Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)’s Post

📅 11 am (AEST), Tuesday 4 June | Online Join the next Australian #Vocabulary Special Interest Group (AVSIG) Meeting for 2 presentations on vocabulary management and vocabulary #identifiers: 🎤 “Accessing w3id to identify vocabularies: perspectives of a new user” by Jo Croucher, NCI 🎤 “GCMD – the global change master directory keywords: management and future directions” by Valerie Dixon, NASA. 🔗 Learn more + register now > https://lnkd.in/gMbghuty Formed in July 2016, the AVSIG provides a forum for discussion and activity on the use and creation of controlled vocabularies in #research, #data, information and collection management. The AVSIG is supported by the ARDC. #RDM

👋 Meet Julie Rothacker, Director, Major External Projects (Government) at Australian Catholic University! Julie led the Monash Research Platforms strategy in the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research Infrastructure portfolio. She strategically directed research infrastructure initiatives such as the implementing systems/integrations to capture key information to support strategic investment into research infrastructure. Julie led the expansion of the Research Platforms strategy across Monash University from a focus of biomedical and drug discovery capabilities. We’re thrilled to have Julie at the next #ARDCLeadership forum, where she’ll join a panel discussion on driving the development of a national, digitally #skilled #research workforce. Register now to join Julie and other speakers on 21 May in #Naarm / #Melbourne or online at the forum, which will be held as part of the ARDC #SkillsSummit2024 > 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gwkaHs9d #skills #NCRISimpact

🗨 Since Ben Foley was a kid, he's been interested in the nexus of art, design and technology. With an education that would mix #programming with life drawing classes and printmaking, Ben developed an awareness of cross-disciplinary learning and experimentation. This prepared Ben for a multifaceted career as he got into creating language resources. From the Kimberley region to Central Australia, and from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (#CoEDL) to the ARDC-supported Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), he has worked at different places in different roles, including project management, UX and visual design, and #software development. He's contributed to automatic speech recognition (#ASR) technology, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language map, and now making nationally significant language #data available with LDaCA. All these projects had academic and non-academic community interests at their heart. "The projects I work on now tend to have small numbers of users ... [but i]t’s important to recognise that impact can be quite significant for individuals. Many hours of laborious manual work may be saved by providing a linguist with access to a transcription tool. "And sometimes the impact is unexpected. For example, I worked on a story mapping project recently, collaborating with a researcher to write data analysis #code. Understanding a computational way of thinking significantly changed their approach to #research and the types of questions that could be opened up." 🔗 Read more about Ben and his work in the latest edition of our interviews with leading research software engineers (#RSEs) in Australia > https://lnkd.in/eGYgGps8 #ResearchSoftwareAU #RSE

👋 Meet Nic Geard, Director of Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (#MDAP)! Nic is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. He was previously an ARC DECRA Fellow (2013-16) at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and a Research Fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. We’re thrilled to have Nic at the next #ARDCLeadership forum, where he’ll join a panel discussion on driving the development of a national, digitally #skilled #research workforce. Register now to join Nic and other speakers on 21 May in #Naarm / #Melbourne or online at the forum, which will be held as part of the ARDC #SkillsSummit2024 > 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gwkaHs9d #skills #NCRISimpact

📆 22 May: Building Community Around Research Infrastructure at the ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2024  📍 online and in Naarm/Melbourne 💲 Free Join us as we draw on the expertise of researchers and skills trainers to uncover the challenges faced by users of digital research infrastructure and investigate possible strategies to address them. We’re excited to feature case studies from ARDC-supported research infrastructure projects: ⭐Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) ⭐Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities (IIRC) presented by Indigenous Data Network ⭐Biosecurity Commons Australia ⭐EcoAcoustics ⭐HeSANDA - the Health Studies Australian National Data Asset program That includes case studies from: 🩺People Research Data Commons, for health and medical research 🌏Planet Research Data Commons, for earth and environmental sciences research 👪HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons The Summit is open to everyone. It is an opportunity to share, learn and network with thought leaders, digital research infrastructure providers, digital skills trainers and researchers. Learn more and register now > https://lnkd.in/e9pzmHXf  #research  #digitalskills #DigitalResearch #DataManagement #phd

📆 23 May: Carpentry Connect at the ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2024  📍 online and in Naarm/Melbourne 💲 Free! An interactive day of talks, workshops and networking for the Australian Carpentries community. The central face-to-face hub in Naarm/Melbourne will be supported by hybrid connections to satellite hubs and online participants. Highlights include: - local community lightning talks - “The Board Is Listening”: feedback for the Board of Directors - discussion on how we can collaborate better together - workshop on revitalising Git training curriculum - discussion on instructor setup for teaching workshops. The Carpentries is a global community of researchers and data professionals who teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. It’s backed by a non-profit organisation which develops curriculum, trains instructors and teaches workshops on reproducible data and software skills. This is a perfect opportunity to engage with Carpentries folk from across Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand), seek help in building learner communities and find out how The Carpentries can support your training needs. 👩🏫 Who should attend? - Instructors and trainers - Researchers - Research support professionals - Training leads at research infrastructure facilities - Carpentries community members and Carpentry-curious Learn more and register now > https://lnkd.in/euQ6GqHz #theCarpentries #Australia #research  #digitalskills #DigitalResearch #DataManagement #phd

We’re excited to announce a new project to address the ethical and governance challenges related to sharing #health and #medical #data. This project seeks to improve efficiency and quality in the application of requirements for sharing clinical research data among Australian researchers, human research ethics committees (HRECs), and governance offices. It also aims to bring a more consistent approach to research data governance across different institutions. This project is being established within the Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA) program as part of the People Research Data Commons. Dr Kristan Kang, HeSANDA Program Manager, ARDC, said, “We’re working with CT:IQ, whom we partnered with previously on the successful 'InFORMed' Project, which addressed research participant consent for data sharing. The new project builds upon this effort by providing guidance to researchers, research governance, and ethics officers regarding the legal and ethical aspects of data sharing.” One of the advocates for the new project is Martijn Oostendorp, Associate Director Trial Operations at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre of The University of Sydney. The NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre is a partner in the HeSANDA program and a founding member of CT:IQ. Martijn said, “Responsible and appropriate sharing of clinical research data requires consideration to complex ethical, regulatory, legal and institutional requirements. This project will enable data sharing stakeholders to confidently navigate these considerations. It will facilitate clinical research data sharing, which in turn will maximise learnings and minimise research waste in our shared mission to improve on health outcomes.”  Sara Gottliebsen is the Senior Manager, Research Governance at Health Translation Queensland, another HeSANDA program partner. She said, “The sharing and reuse of data is an important tool for Australia to be competitive and keep up with other countries in health research. Funding bodies are starting to request details on the sharing and reuse of data. We therefore need to be providing researchers with information and guidance on how to ensure their project is set up for data reuse, alongside ethical and governance arrangements that are nationally consistent.” Dr Lisa Eckstein, Director, CT:IQ, said, “CT:IQ was established to implement recommendations to improve the impact, quality, and efficiency of clinical trials in Australia. The opportunity to collaborate with HeSANDA on this project is an exciting opportunity to meet this objective by providing guidance and resources to promote trustworthy and responsible data sharing practices. This should allow for a more trustworthy, but also more efficient, data sharing ecosystem in Australia”. Read more >  https://lnkd.in/eednjBVt #datasharing #healthdata #PeopleRDC

📣 #JobAlert: In partnership with the UNSW Clinical Research Unit, The George Institute for Global Health is looking for a Senior Data Manager in #Sydney to implement high-quality #DataManagement systems and processes across both organisations! 🔗 Learn more + apply by Wednesday 22 MAY > https://ow.ly/juJp50RugcZ #health #RDM #job #JobOpportunity

👋 Meet Tim Rawling, CEO of AuScope! AuScope is Australia’s provider of research infrastructure to the national geoscience community working on fundamental geoscience questions and grand challenges – climate change, natural resources security and natural hazards. Prior to his current role, Tim was Director of Infrastructure Development for AuScope’s Australian Geophysical Observing System (AGOS). We’re thrilled to have Tim at the next #ARDCLeadership forum, where he’ll join a panel discussion on driving the development of a national, digitally #skilled #research workforce. Register now to join Tim and other speakers on 21 May in #Naarm / #Melbourne or online at the forum, which will be held as part of the ARDC #SkillsSummit2024 > 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gwkaHs9d #skills #NCRISimpact

👋 Meet Pascal Perez, Director of Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network! Pascal is a specialist of integrative social simulation, using multi-agent Systems technologies to explore complex infrastructure systems. We’re thrilled to have Pascal at the next #ARDCLeadership forum, where he’ll join a panel discussion on driving the development of a national, digitally #skilled #research workforce. Register now to join Pascal and other speakers on 21 May in #Naarm / #Melbourne or online at the forum, which will be held as part of the ARDC #SkillsSummit2024 > 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gwkaHs9d #skills #NCRISimpact