Dr. Anusuriya Devaraju1, Mr. Stuart Woodman1, Miss Neda Taherifar1, Mr. Vincent Fazio1, Mr. Ben Motevalli Soumehsaraei1, Mr. Sam Bradley1, Dr. Lesley Wyborn2, Dr. Jens Klump1, Dr. Rebecca Farrington3, Dr. Pavel Golodoniuc1
1CSIRO, Kensington, Australia, 2Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 3University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Biography:
Stuart Woodman has over 20 years of software engineering experience at CSIRO, working in many diverse fields such as manufacturing, mathematics, data provenance and geoscience. He spends most of his time developing front and back-end ends for AuScope web portals to assist the broader Australian geoscientific community. Stuart is currently the technical lead of the AuScope Data Repository project. He has also lectured on manufacturing programming principles at RMIT University in Melbourne.
Abstract:
AuScope supports research infrastructures for the Australian geoscience community by providing robust data, services, and tools. Most of the data repositories of the AuScope partners and universities lack services that provide structured and rich metadata suitable for integration into the AuScope Discovery Portal and offer limited support for data discovery and preservation.
Consequently, many repositories fall short of supporting AuScope’s commitment to making data from its projects FAIR for humans and machines. To address this challenge, AuScope has recently developed a digital repository for its communities, encompassing NCRIS-funded data projects and the broader Australian Geoscience research community. The development follows an iterative process, revised and improved based on community feedback. The repository will publish Australian geoscience research data following the FAIR, CARE and TRUST Guiding Principles and community-endorsed practices, thus ensuring that datasets are openly available with appropriate attributions and metadata to foster open science. For example, the metadata represents the funding and project information to measure impact and return on investment, and authors with persistent identifiers so that researchers who contributed to the dataset can be identified.
This presentation will cover the repository’s scope, design and technical implementation. We will share our experience and lessons learned in building and deploying the repository on the cloud using Kubernetes. The repository is essential in fostering innovation in geoscience research, supporting the objectives outlined in the AuScope 5-Year Investment Plan and the Australian Academy of Science Decadal Plan for Australian Geoscience: Our Planet, Australia’s Future.