Dr. Lyle Winton1, Mrs. Jo Dalvean2, Dr. Frankie Stevens3, Ivan Silva-Feraud4, Dr. Mingfang Wu1
1Australian Research Data Commons, Melbourne, Australia, 2CMS Pty Ltd, 3Research infrastructure services, 4University of Technology Sydney
Biography:
Dr. Lyle Winton has over 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 manager of the ARDC’s Design and Delivery team and program manager for Research Link Australia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3049-1221
Abstract:
Collaboration and knowledge transfer between research, business and government is critical to innovation in Australia. For that reason, there has been significant government investment to support translational research and reshape the research and innovation landscape. One challenge is discovering and connecting with the right collaborators and resources. Research Link Australia (RLA) supports Australian businesses and policymakers to discover research expertise, findings and products, and similarly for researchers to identify RnD collaboration with business.
This year, the RLA project released an initial MVP platform to bridge this information gap. The RLA Portal enables search and filter underpinned by initial information sources as prioritised by the RLA roadmap and co-design. RLA has also released interactive dashboards demonstrating the power of the platform to create insights into Australian research-industry networks. Stakeholder prioritised dashboards will enable the identification of trends and patterns in the data, facilitating informed decision-making and strategic planning. Three dashboards are available demonstrating analysis of ARC grants.
In this presentation, we will discuss how RLA has utlised openly available research information to develop the minimum viable product, and future steps of working with universities, government agencies and industry to get quality information about research capability and research collaboration capabilities into RLA, including a number of projects working together with initial stakeholders. These seek to improve and enrich RLA information, to model future stakeholder relationships, and to demonstrate the utilisation and value of RLA.