Junran Lei has been involved in a number of system development projects in Humanities research. She developed AUSTLANG, an Australian Indigenous language database with GIS mapping features, OZBIB, a linguistic bibliography database, i‐Dig, a Fedora based search engine for harvested collections and a semantic web for museum prototype system. She worked as Researcher to investigate the development of an open source archival repository and preservation system for UNESCO. She is currently working on OCCAMS, an online cultural collection analysis and management system at the Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University.