Digital Ecosystems
Digital Ecosystem
“Digital ecosystem (DE) is a dynamic configuration of informational organisms, individual and organisational actors, which interact in the digitally networked and federated environment”. Gill, A.Q. (2022). The digital ecosystem information framework: Insights from action design research. Journal of Information Science, Sage Publication.
DigiSAS work is mainly concerned with the theory and practice of data-intensive digital ecosystem (DE) including digital semantics, architecture and systems that deal with the identification, classification, storage, processing, representation, communication, access, use, sharing, quality, governance and protection of information (data, analytics, intelligence).
- Information (Data) is a foundation for digital innovation and transformation. DigiSAS focuses on how to design, implement, run, govern and evolve data-intensive digital ecosystems for continuous digital innovation and transformations.
- DigiSAS research is largely undertaken in collaboration with industry partners through research and innovation development contracts and internships. Research and innovation results are disseminated through industry short courses, workshops, seminars, forums, showcases, conferences, white papers and academic articles.
The Digital Ecosystem Information (DEi) Framework
DigiSAS lab has developed the DEi framework, which is continuously developed and evolved through applied action design research and innovation projects with industry partners in Australia. It provides and focuses on the following 9 knowledge areas for research and innovation in the contemporary information science and systems disciplines.
| Executing | Enabling | Steering |
| 1. Information, Actors and Interactions | 4. Information Project, Program and Portfolio Management | 7. Information Culture, Leadership and Support |
| 2. Information System Development, Engineering and Operations | 5. Information Quality, Processing and Management | 8. Information Strategy, Architecture and Governance |
| 3. Information Modelling, Visualisation and Storytelling | 6. Information Access, Protection and Forensics | 9. Information Laws, Regulations and Standards |
- Information, Actors and Interactions
Information, actors and their interactions management in secure adaptive digital ecosystems.
- Information System Development, Engineering and Operations
Agile planning, information requirements analysis, development, testing, deployment, operations and maintenance and improvement of secure adaptive digital ecosystems. This includes: Agile development, DevOps, DataOps, information platforms and infrastructure (e.g. cloud, drone, IoT, operational data stores, data warehouse, data lake).
- Information Modelling, Visualisation and Storytelling
Information modelling, visualisation and storytelling for information in secure adaptive digital ecosystems. This includes: Relational, non-relational, semantics, knowledge graph, vault & dimensional modelling; mathematical, statistical, analytical and decision modelling; information visualisations and narrative development.
- Information Project, Program and Portfolio Management
Information project, program and portfolio management for information in secure adaptive digital ecosystems. This includes: Agile project, program and portfolio management.
- Information Quality, Processing and Management
Information quality, storage, sharing and use in secure adaptive digital ecosystems. This includes: Meta, master, reference & transactional data, documents & content management. Data warehousing including data pipelines: sourcing, linking, integration, interoperability, merging, transformation, federation, virtualisation, replication and sharing of information for analytics & decision making.
- Information Access, Protection and Forensics
Information access, protection and forensics for secure adaptive digital ecosystems. This includes: Identity & access management, privilege access management, physical access control, information privacy (confidentiality, access), security (asset, value, risk, resilience), ethics (ownership, transaction, consent, currency, openness) and forensics (information examination, reporting).
- Information Culture, Leadership and Support
Information culture, leadership and support framework development for secure adaptive digital ecosystems. This includes: information literacy, information as evidence, information driven strategy, and support for information handling.
- Information Strategy, Architecture and Governance
Information strategy, enterprise and information (data) architecture and governance for secure adaptive digital ecosystems. This includes: information identification, actor network, information network, and interaction handling.
- Information Laws, Regulations and Standards
Information laws, regulations and standards applicable to information in secure adaptive digital ecosystems.