ANDS and its Services

Phenomics Data & Informatics Workshop 2010, Friday, 23rd April 2010

Australian National Data Service (ANDS) An initiative of the Australian Government being

conducted as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy ($A24M) and the Super Science Initiative ($A48M)

A collaboration between Monash University, the Australian National University and CSIRO

Operations nodes: Melbourne, Canberra …. About 40 staff, and growing “More researchers re-using more data more often”

Australian Research Data Commons

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What does ANDS provide? Online Services

ANDS infrastructure to support data registration, identification, publication, classification, etc

Expertise and information consultancy recommendations, policy, and advice capability building Information sharing, sharing experience

Resourcing Community infrastructure projects Institutional change Funding for data activities, infrastructure development

Policy advocacy

Supporting discovery and re-use

Create/Capture Adding metadata is done most cheaply and

effectively as close as possible to point of creation/capture Treloar/Wilkinson, DOI 10.1109/eScience.2008.41

ANDS funding $17M of projects to improve data capture $12M with institutions $5M thematically

Store ANDS doesn’t do storage, but it cares that it

happens well Australian Code for Responsible Conduct of

Research a driver here Working with institutional and national data stores Tight integration with Australian Research

Collaboration Services and new National Data Fabric

Describe Information for discovery Information for determination of value Information for access Information for re-use Notes:

Ideally all of these should be available at discovery time Driven by desire to enable re-use

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Identify Persistent identifiers for data provide level of

indirection to assist with longterm access Handles (based on CNRI infrastructure)

Identify my Data service now available human and machine interfaces

Digital Object Identifiers for data ANDS has just joined DataCite consortium Available soon

Register Feeds ANDS Registry for discovery and re-use Supports OAI-PMH harvest

Preferred format RIF-CS Can also transform from other XML schemas

XML GET RIF-CS, other XML

Manual entry (Register My Data service)

Discover Use Registry info to generate richly interlinked web

pages for spidering Range of other discovery interfaces on

development roadmap spatial temporal image

http://services.ands.org.au/pages/

Access Direct link to open-access data Link to datastore with its own access controls

register/login only for open access register/login for restricted access

Contact information for how to get data Metadata only (no access)

variations in how people feel about this

Exploit Could also be called Use Focused on the kinds of things that can be built on

top of data once it is re-usable mashups data fusion cross-disciplinary visualisation

ANDS planning to fund activity here under Applications program

New Services development Needs analysis process Nov/Dec 2009

http://ands.org.au/ands-needs-analysis.html

Draft Services Roadmap (ARDC Core and Applications) released for consultation March 2010 http://ands.org.au/draft-services-roadmap.pdf

Services Roadmap finalised late April 2010 Process of commissioning commences May 2010

Links ANDS Web Site: http://ands.org.au/ ANDS Services documentation:

http://ands.org.au/services/ ANDS Services site: http://services.ands.org.au/