Towards Research Data Commons
ANDS (Australian National Data Service) has announced the launching of online services to support data intensive research with more to come.
Two services were launched in May 2009.
Another service, the Research Data Australia gateway will be launched very soon, according to ANDS.
The ANDS announcement states:
“The Register My Data services allow you to register descriptions of your research data. These descriptions are then published in a number of discovery environments. The first of these is the Research Data Australia gateway (to be launched by ANDS in July) which aspires to include any Australian publicly funded data relevant to research and enable innovative cross-disciplinary re-use. Data descriptions registered with ANDS are also fed into other data discovery portals in Australia and internationally, including the big search engines such as Google. The Identify My Data services allocate persistent identifiers to data. These identifiers enable continuity of access even when the location of the data on the internet changes. These new services have been established by ANDS to help realise the vision of a global research data commons.”
These new services are part of the Australian Government’s plans discussed in a report published by the Australian Government of Education, Science and Training (DEST), entitled ‘Towards the Australian Data Commons: A Proposal for an Australian National Data Service (October 2007)’ . The report outlines plans for the development of ANDS and the Australian Data Commons.
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