Draft Project Plans for the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Now Open for Feedback

Draft project plans for the next phase of the ARDC’s HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons are now open for feedback from the research community. 

We welcome feedback on 4 projects via the form below until COB Friday 22 March 2024:

• Creative arts
• Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities
• Language Data Commons of Australia
• Media(ted) data.

Jump to download the project plans

The Co-Design Process

Your feedback on the project plans is an important part of the co-design process, and we value your input.

We are following the co-design process described in the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Co-Design Framework, which is based on established methods such as the TACSI Co-Design Framework. 

The co-investment projects are being developed through the following steps: 

1. Problem Identification
2. Project Shaping
3. Project Planning
4. Endorsement. 

The ARDC has completed the Problem Identification phase over several years of extensive consultation and information-gathering activities. The Project Shaping phase was conducted through open co-design workshops held during February and March 2024 with the ARDC and partners. Over 440 people registered for the workshops. The large number of participants enabled project teams and other participants to better understand the current digital research challenges faced by researchers and managers of Indigenous data. Through these workshops, the research communities identified their needs and the outcomes they wish to see achieved through these projects, and informed ARDC and the project team about their requirements for potential solutions. You will find reports on the workshops for each of the projects below, alongside the project plans.

We’re now in the Project Planning phase, seeking community feedback on the draft project plans. 

The project plans presented here for feedback are early drafts. They represent the current state of the project plans, and there are likely to be changes as project partners refine their plans and in response to feedback collected in this process. The project teams are also consulting with each other on points where the different plans can align to create a stronger HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. Furthermore, the projects all have further consultation and work with the community built into the specification of the work they are going to do over the coming 4 years to ensure ongoing input from the communities they are working to support through new and enhanced research infrastructure.

Once submissions close, the project plans will be updated, refined and finalised to incorporate feedback from the community. The final project plans will be released in the coming months, alongside reports addressing the feedback received in this phase. All published feedback will be anonymised. 

The final plans will be reviewed by the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Advisory Panel prior to endorsement.

The feedback period is short to enable us to take advantage of the significant investment in HASS and Indigenous research by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

In April 2024 we are conducting co-design workshops for social sciences research infrastructure. Learn more and register now >

Later in 2024, we will conduct a co-design process to develop a new project plan for the ARDC Community Data Lab. To be notified of this process, please register your interest in the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons.

Download the Draft Project Plans and Workshop Reports

Please view the project plans and workshop reports:

• Creative arts – project plan [pdf] – workshop report
• Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities – project plan [pdf] – workshop report
• Language Data Commons of Australia – project plan [pdf] – workshop report
• Media(ted) data – project plan [pdf] – workshop report.

Submissions closed on 22 March 2022. Thank you to all those who participated in the co-design process. The projects have further consultation and work with the community built into them over the coming 4 years.

The ARDC is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) to support national digital research infrastructure for Australian researchers.