WHAT IS ARDC SeRP
ARDC SeRP is a multi-institutional national collaboration, which aims to deliver a secure, trusted and scalable environment for data governance, control and management services for data custodians and secure remote data analysis environments for research users.
The SeRP service will lower barriers to making sensitive data FAIR by coalescing technology, processes & controls to build trust between data custodians, researchers & their collaborators.
Data Custodians require a robust, accredited, regulated and functional environment for the governance, control and management of sensitive data. This is critical to enable data curation, linkage, extraction, sharing with access control, de-identification and analysis.
Such an environment is needed to overcome significant barriers to making sensitive data FAIR, providing assurances to other data custodians regarding confidential and secure data handling, and ensuring researchers comply with ethical and regulatory requirements.
Research Users require simple and secure access to sensitive data and associated tools. They benefit from increased discoverability of data assets, data access through well defined mechanisms and processes, and access to a trusted environment with minimal risks.
The Project aims to:
Deploy and run a tested and proven technology called the SeRP Software Stack as a managed nationally consistent service via deployments and multi-tenancy arrangements to enable research collaborations across jurisdictional boundaries
Onboard exemplar research projects on the SeRP service and integrate SeRP across specific research applications
Establish a Community of Practice to enable training, knowledge sharing, development and dissemination of best practices and principles
Build a pipeline of projects across project partners (and their partners) that will be on-boarded onto the platform, under the current project and into the future
SeRP Service
Deploy and manage a tested and proven technology called SeRP as a nationally consistent service via deployments and multi-tenancy arrangements to enable research collaborators across jurisdictional boundaries.
Exemplar Research Projects
Onboarded exemplar research projects on the SeRP service and integrate SeRP across specific research applications across the social sciences and health research domains involving population health, policy development, complex biology and development of therapeutics.
Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice around SeRP will enable training knowledge sharing, development and dissemination for best practices and principals. The membership of these groups is a combination of representatives and skill-based members to ensure stakeholder buy-in and expertise. The project will enable both institutional and national cross- jurisdictional research projects that bring together national and global sensitive data assets and collaborators.
Project Pipeline
The project will create a pipeline if projects across project partners (and their partners) that will be on-boarded into the platform, under the current project and into the future including law and criminal justice, energy and environment and mining research.