Interim Business Plan for the Australian National Data Service
The Interim Business Plan for the Australian National Data Service is now available from the ANDS website.
Executive Summary
Release of Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure
From the Science & Research Division of the Department Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Website:
The Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure was released by Senator the Hon. Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, on 4 September, 2008. The Strategic Roadmap outlines where strategic infrastructure investments should be made over the next five to 10 years.
- Minister’s media release
- Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research InfrastructurePDF (2.81MB)
- Collaborative infrastructure funding is needed to support research into an environmentally sustainable Australia, biological discovery and health, frontier science and technology and safeguarding Australia;
- Increased emphasis should be placed on eResearch infrastructure, as information and communication technology underpins all areas of research and is an important enabler of collaboration between researchers within Australia and overseas;
- The infrastructure needs of humanities, arts and social sciences research should be addressed in view of the widespread contribution by these disciplines to national outcomes; and
- A structured process is needed to identify and assess major ‘landmark’ infrastructure investments, such as further development of the Square Kilometre Array.
For more details contact: ncris@innovation.gov.au
Draft Interim Business Plan for Australian National Data Service
A late draft of the Interim Business Plan for the Australian National Data Service is now available from the ANDS website.
Executive Summary (v0.5)
What does a National Data Management Strategy need to consider?
Posted November 15, 2007 
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Comments(0) Data Management can mean different things in different research domains. The tools and methods for managing data in high-energy physics may appear to have no relationship with the data needs of the social scientists. But there are common elements, and a national strategy can focus on those that permeate the many domains in research.
Here I’ve attempted to highlight the many various dimensions to data management and provide further references to some relevant technologies and examples, starting with the core common infrastructure working down to where there are domain-specifics tools and methods. Read more »
Revisiting New Zealand’s Digital Strategy
Posted November 14, 2007 Comments(0)
Comments(0) This afternoon I have been invited by the Ministry of Research Science and Technology to comment (in a video conference) on the NZ Government’s Digital Strategy from May 2005 and the draft Digital Content Strategy August 2007. The strategy is currently being updated and this exercise ties in to the Digital Future Summit 2.0 conference being held in Auckland next week.
In the May 2005 document, the government sees this strategy as a crucial ingredient in NZ’s journey towards the “Knowledge Society”. The strategy is based around the enablers connection, content and confidence: affordable high-speed connection for everybody, diverse high-quality content, and the building of capability and confidence to use digital resources in our society.
The document promotes the idea of transforming the economy through information and communication. Indeed it even suggests at one point that:
information + communication = knowledge society
What needs to be recognised?
As with anything involving IT these days, the situation has changed three years on. And there are two emerging considerations which I believe need addressing in a digital strategy for New Zealand. Read more »