Building Communities & Helping Communities Build Andrew Treloar Director of Technology 19/5/2017

The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) makes Australia’s research data assets more valuable for researchers, research institutions and the nation.

Overview ANDS Identifier Activities Building Communities Data Librarians Data Technologists Research Data Provenance Helping Communities Build Research Vocabularies Australia Research Data Alliance

ANDS Identifier Activities Cite My Data DOI service Identify My Data Handle service Research Vocabularies Australia Vocabulary management service Grants and Projects Discovery service PURL-based

Building Communities – Data Librarians 23 (research data) Things is a self-guided training concept for anybody interested in data. Learn online at your own pace. 1500 participants. Based on material developed by RDA IG

Building Communities – Techtalks Hub and spoke model. Joint activity with NeCTAR and number of eResearch nodes. One talk/month. Topics decided by community. Attendance from 50 to 150 depending on topics. Steve Androulakis now leading!

Building Communities – Research Data Provenance

Helping Communities Build - RVA

Helping Communities Build - RDA Vision Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. Mission RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data. www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Some initial thoughts A small amount of support can go a long way if the community is motivated Can sometimes be difficult to sit back and let the community lead Much better to involve the community in the planning rather than build it and hope they come Valid role for national organisation to provide national enabling infrastructure It’s all great, but how does one scale it?

And a closing challenge “In science one is used to stressing the differences; for infrastructure [and community!] building you need to stress the agreements” - Peter Wittenburg, RDA/EU (reporting on a conversation at SURF)

Director of Technology @atreloar 03 990 20572 ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program. Monash University leads the partnership with the Australian National University and CSIRO. With the exception of third party images or where otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 International Attribution Licence. Andrew Treloar Director of Technology @atreloar 03 990 20572