News

Posted 30/4/10

ANDS Data Commons Boot Camp in June and August

ANDS is inviting one member of the staff of institutions receiving contract funding through its Seeding the Commons Program to attend an intensive five-day training program.

Posted 14/4/10

Research Data Storage Project

DIISR have invited submissions in response to a discussion paper on implementation models for the $50 million Super Science electronic research data storage project. Further details, including the discussion paper are available online.

Posted 12/4/10

ANDS Funded Projects

ANDS has allocated $6.815 million dollars for "fast start projects", $1.805 million dollars for "NeAT projects", and $16.15 million dollars for data capture and seeding the commons projects at research institutions. Details are available online

Posted 8/4/10

ANDS Content Providers Guide

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.

Posted 8/4/10

ANDS Roadshow Comes to Melbourne

The ANDS Roadshow will be held at the Melbourne Town Hall on May 10 and 11. Registrations are now being taken.

Posted 29/1/10

ANDS Needs Analysis Survey

The ANDS Needs Analysis Survey is available for public comment. The results of public comments received will be incorporated into a revised version of the Needs Analysis Survey and used to develop an ANDS Services Roadmap.....

Posted 28/1/10

ANDS Roadshow to visit Canberra and Sydney

The highly successful series of ANDS Roadshows will continue in Canberra on March 30 and 31, and in Sydney on April 19 and 20, 2010.

Posted 27/10/09

ANDS Infrastructure Project Plan Approved

In the recent Federal budget ANDS was allocated $48 million from the Education Investment Fund (EIF) to create and develop an Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) research infrastructure. Over the last few months ANDS has been consulting with major stakeholders across the sector on the final form that this project will take.....

Posted 21/08/09

ANDS Community Bulletin Board

An online discussion space has been created by ANDS to provide an environment for people to discuss issues around data sharing and data management.

Posted 13/08/09

ANDS Roadshow

ANDS will be visiting all capital cities to hold workshops and events between September 2009 and May 2010.

Posted 30/07/09

ANDS releases first issue of 'Share: the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service'

ANDS attracts new funding

Collaborative Integration and Annotation Services for Australian Literature Communities (Aus-e-Lit) Project

ANDS and ARCS are supporting a set of National e-Research Architecture Taskforce (NeAT) projects. One is building new services for Australian literature communities. The Aus-e-Lit Project commenced in July 2008. The Project's goal is to help AustLit users to discover, organise, describe, analyse, collaborate and communicate in a networked environment. The project team is working on several case studies
that will be used to inform the design of the new services. For example, collaborative annotation that assists literary analysis is being developed around Henry Lawson’s short story.

Posted 16/06/09

ANDS Launches two New Online Services

ANDS has launched two new online services to support data intensive research and help build the foundations of a national and international global data commons:

• The Register My Data services to help make data public
• The Identify My Data services to support persistent identifiers for public datasets

Posted 16/06/09

Forums on institutional responses to the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research

ANDS has held two information gathering forums on the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research to help us develop materials to take to the wider community.

Posted 16/06/09

Managing the data deluge

ANDS will help Australian researchers handle the increasing amount and complexity of data, according to "The Australian" Higher Education Supplement.

Posted 10/12/08

Dr Ron Sandland appointed Chairman of the ANDS Steering Committee

Professor Edwina Cornish, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Monash University has announced that Dr Ron Sandland will be the Chair of the ANDS Steering Committee.

Ron Sandland was previously CSIRO's Deputy Chief Executive.  He joined CSIRO's Division of Mathematics and Statistics in 1969 and became chief of the division in 1988, later managing its merger with the Division of Information Technology into what is now CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences.  In 1999 he became Deputy Chief Executive of CSIRO and led the Flagship Initiative.  This involved six major cross-disciplinary research programs and was aimed at addressing problems of a national priority.  Ron's interests have been in applying statistics to solve challenging real problems in areas as diverse as growth of organisms, analysis of 'mark-recapture' experiments, ore-reserve estimation and quality-improvement.

Ron Sandland will officially take up his appointment as Chair at the inaugural meeting of the ANDS Steering Committee in Melbourne on 17 December 2008

Posted 10/12/08

Dr Ross Wilkinson appointed as Executive Director, ANDS

ANDS is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Ross Wilkinson as Executive Director of ANDS.  Dr Wilkinson joins ANDS from Monday 24th November 2008 and he will work from the Monash University office.

Dr Ross Wilkinson obtained his PhD in mathematics at Monash University in 1982.  After teaching in the United States and La Trobe University, he joined the Department of Computer Science at RMIT and worked there until 1997, when he joined the Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences at CSIRO as a Principal Research Scientist.  In 1998, CSIRO worked with the Victorian governments's Public Records Office to develop the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS), a framework to reliably and authentically archive electronic documents created in government.  Ross was the technical director of this project.  From 2000-2004 he was Science and Industry Manager and from 2005-2008 he led the Information Engineering laboratory at CSIRO.  During this time Funnelback, the Enterprise Search Company was a spin off from the Information Engineering Laboratory.

His principal research interests are in the area of information environments.  Some of his areas of research are document retrieval effectiveness, personal information delivery, structured documents, and the use of XML in document retrieval.  He has published over 80 research papers, has served on many program committees and was a program co-chair for both SIGIR'96 and SIGIR'98.  In 1998 he co-authored the book entitled Document Computing:Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections, published by Kluwer.  In the Australian National Data Service his passion is to enable more researchers to reuse research data more often.

Publication list

Posted 05/06/08

The ANDS Technical Working Group helped to draw together Towards the Australian Data Commons in 2007. The ANDS Establishment Project reconvened the ANDS Technical Working Group for a consultation on Thursday 5 June, 2008. The group endorsed in principle the Draft Interim Business Plan for ANDS for 2008/9, but suggested a number of areas that needed further work and clarification. This work is now underway and will inform a second consultation round with a wider group (the ANDS Forum) in mid July