Dr. Tom Honeyman1, Dr. Nichola Burton1
1Ardc, Australia
Biography:
Tom is the Solutions Architect for the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Indigenous Research Data Commons (RDC). In this role, Tom works across major projects in the commons to identify and scope work to build or service common needs for participants in the RDC.
Nichola is a Program Manager working with the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Indigenous RDC. In this role, Nichola supports the design and delivery of infrastructure projects within the RDC, including coordinating and developing processes for the most recent rounds of project co-design.
Abstract:
Under its new strategy, the Australian Research Data Commons is developing a smaller number of larger-scale infrastructure initiatives that meet the needs of thematically-linked research communities – the thematic research data commons (RDCs). To ensure that each thematic RDC provides the greatest possible benefit to its target users, we are adopting a process of co-design to identify, shape and deliver these new initiatives. This represents a shift in the design of our infrastructure away from expert-identified solutions, and towards solutions identified based on the lived experience of researchers – with an accompanying shift towards more participatory design methods.
In this talk we will discuss what we have learned regarding the application of co-design methodologies to shape 4 new major initiatives under the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. We’ll talk about what frameworks we adopted, how they worked and didn’t work, and what we’ll do differently in the future.