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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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 participants. Based on material developed by RDA IG

7. 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!

8. Building Communities – Research Data Provenance

9. Helping Communities Build - RVA

10. 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.
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11. 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?

12. 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)

13. 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.
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