on the simple to set-up automated upload methods.

Add your organisation’s name to the growing list of DReSA providers.

If what you hear and see piques your interest, we’ll be around after the talk to answer questions and get you and your organisation started on your DReSA journey.

Biography

Nicholas is the Manager, Digital Research at La Trobe University. He is an accredited software engineer with over thirty years of IT experience, across a variety of domains. More recently, he had the pleasure of collaborating with the working group to develop, deploy and support DReSA.

Kathryn leads the Skilled Workforce Development team at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Her career in research data management-related roles spans more than ten years. She manages a program that drives a nationally coordinated approach to skills and training initiatives targeting key areas of the workforce that conduct, underpin, and enable data-intensive research.