share the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service january 2010 : issue 03 Chair’s report – Ron Sandland

Late last year I wrote to the staff of ANDS to thank it was based on the best measures we had available of research them for the fantastic job they’ve done over the past quantum. I’d like to pay tribute to the quality of the work carried twelve months. In my letter I pointed out some of out by the research institutions in coming up with responses to our their achievements from a standing start: key services letters of offer that were creative and constructive. The timelines we required were (we know) very challenging but the response have been established; the community has been was really as good as we could possibly have hoped for. engaged and understands what ANDS’ bold ambitions So at the beginning of 2010, ANDS is poised to begin its commitment are; not only that, they (almost invariably) like what to deliver across a signifi cantly re-jigged and enhanced work they see; the paths forward have been charted; the program. There has been a fantastic level of engagement with advent of signifi cant new EIF funding for eScience the research community which has caused a few challenges has brought with it the need for signifi cant change. in managing the initiative – getting staff on board, internal and The planned and methodical way the consultation external communication, for example. was carried out has helped establish the bedrock At the Steering Committee we are now working on the challenge on which ANDS can develop. that was posed to me at one of the consultation meetings: how can ANDS is an initiative for the whole of the Australian research we make ANDS sustainable? In other words, how can we ensure community. Some of the ANDS funding will go to establish key that ANDS delivers something of lasting value that doesn’t fi zzle infrastructure to facilitate data capture, sharing and re-use for the out after the current Government funding fi nishes. We have lots whole community. But of course a signifi cant part of the funding, as of ideas but no defi nitive answers yet. However, the responses discussed in the consultation process, is being spent in individual from institutions and researchers indicate strong demand and institutions in our data capture and seeding the commons programs. interest in effective use and reuse of data at a new scale. This The ANDS Steering Committee thought long and hard about how to issue will be a permanent item on our agenda throughout 2010. allocate the available funds and, predictably, not all institutions are Any thoughts you may have would be very welcome and can be equally happy with the algorithm we selected to do this. However, emailed to [email protected]

Inside Issue 03 » Chair’s report – Ron Sandland » DataCite: A new era for research data citation » Executive Director’s report – Ross Wilkinson » Forthcoming events » ANDS out and about – ANDS engagements » Meet the ANDS Staff – Claire Hollingsworth » National eResearch Architecture Taskforce (NeAT) project update » Institutional approaches to data management support workshop » Conference reports » Integrated data services: ANDS and ARCS workshop » Focus on Research Excellence – Aus-e-Stage project » CAIRSS Community Day » ANDS Roadshows

ands.org.au ISSN 1836-9731 share the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service. Executive Director’s report – Ross Wilkinson

While ANDS continued with its many engagements across the The ANDS team has done extensive work on how best to support sector, a substantial part of the second half of 2009 was spent on these approaches, while looking for commonalities and effi ciencies. planning and outreach activities to help us make the best use of I have been excited to see ’s research organisations look the new funding announced in the 2009 budget. We started with purposefully at the opportunity to enhance their research strategies extensive consultations across the sector about the proposed plans through improved research data capture. Some organisations for the Australian Research Data Commons. The consultations clearly see this as a way of furthering their already articulated were held all over the country, leading to signifi cant support for plans; others see an opportunity to initiate new approaches. Some the plans - particularly the decision to concentrate on developing are looking at ways of positioning their organisation’s research the necessary infrastructure to signifi cantly improve Australia’s data holdings as part of a larger theme, and while we recognise ability to capture and manage its research data. We then moved that some feel that they could do much more if the funds were not rapidly to seek ideas and expressions of interest from a substantial limited they have still embraced the chance to become involved. number of institutions, focussing at this stage on data capture and management at the local level. Given the very tight timelines ANDS looks forward to working with many of you on rapidly involved we are grateful that so many organisations have been building a research data commons that is national in scale and willing and able to provide such high quality responses. international in signifi cance.

ANDS out and about – ANDS engagements Seeding the Commons The Seeding the Commons team has been closely involved with the ongoing expression of interest process being run by ANDS, particularly in the assessment and review of the proposals. Additionally the team has been working closely with a number of institutions to further develop their data management needs, including Monash, Newcastle, Victoria, CSIRO, ANSTO, TPAC and the South Australian universities. The team continues to grow, with more staff expected to join soon. Capabilities The University of Newcastle has been actively developing a program to support eResearch and improve data management and sharing during 2009. As part of this program, Ian Barnes and Margaret Henty L to R: Margaret Henty (Capabilities Program Manager, ANDS), Dr Ian Barnes (Research facilitated a workshop for staff of the library, research offi ce and Analyst, ANDS), Vicki Picasso (Research Repository Manager, University of Newcastle), Lyn McBriarty (Director, Research Offi ce, University of Newcastle) IT. This was designed to provide information about eResearch and the role it plays in the current research environment. Speakers from different parts of the University spoke about their different roles in meeting the requirements of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, about activities related to IT provision, data storage and retention and about the proposed role of the library in providing support for data management and description. Ian and Margaret fi nished the day with case studies demonstrating the kinds of issues which researchers face in conducting research in this changing environment.

page 2 National eResearch Architecture Taskforce (NeAT) project update

2009 saw all of the round 1 NeAT projects continue and a number The Australian Node of the Human Variome project was offi cially of round 2 projects successfully commence. In addition to the launched on December 22 2009 (although work was well underway projects identifi ed in the last issue of Share (#2), BioSecurity prior to this date). This will bring together data about human Collaboration Platform, and the National Criminal Justice Research genomics (the genetic code for an individual), phenomics (the Data Network have both started up. Two projects are worth way this code expresses itself as a human being) and clinical data highlighting in this issue. (the illnesses/diseases for that person). This has the potential to The Spatial Information Services Stack (SISS) project was funded dramatically enhance our understanding of disease processes and in round 1 to build software that would expose spatial data for the most effective treatments. It also brings with it a fascinating harvesting. ANDS is now funding a national deployment of the range of ethical and data linking issues. resulting software across a range of government instrumentalities. This will expose existing spatial data for discovery through the ANDS discovery services and signifi cantly enhance the outputs of the new Public Data program.

Conference reports International conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 12-16 October 2009 In October 2009 Joan Gray attended DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications at the National Library of Korea, Seoul, Korea (October 12-16, 2009). The 2009 program of tutorials, keynotes, conference papers, special sessions and community meetings brought together metadata Makx Dekkers gives a presentation at the Joan Gray outside the National Library researchers and practitioners from 18 countries and territories Dublin Core and Metadata Applications of Korea Conference in Seoul across a range of domains to focus on the theme of Semantic Photo courtesy of DC 2009 (http://www. Interoperability of Linked Data. facebook.com/group.php?gid=152707484967) Tim Berners-Lee in his presentation on the next web (Web 3.0) was a paper on modelling classifi cation systems (eg DDC) in SKOS (canned presentation at http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_ which generated a lot of discussion. Library of Congress Subject on_the_next_web.html) outlined his vision for linked data and the Headings (LCSH) has been converted to SKOS and published as Semantic web. The technical and social challenges presented by this linked data http://id.loc.gov./authorities. Dryad (http://ils.unc. idea of linked data were explored through a number of sessions at edu/mrc/dryad_repository/), a digital data repository underlying the conference. Linked data uses web standards and technologies scientifi c publications and the related HIVE project (https://www. such as URIs, HTTP and RDF. Researchers can contribute to and nescent.org/sites/hive/Main_Page) also encode discipline specifi c benefi t from the linked open data cloud by publishing their data vocabularies in SKOS as part of its automatic metadata creation online so that data can be exposed, shared, interconnected and activities. The SKOS demo and hands on session provided further re-used. Cross database search tools can query the linked data insight into using SKOS for shared RDF vocabularies. from different data sources. An important community meeting with international membership Another interesting topic discussed at the conference which is and held in conjunction with the conference was the DC Science relevant to ANDS future vocabulary service development activity and Metadata community (SAM) meeting. Brief presentations on was web enabled vocabularies and the use of web standards various projects were followed by open discussion. More information such as SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System). There is available at: http://dublincore.org/groups/sam/

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The highlight of the conference was Eric Miller’s presentation on the future Web 3.0 and Zepheira’s open source Recollection Platform. In 2009 the Library of Congress began a pilot project collaborating with Zepheira under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) to provide enhanced discoverable access for NDIIPP collections making them easier to fi nd, access, share and integrate with other digital information sources. More information about the program is available at: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.html and at http://zepheira.com/ The conference programme and papers are available at http:// www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php and Joan would be happy to answer questions from interested people at [email protected]. ANDS staff, Dr Xiaobin Shen and Chris Blackall talk to attendees at the ANDS booth eResearch Australasia co-convened two workshops at the conference, ‘Institutional approaches to data management support: exploring different models’ 9-13 November 2009 and ‘Integrated data services: ARCS & ANDS’ (for more detail see ANDS staff were out in force for eResearch Australasia pp 7-8). All members of the team took a turn answering questions 2009 which was held from 9 - 13 November in Sydney at the and meeting new people at the ANDS booth. As well as taking in beachfront Novotel Manly Pacifi c (http://www.eresearch.edu.au/). the many interesting papers, ANDS staff met with a number of Adrian Burton gave a paper called ‘Publish My Data: Brought to current and prospective partners to discuss development work you by the services of ANDS and ARCS, and the letter D’ (http:// for 2010, and took the opportunity to have an all-ANDS dinner ands.org.au/presentations), while members of the ANDS team while in Manly.

Focus on Research Excellence – Aus-e-Stage: Visualising the Australian performing arts The Aus-e-Stage project, developed through the National eResearch allow more fl exible interaction with the dataset and collaboration Taskforce (NeAT) program, builds on the success of the AusStage across sectors of the creative economy. Dr Jonathan Bollen from partnership (http://www.ausstage.edu.au) which is now into its the Drama Department at coordinates research second decade. AusStage is a partnership between academic for AusStage. Jonathan says that, “Information technology gives researchers in theatre, drama and performance studies at eighteen researchers the opportunity to record what they know about the universities, and is widely used as a primary research tool by policy- performing arts. Prior to AusStage researchers had to either be makers, arts administrators, artistic directors, event producers and physically present to know about an event or to have read a review performing artists and by staff in libraries, museums and archives about it. AusStage allows researchers to collectively share what around the country. Collaborating partners in government and they know.” Work has commenced on the design of three exciting industry include the Australian Council for the Arts, the Performing new services that will operate alongside AusStage’s current text- Arts Special Interest Group of Museum Australia and Windmill based search-and-retrieval service once testing and deployment Performing Arts. AusStage meets the national need for public has taken place. access to reliable information on live performance in Australia. The Mapping service will provide an interactive, map-based Methodological innovations introduced by AusStage are attracting interface with which to search, manage and display AusStage data. interest from researchers internationally. Users of the database will be able to display such information as The Aus-e-Stage project aims to improve how researchers access venue addresses and the latitude and longitude coordinates. For Australian performing arts data. These developments are being example, if a user is interested in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House they will driven by a demand amongst researchers for new interfaces that be able to display where this has been performed on a map and

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B-Grade_Performance_4:_Children,_Animals,_Clowns_and_the_End_of_the_World_(19772)

Performance_Spac Virtual_Goddess_(72694)

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(26339) The_Smiling_Prisoner_(72222)

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The Performance Space (1995-2005)

h (72627) Network of events linked by artists working at the Performance Space in Sydney from 1995-2005. Image courtesy of AusStage

view all the events that are on around that time. It will be possible The audience response data will be made available through to zoom in on a particular region on a map. The Aus-e-Stage team the AusStage website. Jonathan says that, “There are some is exploring how to display the AusStage data against different complexities to consider such as how the information is to be types of maps. Maps will show the demographic characteristics stored and what kind of access and reuse provisions will come into of a region. The historical dimension to the mapping of datasets play, but AusStage is committed to holding the data in perpetuity. will also be of great use to researchers. The data will be of national signifi cance so it is important that all The Network service will provide an interactive interface for sustainability issues are addressed.” The entire AusStage dataset navigating and analysing the network of artistic collaborations will be discoverable through ANDS Research Data Australia. It is embedded in the AusStage dataset. This is an important resource for people working in the performing arts. Information about yet to be determined what metadata will be recorded with each crews, directors and actors can be used to reveal patterns of piece of audience response. The intention is to keep the process creative activity and lines of artistic infl uence. Jonathan says that, as simple as possible for users. Responses will be linked to event “The intention is to provide users with an exploratory browsing records in the AusStage database; it is likely that time and place experience by using visual representation of networks to show how metadata will also be recorded. There is growing interest from artists collaborate. The design will go through several iterations researchers and industry for production specifi c information and and will be tested on users.” it could also be useful to collect metadata about the contributors. The third service is to provide a new mobile interface that will The service will start with three pilot projects focused on particular allow AusStage to solicit live, location-based input from spectators. This project will create a remote-access feedback facility for productions. The intention is to grow the service in collaboration spectators to respond to productions by recording short SMS- with festivals and touring companies. style comments for other users to read and comment upon. The mapping, network and audience response tools that Aus- Until now it has been diffi cult and expensive to obtain data on audience e-Stage is developing will have exciting applications for other responses. Researchers and industry are interested in fi nding out discipline areas. Many researchers want to map their data using what the audience thinks immediately after they see an event or even applications such as Google Earth. The software will be produced at regular intervals during an event. Emoticons and cloud tags may be in modules and the code will be made available for re-use by other used as a means of identifying the emotional content of responses. researchers. The key challenge for Aus-e-Stage is to develop Jonathan says that, “The issue of how the audience response data services that researchers will enjoy using and fi nd productive to use. is to be moderated is complex and will need to be thought through carefully. Our initial plan is to display visual aggregations of audience response data, rather than individual responses.”

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ANDS Roadshows

There has been continued interest in ANDS Roadshows, which have now been held in Adelaide, Newcastle and Hobart. There has been a consistently high level of interest in the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, in techniques around data management planning and in the developing range of ANDS services. L to R: Dr Peter Blain (Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing), Dr Xiaobin Shen (ANDS), Dr Paola Petrelli (Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing), Neil Dickson Invited speakers from local institutions have proved a big hit (ANDS) at the Hobart Roadshow in providing a hands-on perspective on the responsibilities of institutions relating to the Code, and ANDS is grateful for their Most of those attending the workshops have been staff of libraries, IT participation. In Adelaide, our guest speaker was Dr Mark Hochman departments and research offi ces, with a sprinkling of researchers, who is Director of Research & Innovation Services at the University including some post-graduate students. As well as learning more of South Australia. In Newcastle, it was Lyn McBriarty from about the Code and about ANDS, the participants have appreciated Research Services at the University of Newcastle and in Hobart, the opportunity to meet with staff of other institutions that are Brigid Freeman from the Governance and Legal Offi ce of the facing the same issues in conducting research. . The Roadshow program will continue in 2010 with visits to Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Townsville and Darwin.

DataCite: A new era for research data citation

On December 1, 2009 in London, a group of leading DataCite will provide a mechanism to register datasets and issue research libraries and research data management unique digital object identifi ers (DOI names) to them. DOI names are organizations founded the international initiative, widely used in scholarly publications as a means to link to and cite DataCite (http://www.datacite.org/) to bring published research and are familiar to most researchers. research data under a common framework for Adam Farquahr, Head of Digital Library Technology, British Library identifi cation and citation. ANDS will be joining and new-elected president of DataCite’s executive board explained: DataCite in early 2010. “DataCite will have a signifi cant impact in the way datasets are recognized and persist in scholarly communication and will serve The stated objectives of DataCite are to “establish easier access to to rejoin the widening gap between the published record and the research data on the Internet, to increase acceptance of research data that underlie it.” data as legitimately citable contributions to the scientifi c record, and ANDS will use its membership in DataCite to offer DOIs for data to support data archiving that will permit results to be verifi ed and in the Australian Research Data Commons through the Identify My re-purposed for future study.” Data service (www.ands.org.au/services/identify-my-data.html).

Forthcoming events Gumboots for the Data Deluge: defi ning and ANDS Roadshows describing collections for the Australian Canberra – 30-31 March, 2010 Research Data Commons - Melbourne Sydney – 19-20 April, 2010 To be held in association with VALA2010. Melbourne – May, 2010 Friday, 12th February, 2010. From 9:30am - 1pm. Townsville – June, 2010 Monash Conference Centre, Collins Street, Melbourne Darwin – June 2010 Dates and registration details forthcoming at http://ands.org.au/ Registration details at https://apollo.anu.edu.au/apollo/default. events/roadshows.html asp?pid=4352&script=true

page 6 Meet the ANDS Staff – Claire Hollingsworth

Claire Hollingsworth is the Director, Public Data for ANDS. She joined ANDS in October 2009 and works from the Canberra Offi ce. Claire is responsible for liaison with a range of government sector agencies and will facilitate programs of work that will make available existing data collection descriptions of public sector information and thus make those public sector data resources more discoverable by research communities. Claire comes to ANDS from CSIRO, one of the key partners in the ANDS collaboration. She has worked for many years in the Information and Technology environment and has spent the last ten years working in the project management and management arenas. She is looking forward to the coming New Year as “… it will be one of challenges and excitement. Many of the proposed engagements with educational institutions are now taking off, and we are ready to start the public sector data engagements in earnest.” Claire has been known to spend many hours stitching patchwork quilts and sees the ANDS data enablement program as an extension “...we are ready of this love. So many beautiful pieces of information just waiting to be sliced, positioned and restitched to form a new masterpiece of such immense value and beauty to our communities. to start the “There is so much good information out there that can benefi t not only academic researchers, but also other government agencies public sector and community groups. The more credible the information that can be accessed or leveraged to assist in our government policy decision making processes the better. Often we are constrained by data engagements information that comes from only our known sources. I see ANDS as a facilitator and an effective enabler to ensuring that data from reputable sources can be make known and thus become more in earnest” readily available to our future key decision makers.”

Institutional approaches to data management support workshop 9 November 2009 eResearch Australasia provided a good opportunity to bring people discussion. Initiatives underway include eresearch support and together to discuss the issue of how research institutions are training, policy and planning, developments in repository capacity organising themselves to improve data management. A workshop, held and services, and engagement with ANDS to publish data through on the day prior to the conference proper, was organised by ANDS, the Research Data Australia portal. Monash Library, CSIRO and QUT Library. The workshop focused on The workshop showed that an effective common change strategy, of developments at , CSIRO, QUT, Griffi th University building on existing strengths and introducing change incrementally, and the University of Newcastle but was designed to provide plenty has evolved and is improving research data management capabilities of time for discussion and input from other institutions. in Australia’s diverse research institutions. Presenters spoke about how they are meeting the data management Over 60 people attended the workshop, with participants from as challenges arising from the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct far afi eld as Germany, Zambia and New Zealand. of Research, and the audience contributed their experiences in a lively ands.org.au page 7 share the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service. Integrated data services: ANDS and ARCS workshop 13 November 2009

ANDS and ARCS ran a full-day workshop on Friday 13th After lunch, Ross Wilkinson gave a general introduction to ANDS November as part of the eResearch Australasia 2009 conference. and Adrian Burton introduced the ANDS Products. Ian Barnes gave This workshop was well attended, with around 80 participants. a live demonstration of Register My Data and Identify My Data, In the morning session, Florian Goessmann from ARCS gave including authentication using the Australian Access Federation and an overview of the tools and services offered by ARCS Data the ARCS Identity Provider. Finally Heather Grant ran a hands-on Services. This presentation covered the ARCS Data Fabric, the session in which participants were able to try out Publish My Data ARCS Database Service and the ARCS Data Transfer Service. for themselves. After morning tea, participants who had brought laptops were This workshop was well received, with positive feedback from able to try these services. participants and an atmosphere of interest and enthusiasm.

CAIRSS Community Day 1 December 2009

The CAIRSS Community Day was held at the Innovation Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday 1st December, 2009. Ross Wilkinson was invited to give a general introduction to the Australian National Data Service as part of a busy and interesting program of speakers. Professor Greg Hill, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, L to R: Kate Watson (CAIRSS Project Manager and Repository Specialist), CAIRSS and ANDS both care about University of the Sunshine Coast gives the Dr Ross Wilkinson (ANDS) and Helen Livingston (University Librarian, welcome address at the CAIRSS Community Day University of South Australia) at the CAIRSS Community Day outputs of research and the inputs to research, and ANDS will be CAIRSS is the CAUL Australian Institutional Repository Support funding a staff member at CAIRSS to help strengthen this relationship. Service (http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/index.htm). The primary Research papers and research data are both outputs and inputs into function of CAIRSS is to offer support for Repository Managers in research. Ross asked the audience to consider what the key role the higher education sector in Australia. It also provides a forum to of the institutional repository will be to support research data. An represent the collective interests of repository managers by hosting interesting discussion ensued. topic teleconferences and other events. Advice is available about areas such as data migration, metadata, standards compliance, import The CAIRSS Community Day papers are available at: http://cairss. and export, harvesting and ingest of new forms of digital material. caul.edu.au/www/events/cairss_community_day_program.htm

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