CSIRO's Information Management & Technology team has won the 2012
Excellence in eGovernment Awards: Project and Program Management Category. The
award was received for their Research Data Service program.
The Awards
website, describes the CSIRO Research Data Service (RDS) as follows:
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.
Data Archiving and Networked Services
(DANS), based in the Netherlands, promotes "sustained access to digital
research data". DANS actively encourages researchers to archive research data
through the online archiving system EASY.
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.
The Atlas of
Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in
Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria,
community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.
Librarians and researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the amount of
shared data available online, and the plethora of data repositories available
to researchers and the public in many different areas. Rarely though, is there
a resource which seeks to simplify our investigation of data repositories and
provide a central site to search. Welcome then, to Databib.
The Australian
National Corpus - AusNC - is a discovery service that collates and provides
access to various examples of Australian English Text. Text is sourced from
published and unpublished works, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual
materials.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research
Network (TERN) will soon be launching a data discovery portal for ecosystem
scientists to share their knowledge and data. TERN is a collaborative
venture of Australian science facilities which aims to integrate and share
their information and k
Bonza is a film and television database with a
difference. It provides around 2,400 records, including hard to find research
material on French, Australian and New Zealand cinema and television.
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