New ANDS Guides available on website http://ands.org.au/guides/ http://www.ands.org.au/guides/file-formats-working.html This guide describes the issues of choosing file formats for data storage, transmission and sharing Thurs, 29 April 2010 http://www.ands.org.au/guides/content-providers-guide.html This non-technical guide describes the meaning and purpose of the information collected for publishing in Research Data Australia, and explains how to use the RIF-CS Schema to share that information with the ANDS Collections Registry. Wed, 7 April 2010 http://www.ands.org.au/guides/publish-my-data.html Publish My Data self-service is part of a suite of products and services provided by ANDS that allows data to play a similar role to a published journal article in the scholarly communications cycle Thurs, 18 Feb 2010 http://ands.org.au/guides/discovery-ardc.html ANDS has as its vision of more researchers reusing more data more often. There are many reasons why the sharing and re-use of data can contribute to the effectiveness of research in all disciplines Tue, 19 Jan 2010 http://ands.org.au/guides/defining.a.collection.html While any grouping of objects could be referred to as a collection, the concept can be refined by considering what kind of objects a collection might contain, and what the criteria for including them in the collection might be. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 http://ands.org.au/guides/doi.html The Digital Object Identifier system is used for identifying intellectual property in the digital environment. It is used principally by publishers, and is an implementation of the Handle System for persistent identifiers. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 http://ands.org.au/guides/curation.continuum.html This guide introduces the concepts of the data curation continuum and curation boundary, and describes how they impact on the management of research data for discovery and re-use. It is likely to be of interest to researchers who create data, to research data stewards and to data management professionals. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 http://ands.org.au/guides/rif-cs-awareness.html This guide explains what RIF-CS is, what the ISO 2146 draft standard is and how organisations can create RIF-CS documents and make them available to ANDS for automatic harvesting. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/research-data-australia.html This document is aimed at potential contributors to Research Data Australia Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/code-awareness.html This guide is designed as an introduction for academic administrators who have responsibility for policy making and/or the provision of research data infrastructure. Others associated with the creation and management of research data may also find it relevant. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/scholarly-communications-awareness.html This guide is designed as an introduction for academic administrators who have responsibility for policy making and/or the provision of research data infrastructure. Others associated with the creation and management of research data may also find it relevant. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/register-my-data-awareness.html This guide explains what Register My Data does, how it works, who it is for and how it can be accessed. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/persistent-identifiers-expert.html This module aims to provide research administrators and technical staff with a thorough understanding of the issues involved in setting up a persistent identifier infrastructure. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/persistent-identifiers-working.html This module is to familiarise researchers and administrators with persistent identifiers as they apply to research. It gives an overview of the various issues involved with ensuring identifiers provide ongoing access to research products. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/metadata-awareness.html The term metadata refers to information used to describe items and groups of items. It is data about data. It can be used to describe physical items as well as digital items (files, documents, images, datasets, etc.). Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/identify-my-data-awareness.html This guide explains what Identify My Data does, who it is for and how it can be accessed. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/file-formats-awareness.html A file format is a way of organising meaningful information into a sequence of bits and bytes for storage in a computer system. Most people are familiar with different file formats for documents, images, sound files and perhaps video. The same issues apply to file formats for research data sets. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/data-management-planning-awareness.html A data management plan is a document that describes what data will be created, what policies will apply to the data, who will own and have access to the data, what data management practices will be used, what facilities and equipment will be required, and who will be responsible for each of these activities. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/data-citation-awareness.html This guide is intended for eResearch infrastructure support providers and researchers. It is not so much a guide to how to cite data, but a guide to the issues around it, and activities underway to change the culture around data citation in order to support improved data management and sharing. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/copyright-and-data-awareness.html This guide is relevant to those who deal with data, including researchers who generate or compile data, database/repository managers who store, manage and retrieve data, and users who access and use data. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/persistent-identifiers-expert.html This guide follows the Awareness Level and Working Level guides on the same topic. In addition to filling in all the details from the earlier guides, it also describes the Handle system, discusses persistent identifier policy, and includes an extensive Glossary. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/cc-and-data.html This guide is relevant to anyone who owns copyright in data compilations or databases and wants to share their data openly, or to anyone who wants to use data under an open content licence. It explains what Creative Commons is, lists the different CC licences, discusses how CC applies to data, and how to comply with the attribution requirement when using numerous datasets contributed by many different authors. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 http://ands.org.au/guides/storage.html This guide is about the ANDS approach to data storage. It is a general introduction that is likely to be of interest to all users of ANDS, including researchers, their support staff, data centre and repository staff and the general public. It covers the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, institutional repositories, institutional data stores, the ARCS data fabric, and discipline stores. Wed, 4 Nov 2009