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 ARROW Dspace 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 Blackboard WebCT 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