5. ▪ >$3bn research infrastructure investment
▪ 24 active projects
▪ 200 institutions with over 1900 highly skilled
technical experts
▪ supports approximately 40,000 domestic and
international users each year
▪ Capital and Operational funding
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
(NCRIS)
6. The ARDC story
6
ANDS, Nectar, RDS
2017 – alignment of activity
2018 – integration into one virtual
organisation
2019 – integration into one actual
organisation
7. ▪ Publication Services
▪ Nectar Research Cloud
▪ Virtual Labs
▪ Trusted National Collections
and Repositories
▪ Skills and workforce
development
▪ Government Policy
▪ User Support Services
▪ International leadership and
engagement
▪ And more..
What do we do?
8. guided
by
the Cochrane review of eResearch infrastructure
the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap
the Francis eResearch Framework
Cook Future Design Advice & Transition Plan Advice
the Research Infrastructure Investment Plan
And others
12. why? What’s the impact we’re aiming for?
To deliver a world-leading data advantage,
To accelerate innovation,
To improve collaboration for borderless research,
To facilitate translation of research into outputs
for a better world
Thereby making Australia’s researchers as globally
competitive and advantaged as possible
14. ARDC Themes of activity:
Theme 1: Make Australian research data more FAIR
Theme 2. Make Australian research e-infrastructures more FAIR
Theme 3. Make Australian research platforms more FAIR
Theme 4: Enhance coordination and coherence of Australia's people capability
Break the transformations down into “Themes”
15. With whom
Digital Data and eResearch Platforms
eResearch Organisations
Institutions
Commercial resources
And others
18. Supporting Australian Researchers
Making tomorrow happen today through
1600researchers
45
staff
190projects
supercomputing
data
visualisation
training &
consulting
25. ARDC
Principles
Transformations – towards a world leading position on:
- Data
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Translation
Themes – our intermediate targets towards the transformations:
- Make Australian research data more FAIR
- Make Australian research e-infrastructures more FAIR
- Make Australian research platforms more FAIR
- Enhance coordination and coherence of Australia's people capability
How do we ask for and evaluate activities & resources?
ARDC Activity Principles:
- Innovation
- Transformation
- Acceleration
- National Scope and/or Scale
- Sustainability
28. ▪ Publication Services
▪ Nectar Research Cloud
▪ Virtual Labs
▪ Trusted National Collections
and Repositories
▪ Skills and workforce
development
▪ Government Policy
▪ User Support Services
▪ International leadership and
engagement
▪ And more..
reminder: what we do
35. “
▪ In each of these cases it’s the functionality that’s
important:
- Publication services promote and facilitate quality & accessibility
- Nectar Cloud pioneered a sector-based federated research cloud
- Virtual Labs made new spaces for collaboration and democratised access
to high quality research tools
- National Collections identified, curated, and preserved data as national
infrastructure
- Skills and workforce development enable effective use and practices
- Policy and consulting provide the frameworks within which it all works
36. ▪ 2018 – 2023 ARDC Funding:
- $110m operations
- $70m capital
▪ Around $180m (internal and external investments)
Resourcing
37. Timeline
Oct – Dec 2018 - NCRIS consultations
Nov – Dec 2018 – State consultations
Dec 14 2018 – Release of draft strategy and capital plans
Mar 2019 - strategy and capital plans delivered to DET
Mar 2019 – 2023 – investment & activity program