Resource Hub
Find best-practice guides, skill-building materials, and ARDC-supported datasets, tools and services for digital research.
We’ve also curated digital resources for health and medical, earth and environmental science, and HASS and Indigenous researchers.
Guide
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Collectra: Building Text and Image Extraction Pipelines
Read about the Collectra project, which provides a modular framework for building automated information extraction…
Tool / Service
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Case Studies from the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Symposium 2025
Discover innovative tools, datasets and workflows that drive impactful, data-informed research in humanities, arts and…
Guide
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Using TLCMap: Case Studies for Researchers
TLCMap is a free online tool to create digital maps for humanities social science research.…
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Dataset, Guide, Tool / Service
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Trove for Researchers
Discover tools and guides for using Trove for research.
Report
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Bringing Data to Life: Co-designing a Language Data Commons – A Summary Report
Read the report of the event Bringing Data to Life: Co-Designing a Language Data Commons,…
Report
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Trove Researcher Consultation Report
Findings from consultation with the research community about Trove and how they use it.
Dataset
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
Dataset
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
AustLII Australian Coronial Law Library
Gain free, digital access – enabled by the National Free Access Coronial Findings, Recommendations and Responses – to coronial investigation results from across the nation.
Dataset, Tool / Service
Thematic research data commons is:
People
Australian Child and Youth Wellbeing Atlas (ACYWA)
A freely accessible nationwide platform featuring geospatial and temporal visualisation of comprehensive child health and wellbeing indicators at local and national levels
Dataset, Guide, Tool / Service
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Australian Digital Observatory (ADO)
National infrastructure for accessing and analysing dynamic human data on the web – including tools, data, services and knowledge
Tool / Service
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Planet
Fieldmark™ Electronic Field Notebooks
Fieldmark™ is the next generation of electronic field notebooks, supporting digital capture and management of data in diverse situations
Tool / Service
Thematic research data commons is:
HASS and Indigenous
Time-Layered Cultural Map (TLCMap)
Tools for HASS researchers to map Australian history and culture
Dataset
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 – now fully integrated…
Dataset
Linked Dataset Supporting Young People’s Education and Wellbeing
A dataset containing deidentified and aggregated linked wellbeing data from Year 4 to 12 students collected between 2014 and 2022 across SA, Tasmania, and the ACT
Dataset
National Air Pollution Monitor Database
A consolidation of Australian air pollution and health data to inform economic and environmental policy changes, created through the Integrated National Air Pollution and Health Data project
Dataset, Guide, Tool / Service
Australian and New Zealand Leaders, Elections and Democracy Data Asset (ANZLead)
Comprehensive digital research infrastructure, including datasets, vocabularies, tools and a framework, for Australian and New Zealand political scientists and policymakers
Dataset
Mobility Australia
A comprehensive human population mobility dataset for understanding the movement of people across regions and, in turn, preventing and controlling disease outbreaks
Tool / Service
Coordinated Access for Data, Researchers and Environments (CADRE)
Integrated infrastructure for safely handling requests to access sensitive data
Dataset, Tool / Service
Australian Transport Research Cloud (ATRC)
Data and tools to accelerate transport research and impacts across Australia
Dataset
Thematic research data commons is:
People
Australian Urban Health Indicators (AusUrb-HI)
A suite of new indicator data assets that improve the understanding of the health of Australian urban and regional populations