Metadata for Re-Use: the Australian National Data Service and the role of Institutional Repositories Andrew Treloar, Deputy Director, ANDS 1ands.org.au

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 (ARCHER) ands.org.au2

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 ands.org.au3

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 ands.org.au4

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 ands.org.au5

Australian Research Data Commons

Driving and enabling re-use 1  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) ands.org.au7

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 ands.org.au8

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) ands.org.au9

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 ands.org.au10

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 ands.org.au11

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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) ands.org.au17

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Questions?   ands.org.au19