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Research data and the ANDS agenda in Australia
Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology
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ANDS Overview § Commenced in 2009 § Commonwealth funded through to mid-‐2015 § CollaboraJon between Monash, ANU, CSIRO § Staff of 35, mostly in Melbourne and Canberra § Funded to be “the voice for data”
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Support
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ANDS enables transformaJon of: From Data: " Unmanaged " Disconnected " Invisible " Single use
To Structured CollecJons: " Managed " Connected " Findable " Reusable
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so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-‐use research data.
NaJonal Policy Context
Policy Environment § Office of Chief ScienJst chairs § Australian Research Commi\ee which will receive § The Australian Research Data Infrastructure Strategy which is being wri\en by the
§ Research Data Infrastructure Commi\ee (p. 7 of PDF)
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2011 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure
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§ h\p://www.innovaJon.gov.au/Science/Documents/2011StrategicRoadmapforAustralianResearchInfrastructure.pdf
2012 Na;onal Research Investment Plan § h\p://
www.innovaJon.gov.au/Research/Documents/NaJonalResearchInvestmentPlan.pdf
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Policy Environment § NaJonal compeJJve grant funders
§ Australian Research Commission § NaJonal Health and Medical Research Commission
§ Australian public datasets § data.gov.au
§ AU has just joined Open Government Partnership § and has to develop whole-‐of-‐government acJon plan
§ ANDS is briefing all of the above players
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ANDS AcJvity to date § 200+ funded projects at (mostly) universiJes across advocacy, data/metadata capture, collecJon registraJon, data combinaJon
§ Range of naJonal service offerings: § PublicaJon
§ people can register existence of data holdings § Discovery
§ people can discover data holdings in variety of ways § CitaJon
§ people can get and resolve DataCite DOIs
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ANDS AcJvity to mid-‐2015 § Work with partners to support their research data ambiJons in pursuit of delivery of naJonal high-‐value collecJons
§ ConJnue to maintain naJonal service offerings § Provide resource of experJse for insJtuJonal and government space
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InternaJonal
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InternaJonal data environment (sample) § Discipline bodies
§ some of whom are also part of ICSU
§ InternaJonal Council for Science § ICSU World Data System § ICSU Commi\ee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
§ DataCite
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§ Formed in 2012 by research funders from § EU (500M) § US (300M) § AU (23M)
§ Members in every continent except Antarctica § But strongly biased towards US, Europe
§ Plenary 2 taking place in Washington DC in September 2013 § https://www.rd-alliance.org/future-events
Research Data Alliance Overview
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§ Interest Groups § people concerned with a particular class of problems (by
discipline or by kind) § may have ongoing existence § will probably spin off series of working groups
§ Working Groups § focussed on a particular problem § will run for 12-18 months § will produce a piece of infrastructure (broadly interpreted) for
deployment § should lead to more data being exchanged
Working Groups and Interest Groups
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§ Australian representatives heavily involved in formation process
§ Australians represented on range of governance bodies § Council: Dr Ross Wilkinson § Secretariat: Dr Stefanie Kethers § Technical Advisory Board: Dr Andrew Treloar
§ Plenary 3 being organised by Australia together with Ireland in Dublin in March 2014
Australian input into RDA
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QuesJons? § @atreloar
§ h\p://www.slideshare.net/atreloar/research-‐data-‐and-‐the-‐ands-‐agenda-‐in-‐australia
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