Information Infrastructure Evolution

ARIIC is working towards – a distributed electronic research environment that

allows researchers to share, annotate, and publish new scholarly products.

Information infrastructure is a gradual progression

An Integrated Institution or Virtual Organisation

Datasets

Computational Resources -Clusters-Supercomputers

People:-Directories-Bios-Relationships

Grid

My.University

ARROWDspace

Rights & Roles, Affiliations, Relationship to Resource (Authentication, Shibboleth…)

Repositories:-White Papers-Publications-Documents

Collaborative Tools:-Whiteboards-Discussion-Calendar-Search

Working Area:-Project Descriptions-Drafts-Annotation

Public

Limited

Private

Instrumentation

BlackboardWebCT etc

Instructor

Researcher

Student

Access Portals

With success comes problems / opportunities

Middleware – between apps and networks Open source software / proprietary Intellectual property – copyright, DRM JISC/DEST E-Framework

– How do we hook up all the disparate data?– How do we control access to data?

FRODO Projects

ARROW, APRS and ADT - Develop the technical infrastructure to

– support institutional repositories, curate data and preserve data

– output a scholarly product– develop the skill sets

MAMS – Develop access and identity management– Within and between institutions

Supported by standards work, network development, compute resources, SOA approach to integration across domains.

MERRI Projects

INTEROPERABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility and Annotation e-Research Technology

Project (DART) – Covers the whole lifecycle of research - Based on ARROW

Data Collection, Monitoring and Quality Assurance Storage and Interoperability Content and Rights Annotation and Assessment Discovery and Access

Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively (RUBRIC)

– Architectures of institutional infrastructure – DEST / JISC E-Framework – Roll out of repositories to smaller universities - ARROW

E-Security - Production PKI and PKI/Shibboleth alignment project– Based on MAMS and DCITA funded project

MERRI Projects (2)

MANAGING & INTEGRATING LARGE DATA SETS

Time Sync: Mapping the Global Financial System– Massive downloads of disparate data

BlueNet: The Australian Marine Science Data Network– Highly distributed data

Molecular Medicine Informatics Model: A Multi-Institutional, Multi-disciplinary Research and Training Platform for Clinical Research (MMIM)

– Highly diverse data

Merri Projects (3)

TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT

Software and systems, not just data, are crucial to research in many research domains

– Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS) –

– Middleware Action Plan and Strategy (MAPS)– Legal Protocols for Copyright Management: Facilitating Open

Access to Research at the National and International Levels