Our Approach

To enable Australia's research data to be transformed, ANDS is:

• creating partnerships with research and data producing agencies through funded projects and collaborative engagements
• delivering national services such as Research Data Australia and Cite My Data
• providing guides and advice on managing, producing and reusing data
• building communities of practice
• building the Australian Research Data Commons

ANDS Partnerships

ANDS has been partnering with research and data producing agencies to transform research data, by:

• funding projects to:
  • capture data and related metadata as it is produced
  • enable the storage and dissemination of this metadata
  • enable the description of existing data collections to aid discovery
  • allow for the creation and implementation of research data management policies
• providing expertise and consultancy in areas of research data and public sector data management
• advising on the implementation of software from the suite of products developed previously in ANDS-funded
  projects, selected for best fit with meet the institution’s needs
• encouraging the creation of a community across this area

The Australian Research Data Commons

ANDS is creating the Australian Research Data Commons—a meeting place for researchers and data, to provide:

• a set of data collections that are shareable
• descriptions of those collections
• an infrastructure that enables populating and exploiting the commons
• connections between the data, researchers, research, instruments and institutions

 

As well as data collections, a rich Australian Research Data Commons includes:

• the ANDS portal: Research Data Australia
• data capture tools
• metadata management tools
• discipline and institutional portals
• publishing tools
• data exploitation tools
• data citation tools
• richly connected