2. Outline
Research is changing
We are all in the data business
National responses
Four Transformations
Institutional responses
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8. What Business are we in?
Theodore Levitt, The Changing Character of Capitalism,
Harvard Business Review, July–August 1956
“The railroads did not stop growing because the need for
passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew.
The railroads are in trouble today not because that need was
filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones)
but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves.
They let others take customers away from them because
they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business
rather than in the transportation business.”
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13. 2012 National Research
Investment Plan
http://www.innovation.gov.
au/Research/Documents/N
ationalResearchInvestment
Plan.pdf
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14. 2011 Strategic Roadmap for
Australian Research
Infrastructure
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http://www.innovation.gov.
au/Science/Documents/201
1StrategicRoadmapforAustr
alianResearchInfrastructure
.pdf
15. Australian Research Data Infrastructure
Strategy
Being developed by Research Data Infrastructure
Committee
Consultation process currently underway
Refer http://ands.org.au/newsletters/newsletter-
2012-14.pdf, p. 7 for more
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16. ANDS enables transformation of:
Data that are:
Unmanaged
Disconnected
Invisible
Single use
To Structured Collections that are:
Managed
Connected
Findable
Reusable
so that Australian researchers can easily publish,
discover, access and use/re-use research data.
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21. ANDS is here to help
We are moving from funding projects to providing
expertise and (some) effort
New model of institutional engagement for
remainder of current funding period
We want to hear about your research data
ambitions and talk about how we can help
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Synchrotron volumetric rendering of fossils while still in rock 3-D laser imaging of entire dig site
Talk about the importance of recognising what business you are actually in, as opposed to the business you think you are in. As we have seen, increasingly researchers are increasingly reliant on data. So, what does this mean for research infrastructure providers?
Networks exist to move what around? Data, and data derivatives (to a first approximation)
Storage exists to store what? Data, and data derivatives
HPC exists to generate and process what? Data I could go on: Visualisation? Data Calculation? Data etc.
Of course, it’s possible to take this too far. I look at this and see a data-collection instrument ;-)
Our national planning around research and research infrastructure increasingly reflects this
So, let me now discuss institutional responses to all of this in the context of the ANDS Four Transformations