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“WE ARE A PUBLICALLY FUNDED INSTITUTION, WE DON’T HAVE MILLIONS TO INVEST IN UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY THAT MIGHT NOT PRODUCE RESULTS FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WE NEED TO BE MORE NIMBLE AND EMBRACE THE OPPORTUNITIES OF CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES WHEN IT MAKES SENSE” — David O’Connor, Deputy CIO, UTS 443
the entire functionality of a data arena
the researchers because ultimately
on their laptop. “This basically enables
it needs to make their job easier.
us to replicate the data arena for
Wherever there are opportunities for
development as widely as we want,”
automation, for example in the creation
adds Burns.
of data management plans, we take
UTS values cross-university collabo-
them. One of our goals is to remove
ration, and has teamed up with other
as much administrative overhead as
institutions to develop a research data
we can from our researchers, it’s an
catalogue, “Stash”, which is already on
ongoing process”. “This is just one
its third iteration. “The uptake internally
example of our broader evolution from
is accelerating and we’ve now got
project-thinking to product-thinking”
hundreds of researchers using the
says O’Connor, “In the modern IT world,
Stash platform,” says Gale. “We design
very little is launched and finished.”
and develop in close consultation with
The team has also needed to be w w w. g i g a b i t m a g a z i n e . c o m