Survey: How Research Vocabularies Australia Can Meet Current and Future Australian Research Community Needs

The ARDC has launched a survey to learn more about your experiences and requirements for publishing and accessing information resources such as vocabularies, ontologies and metadata schemas, including via ARDC Research Vocabularies Australia.

Vocabularies and data models, such as metadata schema, are a core part of the FAIR Data Principles and improve AI readiness. Their application enhances the meaning of data and its ability to be reused and integrated. 

Research Vocabularies Australia helps create, manage, find and access controlled vocabularies, which make the meaning of research data clear and explicit.

The survey results will be used to help ARDC improve our national services for researchers.

We kindly ask you to share the survey with your colleagues. The survey closes on Friday 11 April 2025.

Take the survey now >

Who should complete the survey?

We encourage all working with or using informatics resources that would interest Australian researchers to complete this survey. You could be a researcher, data specialist, data manager or technologist working across academia, government, cultural heritage, industry or NGOs. You do not need to be a user of Research Vocabularies Australia to complete the survey.

What does the survey ask?

The survey consists of 2 parts:

1. Your Use of Informatics Resources

• What types of informatics resources do you use? (e.g. vocabularies, ontologies, metadata schemas)
• What challenges do you face when accessing them?

2. Your Experience with Research Vocabularies Australia

• Feedback on specific components, such as the publishing portal, vocabulary editor, and application programming interfaces (APIs).

Privacy

The survey responses are anonymous and will not be published. Respondents can optionally provide their contact details to receive the outputs of the survey or answer follow up questions. The ARDC will keep those details confidential in line with our privacy policy. 

We thank you in advance for your participation in the survey, and kindly ask you to share it with relevant colleagues.

Take the survey now and learn more about ARDC Research Vocabularies Australia.

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