Project ARCHER Overview

The ARCHER project of dedicated development teams within each partner University have built upon the prototype software developed by the DART (http://dart.edu.au) and ARROW (http://arrow.edu.au) projects to produce a robust set of software tools which:

• may be customised to suit the needs of diverse research areas
• automate the collection and management of instrument generated data
• enable the repository storage of research data and associated metadata
• enable collection and tagging of research data in a collaborative environment, and
• provide these capabilities in a secure end-to-end process.

ARCHER partner universities

The ARCHER partner institutions were:

Monash University (Lead Institution) and home of the ARCHER Office, James Cook University (JCU) and University of Queensland (UQ).

The ARCHER Office co-ordinated the project overall,with each university hosting a local development team.Several research groups acted as 'clients' to all the development teamsand were assisted by business analysts tospecify and refine the use cases, the drivers of software development.

• At Monash University:
  • Development team: ITS Research Support Services and MERC
    
  • Client: MERC and the Protein Crystallography Unit
• At JCU:
  • Development team: JCU eResearch Centre
  • Clients: Graduate Research School, Queensland Facility for Advanced BioInformatics (QFAB) Breast Cancer group.
• At UQ
  • Development team: School of ITEE
  • Client: UQ eResearch Group

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