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ANDS Applications Program: Building Tools to Facilitate Data Reuse Stefanie Kethers Mingfang Wu Andrew Treloar 1 ands.org.au CC-BY @atreloar

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ANDS Applications Program: Building Tools to Facilitate Data Reuse

Stefanie Kethers Mingfang Wu Andrew Treloar

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Outline ANDS overview Applications program Lessons learned Thoughts on sustainability

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ANDS at a glance In operation since 2009 Approximately AUD90M total investment 45 staff (mostly Melbourne, Canberra) Working to make Australia’s research data more

valuable Funding through to mid 2016 (probably 2017)

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So that researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use research data through the Australian Research Data Commons

How Do We Make Data More Valuable?

Increasing Value

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Key differentiators for ANDS No actual data storage Nationally co-ordinated approach Institutionally-focussed engagement

“helping them meet their research data ambitions” Engaging with large nationally-funded discipline investments Bulk of funds spent outside ANDS

https://projects.ands.org.au/getAllProjects.php?start=all All disciplines covered Focus on adding value to data and re-use

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Applications Program “Applications that demonstrate the value of data

integration and analysis to answer complex research questions”

Enable and promote the fourth transformation Produce compelling demonstrations that could be

promoted Typically smallish projects (2 EFT, 1 year)

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Discipline distribution 7 projects in bio/characterisation 8 projects in climate change adaptation 10 others (urban planning, marine research,

public health, humanity) For a completed list of the projects and their

profiles, please visit the ANDS project registry: https://projects.ands.org.au/getAllProjects.php?start=app

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https://projects.ands.org.au/getAllProjects.php?start=app

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CASE STUDY

Soils to Satellites

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Soils to Satellites

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Lessons learned Support from research champions was critical Tight timelines were the enemy of modular

common design Outreach forms (blogs, videos) were more popular

than expected Data and system sustainability an ongoing issue

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Sustainability challenges More desire for bespoke solutions than can be met Every researcher’s needs are “special”

Trade off between individual researcher's need and a research community's need Finite amount of the right dev resource available

and keeping them is difficult Waterfall development will deliver the right solution two years too

late Communities still constrained by old ways of working

and culture eats technology for breakfast It takes a planet to maintain a codebase

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Sustainability responses ‘Good enough’ solutions are actually just fine most of the

time Adopt/Adapt/Augment is always better than Build Existing common toolkits let you focus on the missing 10%

of functionality So don’t start from scratch But also don’t leech

Involve research champions who can articulate their community's requirements, and promote project outcomes

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