Bringing Together Researchers, Collaborators, Organisations and Data Resources: a University Model for Seeding the Data Commons

Abstract

The Australian government has made a significant investment in organisations, such as the Australian National Data Service, that provide educational outreach on data management and curation, and encourage institutions in the pursuit of proper data capture, cataloguing and discovery. Information Services (INS) at Griffith University embarked on the important ANDS endeavour, Seeding the Data Commons, through grant funding from the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (NCRIS). The primary goals of Seeding the Data Commons are * To improve the state of data capture and management across the research sector * To improve the fabric for data management and the amount of content in the data commons This abstract examines the diversified and modern approach Information Services (INS) at Griffith University has taken for Seeding the Data Commons. Our Seeding the Data Commons (NCRIS) project gathered information professionals with specialised areas in information management, innovative librarianship and technical architecture, to develop a uniform approach of identifying, capturing and exposing research data, while honouring the key principles set forth in the Griffith University Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Specific actions conducted by the Seeding the Data Commons (NCRIS) project team for the efficient identification and collection of research data records for publishing to Research Data Australia, as well as a thorough discussion of the project's solution architecture, are highlighted in the extended abstract submission.