Dr Peter Sefton1, Ms Rosanna Smith1, Dr Nichola Burton, Mr Robert Fleet2, Mr Michael Lynch3
1University Of Queensland, Australia, 2QUT, 3University of Sydney,
Biography:
Peter Sefton is an eResearch expert, specialising in software development, Research Data Management and metadata, currently a senior advisor for the Language Research Data Commons project at the University of Queensland.
Nichola has a background in psychology research. She works with the HASS and Indigenous research communities to find out what their data and digital research requirements are and develop infrastructure to meet their needs.
Rosanna is a Language Technology Analyst in the LDaCA team. She completed Honours in linguistics at Monash University studying morphology in Scandinavian languages and has previously worked as a linguist and project manager in language technology.
Mike is a software engineer with over ten years experience providing specialised support for research, with expertise in research data management, open standards for data repositories and data publication and the application of modern IT development and deployment practices to research software. He has experience in full-stack web development in Python and JavaScript, machine learning, natural language processing and data visualisation, and is interested in digital humanities and functional programming.
Robert Fleet is a Senior Data Scientist/Developer at QUT’s Research Infrastructure, specialising in AI implementation and social network analysis. With extensive experience across Australian universities and research institutions, he brings expertise in machine learning, data visualization, and research software development.
Abstract:
RO-Crate (Research Object Crate) is a specification for packaging data for distribution, storage and analysis that is being adopted globally particularly in Europe and Australia. For example, many of the ARDC’s Community Data Lab projects have named RO-Crate in their plans.
This session aims to provide a venue for RO-Crate adopters and would-be adopters in Australasia to build networks, and give feedback on the specification and the tools and the funding environment. The structure will be a panel-led discussion of a number of topics. We will take contributions to a shared google document, and the moderator and panelists will choose observations and questions from the document and invite discussion. We will not risk going over time with talks at the beginning but each panelist will get two minutes to speak about the biggest issue they see in RO-Crate adoption for their community.
Sefton and Lynch are members of the RO-Crate steering committee.
The list of panelists will be finalised closer to the conference but we are approaching people from a range of projects across HASS and STEM disciplines and aim to have a diverse set of perspectives from implementers and trainers to program-level managers.