Publish My Data self-service - Overview

ANDS Publish My Data self-service allows Australian researchers and research organisations to publicise the existence of research collections via the internet.

Publish My Data self-service is an ANDS online service that allows individuals to manually enter collection description information and to obtain a persistent identifier for the collection. This information will be stored in the ANDS Collections Registry and will be discoverable through Research Data Australia. Collections must be accessible online

The individual who enters the collection description information is responsible for any required future updates to this information.

ANDS registers your collection description; ANDS does not store the collection itself. You retain control over access to items in the collection. Any special access considerations can be included in your collection description.

How does it work?

ANDS online services can be accessed at: http://services.ands.org.au/home/orca/user/collection_add.php.
To use Publish My Data you need to have a user name and password that is valid within the pilot Australian Access Federation (AAF). If your organisation is not a member of the pilot AAF, you can create a username and password with the ARCS Identity Provider Service at: https://idp.arcs.org.au/idp_reg/

Your collection description must include:

• A collection type (is it a catalogue, a dataset, something else?)
• A collection title
• A URL (web address) where the collection is located
• A short description of the collection.

Your collection description may also include:

• Information about other contributors
• A list of relevant ANZSRC fields of research
• A list of relevant subject keywords
• Spatial coverage data
• Access rights information.

Collection descriptions entered using Publish My Data self-service are not immediately accepted into the ANDS Collection Registry or Research Data Australia. Descriptions are held in a pending state until an ANDS administrator approves the collection description. This is to ensure that obscene or malicious material is not published in Research Data Australia. This approval process will generally take less than 5 working days.

Who is it for?

ANDS prefers to harvest collection description information automatically, at the institutional level, as this allows for the responsibility of ongoing maintenance of collection description information to rest with the institution. However, ANDS recognises that this is not always possible.

Publish My Data self-service is intended for use by researchers at organisations where there is no formal data archiving service and where ANDS has no distributed services in place.

Where can I get more information?

ANDS Guides are available from: http://ands.org.au/guides/

If you have questions regarding ANDS Publish My Data please email services@ands.org.au