This document outlines Richard Ferrers' presentation on research data management from an Australian perspective. It introduces the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and discusses a case study of managing data from the CAUSEE project. It also reviews national and international tools and resources for research data management. Finally, it covers current topics in RDM like FAIR data principles and how research data management can contribute to research impact and excellence.

1. PRESENTED BY
Research Data Management – an
Australian perspective
Responsible Research Data Management Workshop – RMIT –
18-25.03.19
Richard Ferrers, Research Data Specialist, ARDC

2. NSF: “Harnessing the data revolution” (Feb ’19)
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas
/harnessing.jsp
Royal Society: “huge deluge of data… potential to
create a second open science revolution”
Science as an Open Enterprise – Report 2012
https://royalsociety.org/topics-
policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/

4. 1.Who is ARDC? Our background Our approach to RDM
2.Discipline Case Study – Research Data Australia – CAUSEE
3.National / int’l landscape of RDM tools and resources
4.Current topics in data mgmt; FAIR, trust, sensitive data – how
5.How can RDM contribute to rsch impact /excellence – why
4
Outline

5. 1.Who is ARDC?
5ardc.edu.au

6. 2.CAUSEE – a case of managing data
6ardc.edu.au

7. 3.Tools and resources; National, International
7ardc.edu.au

8. 3.1 Paul Romer, Nobel Prize Economics 2018
“Jupyter is a new open-source alternative that is
well on the way to becoming a standard for
exchanging research results…Jupyter rewards
transparency…I’m more productive. I’m having
fun…” Blog 2018
https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-
the-future-of-the-research-paper/index.html

9. FAIR =
Findable
Accessible
Interoperable
Reuseable
Other topics: trusted data,
sensitive data
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4.Current topics in RDM
– FAIR Data

10. 10
4.1 Research Data Landscape at RMIT
http://rmit.libguides.com/researchdata

11. What is RDM for RMIT?
Store
Describe
People
Training
Governance
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4.2 Library RDM training
Oct 2018
https://sites.rmit.edu.au/libraryresearcherweek/rmit-researcher-week-2/program/

12. How to make a researcher’s impact measureable? Case Study
| Data v Citations
Why manage your data? Easier, longer life, set it and forget
it, enable reuse (OpenWage)
Why publish your data? Funders (COPDESS), Journals,
more citations, government policy, Open Research Melb
5. Data supports impact and excellence
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13. Store / Describe my data
Figshare: Google Ferrers Figshare
https://figshare.com/authors/Richard
_Ferrers/401493
Tools over data
Observable – what is the value of the
NBN? (Ferrers 2018)
Beta.observablehq.com
Data Visualisation – Valuing FTTN and
FTTP (Ferrers 2016)
Promote my data
Twitter – measure impact
Impact Story – count impact
Talk about my research and data:
valman.blogspot.com
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5.1 Researcher Demo

14. CONTACT
Level 1, Monash Caulfield (Building T)
Melbourne VIC 3164
AUSTRALIA
+61 3 9902 0569
richard.ferrers@ardc.edu.au
ardc.edu.au
These slides are CC-BY.
More on how and why to manage data:
https://www.slideshare.net/RichardFerrers/presentations
ANDS Presentations on Managing Data:
https://www.ands.org.au/news-and-events/presentations/2018