Metadata for Re-Use: the Australian National Data Service and the role of Institutional Repositories
Andrew Treloar, Deputy Director, ANDS
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Relevant background for me Monash University Information Management
strategy Australian Research Repositories Online to the
World (ARROW) Dataset Acquisition, Annotation and Accessibility
eResearch Technologies (DART) Australian ResearCH Enabling enviRonment
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Australian Repository Landscape All universities have IR
funded out of ASHER program
13 of 40 use VITAL, rest a mix of ePrints, dSpace, Digitool, etc.
Almost without exception, content is publications only
Monash ARROW repository has some datasets, loading more
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Data stores Large universities have one or are building one Australian Research Collaboration Service is
building out national data fabric A$50M for storage A$37M for services A$12M for discipline-specific applications
All publicly-funded researchers in Australia should get access
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Australian National Data Service Funded by Australian Government at A$24M+48M
($A72M = €44M or £39M) through to mid-2011 Largest current national investment in data management
Seven programs of work: Frameworks/Capabilities, Data Capture, Public Data Access, Metadata Stores, ARDC Core, Seeding the Commons, Applications
Vision: More researchers re-using more data more often
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Australian Research Data Commons
Driving and enabling re-use1
Information for discovery Information for determination of value Information for access Information for re-use
Ideally all of these should be available at discovery time
[1] Drawing on thinking from UKDA (data-archive.ac.uk)
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Information for discovery Closest thing to catalogue metadata Some can be inferred Some can be extracted from other systems Some has to be entered manually
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Information for determination of value Helping a researcher decide if they want to re-use Based on as much context as possible
experimental design researcher research program institution linked publications availability of re-use metadata (see later)
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Information for access To enable researcher to get to data Four possibilities
Direct link to open-access data Link to datastore with its own access controls
register/login only for open access register/login for restricted access
Contact information for how to get data Metadata only (no access)
variations in how people feel about this
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Information for re-use Varies hugely by discipline Possible elements
variable names and scales (Temp?) instrument settings for experiment calibration values for instrument against reference reagents used rights restrictions
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Metadata Stores solutions Use existing IR
Newcastle
Build something new ADFI/USQ Fascinator-derivative Griffith/QUT Mediaflux-derivative UniMelb VITRO application Monash Oracle application
Something else (TBF)
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