Abstract
The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) has been funded by the Australian Government since 2009, with a goal to increase the value of data to researchers, research institutions and the nation. To achieve this goal, ANDS has funded more than 200 projects under seven programs. This paper provides an overview of one of these programs, the Applications Program, which focused on funding software infrastructure to enable data reuse to demonstrate the value of making data available to researchers. The paper also presents some representative projects, a summary of what the program has achieved, and lessons learned.Â
Highlights
IntroductionWhen researchers are able to reuse data to advance human knowledge and to address some of the big problems faced by our society today will we see the true value of sharing data
To enable the first three transformations, Australian National Data Service (ANDS) has been partnering with research and data producing agencies to make researchers and data holders more aware of the benefits of data sharing through setting up data management policies and procedures; to set up mechanisms for capturing data and metadata from e.g. instruments, computer simulations, sensors, historical data; and to set up research data asset registries and the discovery portal Research Data Australia (RDA)1 - a national service for publishing data and making data citable and findable
These projects showcase the value of data reuse and the provision of data tools to researchers, and to policy makers and the general public
Summary
When researchers are able to reuse data to advance human knowledge and to address some of the big problems faced by our society today will we see the true value of sharing data To make this more apparent, ANDS set up the Applications Program, whose goal was to enable and promote the fourth transformation, producing compelling demonstrations of the value of having data available for re-use, and thereby addressing novel and complex research questions. This paper will present a range of projects funded under the Applications Program These projects showcase the value of data reuse and the provision of data tools to researchers, and to policy makers and the general public. Instead of giving a summary of applications from one category, we present a few example applications
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