The ARDC Community Data Lab (CDL) provides tools, datasets, analysis environments and collaboration options for humanities, arts, social sciences, and Indigenous research in Australia. As CDL enters its second phase, it will focus on co-designing 5 new capabilities to support research and research translation.
The ARDC invites you to a workshop to co-design one of these capabilities: A framework for recommended patterns in software engineering when working with HASS and Indigenous data.
The goal of the co-design workshop is to evaluate this co-investment opportunity to help develop a solution that supports new and expanded research.
The humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS) and Indigenous research community faces a shortage of research software engineering (RSE) expertise, leading to fragmented and inconsistent software development practices. Researchers and technical teams lack access to architectural guidance, technical roadmaps, a recommended patterns guide for RSE, and models to integrate RSE principles into their work. This produces inefficiencies in technical delivery, increases cybersecurity risk, and makes it difficult to sustain research software beyond individual projects. Without a coordinated effort to build RSE capability across the sector, the HASS and Indigenous research community will struggle to leverage computational methods and produce innovative, reproducible, secure, and sustainable digital outputs.
Workshop participants are expected to actively engage in discussions. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to the problem to be addressed, along with the capability that we are proposing to develop as a solution to this problem for HASS and Indigenous research.
The workshop will be held virtually via Zoom. Participants will join breakout rooms and respond to questions using a Miro board. Our goal is to gather feedback on the value of the proposed solution and to assess whether we’re addressing the problem in the most effective way.
The proposed solution has been developed by ARDC in partnership with The Australian National University (ANU), HASS Digital Research Hub.
After the workshop we will publish a report that captures the input that we have received. Your insights will help us refine our approach, ensuring that we are on the right track.
If you have difficulty accessing Zoom or Miro please let us know ahead of the workshop and we will provide alternative methods for you to provide your feedback.
Learn more about the ARDC Community Data Lab and the co-design process for phase 2 by watching the recording of our recent webinar, or viewing the slides.
The second phase of the CDL is focusing on co-designing 5 new capabilities to support research and research translation. Join other co-design sessions relevant to your research and work:
To ensure participants’ privacy, we will not publish a recording of the workshop.
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