The ANU Data Commons is a repository for research data sets created and owned by ANU researchers. It allows researchers to deposit, update, and publish their data sets to Research Data Australia while retaining ownership. The Data Commons is built on projects to identify existing data sets and capture new data as it is generated. It uses Fedora Commons technology with access controls and an interface for uploading data. Deposited data receives backup storage and there are no limits on size or type. The Data Commons is in open beta and aims to work with researchers to populate the repository and Research Data Australia with at least 50 data sets.

1. ANU Data Commons
Enabling E Research

2. What is it ?
● Building a repository for data sets
○ data can be deposited
○ updated
○ published to Research Data Australia
● Researcher retains ownership of data
○ can decide what can/should be made public

3. Context
● Built on the back of two ANDS funded projects
○ Seeding the Commons
■ Identify existing datasets, including orphan and legacy
datasets and publish descriptions of them in Research
Data Australia
■ ANU Data Commons metadata will be sufficient for data to
be discovered and accessed.
○ Data Capture
■ Build workflows and mechanisms in Earth Sciences,
Optical Astronomy, Phenomics, and Digital Humanities to
capture research data as it is generated and publish it

4. There's third related project ...
Metadata stores
● aims to provide a virtual solution that will
tie together information about individual
researcher's identity and their research
(grants, publications, other outputs and
research data), thus providing a whole of
institution view of scholarly research.

5. Technology
● Based on Fedora Commons
○ rich access control
○ web interface to allow researchers to upload,
update, publish data
○ also a command line tool that is scriptable for
automated upload

6. Storage
● Storage including backup provided by
DOI storage infrastructure
● Currently no restrictions on size or type of
data deposited

7. Progress
● Almost here
○ most functionality present
○ data can be deposited and retrived
○ collection records can be published to RDA
○ Keen to work with researchers to get data
into the ANU Data Commons and flowing
into RDA during the Beta phase.
○ In November there will be a user interface for
self deposit.

8. Populating the commons
● Lisa Bradley seconded from library to
conduct audit of datasets
○ will be contacting yourselves and individual
researchers about data
○ you may get queries from your researchers
○ Aim is to get at least 50 data sets into
Research Data Australia
● Happy to work withindividual researchers
to upload data during open beta

9. Questions