Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

What can you expect when you attend the annual HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School? The Summer School will be held over 2 days in 3 - 4 Feb 2026 in Ballarat. Join this introductory webinar to engage with leaders, ask questions, and develop a clear understanding of what you will get out of attending this valuable event. 📅18 Nov, 2pm AEDT 📍online 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gf7QdGnJ Speakers: - Madeleine Clews, (previous participant) School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia - Dr Andrea C., Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities, Indigenous Data Network, University of Melbourne. - Simon Musgrave, Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), The University of Queensland. - Bogdan Mamaev, Australian Internet Observatory, RMIT University - Matthew Curry, Social Science Research Infrastructure Network, UQ Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about the Summer School. We look forward to seeing you there! #Webinar #HASS #Indigenous #research #GLAM #digitalskills #socialsciences #linguistics #IndigenousResearch #DigitalResearch #textanalysis #phd #EMCR #Education

EcoCommons Australia team works with Google DeepMind and Google Research to produce species distribution maps at an unprecedented scale!   Jenna Wraith, QCIF, leads EcoCommons Australia, the go-to platform for researchers and decision makers for ecological and environmental modelling. She is working with Google to revise and review species distribution models for Australia, as part of a global effort to better understand the world's biodiversity and protect threatened species.   🌏In Australia, the team has mapped Australian mammals like the greater glider: a nocturnal, fluffy-tailed marsupial that lives in old-growth eucalyptus forests.   Learn more about EcoCommons and try it out! It's free and researchers in Australia can access it instantly: https://lnkd.in/gd8x56N3 EcoCommons is part of the ARDC's Planet Research Data Commons, which provides national-scale research infrastructure for earth and environmental science research. EcoCommons is a partnership between QCIF, ARDC, University of Melbourne Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA), Atlas of Living Australia, TERN Australia, CSIRO, Macquarie University and UNSW. #NCRISimpact

🫴 Why should we share research data? At International Data Week (IDW) 2025, we asked Dr Sam Hames of The University of Queensland and Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) what motivates him to share research data. For Sam, data sharing is a great way for people to contest as well as understand what he does. #IDW2025 #SciDataCon #RDAplenary CODATA World Data System Research Data Alliance (RDA)

📅 2:30 pm (AEDT), TOMORROW, Wednesday 5 November | Online Are you a passionate researcher active in humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS) or Indigenous research? Would you like to learn about tools, platforms and services available right now that will accelerate your research? Join us for an engaging webinar that provides an overview of existing ARDC-supported tools and services which will accelerate your HASS and Indigenous research. We'll highlight tools for text analytics, including the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) and the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP). 🔗 Register now > https://ow.ly/jKFA50Xmcnn #HASS #GLAM #research #tools

📅 Next Monday to Wednesday, 10 to 12 November | #Sydney There's still time to register for the 2025 Australian Data Science Network Conference! You'll get to connect Australia’s top experts in #data science, fostering collaboration, expanding opportunities and showcasing our collective capabilities. 🔗 Register now and view the program > https://ow.ly/PYwY50XmbYS The 2025 #ADSN Conference is hosted by the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre. The ARDC is proud to be a Gold Sponsor.

At #IDW2025, we connected with incredible #researchers, #innovators, and #data professionals all working toward a more open and #FAIR data future. The ARDC team has shared some key reflections and takeaways from the week - from global collaborations to the exciting possibilities ahead for research data. 🔗Read about the ARDC reflections on International Data Week 2025 > https://lnkd.in/gpuX5KJG #DataPositiveChange #RDAplenary25 #SciDataCon #NCRISimpact International Data Week (IDW)

Register now for the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 📆3 - 4 Feb 2026, Ballarat Calling all researchers in #HASS (humanities, arts, social sciences) researchers: You are invited to the Summer School. At this free 2-day, face-to-face workshop, you will learn hands-on #DigitalSkills for HASS and Indigenous research in an interactive group setting and network with researchers in your field. We'll cover: - Working with Indigenous data - Sustainable data for Humanities and Indigenous Studies researchers - Collecting and analysing data from social media platforms - Answering social science questions using administrative data with R. The events are open to HDRs, EMCRs and researchers. See the registration link for more information. ✍️ https://lnkd.in/gtXEmH-g Presented by the ARDC alongside our partners: Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), Indigenous Data Network, Indigenous Studies Unit, Australian Internet Observatory, UQ Institute for Social Science Research, UQ Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, KurrawongAI

📅 12 noon (AEDT), next Thursday, 6 November | Online Does your computer struggle with your research workload? Do you want to access extra resources and share a computer with collaborators? Whether it’s data analysis, simulation or other computing work, the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud can accelerate your research by providing fast and secure access to more computation power. Hosted by our Meirian L., this free, online session will feature exemplary cloud computing projects, useful support resources, and Q&A opportunities. The following questions will be addressed: - What is cloud computing? - Why should I use Nectar? - How can I access support and documentation? 🔗 Register now > https://lnkd.in/gp8yfc4w

🎉4 new projects have kicked off to expand the ARDC Community Data Lab for researchers working with digitised cultural and historical collections. The ARDC Community Data Lab is designed to address the challenges of working with digitised cultural and historical collections. It offers a suite of tools, datasets, and guides that empower researchers to explore, analyse, and publish data from Australia’s HASS and Indigenous collections held in galleries, libraries, archives, museums, research and other research and cultural institutions. “These new projects represent a significant step forward in building national-scale infrastructure that truly reflects the needs of our research communities,” said Jenny Fewster, Director of the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons at the ARDC. “By working together through co-design, we’re creating tools and platforms that will help accelerate research using Australia’s rich cultural and historical data to tell meaningful stories of Australian people, culture and society and deepen our understanding of who we are.” The projects in Phase 2 of the Community Data Lab are: 📃 Reusable and Accessible Public Interest Documents (RAPID) Making public interest document collections—such as Federal Hansard and public inquiries—more accessible and reusable for researchers and the public. Led by The University of Queensland in partnership with the ARDC, QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and QCIF Ltd. w/ Sam Hames, Michael Haugh, Evelyn Ansell, PhD 🏛️ Curated Collections A platform, built on established digital humanities software, to enable easy publishing, importing, and exporting of digital content, migration of legacy collections, and long-term archiving. Led by the Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH) at the University of Sydney in partnership with the ARDC and Systemik Solutions. w/ Gordon McDonald, Mike Lynch 👩🏽💻 Research Software Engineering Capacity Enhancement Project (RSE-CEP) A project to develop recommended patterns and practices in HASS software engineering, improving the capability of research software engineers and enabling greater technical collaboration. Led by the ANU HASS Digital Research Hub in partnership with the ARDC. w/ James Smithies 📊 Enhanced Analytics Tools to support the use and analysis of RO-Crate data and digitised documents and collections, addressing gaps in usability and reusability of digital resources in HASS research. Led by the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform at The University of Melbourne in partnership with the ARDC. w/ Nic Geard, Daniel Russo-Batterham, Robert Turnbull, Karen Thompson, Andrew Siebel, Marlaina R. Read more 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gAzXHRid