Date and time
Friday 13 November, 9:00 - 17:00.
This workshop is offered at 50% of the normal workshop rate, as ARCS and ANDS are meeting 50% of the cost for participants.
Description
This one day workshop will be presented jointly by the Australian Research Collaboration Service and the Australian National Data Service. It will show attendees what tools and services are available through ARCS and ANDS and demonstrate the value offered by the combination of those services.
The morning session will provide participants with an overview of the tools and services in regard to storage, movement, access and sharing of data provided by ARCS Data Services and the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with a selection of these tools and services. ARCS Data Services staff will be available to offer hands-on support and asnwer questions throughout the day. The afternoon session will provide information on ANDS products which can be used to identify data, register collections and publish collection description information. Guided hands-on experience with ANDS products in a demonstration environment will be included. The final session of this workshop will support interested participants through the process of registering their real-world collections with ANDS, or to trial doing so.
Background
ARCS Data Services
The Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) established the ARCS Data Services to help researchers to stay ahead of the ever-growing avalanche of data they are facing rather then being buried by it.
The ARCS Data Services Team's mandate is to provide researchers with tools, services and expertise to help them with the storage, transport and sharing aspects of their data. The tools and services provided by ARCS Data Services are built around three core products:
1. the ARCS Data Fabric - a service to store and easily share data of any kind
1.1. the ARCS webDrive
1.2. the ARCS OPeNDAP Network and Digital Library
2. the ARCS Database Service - a service to host MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
3. the ARCS Data Transfer Service - a service to allow researchers to transport large datasets over the network.
These products were developed in close consultation with research groups to cover as wide a range of researchers' requirements as possible.
ANDS
The Australian National Data Service (ANDS), as part of a comprehensive program to increase data sharing and reuse across Australia, is progressively developing a suite of software utilities to underpin the transformation of Australian research data collections into a cohesive network of research repositories. This will enable Australian researchers to discover any relevant data in the Australian ‘data commons’ and to exchange, reuse and combine data from other researchers and other domains within their own research in new ways.
Outline
- A presentation providing an overview of the tools and services offered by ARCS Data Services. (Florian Goessmann)
30 minutes + 15 minutes question time - A presentation on a selection of case studies in which research comunities have integrated one or more ARCS Data Services into their workflow.
30 minutes + 15 minutes question time - Hands-on experience with a selection of tools and services. Participants are encouraged to engage with ARCS Data Services staff. (Florian Goessmann and ARCS Data Services Staff)
60 minutes - Discussion on all topics covered in the morning. (Florian Goessmann)
30 minutes - A presentation providing an overview of the ANDS products currently available for use:
- Register My Data: This product assists research organisations to publicise their research data collections, enabling verification of research findings and re-use of valuable research materials. It enables the harvesting of description information about collections and the activities, parties and services which relate to collections. Collection descriptions are exposed on the world wide web through Research Data Australia: http://services.ands.org.au/pages
- Identify My Data: A persistent identifier is a globally unique and long-lived identifier that is allocated to an object or a resource. This ANDS product provides cost free minting, and resolution of persistent identifiers for the Australian research and cultural collections sectors.
- Publish My Data: This product provides a simple online data entry form for entry of collection description information as a front end to Register My Data, thus assisting researchers to publicise their research data.
30 minutes - A presentation of a Case Study example of one curator’s experience of working with ANDS to register a collection in the Australian Data Commons.
20 minutes - A hands-on exploration of the ANDS Register My Data product. (Heather Grant)
30 minutes - A discussion on possible uses and integration of planned and envisioned upcoming ARCS & ANDS Products. (Florian Goessman and Heather Grant)
20 minutes - An opportunity for interested participants to register or trial registering real world collections with ANDS - this is an optional session. ANDS consultants will be available to assist individual participants with the registration of real world collections.
60 minutes
Who should attend
- Data centre and repository administrators
- Professional intermediaries (librarians, records managers, IT staff)
- Researchers, including graduate students
What to bring
Attendees planning to participate in the hand-on component of this workshop should bring a laptop with wireless internet capability and a reasonably current browser installed (Firefox or IE preferred).
The conference venue will need to enable wireless internet connections for each participant. The minimal requirements are for full access to ports 80 and 443.
About the presenters
Florian Goessman is manager for ARCS Data Services. He has been working within the ARCS Data Services since he left the research space to focus making the life of other researchers easier, one byte at a time.
Heather Grant is the Utilities Program Leader with the Australian National Data Service (ANDS).
Adrian Burton is Deputy Director of the Australian National Data Service with responsibility for the Providing Utilities and Building Capabilities Programs. He was previously Project Leader of the Australian Partnership for Australian Repositories (APSR).
Andrew Treloar is the Deputy Director (Seeding the Commons) with the Australian National Data Service. Previously he was the Director and Chief Architect of the ARCHER project and the ARROW Technical Architect and DART Project Architect. His research interests include data management, institutional repositories and scholarly communication. He never seems to be able to make enough time for practising his ‘cello, reading, talking to his chickens, or working in his vegetable garden.