ANDS Guides and Other Resources
About ANDS Products and Services | Using ANDS Products and Services | Policy and Legal Framework | Scholarly Communications | Data Management
These guides provide information about ANDS services and some fundamental issues in data-intensive research and research data management. These are not rules, prescriptions or proscriptions. They are guidelines and checklists to inform and broaden the range of possibilities for researchers, data managers, and research organisations.
About ANDS Products and Services
- ANDS Discovery Services and the Australian Research Data Commons | [PDF]
- ANDS Data Connections Strategy | [PDF]
- Identify My Data | [PDF]
- Publish My Data | [PDF]
- Register My Data | [PDF]
- Research Data Australia | [PDF]
- Cite My Data | [PDF]
Using ANDS Products and Services
- ANDS Frequently Asked Questions
- ARDC Activity Infrastructure | [PDF]
- ARDC Party Infrastructure | [PDF]
- Content Providers Guide
- Data Capture: Videos and Overheads from the Data Capture Briefing, September 2, 2010
- Defining a Collection | [PDF]
- Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) (| [PDF]
- Persistent identifiers (Awareness level) | [PDF]
- Persistent identifiers (Working level) | [PDF]
- Persistent identifiers (Expert level) | [PDF]
- Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS) | [PDF]
- What Makes a Useful Collection Record? (RIF-CS) | [PDF]
Policy and Legal Framework
- AusGOAL |[PDF]
- Copyright and data | [PDF]
- Costs and benefits of data provision New
- Creative Commons and data [PDF]
- Research data policy and the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (Awareness level) | [PDF]
Scholarly Communications
- Data citation | [PDF]
- Creating a Culture of Data Citation Poster | [PDF]
- Scholarly communications (Awareness level) | [PDF]
Data Management
- Creating a Data Management Framework | [PDF]
- Data management planning (Awareness level) | [PDF]
- File formats (Awareness level) | [PDF]
- File formats (Working level) | [PDF]
- Metadata
- Storage | [PDF]
- The Data Curation Continuum | [PDF]
- What is Research Data? | [PDF]
Levels
Most of these guides have a level designation as well as a title. The three levels are as follows:
- Awareness: Intended for the general public or novice reader. May also serve as an introduction to higher-level documents on the same topic.
- Working: Intended for those who need a working knowledge of the topic. These will tend to focus particularly on how to carry out various tasks, particularly involving services offered by ANDS.
- Expert: Intended only for those who need specialist or advanced management or technical details on this topic.
Not every topic will be covered at all three levels.
Feedback
We are keen to get feedback on these materials. If you have any comments, constructive criticism, suggestions for improvements or additional topics that we need to cover, please write to guides@ands.org.au.
