We are pleased to announce that Research Data Australia has begun harvesting data collection records from UQ eSpace. Researchers can now describe their data collections in eSpace, and then the harvest makes the data description visible through Research Data Australia.

This allows researchers and research groups to describe their research data according to good practice, in order to aid the discovery, dissemination, and preservation of their research data. This goes some way to champion research datasets as being a first-class research output at UQ.

Digging into Data is a useful online resource listing repositories.

It includes:

• Digital libraries
• Data archives
• Data repositories

For each repository, you'll find a description of their contents, contact information, and other details.

Major cities such as Sydney have been building underground for over 100 years and developing new underground infrastructure is impacted on by what already exists. Until now there has been no easy way of finding out exactly what is down there. To overcome this, the NSW Government Department of Lands Sydney Down Under project is collecting as much data associated with Sydney's existing underground infrastructure as it can locate, with the aim of revisualising it in 3D format for a mo

The UK Data Archive is the largest UK collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities. "Deposit Data our data in use" gives examples how researcher and teacher are using UK Data Archives data.

Examples include:

The mission of the International Council for Science is to ensure the long-term stewardship and provision of quality-assessed data and data services to the international science community and other stakeholders. To support this goal they have developed World Data System (WDS) data portal and activity monitor.
The WDS Data Portal enables retrieval of datasets from members of the World Data System, and is searchable using both geographic and temporal coverage.