Innovation Starts with Data: ARDC Year in Review 2025

Discover how innovation starts with data in the ARDC Year in Review 2025. We showcase our achievements in building world-class digital research infrastructure, advancing AI capabilities for researchers and fostering collaboration across research, industry and government.

Explore how we’re driving impact through Thematic Research Data Commons, national cloud services and skills programs that empower Australian researchers to tackle society’s greatest challenges.

Contents

• A Message From Our Chair
• A Message From Our CEO
• Delivering on the ARDC Strategy
• ARDC in Numbers
• ARDC Impact Case Studies and Success Stories
  • People Research Data Commons
  • Planet Research Data Commons
  • HASS & Indigenous Research Data Commons
  • ARDC Nectar Research Cloud
  • National Information Infrastructure
• Accelerating Research Translation
• Digital Research Skills

Published in November 2025. Year in Review 2025 covers July 2024 to June 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15735638

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Australian Research Data Commons 2025, Innovation Starts with Data: ARDC Year in Review 2025, Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15735638.

Australian Research Data Commons. (2025). Innovation starts with data: ARDC year in review 2025. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15735638.

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Australian Research Data Commons. “Innovation Starts with Data: ARDC Year in Review 2025.” Zenodo, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15735638.

Australian Research Data Commons, “Innovation Starts with Data: ARDC Year in Review 2025,” Zenodo, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15735638.

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Featured Impact Case Studies

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People

23 July 2024

Redesigning Consent for Health and Medical Research

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Using the Power of Sound to Tackle Australia’s Biodiversity Crisis

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11 July 2025

How an Australian Idea Is Shining New Light on Research Projects Through Global Collaborations

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14 May 2025

Making Waves in Fisheries and Aquaculture Research with Research Link Australia

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New Tool to Verify Aussie Food Product Claims and Green Credentials

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