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Australian National Data Service

More Australian researchers reusing research data more often.
Research Data Australia is a set of web pages describing data collections produced by or relevant to Australian researchers. It is designed to promote visibility of research data collections in search discovery engines such as Google and Yahoo, to encourage their re-use. For more information please see the relevant ANDS guide.

The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) aims to:

  • influence national policy in the area of data management in the Australian research community
  • inform best practice for the curation of data
  • transform the disparate collections of research data around Australia into a cohesive collection of research resources
 
 

ANDS is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government's Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR). The funding has been provided through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) as part of the Platforms for Collaboration Investment Plan.

In mid-2009 ANDS was further funded by the Education Investment Fund (EIF) for the establishment of the Australian Research Data Commons under the Super Science Initiative.

The ANDS Project Partners are:


News
 ANDS Funded Genomic Data System Launched at UNSW

Intersect recently launched their Innovation Project, aimed at centralising the effort of several institutions to make best use of new gene sequencing instruments. ANDS has funded automatic capture of metadata for these instruments. For more, please see here

 ANDS Data Commons Boot Camp in June and August

ANDS is inviting one member of the staff of institutions receiving contract funding through its Seeding the Commons Program to attend an intensive five-day training program.More details

 ANDS Funded Projects

ANDS has allocated $6.815 million dollars for "fast start projects", $1.805 million dollars for "NeAT projects", and $16.15 million dollars for data capture and seeding the commons projects at research institutions. Details are available online

 Research Data Storage Project

DIISR have invited submissions in response to a discussion paper on implementation models for the $50 million Super Science electronic research data storage project. Further details, including the discussion paper are available online.

 
Australian National Data Service, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia: Telephone +61 3 9902 0585; Facsimile +61 3 9902 0599
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