The latest edition of share from the Australia National Data Service (ANDS) newsletter is available. The theme for this edition is institutional transformation.

Ross Wilkinson (ANDS) states, this issue of share celebrates and explains the changes that have taken place at Australian institutions to enable researchers to use data differently - working in new partnerships, addressing new problems and getting properly acknowledged for their data (Feb 2013).

Contents include:

• Progressing Melbourne University's agenda
• Deakin's Library plays a vital role
• Flinders' cross-institution collaboration
• CSIRO's data treasures revealed
• Griffith: Doing it differently

and more.......... share ANDS newsletter, February 2013

A SURF project has helped create a digital home for dying languages. The University of Leiden Library in Holland, in collaboration with the CARDS (Controlled Access to Research Data Stored Securely) project of SURF in the Netherlands, is working on a project with Roberta D'Alessandro, Professor of Italian at Leiden University, to develop a data management system to manage and share important research data on dying Italian dialects. For Roberta and her team being able to upload and share the data they have collected is a central feature of the system, simplifying collaboration and allowing other language researchers to use the material. To read the full report go to Research Information: August/September 2012

Dryad is an international data repository in the basic and applied biosciences. The goal of the repository is to preserve all the underlying data reported in a paper at the time of publications. Recognising the emerging trend of data citation, this is an excellent example of a repository supporting the management of data and sharing. See the November 2011 blog on Dryad for further information.

The Australian reported on July 11 2012, a plan for the CSIRO to make 200,000 research papers freely available, dating back to the 1920s.
Jon Curran, CSIRO's general manager of communications stated in the article, "we are removing the reasons why staff shouldn't put their work in our open-access repository."

In addition, to the publication repository, the CSIRO is also aiming to create a portal to contain raw research data.

The article also gives a general overview on the current progression and deliberation into open access by Australia's funding bodies and research organisations.

To find out more, visit CSIRO Research Publications Repository.

The Data Hub describes itself as "the easy way to get, use and share data".

The Data Hub is a community driven catalogue of datasets on the Internet. It uses open-source data cataloguing software CKAN, which provides each dataset record with fields for descriptions, formats, ownership, access and subject areas, among others.

Most of the data indexed is open data, which means it is openly licensed, and free to use.

On the site, you can:

• Find data - the Hub contains 3840 datasets that can be viewed or downloaded
• Share data - sign up to add your own datasets

Datasets can also be located under groups, such as Linking Open Data, which contains 81 datasets and Bibliographic Data, which has 77 datasets.

In some cases, the Data Hub can provide data storage, and basic visualisation tools.

Visit the Data Hub at - http://thedatahub.org/

In early June, the Repositories Support Project (RSP) held an interesting and well-received event on "Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access." The event was attended by librarians, repositories specialists, research officers and copyright consultants. Presentations were held on open access, social media, data citation, and research networking.

You can view the presentations by downloading Powerpoints, or watching YouTube videos of the original event.
Future events include webinars on "Repositories: management, policies and best practices" and "Bibliometrics: A way of demonstrating the importance of institutional research".

RSP is a JISC-funded initiative to build "repository capacity, knowledge and skills within UK higher education institutions. The project aim is to "progress the vision of a deployed network of interoperable repositories for academic papers, learning materials and research data across the UK."

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a United Kingdom national facility designed to hold, manage and distribute data concerning the marine environment. Data holdings include biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data, containing measurements of nearly 22,000 different variables.

BODC describes their approach to marine data management as:

• Careful storage, quality control and archiving of data - so that data are unaffected by changes in technology and will be available into the future.
• Distributing data to scientists, education, industry and the public - with a goal to enable online access to all data via the web site.
• Working alongside scientists during marine research projects - to provide a data management service during the life time of the project.

BODC holds a wealth of publicly accessible marine data under the provision of licence agreements. Read more about:

• Submitting, requesting and retrieving data.
• Data management services
• UK, European and International projects at BODC.
• The Published Data Library (PDL), which is an operational prototype that provides snapshots of specially chosen data sets, archived using rigorous version management. This enables citation of the data set in journal papers through the assignment of a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in collaboration with the British Library.

BODC is run by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and hosted by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).