Mr Andrew White1, Ms Katie Hannan2, Mr John Brown3, Dr Robin Burgess1
1Australian Research Data Commons, , Australia, 2CSIRO, Adelaide, Australia, 3Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Creating a successful Research Data Commons requires FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) supporting infrastructure including repositories and data management planning tools. For that infrastructure to be sustainable for institutions, and attractive to use for researchers, a clear return on investment needs to be visible.
Within the ARDC led Data Repositories Community of Practice and the ARDC DMP Interest Group there has been overwhelming interest expressed by the community in examining tools and approaches used to develop best practice, learn from each other and especially to improve the FAIRness of these systems.
This collaborative BoF will take the community on a journey to explore what a best practice FAIR enabled integrated data management planning tool and data repository of the future might look like. It will present at least three community use cases of organisations exhibiting current best practice and what needs to happen to bridge the gap to become fully FAIR enabled infrastructure ecosystems in the future. The session will also explore the question of where the return on investment is on these systems and the drivers for the stakeholders involved.
Participants in this BoF can expect to learn about existing successful systems from a variety of organisations, the approach taken to realise those systems, the lessons learnt in the process and what gains they’ve made from the work.
Biography:
Andrew’s role is to provide outreach support to Universities and partners in QLD and NSW as well as NCRIS facilities. He facilitates the Data Repositories Community of Practice, State based Data Roundtables and FAIR workshops.
Katie is Data Librarian working with the CSIRO Data Access Portal and the Research Data Planner. She is passionate about storytelling, cultural history projects, linking people with information and helping to facilitate organisational change and professional learning experiences.
John Brown is a librarian in the Research & Copyright Team at Curtin University Library and provides support to Curtin researchers in research data management training and support and copyright-related issues.
Robin is a Research Data Specialist in Data Governance for the ARDC. His role supports institutions, industry and projects with the development of data governance frameworks and understanding many elements of the data management lifecycle through the application of the FAIR and CARE principles