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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