Observing the universe with the MWA
Operational in Western Australia since 2013, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is now in its second phase, with double the number of antennas and ten times the resolution. A total...
August 30, 2019
Research Data Alliance coming to Australia
For the first time, a Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary will be held in Australia - the 15th RDA Plenary Meeting will take place in Melbourne from 18 to 20...
August 30, 2019
Supporting The Carpentries
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is rolling out a series of activities aimed at increasing functional coding and data science skills for researchers and research support professionals through The...
August 28, 2019
Learnings from Australia’s inaugural eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit
The success of the Australian eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit was due to the wonderful opportunity the Summit created for peer to peer networking and insights into international best practice on...
August 27, 2019
What research infrastructure is needed to support HASS researchers?
The Department of Education has recently engaged the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) to explore the establishment of a Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research Data Commons. This will...
August 21, 2019
Celebrating our use – big and small
This month, the Australian Research Data Common’s Nectar Research Cloud celebrates surpassing 15,000 registered Research Cloud users. The cloud has seen a steady growth rate of 175 new registered users...
July 30, 2019
Digital infrastructure supporting the future of agriculture
Digital technologies have the potential to fundamentally transform the way food and fibre is produced, traded and consumed. The Agricultural Research Federation (AgReFed), funded by the Australian Research Data Commons...
July 30, 2019
Putting Indigenous data back in community hands
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), through its Data and Services Discovery Activity, is collaborating with the Indigenous Data Network (IDN), coordinated by the Indigenous Studies Unit at the University...
July 30, 2019
Mango data and images help Australian farmers
The development of FruitMaps and auto-harvesting of mangoes at the right time has developed from work undertaken by Central Queensland University’s Institute for Future Farming Systems (IFFS) with the Australian...
July 30, 2019
Standardising research data policies
The Research Data Alliance Interest Group on standardising research data policies, co-chaired by representatives of the Australian Research Data Commons, Springer Nature publishers, Wiley publishers and Jisc UK, have published...
July 26, 2019