ANDS Guides

About ANDS Products and Services | Using ANDS Products and Services | Policy and Legal Framework | Scholarly Communications | Data Management

These guides provide information about ANDS services and some fundamental issues in data-intensive research and research data management. These are not rules, prescriptions or proscriptions. They are guidelines and checklists to inform and broaden the range of possibilities for researchers, data managers, and research organisations.

About ANDS Products and Services

• ANDS Discovery Services and the Australian Research Data Commons | [PDF]

• Identify My Data | [PDF]

• Register My Data | [PDF]

• Research Data Australia | [PDF]

Using ANDS Products and Services

• Content Providers Guide

• Defining a Collection | [PDF]

• Digital Object Identifiers | [PDF]

• Persistent identifiers (Awareness level) | [PDF]

• Persistent identifiers (Working level) | [PDF]

• Persistent identifiers (Expert level) | [PDF]

• Publish My Data | [PDF]

• Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS) | [PDF]

Policy and Legal Framework

• Copyright and data | [PDF]

• Creative Commons and Data [PDF]

• Research data policy and the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (Awareness level) | [PDF]

Scholarly Communications

• Data citation | [PDF]

• Scholarly communications (Awareness level) | [PDF]

Data Management

• Data management planning (Awareness level) | [PDF]

• File formats (Awareness level) | [PDF]

• File formats (Working level) | [PDF]

• Metadata (Awareness level) | [PDF]

• Storage (Awareness level) | [PDF]

• The Data Curation Continuum | [PDF]

Levels

Most of these guides have a level designation as well as a title. The three levels are as follows:

1. Awareness: Intended for the general public or novice reader. May also serve as an introduction to higher-level documents on the same topic.

2. Working: Intended for those who need a working knowledge of the topic. These will tend to focus particularly on how to carry out various tasks, particularly involving services offered by ANDS.

3. Expert: Intended only for those who need specialist or advanced management or technical details on this topic.

Not every topic will be covered at all three levels.

Feedback

We are keen to get feedback on these materials. If you have any comments, constructive criticism, suggestions for improvements or additional topics that we need to cover, please write to guides@ands.org.au.