Mr Jason Bell1, Mr Andrew Brazzatti2
1CQUniversity, Rockhampton, Australia, 2QCIF, Adelaide, Australia
The importance of institutional research data being stored in a safe, secure, and managed way has significantly increased over the past decade, as demanded by research funding bodies, institutional and national research policies. These requirements have caused CQUniversity’s research data management journey to come a long way in a short time.
Previously, CQUniversity’s research support team would manually create research shares and configure research storage access permissions once a data management plan was submitted. The team would then manually add or remove users’ access permissions when requested by researchers. These arduous and time-consuming tasks have significantly increased as research output and research data management requirements have grown over the past few years.
To help with the management of research data, CQUniversity recently deployed QCIF’s research data management platform ReDBox. ReDBox is an open-source platform that assists researchers and institutions to plan, create and publish their research data assets. ReDBox is one of the most popular research data management tools in Australia.
This presentation will discuss the CQUniversity research data management journey, how it has recently deployed the ReDBox data management platform, and will highlight the newly added automation functionality of the system.
The automation functionality was commissioned by CQUniversity from the QCIF software team to enhance the ReDBox software to integrate with local institutional identity management and research storage systems. This new functionality removes manual processes entirely and enables local researchers to have greater control on who and how users can access their internal research data storage allocations.
Biography:
Jason is the Senior Research Technologies Officer at CQUniversity Australia and eResearch Analyst for the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). Jason provides research technology support to CQUniversity’s research community, including managing and maintaining High Performance Computing, Research Data Storage and data management systems and facilities. Jason assists users in the use of eResearch Tools and services (including ARDC and QRISCloud services). Providing national and local researcher training, including software carpentry workshops.
Andrew Brazzatti previously worked for USQ and was part of the team that originally created the Redbox project with funding from ANDS. Andrew is the Technical lead and software Architect for the QCIF Software Solutions Team. Andrew has been with QCIF since 2014 and is responsible for providing technical guidance for software projects the Software Solutions team are involved in from Universities, State and Federal Government departments. Andrew is based in Adelaide and resides at the local CQU campus.