Mrs. Kerry Levett1, Mr Jonathan Smillie2, Mr Hamish Holewa2
1Australian Research Data Commons, Australia, 2Australian Research Data Commons, Australia
Biography:
Kerry was an environmental science researcher before moving into data management and research infrastructure. She works to bridge the gap between the users and the builders of digital research infrastructure to create platforms that will transform research.
Abstract:
The national earth and environmental science data landscape is rich, diverse and complex; spanning multiple sectors, jurisdictions and data modalities. In order to effectively address multiple national environmental priorities, there is a critical need for digital research infrastructure that supports integrated and seamless national-scale research based on this data.
The ARDC’s Planet Research Data Commons (Planet RDC) provides digital research infrastructure for earth and environmental sciences. Through co-design, strategic investment, informatics and computing services, coordination and expertise, the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) is enabling collaboration between research, government and infrastructure providers to deliver an enduring ecosystem of data infrastructure.
The projects run by our partners are developing data infrastructure and policies to enable FAIR, trusted data and analytics that can interoperate with other FAIR data infrastructures.
The projects come together in the Planet Architecture Working Group (AWG) to solve technical and systems challenges. The AWG is a forum for sharing systems and architecture expertise, technical best practice across projects, and emerging challenges. The group collectively conducts technical assessments of critical technologies, ensures alignment of solutions with the Planet RDC program strategy and objectives, and ensures the delivered infrastructure is interoperable and enduring.
Projects work to a systems Reference Model and a modular Reference Architecture suite which addresses key architectural concerns via a collection of architectural patterns developed in independent but aligned activities.
This talk will provide an overview of the Planet RDC infrastructure, the role of the Planet Architecture Working Group, and introduce the framing Reference Model and Architectures.