ARDC Digital Research Capabilities and Skills Framework: The Framework and Its Components
The ARDC's Digital Research Capabilities and Skills Framework, released in 2022, provides a structure for training programs to develop essential and advanced digital research skills. It aims to help researchers and professionals identify the necessary skills they need to leverage emerging...
Keywords: training material, skills framework, ARDC skills framework, ARDC capabilities framework, national skills framework, learning path, role profile, capabilities, FAIR implementation, skills, data management, research software, data governance, digital research infrastructure
ARDC Digital Research Capabilities and Skills Framework: The Framework and Its Components
https://zenodo.org/records/14188836
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-digital-research-capabilities-and-skills-framework-the-framework-and-its-components
The ARDC's Digital Research Capabilities and Skills Framework, released in 2022, provides a structure for training programs to develop essential and advanced digital research skills. It aims to help researchers and professionals identify the necessary skills they need to leverage emerging opportunities in data management, data analysis, data linking, AI, and machine learning. The framework aligns with technological advancements and encourages ongoing discussion and contributions to evolve the coverage of digital research skills.
The framework focuses on digital research skills, excluding broader professional skills, and is intended for a wide range of stakeholders. It provides a structured approach for project teams and organisations to develop and enhance their digital research skills through six main components: a skills taxonomy, a skills glossary, a list of generalised roles, roles and skills-related profiles, learning paths, and a skills and roles matrix. The skills taxonomy classifies digital research skills into four capability families: Governance, Data, Software, and Digital Research Infrastructure Management. It provides a standard terminology for identifying and describing these skills.
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Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
Russell, Keith (type: Editor)
Wong, Adeline (type: Editor)
Lyrtzis, Ellen (type: Editor)
training material, skills framework, ARDC skills framework, ARDC capabilities framework, national skills framework, learning path, role profile, capabilities, FAIR implementation, skills, data management, research software, data governance, digital research infrastructure
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers: Upskilling for a Rapidly Evolving Workforce
The following recommendations were inspired by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Digital Research Skills Summit 2023, that brought together Researchers, Learning Designers, Skills Trainers, and Librarians in productive discussions on how to run effective researcher skills training....
Keywords: Training, Training Material, Short Format Training, Digital Skills, Researcher Training, Learning
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers: Upskilling for a Rapidly Evolving Workforce
https://zenodo.org/records/13989494
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ten-simple-rules-for-researchers-upskilling-for-a-rapidly-evolving-workforce
The following recommendations were inspired by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Digital Research Skills Summit 2023, that brought together Researchers, Learning Designers, Skills Trainers, and Librarians in productive discussions on how to run effective researcher skills training. These rules outline how to think about skills learning for researchers, plan training sessions, and efficiently maximize learning. We offer recommendations on how to design and develop learner-centered training programs (Rules 1 and 2), foster outreach, and connect with trainer communities (Rules 3 and 4). We then provide tips to manage and optimize training (Rules 5, 6, and 7), and conclude with valuable insights on preparing for uncertainty and the importance of post-training operations and continued learning (Rules 8, 9, and 10).
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Lovelace-Tozer, Meirian (orcid: 0000-0001-6684-3041)
Brown, John (orcid: 0000-0002-6118-577X)
Clemens, Robert (orcid: 0000-0002-1359-5133)
Greenhill, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0001-9357-6006)
Haseen, Fathima (orcid: 0009-0009-9950-1510)
Kingsley, Danny (orcid: 0000-0002-3636-5939)
Mills, Katie (orcid: 0000-0002-5243-6071)
Lyrtzis, Ellen
Mori, Giorgia (orcid: 0000-0003-3469-5632)
Steel, Kathryn M. (orcid: 0000-0002-5720-1239)
Stokes, Liz (orcid: 0000-0002-2973-5647)
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
Wong, Adeline (orcid: 0000-0002-9135-4757)
Gouda-Vossos, Amany (orcid: 0000-0002-6142-9439)
Training, Training Material, Short Format Training, Digital Skills, Researcher Training, Learning
DReSA: Project team reflections
This presentation provides thoughts and reflections from the Digital Research Skills Australaisa (DReSA) project team on DReSA. Team members highlight their perspectives on value propositions and benefits for their respective institutiosn/organisations and nationally, as well as individual...
Keywords: training events, training material, training repository, skilled workforce, digital research skills, digital research training, digital research, trainers, FAIR training
DReSA: Project team reflections
https://zenodo.org/records/5712129
https://dresa.org.au/materials/dresa-project-team-reflections-9dcb8538-6b7c-4822-b0ee-fbe57085dc70
This presentation provides thoughts and reflections from the Digital Research Skills Australaisa (DReSA) project team on DReSA. Team members highlight their perspectives on value propositions and benefits for their respective institutiosn/organisations and nationally, as well as individual reflections on collaboration and working together on the project so far.
You can watch the video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/qqH92itI8SI
contact@ardc.edu.au
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
Papaioannou, Anastasios (orcid: 0000-0002-8959-4559)
Backhaus, Ann (orcid: 0000-0002-9023-055X)
Vanichkina, Darya (orcid: 0000-0002-0406-164X)
Symon, Jon
Steel, Kay (orcid: 0000-0002-5720-1239)
Burke, Melissa (orcid: 0000-0002-5571-8664)
May, Nick
training events, training material, training repository, skilled workforce, digital research skills, digital research training, digital research, trainers, FAIR training
ARDC Skills Landscape
The Australian Research Data Commons is driving transformational change in the research data ecosystem, enabling researchers to conduct world class data-intensive research. One interconnected component of this ecosystem is skills development/uplift, which is critical to the Commons and its...
Keywords: skills, data skills, eresearch skills, community, skilled workforce, FAIR, research data management, data stewardship, data governance, data use, data generation, training material
ARDC Skills Landscape
https://zenodo.org/records/4287743
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-skills-landscape-56b224ca-9e30-4771-8615-d028c7be86a6
The Australian Research Data Commons is driving transformational change in the research data ecosystem, enabling researchers to conduct world class data-intensive research. One interconnected component of this ecosystem is skills development/uplift, which is critical to the Commons and its purpose of providing Australian researchers with a competitive advantage through data.
In this presentation, Kathryn Unsworth introduces the ARDC Skills Landscape. The Landscape is a first step in developing a national skills framework to enable a coordinated and cohesive approach to skills development across the Australian eResearch sector. It is also a first step towards helping to analyse current approaches in data training to identify:
- Siloed skills initiatives, and finding ways to build partnerships and improve collaboration
- Skills deficits, and working to address the gaps in data skills
- Areas of skills development for investment by skills stakeholders like universities, research organisations, skills and training service providers, ARDC, etc.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
skills, data skills, eresearch skills, community, skilled workforce, FAIR, research data management, data stewardship, data governance, data use, data generation, training material
ARDC 2023 Skills Summit - Frameworks Panel Discussion (Day 2 - February 10, 2023)
Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Panel Talks Day 2 - February 10th, 2023)
Dr Peter Derbyshire - Unpacking the ATSE report - Our STEM skilled future and the need for a national skills taxonomy
Anthony Beitz - Applying Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) within DSTG
Kate...
Keywords: training material, research, training, skills, framework, sfia, eresearch, skills frameworks, skills taxonomies, skills classifications, skill shortages, transferrable skills, applying SFIA, training gaps, workforce requirements, job requirements, DReSA, digital literacy, applying skills frameworks, Australian Skills Classification framework, ASC
ARDC 2023 Skills Summit - Frameworks Panel Discussion (Day 2 - February 10, 2023)
https://zenodo.org/records/7711287
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-2023-skills-summit-frameworks-panel-discussion-day-2-february-10-2023-c00730b5-3444-4ccd-8f8f-9ae8ec3dfbe6
Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Panel Talks Day 2 - February 10th, 2023)
Dr Peter Derbyshire - Unpacking the ATSE report - Our STEM skilled future and the need for a national skills taxonomy
Anthony Beitz - Applying Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) within DSTG
Kate Morrison - A national skills taxonomy - Australian Skills Classification (ASC)
Kathryn Unsworth - ARDC Digital Research Capabilities & Skills Framework
Peter Embelton - Enhancing skills uplift for researchers through the alignment and implementation of skills frameworks
These presentations cover skills frameworks/taxonomies/classifications, skill shortages, transferrable skills, applying SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age), Australian Skills Classification framework, training gaps, workforce/job requirements, Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA), digital literacy and applying skills frameworks.
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Derbyshire, Peter
Beitz, Anthony (orcid: 0000-0002-2071-2852)
Morrison, Kate
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
Embelton, Peter
training material, research, training, skills, framework, sfia, eresearch, skills frameworks, skills taxonomies, skills classifications, skill shortages, transferrable skills, applying SFIA, training gaps, workforce requirements, job requirements, DReSA, digital literacy, applying skills frameworks, Australian Skills Classification framework, ASC
ARDC Training Materials Metadata Checklist v1.1
The ARDC Training Materials Metadata Checklist aims to support learning designers, training materials creators, trainers and national training infrastructure providers to capture key information and apply appropriate mechanisms to enable sharing and reuse of their training materials
Keywords: checklist, Training material, FAIR, standard, requirements, metadata
ARDC Training Materials Metadata Checklist v1.1
https://zenodo.org/records/5276003
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-training-materials-metadata-checklist-v1-1
The ARDC Training Materials Metadata Checklist aims to support learning designers, training materials creators, trainers and national training infrastructure providers to capture key information and apply appropriate mechanisms to enable sharing and reuse of their training materials
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Martinez, Paula Andrea (orcid: 0000-0002-8990-1985)
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
checklist, Training material, FAIR, standard, requirements, metadata
Show & Tell - Tackling 'no shows'
In this session, questions were asked on how to tackle 'no shows' for training events:
What are the motivations behind ‘no shows’?
What % of ‘no shows’ is acceptable? Any data on that?
Do we need to lay some gentle guilt trips?
Community Slides
Tackling ‘no shows’. What is your...
Keywords: training attendance, no shows, skills training, training material
Show & Tell - Tackling 'no shows'
https://zenodo.org/records/4289344
https://dresa.org.au/materials/show-tell-tackling-no-shows-9f0d32c0-b2af-4624-9df1-d4e087da81b6
In this session, questions were asked on how to tackle 'no shows' for training events:
- What are the motivations behind ‘no shows’?
- What % of ‘no shows’ is acceptable? Any data on that?
- Do we need to lay some gentle guilt trips?
- Community Slides
- Tackling ‘no shows’. What is your approach? What would you be willing to try?
contact@ardc.edu.au
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
training attendance, no shows, skills training, training material
National skills ecosystem - call to action
In this Community Action session working groups will be formed based on the challenges/opportunities that were prioritised in Community Action session #4.
Skilled trainers / facilitators
National training registry
National training event calendar
Jointly developed training
Research...
Keywords: national skills initiatives, data skills, training, skills community, training material
National skills ecosystem - call to action
https://zenodo.org/records/4289335
https://dresa.org.au/materials/national-skills-ecosystem-call-to-action-ffd9b4ed-b557-496b-ac35-72467c03c71b
In this Community Action session working groups will be formed based on the challenges/opportunities that were prioritised in Community Action session #4.
- Skilled trainers / facilitators
- National training registry
- National training event calendar
- Jointly developed training
- Research support professionals: career/progression
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Padmanabhan, Komathy
Backhaus, Ann
Papaioannou, Anastasios (orcid: 0000-0002-8959-4559)
Tang, Titus
Crowe, Mark (orcid: 0000-0002-9514-2487)
Vanichkina, Darya (orcid: 0000-0002-0406-164X)
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
Stokes, Liz (orcid: 0000-0002-2973-5647)
Liffers, Matthias (orcid: 0000-0002-3639-2080)
national skills initiatives, data skills, training, skills community, training material
ARDC Skills Impact and Strategy Community Discussion
The focus of this community event arose from the ARDC SKills Summit 2021, hosted in collaboration with eResearch Australasia Conference. Two key themes identified at the Summit formed the focus of this event: 1) How to convince senior management the value of digital skills training so that they...
Keywords: training impact, evaluation, skills training, resourcing, value proposition, training material
ARDC Skills Impact and Strategy Community Discussion
https://zenodo.org/records/5739422
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-skills-impact-and-strategy-community-discussion-e9d63cee-0d9c-4f8d-9c0f-58afe99b649b
The focus of this community event arose from the ARDC SKills Summit 2021, hosted in collaboration with eResearch Australasia Conference. Two key themes identified at the Summit formed the focus of this event: 1) How to convince senior management the value of digital skills training so that they don't question resourcing 2) Evaluating the long-term impact of digital skills training on researchers’ workflows and outputs.
You can watch the full video presentation on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/iSnE7OBILqs
contact@ardc.edu.au
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
training impact, evaluation, skills training, resourcing, value proposition, training material
Using PennyLane on Setonix
Introduction to quantum computing
Keywords: Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Setonix, quantum, PennyLane
Using PennyLane on Setonix
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-abmJkmKi8GR46TnvsvP3-ro
https://dresa.org.au/materials/using-pennylane-on-setonix
Introduction to quantum computing
training@pawsey.org.au
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Setonix, quantum, PennyLane
Pawsey: AWS Quantum 101 Using Amazon Braket
Join us as AWS Quantum Specialists introduce quantum simulators and gate-based quantum computers, before turning to more advanced topics.
Keywords: Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, AWS, quantum, HPC
Pawsey: AWS Quantum 101 Using Amazon Braket
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-abDLr86-bG8zqfBIffu6Eh2
https://dresa.org.au/materials/pawsey-aws-quantum-101-using-amazon-braket
Join us as AWS Quantum Specialists introduce quantum simulators and gate-based quantum computers, before turning to more advanced topics.
training@pawsey.org.au
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, AWS, quantum, HPC
HIP Advanced Workshop
Additional topics presented about HIP, covering memory management, kernel optimisation, IO optimisation and porting CUDA to HIP.
Keywords: HIP, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, supercomputing
HIP Advanced Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-absyWGpFsiw1TD1rgmjHZee
https://dresa.org.au/materials/hip-advanced-workshop
Additional topics presented about HIP, covering memory management, kernel optimisation, IO optimisation and porting CUDA to HIP.
training@pawsey.org.au
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
HIP, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, supercomputing
Managing Data using Acacia @ Pawsey
Acacia is Pawsey's "warm tier" or project storage. This object store is fully integrated with Setonix, Pawsey's main supercomputer, enabling fast transfer of data for project use.
These short videos introduce this high-speed object storage for hosting research data online.
Acacia is named...
Keywords: data, data skills, Acacia, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, object storage, File systems
Managing Data using Acacia @ Pawsey
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-aYxrbqtSYHS1ufVZ9xs1AnI
https://dresa.org.au/materials/managing-data-using-acacia-pawsey
Acacia is Pawsey's "warm tier" or project storage. This object store is fully integrated with Setonix, Pawsey's main supercomputer, enabling fast transfer of data for project use.
These short videos introduce this high-speed object storage for hosting research data online.
Acacia is named after Australia’s national floral emblem the Golden Wattle – Acacia pycnantha.
training@pawsey.org.au
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
data, data skills, Acacia, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, object storage, File systems
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ecr
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OpenCL
Supercomputers make use of accelerators from a variety of different hardware vendors, using devices such as multi-core CPU’s, GPU’s and even FPGA’s. OpenCL is a way for your HPC application to make effective use of heterogeneous computing devices, and to avoid code refactoring for new HPC...
Keywords: supercomputing, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, CPUs, GPUs, OpenCL, FPGAs
Resource type: activity
OpenCL
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-aa_lk5fby5PjuS49snHpyYL
https://dresa.org.au/materials/opencl
Supercomputers make use of accelerators from a variety of different hardware vendors, using devices such as multi-core CPU’s, GPU’s and even FPGA’s. OpenCL is a way for your HPC application to make effective use of heterogeneous computing devices, and to avoid code refactoring for new HPC infrastructure.
training@pawsey.org.au
Toby Potter
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
Pelagos
Toby Potter
supercomputing, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, CPUs, GPUs, OpenCL, FPGAs
masters
ecr
researcher
support
AMD Profiling
The AMD profiling workshop covers the AMD suite of tools for development of HPC applications on AMD GPUs.
You will learn how to use the rocprof profiler and trace visualization tool that has long been available as part of the ROCm software suite.
You will also learn how to use the new...
Keywords: supercomputing, performance, GPUs, CPUs, AMD, HPC, ROCm
Resource type: activity
AMD Profiling
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-aaQOCG5Jlw8oLBORJfoQC2o
https://dresa.org.au/materials/amd-profiling
The AMD profiling workshop covers the AMD suite of tools for development of HPC applications on AMD GPUs.
You will learn how to use the rocprof profiler and trace visualization tool that has long been available as part of the ROCm software suite.
You will also learn how to use the new Omnitools - Omnitrace and Omniperf - that were introduced at the end of 2022. Omnitrace is a powerful tracing profiler for both CPU and GPU. It can collect data from a much wider range of sources and includes hardware counters and sampling approaches. Omniperf is a performance analysis tool that can help you pinpoint how your application is performing with a visual view of the memory hierarchy on the GPU as well as reporting the percentage of peak for many different measurements.
training@pawsey.org.au
AMD
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
supercomputing, performance, GPUs, CPUs, AMD, HPC, ROCm
Evaluate Application Performance using TAU and E4S
In this workshop, you learn about the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack and the TAU Performance System® and its interfaces to other tools and libraries. The workshop includes sample codes that illustrate the different instrumentation and measurement choices.
Topics covered include...
Keywords: supercomputing, TAU, E4S, Performance, ROCm, OpenMP
Resource type: activity
Evaluate Application Performance using TAU and E4S
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-aakuGnuVPiWVaqCLgm3kdRG
https://dresa.org.au/materials/evaluate-application-performance-using-tau-and-e4s
In this workshop, you learn about the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack and the TAU Performance System® and its interfaces to other tools and libraries. The workshop includes sample codes that illustrate the different instrumentation and measurement choices.
Topics covered include generating performance profiles and traces with memory utilization and headroom, I/O, and interfaces to ROCm, including ROCProfiler and ROCTracer with support for collecting hardware performance data.
The workshop also covers instrumentation of OpenMP programs using OpenMP Tools Interface (OMPT), including support for target offload and measurement of a program’s memory footprint.
During the session, there are hands-on activities on scalable tracing using OTF2 and visualization using the Vampir trace analysis tool. Performance data analysis using ParaProf and PerfExplorer are demonstrated using the performance data management framework (TAUdb) that includes TAU’s performance database.
training@pawsey.org.au
Sameer Shende
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
supercomputing, TAU, E4S, Performance, ROCm, OpenMP
HIP Workshop
The Heterogeneous Interface for Portability (HIP) provides a programming framework for harnessing the compute capabilities of multicore processors, such as the MI250X GPU’s on Setonix.
In this course we focus on the essentials of developing HIP applications with a focus on...
Keywords: HIP, supercomputing, Programming, GPUs, MPI, debugging
Resource type: full-course
HIP Workshop
https://support.pawsey.org.au/documentation/display/US/Pawsey+Training+Resources
https://dresa.org.au/materials/hip-workshop
The Heterogeneous Interface for Portability (HIP) provides a programming framework for harnessing the compute capabilities of multicore processors, such as the MI250X GPU’s on Setonix.
In this course we focus on the essentials of developing HIP applications with a focus on supercomputing.
Agenda
- Introduction to HIP and high level features
- How to build and run applications on Setonix with HIP and MPI
- A complete line-by-line walkthrough of a HIP-enabled application
- Tools and techniques for debugging and measuring the performance of HIP applications
training@pawsey.org.au
Pelagos
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
HIP, supercomputing, Programming, GPUs, MPI, debugging
C/C++ Refresher
The C++ programming language and its C subset is used extensively in research environments. In particular it is the language utilised in the parallel programming frameworks CUDA, HIP, and OpenCL.
This workshop is designed to equip participants with “Survival C++”, an understanding of the basic...
Keywords: supercomputing, C/C++, Programming
Resource type: activity
C/C++ Refresher
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmu61dgAX-aYsRsejVfwHVhpPU2381Njg
https://dresa.org.au/materials/c-c-refresher
The C++ programming language and its C subset is used extensively in research environments. In particular it is the language utilised in the parallel programming frameworks CUDA, HIP, and OpenCL.
This workshop is designed to equip participants with “Survival C++”, an understanding of the basic syntax, how information is encoded in binary format, and how to compile and debug C++ software.
training@pawsey.org.au
Pelagos
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
supercomputing, C/C++, Programming