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ANDS Partners

ANDS Partners include all those people who are working on ANDS-funded projects in Australian universities and research organisations as well as interested personnel from other Australian research institutions.

Community

ANDS-partners mailing list
ANDS-partners facilitates discussion and information sharing, not to mention locating others with similar issues with whom you might choose to collaborate in developing solutions to mutually held problems. Membership of the Google group also includes ANDS staff.
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ANDS Community Bulletin Board
Serves as another means of sharing and obtaining information. There is a special section which ANDS Partners will see when they log in. This is designed particularly for the uploading of documentation for sharing within this group. Such documentation might relate to training materials being developed for local use, tips and tricks for describing data and so on.
Making Connections
Find other projects working on similar activities, in similar disciplines, or using similar technologies.
Project outputs
Work that ANDS partners have published.
RIF-CS Advisory Board
Provides an opportunity for interested stakeholders to influence changes in the RIF-CS schema.

Funding requirements

How to Acknowledge ANDS Funding
 All ANDS-funded projects must acknowledge ANDS in a certain way in presentations, articles, on websites, or other public references to the projects.
Forms and templates
Sandbox agreement and metadata content provider agreement forms, as well as templates used throughout the life of ANDS-funded projects.

Content providers

ANDS Content Providers Guide
A non-technical guide for contributors to the ANDS Collections Registry.
Metadata Content Requirements
The minimum requirements for all records harvested to the ARDC.
Technical Resources
RIF-CS, downloadable software, schemas, and an overview of all ANDS online services.
Metadata Stores Resources
Materials to help inform ANDS partners seeking to deploy metadata stores.

More information

ANDS Guides
ANDS Products and Services, the Policy and Legal Framework, Scholarly Communications and Data Management.
Data Management
Links many resources on the topic of data management policy and planning.
Projects and Funding
An overview of funding processes and projects that have been funded across all ANDS programs.
Software Licensing
A list of software licenses is located on the Open Source Initiative web site. ANDS does not enforce any of these, but we encourage Partners to adopt one of the Google recommended licenses (i.e. Apache, Artistic, BSD, GPLv2, GPLv3, LGPL, MIT, MPL, and EPL).