Dr Natalia Atkins2,5, Ms. Suzannah Babicci4, Mr Dave Connell3, Dr Richard Ferrers1, Siddeswara Guru6
1Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Melbourne, Australia, 2Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN), Hobart, Australia, 3Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia, 4Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Townsville, Australia, 5Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Hobart, Australia, 6Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), Brisbane, Australia
Biography:
Natalia Atkins is the Metadata Governance Officer at the Australian Ocean Data Network at Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). She manages the metadata catalogues, assists contributors and manages the AODN vocabularies. She has been a reviewer for CoreTrustSeal since the start of 2023.
Suzannah Babicci serves as the Data Governance Officer at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). She leads the development and oversight of institutional data management policies, management of the AIMS Data Repository and metadata catalogue, and provides support for data requests and submissions. Since 2020, she has been an active participant in the Trusted Data Repository community.
Dave Connell is the Senior Data Coordinator in the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) at the Australian Antarctic Division. His primary job is to catalogue and archive data arising from the Australian Antarctic Science Program. Additionally, Dave has been a reviewer for Core Trust Seal since 2018. The AADC was recently re-certified for Core Trust Seal.
Richard Ferrers is a Data Consultant in the ARDC Engagement Team. He supports universities and other partners in VIC, TAS and ACT as well as the People Research Data Commons for health and medical research (eresear.ch/accelerateHealth23). He works with communities including for trusted data repositories and state-based data roundtables. His special interests include value of data, trusted data, user adoption – value stories.
Siddeswara Guru is the program lead of the TERN Data Services and Analytics Platform. He leads the development of eInfrastructure to manage data collected from TERN observing platforms and partnering institutes. The TERN data infrastructure was recently for core trust of seal.
Abstract:
This poster reflects on, and describes, the Australian experience of working as a community towards achieving a Trusted Data Repository certification. The certification, called Core Trust Seal, is an international standard created by a Research Alliance working group, of researchers to promote sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructure for data sharing. Since 2019, a group of Australian data organisations have worked together to consider, analyse, and share queries, concerns and knowledge to work towards a CoreTrustSeal trust certification with the help of the ARDC. This poster outlines the benefits, challenges and learnings from the community process.