Tools and Processes to Support the Development of a National Platform for Urban Research: Lessons (Being) Learnt from the AURIN Project

Abstract

The development of large-scale software systems remains a non-trivial endeavour. This is especially so when the software systems comprise services and resources coming from multiple distributed software groups, and where they are required to interoperate with heterogeneous, independent (and autonomous) distributed data providers. The use of software development and management tools to support this process is highly desirable. In this paper we focus on the software development and management systems that have been adopted within the national Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN - www.aurin.org.au) project. AURIN is tasked with developing a software platform to support resea..