Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

🎻 Are you going to Woodford Folk Festival this year? If so, learn about data donation and how you can contribute to research infrastructure with the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) from QUT (Queensland University of Technology)! "The immersive experience will offer festival-goers the chance to uncover their own digital footprints. Trained “algorithm whisperers” will interpret participants’ digital data, such as Facebook ad preferences or Spotify playlists, and create personalised readings of their digital self. In collaboration with the ARDC-supported Australian Internet Observatory, this experience will deepen participants’ understanding of the accessibility and transparency of their data. This initiative contributes to a collective understanding of our shared online culture, with a public display of this data growing over the course of the festival, through the Tree of Data, illustrating how individual digital choices shape our broader digital landscape. Learn more > https://lnkd.in/gqMzdTnX

🌏Read the latest updates from the Planet Research Data Commons 👀 Learn about: - Learning partnership for the governance of Indigenous Data - Making environmental data more discoverable - Trusted and secure data exchange for research, government and industry - Uplifting FAIR and CARE across earth and environmental science data - Research infrastructure for modelling, analytics and decision support - Ecoacoustics and camera trap processing made easier - Trusted Environmental Data and Information Supply Chains + resources, news and more! Our Planet Research Data Commons (Planet RDC) provides national-scale data infrastructure for earth and environmental science researchers, policy makers and decision makers, and research data managers. 🔗 https://ow.ly/5J2Z50Ut7Yx

#jobalert Two exciting jobs opportunities are now open to join the ARDC-supported Australian Internet Observatory! Both are located within the Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies at The University of Queensland. 👀 Full Stack Principal Software Developer 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ggb7gam9 👀 Postdoctoral Research Fellow 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gFW4eKFE ⏳ Applications close Monday, 20 January 2025. 💡 The Australian Internet Observatory is developing digital research infrastructure to enable researchers across HASS and STEM, as well as government, industry and civil society, to observe, analyse, understand and respond to the benefits and the dangers of digital platforms. It's part of our HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. #jobopportunity #brisbane #UQ

🎉 Congratulations to the Australian Institute of Marine Science on achieving the internationally recognised CoreTrustSeal certification as a trusted data repository! CoreTrustSeal is a community-based, non-governmental, and non-profit organisation promoting sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructure. We’re thrilled to have supported the successful application through the ARDC Trusted Data Repository community. The community has now completed 5 successful applications: Integrated Marine Observing System/AODN, Geoscience Australia, TERN Australia, AuScope (AusGeoChem), and AIMS. Learn more about the community of practice by reviewing the presentation at eResearch 2024 http://eresear.ch/TDR2022 and the poster: eresear.ch/TDR2024poster. To join the TDR community, contact Richard Ferrers More on the CoreTrustSeal certification: https://lnkd.in/gfsBSv5x 

📣Survey deadline extended! Scientists, policymakers, students, and others who work with data are invited to participate in a research survey to gather insights into how the TRUST Principles are used. ✍ https://ow.ly/BnSr50TNFXF #ResearchData #DataScience

📢 Research students: explore digital scholarship with the 2025 Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) Graduate Digital Research Fellowship program! Fellows are students undertaking extended research projects who will spend 12-15 weeks learning about digital skills to enhance their current research/thesis topic or to work on an independent digital project. They will explore digital research methods in areas including (but not necessarily limited to): 💻 Computational analysis of text 🦜 Social media analytics  🗺️ Spatio-temporal mapping  👁️ Indigenous perspectives on digital research 🔧 Building domain-specific software tools Apply via the form: https://lnkd.in/grNFqwzD Learn more about LDaCA: https://www.ldaca.edu.au/ #LDaCA #digitalhumanities #digitalresearch #PhD #research

🏖️ 🦘 The ARDC wishes you a joyful holiday and Happy New Year! We look forward to working with you in 2025 to accelerate digital #research and #innovation, and we hope you will join us in Brisbane next October for International Data Week (IDW) 2025. 🔗 Please see our office closures for ARDC staff around the country during this time > https://ow.ly/oZHp50UoKl6

A new national data asset is live! ⭐ IsotopesAU ⭐ IsotopesAU is a federated data platform that unifies and connects stable isotopic datasets and upholds the FAIR data principles to enable data reuse and the addition of further datasets. It brings together stable isotope data from environmental samples collected by public science institutions. It's the first database of its kind in the world, and already contains 351,194 data records! The project is supported by the ARDC through our Food Security Data Challenges program. It was led by CSIRO in partnership with Geoscience Australia, ANSTO and the National Measurement Institute, Australia. ❓ Why isotopes❓ Isotopes are unique chemical signatures or ‘fingerprints’ used to understand the environment, such as the movement of water through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, carbon and nutrient cycles in soils, groundwater flows and storage and geological patterns. Isotopes found in food relate to the soil, water, production techniques and climatic conditions that it grew in. Isotopes are used for traceability by the agricultural and food industry to track the source, production and distribution of food products around the world. Bringing together the publicly available isotopic data that exists in many forms and organisations supports Australia’s agriculture and food system as a whole. It was a big challenge, beyond the realms of a single organisation, to connect these rich databases in a way that’s trusted, shareable and useful. Congratulations to the team! 👏 Learn more about the project to develop IsotopesAU: https://lnkd.in/g-hUkb6p

Congratulations to Dr Jürgen Knauer and the {bigleaf} team for winning the ARDC-supported The Ecological Society of Australia 2024 Award for New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology! 🎉⁠ ⁠ 🌿 The {bigleaf} R package, developed to advance our understanding of ecosystem dynamics, is helping ecologists better analyse land-atmosphere carbon, water, and energy fluxes—crucial for addressing climate change. ⁠ ⁠This award recognises {bigleaf}'s valuable contributions to ecological research, including its applications in drought, fire, carbon sequestration, and more. ⁠ Hamish Holewa, Director, Planet Research Data Commons, ARDC presented the award at #ESAus2024. The award was accepted by Prof Belinda Medlyn from Western Sydney University on Juergen’s behalf. ⁠Read our interview with Jürgen about his winning software and research 🔗 https://lnkd.in/geT6Asci #Ecology #OpenSource #ClimateScience #EcosystemResearch #ARDC #Bigleaf

📅 Wednesday 19 February 2025 | Online Most people turn up to training ready to learn new #skills, yet we know that getting to training is only the first hurdle. What catalysts that help researchers apply introductory skills training to real-world #research questions? At the February 2025 ARDC National Skills Forum, we’ll discuss the road ahead after training and skills catalytic converters. Hear from: 🎤 Rowland Mosbergen, Research Computing Platform Strategic Engagement and Planning Manager, WEHI 🎤 Amy Cotton, Manager, Graduate Researcher Development, University of Technology Sydney 🎤 Craig Windell, eResearch Analyst, QCIF. Hosted by the ARDC’s Skilled Workforce Development Team, the ARDC National Skills Forum series is designed to shine a spotlight on the skills researchers need to use national research infrastructure and participate in a national research #data commons. 🔗 Register now to join us for an enthusiastic discussion as we leap into 2025! > https://ow.ly/vIeY50Uloum