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September is Health-y Data Month at ANDS

3 ANDS events of special interest to those in the Health and Medicine disciplines:
  • Researchers - publishing and sharing human data
  • Librarians, Data managers and research support
  • Ethics committee members
Seminar Perth: Sharing Health-y and Sensitive Data: Challenges and Solutions
Thurs, 3 Sept, 9.30-12.30 Register
*** THIS THURSDAY***

Seminar Adelaide: Sharing Health-y Data: Challenges and Solutions
Thurs, 17 Sept, 9.30-12.30 Register

Hear from researchers and data managers about their experiences and advice for publishing and sharing health data. There will be time for valuable discussion with your peers.

Webinar: Clinical data disclosure - the five P’s
Wed, 16 Sept, 3-4pm AEST Register
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data and HSS Publishing at Nature Publishing Group

This presentation will look at the practical considerations of publishing articles about clinical data, and preparing clinical data for sharing and publication. More info 
Editorial | Guidance for publishing descriptions of non-public clinical datasets

New resources


Librarians as partners in research data service development at Griffith University
Samantha Searle, Malcolm Wolski, Natasha Simons, Joanna Richardson.  Program 2015 49:4

Simons, Natasha, Arve Solland and Jan Hettenhausen. 2015. 7. Griffith Research Hub Connecting an Entire University’s Research Enterprise. In Linked Data and User Interaction, 98-118. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur

DataQ - a new, collaborative platform and community aimed at addressing research data questions in academic libraries. 

Intending to join the ORCID Consortium?

Expressions of interest close 14th Sept

Membership is open to eligible Australian institutions and is designed to maximize the benefits of ORCID within each institution. Read more

The Australian ORCID Consortium Model documents are available here

Going to eResearch?  There is a workshop and Birds of a Feather session featuring Dr Laurel Haak, ORCID Executive Director.

Forum: Increasing Access to Data from Publicly Funded Research

Co-hosted by ARMS - ACT Chapter and ANDS


Thurs, 10 Sept, 1:30-4:00pm Register (no cost)
Acton Theatre, JG Crawford Building (bdg 132), ANU map.

The forum will facilitate cross-sectoral and cross-institutional dialogue on the opportunities, challenges and actions needed to be taken to increase access to research data.  Panel: 
  • Prof Aidan Byrne, CEO, ARC
  • Ms. Samantha Robertson, Exec Dir of Evidence, Advice and Governance, NHMRC
  • Dr. Greg Laughlin, Principal Policy Advisor, ANDS
  • Intersect (TBA)
  • Researchers:
    • Dr. Dan Andrews, Bioinformatics Fellow ANU
    • Assoc Prof Caroline Jones, ARC CoE for Dynamics of Language
    • Dr. Julia Millar, ARC CoE for Dynamics of Language
  • Research administrators

Darwin: Ready, Set, Go! Research data at your library

ALIA-NT and ANDS
Tues, 8 Sept, 5.30-6.30pm
Charles Darwin University Library Conference Room  Register
Join us to hear why research data matters to information professionals in all types of libraries.  Learn how to use your library skills to develop new services around research data.  
Network with your colleagues and be inspired!

Announcing a new transdisciplinary Glossary (PILOT phase) for research data management

The Glossary is meant to be a practical reference for individuals and working groups concerned with the improvement of research data management, and as a meeting place for further discussion and development of terms.

It currently contains 500+ draft terms and definitions to support work in the field of research data management. The glossary is publicly available under a CC-BY license.

Have you explored all the ANDS Open Data projects?

Find data on....  Healthy communities, sharing indigenous languages, pavement characteristics, T3 wheat, atlas of prehistoric Australia, research data citation policies, ancient genomes...  and over 30 more stories of open data!
 
Snapshots of the open data projects with links to posters, data records, projects, videos


Read the postercheck out the project description, watch the video to learn more about Curtin Universities digital Mineral Library.  

AOASG has expanded

AOASG logoWith the addition of the New Zealand University libraries AOASG has become  the  Australasian Open Access Support Group. It has updated its website with a new design, a new structure making the most heavily accessed content more easily available, and a blog series on challenges in Open Scholarship in Australasia

Open access: McComiskie, Rodney. (2014). State of the Tropics - Maternal Mortality. James Cook University

Mediated Access:  Dunbar, James , Greater Green Triangle diabetes prevention project database [data collection], Greater Green Triangle Diabetes Prevention Project, Deakin University

Open, shared and closed data explained in these 2 minute ODI videos

ANDS systems development directions 2015-16


For those with an interest in ANDS own systems and software, have a look at a recent blog post at developers.ANDS which outlines the broad directions for systems development lifted from the ANDS business and operational plans.
Feedback on directions is welcome.  It is also possible to take part in software development through our open source community model.

What do Unicorns & "typical" Data Librarians have in common?**


unicornCome join our new Google+ Data Librarians community and find out!.
Browse, formulate ideas, discuss issues, share resources, with other like minded data librarian people from around Australia.

** Nothing! there's no such thing as a unicorn or a TYPICAL data librarian role

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Upcoming events

 

September


**THIS THURSDAY** Seminar Perth: Sharing Health-y and Sensitive Data: Challenges and Solutions
Thurs, 3 Sept, 9.30-12.30 Register

Darwin: Ready, Set, Go! Research data at your library
Tues, 8 Sept, 5:30-6:30pm Register

Forum Canberra: Increasing Access to Data from Publicly Funded Research
Thur, 10 Sept, 1:30-4pm Register

Webinar: Clinical data disclosure - the five P’s
Wed, 16 Sept, 3-4pm AEST Register

Seminar Adelaide: Sharing Health-y Data: Challenges and Solutions
Thu, 17 Sept, 9.30-12.30 Register


October


Brisbane Workshop @eResearch: Born Free - Research and Data for all
Mon, 19 Oct, 1.10-4.30pm Register

See all ANDS presentations and lunchtime catchups at eResearch Australasia here
ANDS-ALIA
ResearchData seminars

Darwin: 8 Sept

Canberra: 14 and 15 October

Brisbane: 19 October

Register

What are we watching


Research Data Australia Grants and Projects portal - Webinar recording

RD-Switchboard: Find connections to your data - Webinar recording

Check out our YouTube Channel andsdata YouTube

What we are reading


Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies report from CODATA


Tweet of the week

‏@anelkoanelko  Aug 27 Thanks for the awesome session on research data @AdelaideLibrary @andsdata @ALIANational can't wait to get my hack on in 2016 @GovHackAU

Join the conversation: @andsdata. Hashtag: #andsdata

Developers' Corner


ANDS re-vamped vocabulary services - now in beta

A preliminary software system is now available in beta (for testing and appraisal). We plan to re-launch the refreshed ANDS Vocabulary Services in September

Details in the Developers section of Research Data Australia


From the Developers Blog

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