New partnership ensures sustainability of DReSA training registry

The Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA) national training registry has found a home in a new national partnership between Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey) and National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). This group will take on the management, continued development and maintenance of the service in collaboration with the Australian training community.

BioCommons is an active member of the DReSA Working Group and our events and training materials can be found in DReSA alongside almost 1000 other events and 100’s of training materials. We’ve followed the development of DReSA from idea through to sustainability where BioCommons connections with ELIXIR and their TeSS Training portal proved pivotal in the development of DReSA. The open source codebase of TeSS provided a framework for the development of DReSA, saving considerable time and effort. This has sparked ongoing collaborations between Australia and ELIXIR with developments in DReSA now feeding back into TeSS. 

Our membership of the DReSA working group and the TeSS Scientific Advisory Board puts us in a unique and exciting vantage point to watch the coevolution of these valuable training resources. We are proud to be part of this wonderful example of collaboration around a common challenge involving a large group of Australian organisations and ELIXIR. We look forward to seeing and supporting what comes next for DReSA and TeSS! 

Read more about the future of DReSA in the ARDC, Pawsey and NCI press releases.