Astronomy Data And Computing Services - Upskilling the Australian astronomy community
The Astronomy Data And Computing Services (ADACS) initiative has been working with the Australian astronomy community for just over 3 years now. Our vision is to deliver astronomy-focused training, support and expertise to maximise the scientific return on investments in astronomical data &...
Keywords: astronomy, data skills, eresearch skills, skills, computational skills, training, skills gaps, astronomy-focused training, training material
Astronomy Data And Computing Services - Upskilling the Australian astronomy community
https://zenodo.org/records/4287748
https://dresa.org.au/materials/astronomy-data-and-computing-services-upskilling-the-australian-astronomy-community-57afa0b9-77da-4dc1-ad29-25089f19363d
The Astronomy Data And Computing Services (ADACS) initiative has been working with the Australian astronomy community for just over 3 years now. Our vision is to deliver astronomy-focused training, support and expertise to maximise the scientific return on investments in astronomical data & computing infrastructure.
During these last 3 years, we have delivered dozens of face-to-face, hands-on workshops and created several hours worth of online tutorial materials. This talk will focus on our journey to deliver this computational skills training to the community, exploring how we chose different delivery pathways and content, based both on community input as well as our professional expertise and understanding of existing skill gaps. Most importantly we will discuss our plans for the future and how we are working on actively including the community in developing new training material beyond the usual skills survey.
Come along to this talk if you would like to hear about a national effort to deliver computational skills training and would like to know more about potential new avenues to provide just-in-time training and how to collaborate with ADACS.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Lange, Rebecca (orcid: 0000-0002-9449-4384)
astronomy, data skills, eresearch skills, skills, computational skills, training, skills gaps, astronomy-focused training, training material
WORKSHOP: Make your bioinformatics workflows findable and citable
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Make your bioinformatics workflows findable and citable’. This workshop took place on 21 March 2023.
Event description
Computational workflows are invaluable resources for research communities. They help...
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Workflows, WorkflowHub, FAIR, Open Science
WORKSHOP: Make your bioinformatics workflows findable and citable
https://zenodo.org/records/7787488
https://dresa.org.au/materials/workshop-make-your-bioinformatics-workflows-findable-and-citable-74e85d1c-d869-429e-b942-8391f4bab23d
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Make your bioinformatics workflows findable and citable’. This workshop took place on 21 March 2023.
Event description
Computational workflows are invaluable resources for research communities. They help us standardise common analyses, collaborate with other researchers, and support reproducibility. Bioinformatics workflow developers invest significant time and expertise to create, share, and maintain these resources for the benefit of the wider community and being able to easily find and access workflows is an essential factor in their uptake by the community.
Increasingly, the research community is turning to workflow registries to find and access public workflows that can be applied to their research. Workflow registries support workflow findability and citation by providing a central repository and allowing users to search for and discover them easily.
This workshop will introduce you to workflow registries and support attendees to register their workflows on the popular workflow registry, WorkflowHub. We’ll kick off the workshop with an introduction to the concepts underlying workflow findability, how it can benefit workflow developers, and how you can make the most of workflow registries to share your computational workflows with the research community. You will then have the opportunity to register your own workflows in WorkflowHub with support from our trainers.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
Files and materials included in this record:
Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file.
2023-03-21_Workflows_slides (PDF): A copy of the slides presented during the workshop
Materials shared elsewhere:
A recording of the first part of this workshop is available on the Australian BioCommons YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/2kGKxaPuQN8
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Gustafsson, Johan (orcid: 0000-0002-2977-5032)
Samaha, Georgina (orcid: 0000-0003-0419-1476)
Bioinformatics, Workflows, WorkflowHub, FAIR, Open Science
WEBINAR: Here's one we prepared earlier: (re)creating bioinformatics methods and workflows with Galaxy Australia
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Here’s one we prepared earlier: (re)creating bioinformatics methods and workflows with Galaxy Australia’. This webinar took place on 26 October 2022.
Event description
Have you discovered a brilliant...
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Workflows, FAIR, Galaxy Australia
WEBINAR: Here's one we prepared earlier: (re)creating bioinformatics methods and workflows with Galaxy Australia
https://zenodo.org/records/7251310
https://dresa.org.au/materials/webinar-here-s-one-we-prepared-earlier-re-creating-bioinformatics-methods-and-workflows-with-galaxy-australia-134a8bf5-3801-421f-a454-e0f9020f4871
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Here’s one we prepared earlier: (re)creating bioinformatics methods and workflows with Galaxy Australia’. This webinar took place on 26 October 2022.
Event description
Have you discovered a brilliant bioinformatics workflow but you’re not quite sure how to use it? In this webinar we will introduce the power of Galaxy for construction and (re)use of reproducible workflows, whether building workflows from scratch, recreating them from published descriptions and/or extracting from Galaxy histories.
Using an established bioinformatics method, we’ll show you how to:
Use the workflows creator in Galaxy Australia
Build a workflow based on a published method
Annotate workflows so that you (and others) can understand them
Make workflows finable and citable (important and very easy to do!)
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
Files and materials included in this record:
Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file.
GalaxyWorkflows_Slides (PDF): A PDF copy of the slides presented during the webinar.
Materials shared elsewhere:
A recording of this webinar is available on the Australian BioCommons YouTube Channel:
https://youtu.be/IMkl6p7hkho
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Price, Gareth (orcid: 0000-0003-2439-8650)
Gustafsson, Johan (orcid: 0000-0002-2977-5032)
Bioinformatics, Workflows, FAIR, Galaxy Australia
WEBINAR: bio.tools - making it easier to find, understand and cite biological tools and software
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘bio.tools - making it easier to find, understand and cite biological tools and software’. This webinar took place on 21 June 2022.
Event description
bio.tools provides easy access to essential scientific...
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Research software, EDAM, Workflows, FAIR
WEBINAR: bio.tools - making it easier to find, understand and cite biological tools and software
https://zenodo.org/records/7024050
https://dresa.org.au/materials/webinar-bio-tools-making-it-easier-to-find-understand-and-cite-biological-tools-and-software-aea38c9e-0b40-4308-bafd-f7580563f520
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘bio.tools - making it easier to find, understand and cite biological tools and software’. This webinar took place on 21 June 2022.
Event description
bio.tools provides easy access to essential scientific and technical information about software, command-line tools, databases and services. It’s backed by ELIXIR, the European Infrastructure for Biological Information, and is being used in Australia to register software (e.g. Galaxy Australia, prokka). It underpins the information provided in the Australian BioCommons discovery service ToolFinder.
Hans Ienasescu and Matúš Kalaš join us to explain how bio.tools uses a community driven, open science model to create this collection of resources and how it makes it easier to find, understand, utilise and cite them. They’ll delve into how bio.tools is using standard semantics (e.g. the EDAM ontology) and syntax (e.g. biotoolsSchema) to enrich the annotation and description of tools and resources. Finally, we’ll see how the community can contribute to bio.tools and take advantage of its key features to share and promote their own research software.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
Files and materials included in this record:
Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file.
biotools_EDAM_slides (PDF): A PDF copy of the slides presented during the webinar.
Materials shared elsewhere:
A recording of this webinar is available on the Australian BioCommons YouTube Channel:
https://youtu.be/K0J4_bAUG3Y
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Ienasescu, Hans
Kalaš, Matúš (orcid: 0000-0002-1509-4981)
Bioinformatics, Research software, EDAM, Workflows, FAIR
Successful data training stories from NCI
NCI Australia manages a multi-petabyte sized data repository, collocated with its HPC systems and data services, which allows high performance access to many scientific research datasets across many earth science domains.
An important aspect is to provide training materials that proactively...
Keywords: skills, training, eresearch skills, HPC training, domain-specific training, reproducible workflows, training material
Successful data training stories from NCI
https://zenodo.org/records/4287750
https://dresa.org.au/materials/successful-data-training-stories-from-nci-33f110e3-0c06-492e-9cc5-fa0f886ca1b8
NCI Australia manages a multi-petabyte sized data repository, collocated with its HPC systems and data services, which allows high performance access to many scientific research datasets across many earth science domains.
An important aspect is to provide training materials that proactively engages with the research community to improve their understanding of the data available, and to share knowledge and best practices in the use of tools and other software. We have developed multiple levels of training modules (introductory, intermediate and advanced) to cater for users with different levels of experience and interest. We have also tailored courses for each scientific domain, so that the use-cases and software will be most relevant to their interests and needs.
For our training, we combine brief lectures followed by hands-on training examples on how to use datasets, using working examples of well-known tools and software that people can use as a template and modify to fit their needs. For example, we take representative use-cases from some scientific activities, from our collaborations and from user support issues, and convert to Jupyter notebook examples so that people can repeat the workfIow and reproduce the results. We also use the training as an opportunity to raise awareness of growing issues in resource management. Some examples include a familiarity of the FAIR data principles, licensing, citation, data management and trusted digital repositories. This approach to both our online training materials and workshops has been well-received by PhD students, early careers, and cross disciplinary users.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Wang, Jingbo
skills, training, eresearch skills, HPC training, domain-specific training, reproducible workflows, training material
Accelerating skills development in Data science and AI at scale
At the Monash Data Science and AI platform, we believe that upskilling our research community and building a workforce with data science skills are key to accelerating the application of data science in research. To achieve this, we create and leverage new and existing training capabilities...
Keywords: AI, machine learning, eresearch skills, training, train the trainer, volunteer instructors, training partnerships, training material
Accelerating skills development in Data science and AI at scale
https://zenodo.org/records/4287746
https://dresa.org.au/materials/accelerating-skills-development-in-data-science-and-ai-at-scale-2d8a65fa-f96e-44ad-a026-cfae3f38d128
At the Monash Data Science and AI platform, we believe that upskilling our research community and building a workforce with data science skills are key to accelerating the application of data science in research. To achieve this, we create and leverage new and existing training capabilities within and outside Monash University. In this talk, we will discuss the principles and purpose of establishing collaborative models to accelerate skills development at scale. We will talk about our approach to identifying gaps in the existing skills and training available in data science, key areas of interest as identified by the research community and various sources of training available in the marketplace. We will provide insights into the collaborations we currently have and intend to develop in the future within the university and also nationally.
The talk will also cover our approach as outlined below
• Combined survey of gaps in skills and trainings for Data science and AI
• Provide seats to partners
• Share associate instructors/helpers/volunteers
• Develop combined training materials
• Publish a repository of open source trainings
• Train the trainer activities
• Establish a network of volunteers to deliver trainings at their local regions
Industry plays a significant role in making some invaluable training available to the research community either through self learning platforms like AWS Machine Learning University or Instructor led courses like NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. We will discuss how we leverage our partnerships with Industry to bring these trainings to our research community.
Finally, we will discuss how we map our training to the ARDC skills roadmap and how the ARDC platforms project “Environments to accelerate Machine Learning based Discovery” has enabled collaboration between Monash University and University of Queensland to develop and deliver training together.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Tang, Titus
AI, machine learning, eresearch skills, training, train the trainer, volunteer instructors, training partnerships, training material
Data Fluency: a community of practice supporting a digitally skilled workforce
This presentation showcases the impact of the Monash Data Fluency Community of Practice upon digitally skilled Graduate Research students involved as learners and instructors in the program. The strong focus on building community to complement training, has fostered an environment of learning,...
Keywords: skills, training, eresearch skills, data skills, online learning, pedagogy, train the trainer, digitally skilled workforce, training material
Data Fluency: a community of practice supporting a digitally skilled workforce
https://zenodo.org/records/4287752
https://dresa.org.au/materials/data-fluency-a-community-of-practice-supporting-a-digitally-skilled-workforce-b911a1a8-0331-496e-95a6-0015a12acc34
This presentation showcases the impact of the Monash Data Fluency Community of Practice upon digitally skilled Graduate Research students involved as learners and instructors in the program. The strong focus on building community to complement training, has fostered an environment of learning, networking and sharing of expertise. Hear what the Graduate research students have to say about the value of skills training and how it has impacted their research; how the community has enabled them to network with a broad range of researchers and affiliate partner groups they would not ordinarily be in contact with; how their research journey has been enhanced by working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as sharpening their teaching skills.
The rapid refocus from face - face to online delivery, as a result of the pandemic, highlights the importance of the multi-faceted online approach including workshops, drop-in sessions, SLACK chat and online learning resources. As a result of the shift to online, the range of strategic external partner/affiliate groups has extended and demand for workshops and drop-ins has increased. Learn how the instructors have altered their pedagogical approach to engage workshop and drop-in participants; how they have overcome some of the challenges of facilitating in an online environment; and how this is preparing them to become part of a digitally skilled workforce.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Groenewegen, David (orcid: 0000-0003-2523-1676)
skills, training, eresearch skills, data skills, online learning, pedagogy, train the trainer, digitally skilled workforce, training material
Research Data Governance
This video contains key information for those who make research data-related decisions. It will help project leaders to start investigating ways to develop their own data governance policy, roles and responsibilities and procedures with the input of appropriate stakeholders.
If you want to share...
Keywords: data governance, data, research, FAIR, data management, authority, share, reuse, access, provenance, policy, responsibilities, ARDC_AU, training material
Research Data Governance
https://zenodo.org/records/5044585
https://dresa.org.au/materials/research-data-governance-6ad9ab90-1a29-41db-b4aa-f1988501530d
This video contains key information for those who make research data-related decisions. It will help project leaders to start investigating ways to develop their own data governance policy, roles and responsibilities and procedures with the input of appropriate stakeholders.
If you want to share the video please use this:
Australian Research Data Commons, 2021. Research Data Governance. [video] Available at: https://youtu.be/K_xVQRdgCIc DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5044585 [Accessed dd Month YYYY].
contact@ardc.edu.au
Australian Research Data Commons
Martinez, Paula Andrea (type: ProjectLeader)
Wilkinson, Max (type: Editor)
Callaghan,Shannon (type: Editor)
Savill, Jo (type: Editor)
Kang, Kristan (type: Editor)
Levett, Kerry (type: Editor)
Russell, Keith (type: Editor)
Simons, Natasha (type: Editor)
data governance, data, research, FAIR, data management, authority, share, reuse, access, provenance, policy, responsibilities, ARDC_AU, training material
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 Your first step to FAIR
This workshop gives a brief overview of the FAIR principles, including a method to make a one-file dataset FAIR.
Keywords: training material, FAIR, data, workshop
ARDC Your first step to FAIR
https://zenodo.org/records/5009206
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-your-first-step-to-fair-1ee3dc3c-23b0-4287-b96c-c120c5697932
This workshop gives a brief overview of the FAIR principles, including a method to make a one-file dataset FAIR.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Matthias Liffers (orcid: 0000-0002-3639-2080)
Stokes, Liz (type: Editor)
Martinez, Paula Andrea (type: Editor)
Russell, Keith (type: Editor)
training material, FAIR, data, workshop
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
contact@ardc.edu.au
Martinez, Paula Andrea (orcid: 0000-0002-8990-1985)
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
checklist, Training material, FAIR, standard, requirements, metadata
Locking the front door without leaving the windows open: positioning authentication technologies within the "Five Safes" framework for effective use of sensitive research data
This project explores the options for access to sensitive data sets; what authentication technologies (e.g. multi-factor authentication) are needed to access sensitive data and secure compute environments. This project seeks to position choices around authentication technologies within the Five...
Keywords: ARDC, Storage and Compute Summit, FAIR, Infrastructure, NCRIS, eResearch, training material
Locking the front door without leaving the windows open: positioning authentication technologies within the "Five Safes" framework for effective use of sensitive research data
https://zenodo.org/records/3547980
https://dresa.org.au/materials/locking-the-front-door-without-leaving-the-windows-open-positioning-authentication-technologies-within-the-five-safes-framework-for-effective-use-of-sensitive-research-data-b83124f8-2add-41c6-b194-d5dd50d098f6
This project explores the options for access to sensitive data sets; what authentication technologies (e.g. multi-factor authentication) are needed to access sensitive data and secure compute environments. This project seeks to position choices around authentication technologies within the Five Safes framework for research use of sensitive data, proposed in 2003 by Felix Ritchie of the UK Office of National Statistics:
• Safe Projects: is the proposed research use of the data appropriate?
• Safe People: can the users be trusted to use the data in an appropriate manner?
• Safe Settings: does the access facility limit unauthorised use?
• Safe Data: is there a disclosure risk in the data itself?
• Safe Outputs: are the research results non-disclosive i.e. they do not compromise privacy or breach confidentiality?
contact@ardc.edu.au
Churches, Tim
Jorm, Louisa
ARDC, Storage and Compute Summit, FAIR, Infrastructure, NCRIS, eResearch, training material
ARDC FAIR Data 101 self-guided
FAIR Data 101 v3.0 is a self-guided course covering the FAIR Data principles
The FAIR Data 101 virtual course was designed and delivered by the ARDC Skilled Workforce Program twice in 2020 and has now been reworked as a self-guided course.
The course structure was based on 'FAIR Data in the...
Keywords: training material, FAIR data, video, webinar, activities, quiz, FAIR, research data management
ARDC FAIR Data 101 self-guided
https://zenodo.org/records/5094034
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-fair-data-101-self-guided-2d794a84-f0ff-4e11-a39c-fa8ea481e097
FAIR Data 101 v3.0 is a self-guided course covering the FAIR Data principles
The FAIR Data 101 virtual course was designed and delivered by the ARDC Skilled Workforce Program twice in 2020 and has now been reworked as a self-guided course.
The course structure was based on 'FAIR Data in the Scholarly Communications Lifecycle', run by Natasha Simons at the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute. These training materials are hosted on GitHub.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Stokes, Liz (orcid: 0000-0002-2973-5647)
Liffers, Matthias (orcid: 0000-0002-3639-2080)
Burton, Nichola (orcid: 0000-0003-4470-4846)
Martinez, Paula A. (orcid: 0000-0002-8990-1985)
Simons, Natasha (orcid: 0000-0003-0635-1998)
Russell, Keith (orcid: 0000-0001-5390-2719)
McCafferty, Siobhann (orcid: 0000-0002-2491-0995)
Ferrers, Richard (orcid: 0000-0002-2923-9889)
McEachern, Steve (orcid: 0000-0001-7848-4912)
Barlow, Melanie (orcid: 0000-0002-3956-5784)
Brady, Catherine (orcid: 0000-0002-7919-7592)
Brownlee, Rowan (orcid: 0000-0002-1955-1262)
Honeyman, Tom (orcid: 0000-0001-9448-4023)
Quiroga, Maria del Mar (orcid: 0000-0002-8943-2808)
training material, FAIR data, video, webinar, activities, quiz, FAIR, research data management