A seamless and secure national research ecosystem
Trust and identity underpins every aspect of modern research - it is fundamental infrastructure that will create significant advances in outcomes for Australian researchers.
The Australian Access Federation (AAF) is building a Trust and Identity Framework that includes common policies, standards and technologies so researchers will enjoy a more cohesive network of services. Through one username and password they will be able to seamlessly access multiple national research capabilities.
How we can help you
We are partnering with national research infrastructures to enable access by researchers, industry and government.
National Research Infrastructure
AAF is partnering with national research infrastructure to develop a system-wide approach to access.
Higher Education
Many national research infrastructure are distributed throughout Australia’s universities, and we can work with your IT team and them, to enable access to those services and facilities.
Industry
A consistent and easy way in which to access research infrastructure will enable collaboration between industry and researchers, supporting research development and commercialisation.
Researchers
AAF are exploring with the national research infrastructure community, how we can enable access to the valuable services, technologies, data and computational power.
Meet our Incubators
National Imaging Facility
AAF has partnered with the National Imaging Facility (NIF) exploring improved access and collaboration for complex multi-site human imaging projects and medical trials using sensitive data.
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
AAF has partnered with the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre exploring options to provide seamless and secure access to their supercomputing service using federated identities.
Microscopy Australia
AAF has partnered with Microscopy Australia exploring impact tracking through persistent identifiers (PIDs).
ACCESS-NRI
AAF has partnered with ACCESS-NRI exploring a solution that can improve usage tracking across all resources.
NCI Australia
AAF has partnered with NCI Australia exploring options to provide seamless and secure access to their supercomputing service.
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
AAF has partnered with ARDC to ensure the trust and identity policies and technologies support researchers across distributed infrastructures and research communities.
Software Toolkit
Discover a suite of software solutions that can enhance your organisation’s trust and identity capabilities and can be implemented by your organisation or service.
Policy Development Kit for Research Collaborations
Discover a suite of common policies enabling trusted and secure collaboration across multiple services and organisations. The Policy Development Kit for Research Collaborations offers a structured approach for developing policies related to access, identity management, and trust within a collaborative research environment.
Hear from our partners
“Trust and identity is integral for ensuring researchers from academia, the public sector and industry have seamless and secure access to digital research infrastructure. The Trust and Identity program will be a crucial component of the ARDC’s new Thematic Research Data Commons, which will scale up digital research infrastructure to meet Australia’s future research needs.”Rosie Hicks
Chief Executive Officer Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
``Through partnering with the AAF as a Trust and Identity Pathfinder incubator, we are looking to explore how we can increase the efficiencies of reporting on use, as a measure of our impact. This knowledge is important, as it can help us plan for the future and focus our resources on the supporting the needs of researchers, the government and industry to tackle climate change.”Professor Andy Hogg
Director, ACCESS-NRI
``One of our greatest challenges, is to connect and report on the impact our of distributed services. Through this Trust and Identity Pathfinder incubator, we are partnering with the AAF to investigate the tracking of our infrastructure through PIDs at The University of Queensland, UNSW Sydney, Monash University and the University of Adelaide.``Dr Lisa Yen
Chief Executive Officer, Microscopy Australia
``Pawsey is grateful for the opportunity to work with the AAF, developing new capabilities in Trust and Identity in Australia for High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems. Australian HPC facilities are world leaders delivering large scale compute facilities for research and working collaboratively with the research community to ensure effective uptake of the national investment. As we move to a more complex national and international service environment it is essential that we build systems that enhance system integration and make those systems easier to use. Pawsey is leveraging the expertise of the AAF and our knowledge of the underlying technical HPC functionality to prototype and build the service integrations that will make this all possible.``Mark Gray
Head of Strategic Partnerships, Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
Incubator partners
