Snapshots of Completed Projects

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) | Central Queensland University | CSIRO | Deakin University | Flinders University | Griffith University | James Cook University | La Trobe University | Monash University | National eResearch Architecture Taskforce Projects | Powerhouse Museum | Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) | Queensland University of Technology | RMIT University | Swinburne University | University of Adelaide | University of Melbourne | University of New South Wales | University of Newcastle | University of Queensland | University of South Australia | University of Sydney | University of Tasmania | University of Technology Sydney | University of Western Sydney | University of Wollongong |

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Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

ANSTO: ANSTO Scientific Information Architecture

ANSTO: MeCAT: Metadata Capture and Storage at the Australian Synchrotron and ANSTO

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ANSTO: ANSTO Scientific Information Architecture

posted 24 February 2012

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) have successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “ANSTO Scientific Information Architecture”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Over 100 data sets in a variety of research areas made available to the public. A description of the data sets made available by ANSTO can be seen on Research Data Australia.
• The development of technology tools, workflows, and processes to ensure the ongoing publication of research data at ANSTO.
• The creation of a number of educational materials to induct researchers into the project and to be re-used to continue researcher involvement in the project in the longer term

The ANSTO Scientific Information Architecture project has helped improve ANSTO’s data management and data sharing by providing a very simple but effective tool to deliver:

• a searchable, centralised place to store metadata about research data, projects and research staff at ANSTO;
• a method for publicly publishing data and responding to specific requests from external parties; and
• a method for sharing data more easily across the organisation

A key finding was that researchers wanted to practice good data management and most were keen to share their data, but simply didn’t know how to start on their own. This project served as a catalyst to support and cultivate these processes.

The project provided important seeding data for ANSTO’s centralised research data repository by gathering data from a cross-section of ANSTO researchers and providing an example for future contributions.

This is a link to the online ANSTO Research Data Publication Platform: http://openscience.ansto.gov.au/
The software developed in the project is available here: http://travide.googlecode.com/
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was led by Jaylan Cowie with assistance from Rachel Caldwell.

The software development was carried out by ANSTO.

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ANSTO: MeCAT: Metadata Capture and Storage at the Australian Synchrotron and ANSTO

posted 19 November 2012

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and the Australian Synchrotron successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “MeCAT: Metadata Capture and Storage at the Australian Synchrotron and ANSTO”. The key achievements this project produced are:

Technical outcomes:

• In collaboration with the beamline scientists, development of a solution for organising the research data at the SAXS and IR beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron;
• Upgrading the MyTardis software deployed at the MX beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron, and integrating the capturing of metadata from the SAXS and IR beamlines;
• In collaboration with the instrument scientists, development and deployment of the MyTardis software at ANSTO on 5 instruments, the 2 powder diffractometers Wombat and Echidna, the Kowari strain scanner, the Quokka small angle instrument, and the Platypus reflectometer.
• Providing ANSTO and the Australian Synchrotron with a standardized way to publish metadata to the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
• Extending the existing open-source MyTardis software to incorporate the requirements of the Australian Synchrotron and ANSTO.

Changes in the Institutional Data Management Policy:

• Experiment metadata at the Australian Synchrotron qualifies for publishing to Research Data Australia after a 12-months embargo period. This policy must be ratified by the new User Agreement, which in turn is subject to the new State/Federal Australian Synchrotron funding agreement. Until this policy is in place the Australian Synchrotron will publish as much experiment metadata to RDA as possible subject to publishing embargo and commercial confidence.
• Experiment metadata is automatically published to the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) after a 3-year embargo period at ANSTO.

A description of the data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia: Australian Synchrotron and ANSTO
A description of the projects and contact information can be found on the ANDS website: Australian Synchrotron EIF020 and ANSTO EIF037

The software developed can be found at:

• Custom code base: https://github.com/mytardis/mytardis
• ANSTO specific customisations: https://github.com/ANSTO/
• Australian Synchrotron specific customisations: https://bitbucket.org/kspear/mytardis-as

This project was led by Nick Hauser (ANSTO) and David Cookson (Australian Synchrotron).

The software development was carried out by the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) and Intersect Australia Limited.

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Central Queensland University

Central Queensland University: CEM (Centre for Environmental Management) Core Data Curation

posted 2 November 2012

CQUniversity Australia has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “CEM (Centre for Environmental Management) Core Data Curation”.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Expanded  CQUniversity’s “Code of Conduct for Research” to include data management policies and protocols.
• Increased awareness for better research data management among CQUniversity researchers through seminars and encouraging researchers to describe and publish their research data.
• Extended CQUniversity’s ACQUIRE system from managing published papers to managing research data as well. Subsequently, this also extends the current role of CQUniversity Library.
• Installed  ReDBox and MINT software that automatically exports collection descriptions from CQUniversity’s ACQUIRE system to Research Data Australia (RDA) – a discovery service to Australian research data.
• Published more than 30 research data collections to RDA.
• Contributed collection descriptions to the Tropical Data Hub, which is based at James Cook University
• Use of CQUniversity’s manual RIF-CS records as part of ANDS' best practice guide

Descriptions of the CQUniversity data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

The project was led by Prof. Kerry Walsh and Ms. Elke Dawson,  with the contribution from the project team including Mr. John Voss, Mr. Bruce Hart, Ms. Leslie Walker and Mr. Wayne Boyd; a great effort across CQUniversity’s Research Centre, Office of Research, Library and IT Division.

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CSIRO

CSIRO: Seeding the Commons: Enabling CSIROs Biological Collections for the AR

CSIRO: The Australian Spatial Research Data Commons (ASRDC)

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CSIRO: Seeding the Commons: Enabling CSIROs Biological Collections for the AR

posted 24 January 2012

CSIRO has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Seeding the Commons: Enabling CSIROs Biological Collections for the ARDC.

The key achievements this project produced are:

A survey tool was developed and used to identify biological collections managed by CSIRO that are potentially of significance to the broader research community and to enhance the visibility of those collections. The survey tool was released for re-use via the ANDS Community Bulletin Board.

More than 22 collection records,  17 Party Person records and two Activity records have been published via Research Data Australia (RDA).  This will enhance the visibility of biological collections within CSIRO as well as to the broader research community.

• A crosswalk between Darwin Core Simple and RIF-CS metadata schema was developed and released for re-use via the ANDS Community Bulletin Board.  Mapping of Darwin Core metadata also provided a detailed analysis of the schema and interoperability with other systems such as  CSIRO’s Data Access Portal, RDA’s RIF-CS schema and the ALA’s preferred profile for Darwin Core
• The project investigated the integration of a number of open source tools into a platform that supported the management of physical biological specimens.  Two instances of the Specify 6 platform, a production server and a development server were deployed on CSIRO maintained and supported infrastructure. A sample configuration guide for how CSIRO implemented an instance of the Specify 6 tool for the Australian National Insect Collection and the Australian National Wildlife Collection will be released via the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) website following the scheduled update of the site.
• The information gathered through the project enables a clearer picture of the data management  practices and capabilities within the organisation with regards to biological collections and their level of maturity for sharing with the external research community.

A description of the CSIRO biological collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was jointly led by Tricia Kelly and John Morrissey from CSIRO Information Management and Technology.

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CSIRO: The Australian Spatial Research Data Commons (ASRDC)

posted 12 November 2012

CSIRO’s Earth Science and Resource Engineering has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project, the Australian Spatial Research Data Commons (ASRDC).  The project made a range of public sector spatial data available for discovery and use by the Australian research community. Spatial data underpins a great many fields of research in environment, energy, climate, social sciences, minerals, biology, urban environment and other fields

Importantly, the discovery and spatial data collections were delivered by the project in a sustainable manner.  The Government organisations have moved to production operations and are proposing new national initiatives to continue publishing data and discovery information based on the ASRDC approach and technology.

The project delivered:

• Established open standards spatial information models for common data types across public sector organisations;
• Deployed open standards based web services to allow harvesting of discovery information from Government organisations by ANDS;
• Deployed open standards based spatial data web services for data held by the participating organisations to allow direct access to data by researchers using standard GIS packages, web portals of their own choosing and tools of their choice;
• Established governance mechanisms in these organisations and often groups of organisations to sustain this approach beyond the life of the ASRDC project;
• Doing this whilst limiting operational changes to the organisations infrastructure and processes since they already had independently established internal mechanisms in most cases.

All project materials are available here: https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/ASRDC/WebHome

A description of the data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The software developed can be found at: https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/Siss/SISSReleases

The project was made successful by the efforts of the following team members: Ryan Fraser, Robert Woodcock, Simon Cox, Xiantan Lin,  Pavel Golodoniuc, Rini Angreani, Florence Tan, Derrick Wong, Jackie Githaiga, Ben Caradoc-Davies, Bruce Simons

Key Collaborators included: Bruce Simons, Lesley Wyborn, Andrew Woolf, and many others at the various organisations who deployed the services.

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Deakin University

Deakin University: Description and Discovery of Research Data Collections at Deakin University

Deakin University: Enhancing Filtration Membrane Fouling Data Collection for Water Treatment Research

Deakin University: Crystal Orientation Data Collection for Conversion to a General Data Type

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Deakin University: Description and Discovery of Research Data Collections at Deakin University

posted 24 August 2012

Deakin University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Description and Discovery of Research Data Collections at Deakin University.” The project has been a great success at Deakin with many anticipated and emergent benefits. An agile approach, continually assessing which processes were proving successful, ensured quality outcomes such as promoting a cultural shift in the research community to consider sharing and reusing their research data.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• published more than 50 research data collections
• established a web service through which collection descriptions can be harvested from Deakin Research Online, and published the code to the Fez trunk at University of Queensland
• developed process and materials for researchers to describe their research collections and publicised those materials
• identifying the need and as a result of knowledge developed in this project, acquiring funding for improved research data management storage solution and service
• sharing of key project outputs at the project website 

A description of the Deakin data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

Software produced can be seen at: https://code.library.uq.edu.au/fez/rev/f073fd24e0fc and  https://code.library.uq.edu.au/fez/rev/377028a786f6

This project was led by Ms Megan Capicchiano, Deakin IT Services Division and with particular assistance from Mr Prashant Pandey, Manager Digital Services at the Deakin Library.

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Deakin University: Enhancing Filtration Membrane Fouling Data Collection for Water Treatment Research

posted 24 August 2012

The Institute for Frontier Materials at Deakin University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Enhancing Filtration Membrane Fouling Data Collection for Water Treatment Research”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• developed an automatic open-source system to capture, process and store data from a Leica confocal laser scanning microscope.
• produced a robust and flexible software package “FoulantProfiler” and comprehensive documentation to adapt the system to other equipment.
• the software also enhances images and stores the data in a central research data repository (ReDBoX).
• the software has allowed faster and easier research work, and fostered and contributed to further collaboration with prestigious research institutes within Australia and overseas, and potential joint publications and funding opportunities in the future.
• targeted introduction of the software to a few frequent and advanced academic users of the microscope

Software produced can be seen at: https://code.google.com/p/ands-enhancing-filtration-membrane/

A description of the Filtration data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia. 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was jointly led by Dr. Mary Fenghua She at the Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University and Ms Megan Capicchiano, Deakin IT Services Division.

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Deakin University: Crystal Orientation Data Collection for Conversion to a General Data Type

posted 18 September 2012

The Institute for Frontier Materials at Deakin University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Crystal Orientation Data Collection for Conversion to a General Data Type.”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• to manage, publish and share electron diffraction data from Deakin’s electron microscope facility
• to establish a standard format for three types of diffraction data from three different electron microscopes (Oxford HKL Channel 5, TSL OIM, Nanomegas Digistar).
• to produce software to convert raw data into standard format with metadata labelling and transfer to storage
• to save time for researchers manually converting data, to share the metadata collected, and opening up possibilities for future research collaborations.

This is a link to the software developed online. 

A description of the Electron Diffraction data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia:

• alloy materials 
• functional materials

A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was jointly led by Dr. Andrew Sullivan at the Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University and Ms Megan Capicchiano, Deakin IT Services Division. 

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Edith Cowan University

Edith Cowan University: Data Management Plan and Policy

posted 4 November 2011

Edith Cowan University in Western Australia has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Data Management Plan and Policy”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• A draft research data management policy and plan for the university
• Data management training to be included in the Graduate Research Induction Program
• Descriptions of 16 publicly available research datasets produced by Edith Cowan University research in Research Data Australia

A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website here.

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the work of Julia Gross, Constance Wiebrands and David Howard from the Edith Cowan University Library.

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Flinders University

Flinders University: Automated measurement of the responses of wildlife populations to climate change

Flinders University: Reformatting the AusStage dataset to support access and re-use by researchers

Flinders University: Reforming the Movies

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Flinders University: Automated measurement of the responses of wildlife populations to climate change

posted 25 January 2012

Flinders University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Data Capture Project: “Automated measurement of the responses of wildlife populations to climate change.”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• An operational system for cleansing sleepy lizard behavioural ecology data collected by Professor Mike Bull and his research team
• Draft research management policies produced and moved through Flinders University’s policy ratification processes
• An operational institutional research data metadata store (ReDBox).

A description of the sleepy lizard data collection project can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

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Flinders University: Reformatting the AusStage dataset to support access and reuse by researchers

posted 25 January 2012

Flinders University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Seeding the Commons project: “Reformatting the AusStage dataset to support access and reuse by researchers.”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• The nationally significant AusStage dataset in a flattened, machine-readable, standards compliant format to support data re-use by researchers (RDF with a Sparql end point)
• A process to regularly update the dataset
• Draft research management policies produced and moved through Flinders University’s policy ratification processes.

A description of the AusStage dataset project can be seen on Research Data Australia.

A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website and and more information is available on the AusStage website: http://www.ausstage.edu.au.

The RDF dataset is (temporarily) here: http://rdf.csem.flinders.edu.au/joseki/sparql.html

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Flinders University: Reforming the Movies

posted 24 August 2011

Flinders University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Reforming the Movies: the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. database

The project made available a database comprising 35 000 digital images of documents digitised from a microfilm copy of the general correspondence files of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (MPPDA), Hollywood's trade association, covering the period from 1922 to 1939. Along with other, ongoing, ANDS-funded projects, the MPPDA project also had institution-wide outcomes for Flinders University, including the drafting of research data management policy and input to development of research data storage infrastructure.

This is a link to the MPPDA database online: http://mppda.flinders.edu.au/

A description of the MPPDA data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.

The MPPDA project was led by Professor Richard Maltby. He plans to present on the project at the eResearch Australasia conference in Melbourne in November.

There is a description of the project, including contact details for the project team here.

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Griffith University

Griffith University: Data Capture project: Smart Water

Griffith University: Adult Stem Cell & Neurobiological Microscopy Instrumentation and Research Data Management

Griffith University: Australian National Corpus

Griffith University: RDA Gold Standard Record Exemplars

 

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Griffith University: Data Capture project: Smart Water

posted 24 February 2012

Griffith University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Data Capture project: “Smart Water”

The key achievements of this project are:

• The development of software to support the automated capture and management of data from smart water meters previously installed in over 250 households.
• Development of a software portal to store and manage smart water meter data and related metadata.
• Development of system architecture and suitable workflows for publishing research data information to Research Data Australia.
• A selection of over 10 records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to data on domestic water use research through the Research Data Australia portal.

A description of the Griffith University data capture project collections can be viewed on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

The Smart Meter Information Portal is located at: http://sirservices.griffith.edu.au/smip/ (registration required)

The code and user documentation developed as part of this project is available here.

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the joint efforts of Dr Cara Beal and her colleagues at the Smartwater Research Centre as well as the Griffith eResearch Services Team.

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Griffith University: Adult Stem Cell & Neurobiological Microscopy Instrumentation and Research Data Management

posted 24 August 2012

The National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research at Griffith University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Adult Stem Cell & Neurobiological Microscopy Instrumentation and Research Data Management”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• software to allow researchers to enhance metadata automatically generated from microscopy instruments and automatically sends the metadata records to Research Data Australia which will assist in the future management of biological data
• a selection of over 10 records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to data on Stem Cell & Neurobiological research through the Research Data Australia portal

A description of the Griffith University data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website

The software developed is available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/giiaf-micro-lib

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the joint efforts of the National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research and the Griffith University eResearch Services Team.

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Griffith University: Australian National Corpus

posted 18 September 2012

Griffith University’s eResearch Services has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Australian National Corpus”.

Australia's language data resources used to be scattered and relatively inaccessible at institutions around the country. The newly established Australian National Corpus has overcome this issue by establishing a web application, built on top of a distributed technology stack, which combines existing corpora from partnering universities into a unified system. The system will be useful to linguists, applied linguists and language technologists, in encouraging new, and collaborative linguistic research.

A link to the  Australian National Corpus is available here.
A description of linguistic corpus data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia. 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was led by Dr. Michael Haugh (Griffith University), A/Prof. Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University) and the eResearch Services team at Griffith University.

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Griffith University: RDA Gold Standard Record Exemplars

posted 6 March 2013

Griffith University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Seeding the Commons project: “RDA Gold Standard Record Exemplars”.  The key achievements of this project are:

1. Development of processes and workflows for improving the record quality, connectivity and richness of research data metadata records in Research Data Australia.
2. Analysis of ANDS Tools and costs and benefits of improving Research Data Australia records.
3. A selection of 15 collection records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to research data through the Research Data Australia portal.

A description of the Griffith collections can be viewed on Research Data Australia:

All of the accepted records:

• Queensland Films 1930-1960: from Talkies to Television 
• Clinical and Community Practice Innovation Data Collection 
• Griffith Corpus of Spoken Australian English (GCSAusE) Collection 
• Australian Rivers Institute Collection 
• Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention Collection 
• South East Queensland Domestic Water Usage Collection [all reads = x10]
  • Autumn 2010
  • Spring 2010
  • Winter 2010 
  • 1st Summer 2010 
  • 2nd Summer 2010 
  • 3rd Summer 2010
  • 1st Autumn 2011 
  • 2nd Autumn 2011
  • 1st Winter 2011 
  • 2nd Winter 2011 

The code and user documentation developed as part of this project is available here.  
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website. 

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the efforts of the Griffith eResearch Services Team.

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James Cook University

James Cook University: Tropical Data Hub Collection Discovery and Description

posted 27 April 2012

James Cook University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Tropical Data Hub Collection Discovery and Description.

The key achievements of this project included:

• A selection of over 68 records identified, described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to data on tropical research through the Research Data Australia portal.
• The trialling of the Tropical Data Hub research data repository as a self-deposition web-based system
• Development and delivery of workshops and promotion of open data and research data management throughout the University

This is a link to the Tropical Data Hub: https://eresearch.jcu.edu.au/tdh 
A description of the Tropical Data Hub data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the joint efforts of the JCU eResearch Centre, The Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, The Reef and Rainforest Research Centre and the Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research.

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La Trobe University

La Trobe University: Archaeological Database Development: The People and Place project

La Trobe University: CMSS RLI Metadata Capture and Publication

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La Trobe University:  Archaeological Database Development: The People and Place project

posted 8 June 2012

La Trobe University eResearch office has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Archaeological Database Development: The People and Place project”.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Online, publicly accessible and free database platform for historical archaeological data
• New, expanded dataset of historical archaeological data using standards-based metadata
• Manuals and accompanying documentation to allow for ongoing data entry
• Automatic feeds to Research Data Australia
• Build new partnerships to extend data sets into potential Australia-wide facility

This is a link to the Archaeology database online.
A description of the archaeological data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was led by Dr. Mark Kosten and his team at eResearch office, La Trobe University.

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La Trobe University: CMSS RLI Metadata Capture and Publication

posted 19 January 2012

La Trobe university has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: "CMSS RLI Metadata Capture and Publication".

The project leveraged the existing ANDS services to support Australian researchers use of instrumentation at the La Trobe Centre for Materials and Surface Science facility (CMSS). The major outcome from the researchers' point of view is that the system provides a facility to store their datasets, describe them, and easily share them online, with persistent identifiers so that they can be cited conveniently.
Furthermore, the new developed system has also provided a platform for the CMSS to publish data acquired from several standard materials. Finally, the system is also able to expose these datasets to the wider world through the Research Data Australia portal.

A description of the La Trobe University data capture project collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The code and user documentation developed as part of this project is available here.  

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the hard work of Dr. Mark Kosten and his teams from La Trobe eResearch Office. 

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Monash University

Monash University: Capture and Publication of Data on the History of Adoption

Monash University: Seeding the Commons project

Monash University: Development of metadata store infrastructure with a large research data store

Monash University: Biomedical data platform (molecular biology)

Monash University: Capture and publication of Australian ecosystem data from a network of measurement sites

Monash University: Data publication to interferome (MIMR/Interferome)

Monash University: Research Data Management of the Monash Weather & Climate Program

Monash University: Comprehensive Data Management for Microscopy Research Database

Monash University: Tools for curating and publishing research data in the form of media collections (Multimedia Collections & ARROW)

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Monash University: Capture and Publication of Data on the History of Adoption

posted 31 October 2011

Monash University e-Research Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Capture and Publication of Data on the History of Adoption.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• The process of capturing stories and associated metadata from the website submission form and storing them in a Data Management system.
• The process of generating a story web page with attached story transcript, metadata files in MODS and DC formats and search tags.
• The process of ‘publishing’ a story to ARROW, the Monash Library public repository.

A description of the history of adoption data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was led by Prof. Marian Quartly, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies and Anthony Beitz at Monash e-Research Centre. Staff at the Australian Catholic University were also collaborators.

Project summary handout (PDF 714KB)

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Monash University: Seeding the Commons project

posted 21 December 2011

Monash University has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: "Monash University Seeding the Commons project".

The project aimed to identify and describe research data collections arising from publicly funded research, and to showcase these collections by contributing information about them to Research Data Australia (RDA). As a result of this project:

• 60+ Monash researchers have been provided with an additional channel to promote their research, including showcasing their work to new generalist and cross-disciplinary audiences.
• The in-depth nature of the interviews has also enabled the Library to learn more about researchers’ data management practices and needs.
• The project has also led to a dramatic increase in the participation of Library staff in data management activities.

Monash University’s data collection records, including those contributed by the Seeding the Commons project, can be seen on Research Data Australia
Many of the project's templates and workflows are already available on the website. Updated and new documentation will be added in 2012, and the project team are happy to receive inquiries about any aspects of the project.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the work of Sue Clarke, Sam Searle and teams from Monash University Library.

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Monash University: Development of metadata store infrastructure with a large research data store.

Posted 14 June 2012

Monash University eResearch Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Development of metadata store infrastructure with a large research data store.

This project has developed the Squirrel solution to integrate with a large institutional research data store (LaRDS at Monash University). Squirrel has provided researchers across a wide range of disciplines with the ability to conduct more effective research based on exploiting existing data sets, creation and storage of new data sets and better collaborative research opportunities.

This is a link to the Squirrel platform online.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was a joint initiative between Monash researchers and the Monash eResearch Centre.

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Monash University: Biomedical data platform (molecular biology)

Posted 14 June 2012

Monash University eResearch Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Biomedical data platform (molecular biology). The project provided protein crystallographers with the ability to conduct more effective research based on exploiting existing data sets, creation and storage of new data sets and better collaborative research opportunities.

This is a link to the biomedical data platform online.

A description of the related data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was a joint initiative between Monash Universitys Protein Crystallographers and the Monash eResearch Centre.

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Monash University: Capture and publication of Australian ecosystem data from a network of measurement sites

Posted 14 June 2012

Monash Universitys eResearch Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Capture and publication of Australian ecosystem data from a network of measurement sites. The solution provided by the ecosystem project has enhanced the research process and provided new research opportunities.  The solution has benefited the OzFlux Community of Researchers by providing them with the ability to perform research at the national level using a single data management platform that brings together all Australian institutions doing Ecosystem research. The standardisation of data formatting has led to improved research efficiency, by reducing the time and effort spent on pre-analysis data preparation, thereby allowing the researchers to focus on the analysis of this data to derive research  outcomes.

This is a link to the OzFlux repository online. 

A description of the related data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was a joint initiative between OzFlux and the Monash eResearch Centre.

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Monash University: Data publication to interferome (MIMR/Interferome)

Posted 14 June 2012

Monash University eResearch Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Data publication to interferome (MIMR/Interferome).

The project addressed current shortcoming in collaborations and sharing of immunology and genomics data. The availability of the data and their corresponding collections in ANDS RDA will enable access to all
researchers and facilitate hypothesis generation and novel biological discoveries that would not otherwise be possible.

This is a link to the biomedical data platform online.

A description of the related data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website 

This project was a joint initiative between Monash Institute of Medical Research and the Monash eResearch Centre. 

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Monash University: Research Data Management of the Monash Weather & Climate Program.

Posted 14 June 2012

Monash University eResearch Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Research Data Management of the Monash Weather & Climate Program.

The project supported Monash University existing weather and climate research and enabled Monash University Weather & Climate (MW&C) researchers to contribute to the work of evaluating the newly deployed
Australian ACCESS climate model. The new developed solution also provided the MW&C researchers with the ability to conduct more effective research based on exploiting existing data sets, creation and storage of new data sets and better collaborative research opportunities.

This is a link to the weather & climate data platform online. *please note that access to datasets through this platform requires authorisation*

A description of the related data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The software is available here.

This project was a joint initiative between Monash University Weather & Climate researchers and the Monash eResearch Centre.

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Monash University: Comprehensive Data Management for Microscopy Research Database

Posted 10 January 2013

Monash University e-Research Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Comprehensive Data Management for Microscopy Research Database”.

The project adapted a software tool to support the organisation of microscopy research datasets, particularly microscopy imaging data along with the associated annotation and metadata, both instrumental and experimental, into institutional repositories and into other discovery services including ANDS Research Data Australian (RDA).

This is a link to the microscopy research database platform online: https://omero.its.monash.edu.au/

A description of the related data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.  
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was a joint initiative between Monash University’s Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash Micro Imaging and the Monash e-Research Centre.

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Monash University: Tools for curating and publishing research data in the form of media collections (Multimedia Collections & ARROW)

Posted 13 February 2013

Monash University e-Research Centre has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Tools for curating and publishing research data in the form of media collections (Multimedia Collections & ARROW)”.

The project developed generic software tools to support the organization of pre-existing digital data collections, particularly media, into files and formats suitable for publication via institutional repositories, and from those repositories into other discovery services including ANDS Research Data Australia.

A description of the related data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia. 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website. 

This project was a joint initiative between Monash e-Research Centre and Monash Library. 

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National eResearch Architecture Taskforce Projects

At eResearch Australasia 2011, Paul Coddington, NeAT Program Manager, presented the National eResearch Architecture Taskforce (NeAT) Projects report, about the 14 projects undertaken as part of this ANDS-ARCS co-funded initiative. The projects covered a wide range of research activities and delivered robust and enduring advances in research tools.

A number of the NeAT Projects developed eResearch infrastructure tools that: enable the capture of rich descriptions; make new data available; and integrate data to enable richer exploration. This report highlights the outcomes and benefits of all 14 NeAT projects, which finished in mid-to-late 2011.

The National eResearch Architecture Taskforce was established by the Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council (AeRIC) under the NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration Investment Plan.  The funding and implementation support for NeAT was invested within the Australian National Data Service and the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS), to ensure that a broad skill base was available.

More Information about the NeAT projects can be found here.

If you would like a hardcopy of the report please email contact@ands.org.au or alternatively the digital copy is available at here.

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Powerhouse Museum

Powerhouse Museum: The Museum Metadata Exchange

Posted 27 February 2013

The Council of Australasian Museum Directors, the Powerhouse Museum and Museums Australia have successfully completed the ANDS-funded project, the Museum Metadata Exchange.  The project established data capture processes, data standards and infrastructure amongst Australian museum data partners.

The project has resulted in the creation of descriptions for some of the largest and most significant museum collections in Australia.  Over 1000 collection descriptions have been provided to Research Data Australia from thirty three museums and other institutions are expressing interest to participate.

The Museum Metadata Exchange project has received an Honourable Mention in the category of Research/Online Collection at the Best of the Web awards, Museums and the Web 2012 in San Diego, USA.

Achievements:

• The MME worked with ANDS and museum contributors to establish standard specifications for collection description. Detailed guidelines were provided on the Museum Metadata Exchange Wordpress site. These are guidelines are still available to contributors.
• The Museum Metadata Exchange repository has been in production since February 2011.
• Considerable development time was put into ensuring that the feed from the MME met the metadata standard required by ANDS. The MME successfully translates data added to the repository to a format which can be harvested by the RDA.
• The MME currently contains over 1000 collections which have been successfully harvested by Research Data Australia. . This is well above the target of 700 collection descriptions.  Museum Metadata Exchange collections in RDA
• Released tools to Museums: The Museum Metadata Exchange Wordpress site provides detailed guidelines on data standards and contribution methods to the MME.
• The Powerhouse Museum’s Object name thesaurus has been added to the MME repository. The thesaurus is available and searchable to users who have data entry access to the repository.
• KE Software have completed development of a module which exports collection level descriptions directly to the MME. The feed from the new module to the MME has been tested successfully in the development environment.

A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The software developed can be found at: https://github.com/powerhousemuseum/MME and http://www.kesoftware.com/imu/imu-releases.html

MME are keen to continue to add to the exchange with museum collections from universities and other research institutions. If your institution has a museum collection that could be added to the MME, please contact your Client Liaison Officer.

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Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF)

Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF): ReDBox project

Posted 27 August 2012

The Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project, ReDBox (Research Data Box) project.  This extensible system for use by libraries and research office includes:

• a research data registry that provides workflows and interfaces for the creation of metadata;
• a name authority system (Mint).

ReDBox provides a way of describing and disseminating research data information. This facilitates the development of a culture of research data sharing. It is pleasing to see that ReDBox has began with a community focus because sharing and reusing research data requires a partnership between researchers and administrators and the systems they use.

For the institutions undertaking ANDS Metadata Stores (AMS) projects, ReDBox provides a sound technical foundation for meeting the mandatory requirements of this program as well as many of the optional deliverables.

For more information visit the ReDBox-Mint website
Technical documentation and software is available for download
A public demonstration site can be found here

ANDS specifically acknowledges the efforts of Duncan Dickinson (Project Manager), Greg Pendlebury (Lead Developer), Norm Lawler (QCIF) as well as collaborators, Vicki Picasso (University of Newcastle) and Amanda Nixon (Flinders University). Their efforts have resulted in a tool for improving data management for the Australian research community.

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Queensland University of Technology

Queensland University of Technology: B150 Big Jam

Queensland University of Technology: Biodiversity

Queensland University of Technology: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Australian Soils (N2O)

Queensland University of Technology: RDA Gold Standard Record Exemplars

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Queensland University of Technology: B150 Big Jam

posted 24 February 2012

The Queensland University of Technology has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Data Capture project: “B150 Big Jam”

The key achievements of this project are:

• The development of software to support the management of multimedia objects and related metadata for musical recordings of the Queensland’s Q150 Big Jam Live Music Festival (2009).
• Development of system architecture and suitable workflows for publishing research data information to Research Data Australia.
• A selection of 11 records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to data through the Research Data Australia portal.

A description of the Queensland University of Technology data capture project collections can be viewed on Research Data Australia.
The code and user documentation developed as part of this project is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediacrawl/.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the joint efforts of Professor Philip Graham and his research group as well as the QUT HPC and Research Support Team. 

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Queensland University of Technology: Biodiversity

posted 24 February 2012

The Queensland University of Technology has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Data Capture project: “Biodiversity”

The key achievements of this project are:

• The development of software to enable the management and publishing of audio data collections and metadata from acoustic sensors used for measuring environmental health within the ecological research domain.
• Development of system architecture and suitable workflows for publishing research data information to Research Data Australia.
• A selection of over 11 records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to data on Biodiversity research through the Research Data Australia portal.

A description of the Queensland University of Technology data capture project collections can be viewed on Research Data Australia.
The code and user documentation developed as part of this project is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rdb2rdfmapper/.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the joint efforts of Professor Paul Roe and his team as well as the QUT HPC and Research Support Team.

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Queensland University of Technology: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Australian Soils (N2O)

posted 24 February 2012

The Queensland University of Technology has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Data Capture project: “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Australian Soils (N2O)”

The key achievements of this project are:

• The development of software to allow researchers to enhance metadata and manage the data automatically generated from instruments within the ecological research domain.
• Development of system architecture and suitable workflows for publishing research data information to Research Data Australia.
• A selection of 11 records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to data on Greenhouse Gas Emissions research through the Research Data Australia portal.

A description of the Queensland University of Technology data capture project collections can be viewed on Research Data Australia.
The code and user documentation developed as part of this project is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/metamaster/.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the joint efforts of Professor Peter Grace and the QUT HPC and Research Support Team.

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Queensland University of Technology: RDA Gold Standard Record Exemplars

posted 10 January 2013

The Queensland University of Technology has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Seeding the Commons project: “RDA Gold Standard Record Exemplars”

The key achievements of this project are:

• Development of processes and workflows for improving the record quality, connectivity and richness of research data metadata records in Research Data Australia.
• Analysis of ANDS Tools and costs and benefits of improving Research Data Australia records.
• A selection of 10 collection records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to research data through the Research Data Australia portal.

A description of the Queensland University of Technology collections can be viewed on Research Data Australia:

• Analysis of rainfall and stream hydrology at Samford Valley
• Academic authorship, publishing agreements and open access: a survey
• Australian Election Study survey, 2001
• Australian Election Study survey, 2004
• Musician mortality data, 1956-2007
• Performance judgements in the Idol series
• Pharmacokinetic data for twelve therapeutic equine medications
• Public views on carbon sequestration
• Survey of M-Services
• Wikipedia CJK Corpora

The code and user documentation developed as part of this project is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qutands/
A blog detailing the project is at: https://www.library.qut.edu.au/blog/andsgold/
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

The outcomes of this project were made possible through the joint efforts of Professor Kerry Raymond-the QUT Library and the High Performance Computing and Research Support (HPC) Team, Philippa Broadley-the Project Manager from QUT Library, and Lance De Vine from HPC Research Support.

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RMIT University

RMIT University: Data Capture from High Performance Computing Multi-User Environments

RMIT University: Screen Media Research Archive

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RMIT University: Data Capture from High Performance Computing Multi-User Environments

posted 24 April 2012

RMIT has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Data Capture from High Performance Computing Multi-User Environments:

The key achievements this project produced are:

• RMIT is a very high user of physics and chemistry simulation packages such as VASP, CRYSTAL, SIESTA, and GULP running on a number of High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities. The developed software HPCTardis from this ANDS funded project would interface with the HPC facilities and would assist researchers in collecting, managing and storing their data. The software would also facilitate subsequent retrieval and reuse of generated data that would enable the researchers to curate the data generated from simulation runs. The curation process creates domain specific metadata registry and also provides connector software for publishing metadata to Research Data Australia portal, which facilitates research data be discovered and re-used by researchers.
• The software HPCTardis is made available to a public accessible space (GoogleCode), which may attract interests from e-research community. HPCTardis is a modified and extended version of myTardis. HPCTardis has the following features:
  • HPCTardis is equipped with newly developed protocol to create experiment automatically in the HPCTardis web portal. The protocol also transfers datasets from the HPC Facilities to the institutional repository (HPCTardis store).
  • The extended functionalities in HPCTardis are capable of communicating with Unix servers seamlessly using Unix scripts.
  • The HPCTardis is equipped with functionalities to extract metadata from four simulation packages such as SIESTA, CRYSTAL, VASP and GULP.
  • The HPCTardis is developed with various functions, which is capable of producing ANDS specific metadata. The functions can also generate RIF-CS dynamically with related party, activity and collection records that can be harvested automatically using OAI-PMH.
• A selection of 28 records described and contributed to Research Data Australia providing greater exposure to data on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics research through the Research Data Australia portal.
• A poster was displayed and a talk was given in eResearch Australasia conference 2011.

A sample of descriptions of data from the above mentioned physics and chemistry simulation packages can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The software HPCTardis is available from Google Code: http://hpctardis.googlecode.com

This project was jointly led by Prof. Salvy Russo, Prof. Heinz Schmidt and their team including Ravi Sreenivas, Venki Balasubramanian, Ian Thomas and Daniel Drumm.

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RMIT University: Screen Media Research Archive

posted 27 April 2012

RMIT has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Screen Media Research Archive.

• A virtual collections service was developed for the Media Virtual Research Collections (MaVReC). The service integrates cognate but differently structured existing research collections into a responsive, sustainable, user-friendly application for the ingestion, search and retrieval of screen media research.  The service also offers a way for the specificity of humanities research to be captured, exposed and interlinked to other research,
• There are about  200 collection records and 8 party records that have been published via Research Data Australia (RDA). This will enhance the visibility of screen media data collections to the broader research community, and offer an exciting avenue for media researchers to move beyond the traditional practice of ‘lone operators’.
• The data management principles and practices established through MaVReC have been indispensible for the AFI (Australian Film Institution) Research Collection. With further development based on the work to date, AFIRC will be able to offer internal and external researchers a seamless information retrieval experience that has not previously been available within the sector. The reporting of research (in the form of Virtual Collections) into RDA as an automated feature of MaVReC ensures the exposure of screen media and more broadly humanities research on a national basis.
• Two abstract and displayed posters about the project were presented in a recently concluded eResearch Australasia conference 2011, in which the project team received lot of appreciation for their ideas and their development approach.

A description of the Cinema Studies data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website
The Media and Virtual Record Collections (MaVReC) application is available from Google Code: http://mavrec.googlecode.com

This project was jointly led by Prof. Deb Verhoeven (School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University) and Prof. Heinz Schmidt (RMIT eResearch Centre), with the contribution from the project team including: Ravi Sreenivasamurthy, Venki Balasubramanian, Ian Edward Thomas, Nicholas May, Alexander Gionfriddo and Rachel Wilson.

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Swinburne University

Swinburne University: Watering the garden for the seeds to grow: building Swinburne research data management capability

posted 4 January 2012

Swinburne University of Technology has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: "Watering the garden for the seeds to grow: building Swinburne research data management capability".

The key achievements this project produced are:

• A local guide for research data description, covering appropriate metadata schema and ontologies. More information and documents are available here.
• Completed framework and materials for a data audit of all active Category 1 research income grants.
• Swinburne extensively tested the ReDBox software and analysed its suitability for the institution’s needs: <http://code.google.com/p/redbox-mint/>
• Created a research data management toolkit and training materials for Library staff
• A selection of datasets described and contributed to Research Data Australia

There is a link to Swinburne’s research data website.
Swinburne’s current data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found here on the ANDS website.

This project was completed by Rebecca Parker and Terrence Bennett and was led by Teula Morgan at Swinburne University of Technology Library  

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University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide: Showcasing Research Data

University of Adelaide: Genomics Data Capture

University of Adelaide: Research Metadata Store Project

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University of Adelaide: Showcasing Research Data

posted 23 April 2012

The University of Adelaide has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Showcasing Research Data.”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Research data interviews with 100 University of Adelaide researchers
• Information and guidelines on research data management http://libguides.adelaide.edu.au/researchdata
• The internal report, "Responses to interviews: University of Adelaide research data repository and metadata store", which will inform the University’s approach to managing research data.

University of Adelaide data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

Cathy Miller and Vanessa Barrett from the University of Adelaide Library completed this project.

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University of Adelaide: Genomics Data Capture

posted 10 January 2013

The University of Adelaide has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Genomics Data Capture.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• an automated system to manage data and metadata flowing from South Australia Cancer Genomics Facility gene sequencers
• records describing sequence data in Research Data Australia
• gene sequences recorded at European Bioinformatics Institute.

The records generated can be seen seen on Research Data Australia
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website
The software developed can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/gdacap/

This project was led by Professor Dave Adelson, and managed by Dr Jianfeng Li at the School of Molecular and Biomedical Science.

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University of Adelaide: Research Metadata Store Project

posted 13 May 2013

The University of Adelaide has successfully completed the ANDS-funded Research Metadata Store Project.

The key achievements this project produced are an operational ReDBox research data metadata store linked into the university’s human resources and research branch systems. The University of Adelaide is  making an ongoing effort to populate the metadata store following completion of the project phase, which will create records that will populate Research Data Australia.

The completed metadata store has business-as-usual systems around it, including ongoing governance from ITS, the university library and research branch. The business owner is the research branch, but the University of Adelaide has also funded an ongoing research data officer to sit within the library and ensure the metadata store’s continued success following the project phase.

ANDS specifically acknowledges the efforts of Cathy Miller, who worked closely with the subcontracted project team from Innodev. Professor Richard Russell AM chaired the project steering group which brought together stakeholders from the library, ITS and research branch, and also included several researchers. This high-level commitment to steering the project was a significant part of the project’s success.

We anticipate ongoing success in data management, publication and reuse at the University of Adelaide.

A description of the related data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The software developed can be found at: https://github.com/innodev-au/

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University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne: Seeding the Commons

University of Melbourne: Capturing multi-modal data to support research in cardiovascular and neurological medicine

University of Melbourne: Youth Research Centres Life Patterns Project: Longitudinal qualitative and quantitative survey data capture and re-use

University of Melbourne: Federated Neuroimaging collections in the national data commons

University of Melbourne: Founders and Survivors Project

University of Melbourne: Optimising metadata capture, data sharing procedures and long-term re-use of video data in Social Sciences

University of Melbourne: Humanities and Social Science Data at the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne: Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Bioinformatics Development Project

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University of Melbourne: Seeding the Commons

posted 24 January 2012

The University of Melbourne has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Seeding the Commons”.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Identified and documented over 500 existing research datasets, using manual and automated workflows into the University Metadata Store and Research Data Australia. Excluding specific research institutes, this is by far the greatest number of records submitted to Research Data Australia by an institution, and exposes datasets including Archaeology (8), Australian Government (41), Biochemistry (seven), Zoology (11), Psychology (14), Plant Biology (32), Neuroscience (17) research areas, among many.
• Developed a university wide research data and records management policy and tools for supporting the implementation of this policy (see http://www.imas.unimelb.edu.au/research_data_management) .
• Established an integrated research data management helpdesk, supported by an integrated website that aims to connect researchers and research administrators with policy information, tools, services and training. A new website will launch in early 2012.
• Developed and delivered a variety of information, outreach and training materials for internal stakeholders, has been made on the ANDS Community Noticeboard.

The project has provided tangible outputs, which illustrates what can be achieved with the provision of targeted resources. The University of Melbourne will fund key personnel in this project for a further 12 months and hope to grow the service further in 2013. Ongoing promotion of Research Data Australia will form part of outreach and information sessions across the University’s integrated research data management service.

A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was led by Anna Shadbolt on behalf of Philip Kent, University Librarian.

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University of Melbourne: Capturing multi-modal data to support research in cardiovascular and neurological medicine

Posted 14 June 2012

Biogrid Australia in conjunction with eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC) at University of Melbourne has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Capturing multi-modal data to support research in cardiovascular and neurological medicine”. Biogrid Australia Limited provides a secure research platform and infrastructure that enables access to real-time clinical, imaging and biospecimen data across jurisdictions, institutions and diseases. Biogrid Australia provides researchers authorised access to data in many disease types and data from disparate existing databases at many institutions. A significant challenge to Biogrid is to consistently and accurately represent the data it manages to research public.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• to increase and standardise the information presented on the web in the internal web tool, Business Glossary, and publically in Research Data Australia.
• to publish information about the data in 20 Biogrid databases to Research Data Australia.
• to enhance information in other Biogrid databases to ANDS standards so that publication will be simple when and if the data custodian chooses to publish.
• to export metadata directly to Research Data Australia.
• to increase the likelihood of researchers with similar interests finding out about Biogrid datasets and thereby to increase collaboration.

A description of the Biogrid data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website

This project was jointly led by Mr Owen O’Neill, University of Melbourne and Ms Naomi Rafael, Biogrid Australia.

The software development was carried out by VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative).

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University of Melbourne: Youth Research Centres Life Patterns Project: Longitudinal qualitative and quantitative survey data capture and re-use.

Posted 14 June 2012

The Australian Youth Research Centre (YRC) in conjunction with University of Melbournes eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC) has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Youth Research Centres Life Patterns Project: Longitudinal qualitative and quantitative survey data capture and re-use.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Implement and populate the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM) software to support local research data management. The OHRM content will be released as a public access website to inform and encourage collaboration with local researchers.
• Export from the YRC OHRM to the University of Melbournes Research Data Registry, and then harvest to Research Data Australia
• Secure ongoing ARC funding, based directly on the success of the ANDS Data Capture project, to build over three years a national database of young Australians at risk of school non-completion.

A description of the YRC data collections can be seen online at Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
Software is available here.

This project was jointly led by Mr Owen O'Neill, University of Melbourne Data Capture Program Manager and Professor Johanna Wyn, and Mr. Hernan Cuervo, Youth Resource Centre. The software development was carried out by VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative).

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University of Melbourne: Federated Neuroimaging collections in the national data commons

Posted 14 June 2012

The University of Melbournes eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC),  and Neuroimaging and Neuro-Informatics Group has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Federated Neuroimaging collections in the national data commons.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Exporting metadata from local Mediaflux-based system (called DaRIS) to Research Data Australia through local Research Data Registry
• Mapping local DaRIS metadata schema to ANDS RIF-CS metadata schema
• Improvements to local metadata structure and quality implemented

A description of the Neuroimaging data collections can be seen online at Research Data Australia
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
Software is available here. 

This project was jointly led by Mr Owen O'Neill, University of Melbourne Data Capture Program Manager and Dr Neil Killeen, Neuroimaging Informatics and Computational Facility. The technical  development was carried out by VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative).

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University of Melbourne: Founders and Survivors Project

Posted 14 June 2012

The University of Melbournes eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC), and the Founders and Survivors Project, a five year ARC funded project (http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org/), has successfully completed an ANDS-funded data capture activity in the Founders and Survivors Project. The Founders and Survivors Project brings together records relating to 73,000 convicts transported to Tasmania in the 19th century and their descendants. The resulting population database is of national and international significance for historical, demographic and population health researchers. The key achievements this data capture project produced are:

• To integrate ANDS RIF-CS descriptive metadata within the Founders and Survivors database repository development, improving intra-project communications
• To describe over 300 collections within the project for export to University of Melbourne Research Data Registry and Research Data Australia
• To provide a comprehensive set of convict ship index collections, including convict names and basic identity data
• Development of an XML workflow toolkit to ingest data into the population database, and describe derived datasets for export out to Research Data Australia

A description of the Founders and Survivors data collections can be seen online at Research Data Australia.
A description of the project, including source code and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
Software is available here. 

This project was jointly led by Mr Owen O'Neill, University of Melbourne Data Capture Program Manager and Dr Rebecca Kippen, Founders and Survivors. The technical development was carried out by VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative).

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University of Melbourne: Optimising metadata capture, data sharing procedures and long-term re-use of video data in Social Sciences

Posted 14 June 2012

The University of Melbournes eScholarship Research Centre and International Centre for Classroom Research has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Optimising metadata capture, data sharing procedures and long-term re-use of video data in Social Sciences. The ICCR houses one of the largest collections of classroom data ever accumulated, including video data of mathematics and science classrooms, early childhood and primary schools, and clinical teaching in hospitals. The ICCR offers researchers a state-of-the-art data storage, and analysis facility.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Successfully exported metadata from their local system (based on NetXposure) and published it to Research Data Australia, through the local University of Melbourne Research Data Registry
• Explored metadata issues associated with large-scale audio-visual repositories
• Established workflows to enable efficient generation of metadata
• Provided a solid base for other University of Melbourne video based research projects, including metadata tags and descriptions.

A description of the Classroom data collections can be seen online at Research Data Australia. 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
Software is available here.

This project was jointly led by Mr Owen O'Neill, University of Melbourne Data Capture Program Manager and Mr Cameron Mitchell, International Centre for Classroom Research. The software development was carried out by VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative).

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University of Melbourne: Humanities and Social Science Data at the University of Melbourne

Posted 14 June 2012

The University of Melbournes eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC), has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Humanities and Social Science Data at the University of Melbourne. The key achievement this project produced are:

• Successful demonstration of tools, services and workflows to disseminate information about Humanities and Social Science research data collections to University of Melbournes Research Data Registry and Research Data Australia
• Refactoring the eSRC Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM) data management tool
• Developing tools to ingest data into the OHRM software, and export metadata about multiple data collections held within the OHRM
• Testing the tools developed on two flagship OHRM projects; The Australian Womens Register, and the Encyclopaedia of Australian Science.

A description of the eSRC data collections can be seen online at Research Data Australia: 

• Womens Register, and connected collections
• eScholarship Research Centre, and connected collections

A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
Software is available here.

This project was jointly led by Mr Owen O'Neill, University of Melbourne Data Capture Program Manager and Mr Gavan McCarthy, eScholarship Research Centre. The technical development was carried out by VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative).

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University of Melbourne: Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Bioinformatics Development Project

posted 29 June 2012

The Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (MNC) in conjunction with University of Melbourne’s eScholarship Research Centre (eSRC) has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Bioinformatics Development Project”. The key achievements this project produced are:

• the implementation of a new DaRIS repository (extending Mediaflux) for managing research data and the customisation and reuse of functionality developed through other University of Melbourne ANDS Data Capture projects.
• the implementation of more efficient and effective data management workflows and practices at the Centre. The MNC previously recorded information about research data sets using MS Excel. This project led to the development and implementation of functionality for harvesting metadata records describing research data stored in the newly implemented MNC repository into the Australian Research Data Commons via the University’s metadata registry.
• description and publication of metadata about a number of MNC datasets, with an expected small number registered each year in the future.

A description of the MNC data collections can be seen online at Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The software produced is available here.

This project was jointly led by Mr Owen ONeill, University of Melbourne Data Capture Program Manager and Dr Sarah Whittle, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre. The technical development was carried out by VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative).

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University of New South Wales

The Centre for Health Informatics at UNSW: An International Antibiotic-Resistance Gene Cassette Database

University of New South Wales: Data Capture and Integration Across Multiple Platforms for Science Research Instrumentation

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 The Centre for Health Informatics at UNSW: An International Antibiotic-Resistance Gene Cassette Database

posted 25 September 2011

The Centre for Health Informatics at UNSW has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “An International Antibiotic-Resistance Gene Cassette Database”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Published a free on-line repository of the hundreds of known antibiotic resistance gene cassettes.
• Established a web service through which microbiologists can submit cassette array sequences and receive an accurate cassette names based on predictions made by our (existing) computational system and knowledge base.
• Allow people to submit new cassettes to be reviewed by staff at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and for inclusion in the knowledge base.
• Created tools to keep track of submission status, update submission, and publish them.
• Users in 6 countries in less than 6 months since launch.

This is a link to the Repository of Antibiotic resistance Cassettes database online: http://www2.chi.unsw.edu.au:8080/rac/
A description of the MPPDA data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia. 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.

This project was jointly led by Dr. Guy Tsafnat and Dr. Sally Partridge at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Westmead Hospital.
The software development was carried out by Intersect Australia Limited.

Project summary handout (PDF 720KB)

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University of New South Wales: Data Capture and Integration Across Multiple Platforms for Science Research Instrumentation

posted 6 March 2013

A collaboration between the Mark Wainright Analytical Centre, the Schools of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Medical Science and the UNSW Library has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Data Capture and Integration Across Multiple Platforms for Science Research Instrumentation”.

Through the development of this project, spectroscopy instruments have been the primary focus for integration, such as the NMR, FTIR, UV-Visible and Raman Spectroscopy instruments. However, to demonstrate the applicability of the tool across a range of datatypes, further instruments such as the Capillary Porometer, Potentiostat and Microscope Slide Scanners have also been included. For all of the designated instruments, file types for the extraction of metadata and a visualisation have been defined.

The key achievements of this project are:

• A system for  managing  data that is sufficiently flexible to be applicable across a range of disciplines.
• A web interface for researchers to access and manage research data collected from instruments.
• Where applicable provide a visualisation of the uploaded data to assist users with its identification.
• The ability to download the data or to share it with other repository systems such as The Membrane Research Environment (MemRE), the Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and Research Data Australia (RDA).
• Provide administrators the ability to add additional instruments without the need for further software development
• At the conclusion of the project ACData has 27 registered users, who have uploaded 17GB of data as part of 66 projects and 2698 datasets.

This is a link to the project website: https://www.researchdata.unsw.edu.au/
A description of the data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website.
The software developed is available here.

The team members at UNSW were: Shane Cox, Danmar Gloria, Greg Leslie, Grainne Moran, Brynn Hibbert and staff from the Library

The software development was carried out by Intersect Australia Limited.

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University of Newcastle

University of Newcastle: Newcastle Research Online

posted 7 June 2012

The University Library at University of Newcastle has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Newcastle Research Online.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• A toolkit of resources for data management and new processes and procedures to support sharing and reuse of research data.
• The contribution of 25 records into Research Data Australia describing University of Newcastle research data collections.
• A Metadata Store to support metadata capture of research data collections, including information about the location, availability and access to the data.

This is a link to the Data Management toolkit developed.
This is a link to the ReDBox documentation developed.
The University of Newcastle research collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the University of Newcastle website.

This project was led by: Vicki Picasso, a Senior Librarian, in the University Library at University of Newcastle.  The Metadata Store software implemented was developed in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology and the ReDBox team based at University of Southern Queensland and Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF).

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University of Queensland

University of Queensland: The Aquatic Species Tracking project (OZTrack)

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland: Linking the EMBL Australia Mirror with the Australian Research Data Commons

University of Queensland: Spatially Integrated Social Science

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University of Queensland: The Aquatic Species Tracking project (OZTrack)

posted 24 April 2012

The University of Queensland’s EcoLab has successfully completed the ANDS-funded data capture project: The Aquatic Species Tracking project (OZTrack).

This project is important to the conservation and management of native and feral species because it has delivered a platform that increases the understanding of animal behaviour. More specifically, the project has delivered:

• A platform for capturing and managing acoustic array and satellite data which includes: animal location data (lat, long, depth) as well as biological data (body temp) and environmental data (water temperatures, river heights/tidal flows and salinities);
• Open source software to enable the capture of animal movement data from multiple receiver arrays and its search, browse, retrieval and correlation with environmental, hydrological and oceanographic data;
• The development of the ECO‐Lab’s data repository where metadata support fine‐grained, spatio‐temporal (GIS/timeline) discovery, decision‐support and reuse, as well as the ability to filter, compress and control the quality of data sets that are highly heterogeneous and often comprise millions of data points;
• Collection descriptions as well as associated party and activity descriptions harvested via an OAI‐PMH interface and made visible through the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).

Here is a link to the University of Queensland’s EcoLab: http://www.uq.edu.au/eco-lab/
Access to the data collections being generated by OZTrack is available through Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website

This project was jointly led by Professor Jane Hunter eResearch Lab School of ITEE and Professor Craig Franklin at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. ANDS specifically acknowledges the efforts of Dr Hamish Campbell, Project Manager, Nigel Ward and software developer, Peggy Newman. This project has resulted in improved data management for your institution and for the Australian research community.

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The Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland: Linking the EMBL Australia Mirror with the Australian Research Data Commons

posted 28 August 2012

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland (IMB) has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Linking the EMBL Australia Mirror with the Australian Research Data Commons”.

The key achievements of this project produced are:

• identified DNA and protein datasets found in the global EMBL/EBI DNA and protein database that are from 13,000 Australian dwelling animals and plants (both native and introduced), and approximately 100 Australian research organisations
• developed a tool to allow users of the YABI/Bioflow scientific workflow generator to publish descriptions of the re-usable workflows they have generated for use in high performance computing environments, in Research Data Australia
• developed a tool to allow Bioplatforms Australia to publish and advertise descriptions of their framework genomic, proteomic and metabolomics datasets (that are of national importance in the fields of medicine, agriculture and the environment), to Research Data Australia

Links to the related data objects can be seen on Research Data Australia:

• Australian Dwelling Animals - DNA and protein collections
• Australian Dwelling Plants - DNA and protein collections
• DNA and protein collections submitted from Australian Research Organisations
• YABI/Bioflow workflows
• Datasets published by Bioplatforms Australia

A description of the three sub-projects can be found on the ANDS website:

• Linking the EMBL Australia EBI Mirror with the ARDC - Component A  
• Linking the EMBL Australia EBI Mirror with the ARDC - Component B
• RDA Publishing Tool for BioPlatforms Australia - Component C

The software can be found at:

• http://ebi-rda-linkage.sourceforge.net/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/yabi-to-rda/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/bpa-to-rda/

The project was led by Prof Mark Ragan at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland and managed by Dr Dominique Gorse at the Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB).
The software development was carried out by QFAB.

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University of Queensland: Spatially Integrated Social Science

Posted 10 January 2013

The Queensland Centre for Population Research and University of Queensland eResearch Lab has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project, “Spatially Integrated Social Science”.

Much of the data analysed by social scientists has an associated geographic location.  But integrating geographic information can involve complex and time-consuming processing.

This project reduces the burden of these tasks by developing online tools that allow researchers to quickly access rich Australian socio-spatial datasets related to voting outcomes and census data, conduct statistical modelling, and visualize spatial relationships in the data. 

The project has provided:

• mediated access to the underlying data (researchers are encourages to contact the project team to discuss access);
• open access to analysis tools through the Web portals;
• publicity for the data by syndicating data descriptions to the UQ Data Collections Registry and ANDS Research Data Australia (RDA)
• exposure to a variety of datasets in the social sciences, census and geographic domains.

There is a link to the project website at: http://itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/ands/siss/
A description of the Variables derived from 2006 Census of Population & Housing and voting results at polling booth catchment level for 2007 Australian Federal Election can be seen in Research Data Australia. 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website
The software developed can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/andsdc4bproject/

This project was jointly led by Prof Jane Hunter, Project lead, UQ eResearch Group, Prof Bob Stimson, Project advisor, UQ School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, Prof Martin Bell, Project advisor, Queensland Centre for Population Research, Dr Tung-Kai (Paul) Shyy, Data analyst, Irfan Azeezullah, Software developer, Friska Pambudi, Software developer, Dr Nigel Ward, Project Manager.

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University of South Australia

University of South Australia: Taking Australian Architectural and Built Environment Records into the Commons

posted 24 August 2011

The University of South Australia has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Taking Australian Architectural and Built Environment Records into the Commons.

The project was based at the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia: http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/architecturemuseum/default.asp

It made metadata about the Architecture Museum's collections widely available online: http://www.metatecture.unisa.edu.au/public/

The Architecture Museum collections can also be seen on Research Data Australia.

The University of South Australia developed a system they called 'Metatecture' to facilitate the creation and publication of metadata. This software is available for download at the Sourceforge project site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/metatecture/

There is a description of the project, including contact details for the project team here.

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University of Sydney

University of Sydney: ExSite9 - Field Research Data Capture System

posted 12 April 2013

The University of Sydney has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “ExSite9:  Field Research Data Capture System”.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• The creation of a lightweight and self-contained desktop application enabling field-based linguistics and ethno-musicological researchers to:
  • organise file-based information from a multitude of sources including digital cameras, video and sound recording equipment, scanned documents, files from transcription and annotation software, spreadsheets and field notes.
  • annotate their multimedia files quickly with collection and item level metadata using their own or a common vocabulary and do this on diverse types of computers and operating systems
  • easily bundle the metadata into a submission package that can be transferred into a digital metadata repository that will enhance management and discoverability of the data
• The registering in Research Data Australia of 177 collections from the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures – PARADISEC (which is supported by the University of Sydney).

A description of each the collections by this project can be seen at Research Data Australia 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website
The software developed can be found at: https://github.com/IntersectAustralia/exsite9.

The team members from the University of Sydney were Associate Professor Linda Barwick and Amanda Harris.  The team members from the University of Melbourne were Dr Nick Theiberger and Aidan Wilson.  The software development was carried out by Intersect Australia Limited

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University of Tasmania

University of Tasmania: Data Capture of Statewide Hydrological Datasets

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University of Tasmania: Publication of Collections into RDA by TPAC and IMAS of UTAS

posted 23 April 2012

The Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC) and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at University of Tasmania have successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: Publication of Collections into RDA by TPAC and IMAS of UTAS.

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Described the entire set of marine research data within the TPAC digital library using RIF-CS. The RIF-CS records are stored on TPAC site in a metadata store; an OAI-PHM harvesting has been set up to feed the RIF-CS records into ARDC from the TPAC meta-data store.
• Discovered and described IMAS/TAFI (Tasmania Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute) marine research community data using RIF-CS. The descriptions were stored in the IMOS Geo-Network MEST, and harvested published to RDA (Research Data Australia).
• Created Web software tool(s) and services to allow users to create, store and manage research data collections along with their metadata descriptions, persistent identifiers and digital object identifiers.
• Developed and delivered internal training programs and resources for research data management for both TPAC and IMAS/TAFI data collections, and set up long term policies for research data management.  This results in improved support for researchers and research students regarding management of research data.

This is a link to the IMAS marine data sets online. Descriptions of the IMAS data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia
This is a link to the TPAC Oceans and Climate Digital Library Portal. Descriptions of the TPAC data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website
The IMAS/TPAC data management policy is available here. 

This project was jointly led by Dr. Peter Blain (TPAC) and Mr. Peter Walsh (IMAS), with excellent contributions from Dr. Natalia Atkins and Dr. Paola Petrelli on describing data collections in RIF-CS, and Ming Fu and Matthew Armsby on software development.

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University of Tasmania: Data Capture of Statewide Hydrological Datasets

posted 18 September 2012

The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “Data Capture of Statewide Hydrological Datasets.”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Made data from the CSIRO and Forestry Tasmania sensor webs, with particular emphasis on the South Esk region, is now exposed by two sensor observation services (SOS) serving twenty five sensors, a THREDDS server and providing forecast data.
• Developed a sensor observation service (SOS) client that consumes metadata provided by the South Esk Sensor Webs.
• Developed an application solution which enables automated daily publication of GeoNetwork's SOS metadata in RIF-CS format in Research Data Australia

This is a link to the software developed, which is available online here.
A description of the data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia. 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website. 

This project was led by Prof. Mike Coffin at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, and was managed by Brendan Davey & Peter Blain.

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University of Technology Sydney

University of Technology Sydney: SC17 Community tools and processes for effective data management planning

posted 23 August 2012

University of Technology Sydney Library has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “SC17 Community tools and processes for effective data management planning”

The key achievements this project produced are:

• Seeding the Commons pilot project report
• ‘Supporting eResearch at UTS’ document
• VC’s Directive on Research Data Management (currently going through consultation process)
• protocols for Data Reuse (ATSIDA protocols)
• report on the review of discipline data archives, which resulted in an online directory of data archives being made available on the UTS Library website
• guide to Social Sciences Archives
• an online data management planning checklist and related links/online help
• data management planning guidelines
• strategy for the retrospective ingestion of records into RDA
• a communication strategy

A description of the MPPDA data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia 
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website

Gabrielle Gardiner and Elizabeth Litting at the University of Technology Sydney, University Library, jointly led this project.

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University of Western Sydney

University of Western Sydney: UWS Seeding the Commons Project

posted 06 March 2013

The University of Western Sydney Library has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: “UWS Seeding the Commons Project”. The key achievements of this project are:

• Establishment of project related teams and collaboration with key units
• Engagement with all UWS stakeholders to create feeling of project ownership to ensure greater participation as the project moves to business as usual in 2013
• The Research Data Catalogue which is a new offering from the Library and enables archiving and reuse of research data
• Communication to  researchers  about data management via the Office of Research Services and eResearch websites,  regarding the Research Data Catalogue and the broader strategy for the university.
• 21 records have been created for the project.
• The collections cover a wide range of disciplines and areas including education, cultural studies, political science, historical studies, museum studies, music, psychology, medicine, clinical sciences, environmental chemistry, social and cultural geography, race and ethnic relations, urban and regional planning, urban policy, natural resource management, studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander society, film, television and digital media, etc.
• The collections represent a wide range of  research output and each has made a contribution of new knowledge or understanding to their respective fields. Sharing the collections on Research Data Australia is not only an excellent showcase of the University’s research achievement; it also provides significant collaboration opportunities for researchers both nationally and internationally.
• Of the 18 collections, 3 provide open access under Creative Commons licence, 5 provide open access without specific licences, and the others offer mediated or restricted access.
• eResearch blog: On completion of this project we will post a summary, and explain how the metadata stores project and Research Data Repository projects will build on this

A strategy that came out of this project and was of interest to others was http://metadata-stores.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/researcher-participation-clever.html

The UWS data collection can be seen on Research Data Australia.
A description of the project and contact information can be found on the ANDS website. 

The Seeding the Commons project team at UWS was Robyn Benjamin, Interim University Librarian.  Euwe Ermita, Project Manager and Library Systems Manager.  Susan Robbins, Research Services Coordinator.  Ping Li, Metadata Librarian.  Di Dougall, Manager, Information Resources.  Amar Rangasamy, Library Systems Officer.  Amir Rezghian, Online Services Coordinator.

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University of Wollongong

University of Wollongong: Identifying and locating UOW data sets

posted 25 September 2011

The University of Wollongong has successfully completed the ANDS-funded project: "Identifying and locating UOW data sets to seed the Australian Research Data Commons and the development of a supporting research data management policy"

This project formed an important component of the "DataWise" strategic project. The key achievements and outcomes this Seeding the Commons project produced are:

• 35 collections loaded to RDA from UOW. These were identified from Australian Competitive Grants from 2005-2010. There are 404 successful ACGs which contained potential data collections.
• Temporary infrastructure of project registration, metadata collection and data storage have been established.
• To ensure the continuation of the benefits from the ANDS Seeding the Commons Project, a Data Management framework has been developed at UOW.
• Draft Data Management Guidelines have been prepared.
• Policy document written: "Persistent Identifiers for UOW objects used to populate Research Data Australia". This covers keys and object IDs.

This is a link to the project page at University of Wollongong eResearch website.
The data collections can be seen on Research Data Australia.

This project was managed by Matthew Perry and the project work was carried out by Carolyn Norris and Elaine Gully. Their contact details are here. 

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