Dr Nichola Burton1, Dr Lyle Winton1
1Australian Research Data Commons, ,
The Institutional Underpinnings program is part of the Australian Research Data Commons’ National Data Assets initiative. Projects in this initiative will develop national scale data assets that support leading edge research. Institutional Underpinnings aims to uplift research data management (RDM) capability and collaboration between Australia’s universities to support the development and longevity of national scale data assets.
In this ambitious program, 25 participating universities are working together to co-design an Institutional RDM Framework. The framework is being developed, tested and validated by these participating universities, but is intended to be a valuable resource for all of Australia’s universities and research institutions. The program’s unique approach has attracted significant interest both nationally and internationally.
The participating universities identified 16 elements essential to institutional research data management, and pinpointed those elements where shared understanding and collaborative work is most urgently needed. In-depth analysis, recommendations and case-studies were developed for those elements by university experts, alongside calls for future collaborative action.
To ensure that the framework’s guidance is applicable across the diversity of university environments, each participating university implemented and tested an aspect of the framework in a local project. The framework will be updated to reflect the feedback from these projects and from sector consultation. Reusable outputs from each project will be shared for reuse by other research institutions.
In this presentation, the authors will discuss program findings and learnings from conducting such a large-scale co-design process, and look to the future beyond the program’s conclusion in late 2022.
Biography:
Dr Nichola Burton has a research background in quantitative psychology and now works as a Data Technologist in the ARDC Expertise team, coordinating activities and providing guidance around the management of sensitive data in research. Nichola manages the ARDC’s Institutional Underpinnings program.
Dr Lyle Winton has 20 years of experience in research infrastructure having worked within universities and on state, national, and international initiatives. Lyle also has a research background in experimental physics involving large-scale collaborations, with significant challenges in sharing knowledge, big data and large scale computing. Lyle is currently the Program Coordinator for the ARDC’s Institutional Underpinnings program and the Manager of the Digital Stewardship Research team within the University of Melbourne Scholarly Services who focus on advanced data management, data publishing and digital preservation.