The ARDC Community Data Lab (CDL) provides tools, datasets, analysis environments and collaboration options for humanities, arts, social sciences, and Indigenous research in Australia. As CDL enters its second phase, it will focus on co-designing 5 new capabilities to support research and research translation.
The ARDC invites you to a workshop to co-design one of these capabilities: Tools and workflows for visualising and analysing data stored in RO-Crates.
The goal of the co-design workshop is to evaluate this co-investment opportunity to help develop a solution that supports new and expanded research.
RO-Crate is a structured archive of all the items that contributed to the research outcome, including their identifiers, provenance, relations and annotations. It’s a lightweight approach to packaging research data with their metadata, and is being used in Australia by UTS, PARADISEC, TLCMap, and the Language Data Commons of Australia and other collecting institutions.
RO-Crates are a valuable way to preserve important collections in the humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS) and galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) sectors, along with their metadata and linkage information. However, there are not many tools available for using RO-Crates in research, such as for analysing and visualising the collections stored in them. Current tools help create RO-Crates as archival objects, but more work is needed to make these objects useful for research.
The new tools and workflows will significantly enhance the value of existing collections stored in RO-Crates by allowing researchers to use them to answer specific research questions about data and contextual entities and the relationships within and between collections. Having accessible tools for working with RO-Crates will encourage more researchers to use them and improve their understanding of linked data.
Workshop participants are expected to actively engage in discussions. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to the problem to be addressed, along with the capability that we are proposing to develop as a solution to this problem for HASS and Indigenous research.
The workshop will be held virtually via Zoom. Participants will join breakout rooms and respond to questions using a Miro board. Our goal is to gather feedback on the value of the proposed solution and to assess whether we’re addressing the problem in the most effective way.
The proposed solution has been developed by ARDC in partnership with Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP), University of Melbourne.
After the workshop we will publish a report that captures the input that we have received. Your insights will help us refine our approach, ensuring that we are on the right track.
If you have difficulty accessing Zoom or Miro please let us know ahead of the workshop and we will provide alternative methods for you to provide your feedback.
Learn more about the ARDC Community Data Lab and the co-design process for phase 2 by watching the recording of our recent webinar, or viewing the slides.
The second phase of the CDL is focusing on co-designing 5 new capabilities to support research and research translation. Join other co-design sessions relevant to your research and work:
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