Talk given for University of Melbourne Immersive Informatics, September 3, 2013

1. Research
data
and
the
ANDS
agenda
in
Australia
Dr
Andrew
Treloar,
Director
of
Technology
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Landscape
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4. 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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5. Support
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6. 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

7. Policy
Environment
§ Office
of
Chief
ScienJst
chairs
§ Australian
Research
Commiee
which
will
receive
§ The
Australian
Research
Data
Infrastructure
Strategy
which
is
being
wrien
by
the
§ Research
Data
Infrastructure
Commiee
(p.
7
of
PDF)
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8. 2011
Strategic
Roadmap
for
Australian
Research
Infrastructure
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§ hp://
www.innovaJon.gov.au/
Science/Documents/
2011StrategicRoadmapforA
ustralianResearchInfrastruct
ure.pdf

9. 2012
Na;onal
Research
Investment
Plan
§ hp://
www.innovaJon.gov.au/
Research/Documents/
NaJonalResearchInvestmen
tPlan.pdf
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. InternaJonal
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14. InternaJonal
data
environment
(sample)
§ Discipline
bodies
§ some
of
whom
are
also
part
of
ICSU
§ InternaJonal
Council
for
Science
§ ICSU
World
Data
System
§ ICSU
Commiee
on
Data
for
Science
and
Technology
(CODATA)
§ DataCite
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15. 15
§ 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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18. QuesJons?
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