Programs and Projects
We partner with the research community to establish enduring digital infrastructure to support Australia’s future research needs.
Explore our 3 Thematic Research Data Commons, along with the programs and projects building data assets, platforms, tools and skills that enable Australian researchers to transform our lives.

Our Programs and Projects
Program
Thematic research data commons is:
Planet
Australian Dataspaces
Establishing dataspaces to create trusted, secure ecosystems for secure data exchange between research, industry and…
Program
Thematic research data commons is:
People
Trusted Research Environments
Establishing a framework and common understanding for trusted research environments (TREs) in Australia
Program
Thematic research data commons is:
People
Advanced Analytics in Healthcare
Creating cutting-edge national-scale analytics infrastructure for health research and research translation
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
ARDC Community Data Lab (CDL) Project
The ARDC Community Data Lab helps researchers use data from galleries, libraries, archives, museums and…
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities
Building an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Data Commons.
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
People
ARDC Vocabulary Service Extension (Health and Medical)
Expanding ARDC Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) to health and medical research to provide tools to…
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
Planet
Biosecurity Commons
A cloud-based decision-support platform for modelling and analysing biosecurity risk and response
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)
Making nationally significant language data available for academic and non-academic use
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
Planet
EcoCommons
Pioneering a collaborative commons for analysing and modelling ecological and environmental challenges
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
Planet
Open Ecoacoustics
A platform for continental-scale ecological monitoring and research
Project
RLA: National Aggregator of University Research Capability Data
Streamlining the collection and sharing of research expertise and capability data from Australian universities, as…
Project
Sailing the Marine Knowledge Landscape with RLA
To make fishing and aquaculture research and development project details more discoverable, accessible and usable,…
Project
RLA Data Community of Practice Health and Wellbeing
A data-driven approach to enhancing understanding of research-industry collaborations in wellbeing, as part of the…
Project
Multi-Scalar Crop Characterisation Network (MCCN)
Supporting the agricultural sector to understand crop-environment relationships
Project
Data Sharing Initiative
Improving data sharing practices between farmers and technology/service providers
Project
Connecting/Federating Stable Isotopic Data Resources
Food traceability tools that tell us where our food comes from and how it was…
Project
National Machine Learning Service
A national service to support the increasing demands for machine learning (ML) from Australian researchers
Project
Research Link Australia (RLA) Project
Bridging the information gap between research, industry, business, and government for impactful innovation
Program
Policy Program
Advocating for cohesive data policies to accelerate research and innovation.
Project
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Gazetteer of Historical Australian Places (GHAP)
A comprehensive, updatable and easily accessible source of mappable Australian placenames
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