Mr Jonathan Smillie1, Dr Muhammad Ali1
1ARDC, Australia
Biography:
Mr Jonathan Smillie – Jonathan has many years’ experience as a developer, systems analyst and technical lead in the eResearch sector. He now undertakes system and architecture analysis across the ARDC’s projects.
Dr Muhammad Ali – leads the technical implementation of dataspaces projects at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). He completed his PhD from UNSW, and in his previous roles, he worked across multidisciplinary projects while liaising with senior leadership, solutions architects, systems architects, research institutions and various stakeholders. His current role is to contextualise IDSA Data Spaces in Australia through pilot projects, use cases, reference architectures, and proof-of-concept implementations.
Abstract:
The Dataspaces paradigm provides a comprehensive model for secure and sovereign data sharing. The International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) Reference Architecture Model (RAM) is a conceptual framework which defines the roles, functions, interactions and system components required to implement a working dataspace. In this session we will compare the IDSA RAM with the Secure Analytics Framework for the Environment (SAFE) and the 5-SAFES framework and use these frameworks to identify existing national research infrastructure which is already implementing some, or all, of the features of Dataspaces.
This session is intended for designers, implementers, and users of data sharing ecosystems who are interested in how the Dataspaces paradigm may already be enhancing their data sharing activities. We will explore additional measures from the dataspaces paradigm that could be leveraged to further improve these activities, and how these have been realised by other active infrastructures.
The session will include an overview of how the IDSA RAM compares with the SAFE and 5-SAFES frameworks, and an exploration of the Dataspace related features of several existing national data sharing infrastructures. Participants in the session will then be invited to share the features and functions of infrastructures they are involved with, and as a group we will consider which of these are Dataspace compatible functions, and how they can collectively progress the development of a national Dataspaces ecosystem.