 I am co-presenting on this one Melanie and I are both in the ARDC office in Canberra. So we're going to be covering today what is research data in Australia, hoping most of you are aware but just like to cover that off as well, how to find data there, how you can add metadata records to our research data Australia, a little bit about writing good metadata descriptions and why you might want to do this. So research data Australia has been around for some time, it was launched in 2009 and it's a discovery portal for finding data and I've put in services there. The search is mostly focused around data but for context we also provide information and links to the services that might provide or be connected to that data as well. It's a multidisciplinary search portal so the metadata that we collect and the searches that you can do really reflect their multidisciplinary nature of the data and the metadata and provide some you know what I was going to say it's a generic or common ways to search for that data so it's not specific to a particular discipline so it's it's broad but not as deep as you might get in doing searching in a discipline specific discovery portal. It's metadata only so that means we don't store, host and make available the data from our portal, we harvest and make available for searching metadata descriptions or descriptions of the data only and we currently have and counting about 177,000 data sets represented and they're from a hundred Australian contributors so the focus is on Australian content and Australian contributors and as I said the metadata is critical that's provided to Research Data Australia for providing meaning and context for all the data allowing for its evaluation and reuse. So just taking I think I've skipped a slide there. I have some help, should be another one. Okay let me just start this again sorry is that sharing yep I'm not sure why I've lost a slide. I will just talk to this one. No not that sharing so I'll present. I had a slide about searching so I just talk while on this slide so in Research Data Australia you can see right there there's we have like a keyword sort of search box so you can throw in any words and find data across all those disciplines. You can also browse by the subjects groupings that we have for search results in a particular subject area. We also have an advanced search option and that allows you to more finely refine and filter by things like temporal or spatial characteristics of the data or the subject or perhaps the license type or the access type. So that's available there as an advanced search option and we've got a mapped search for location by searching. You can while this search is focused on the data and you can switch in the advanced search option to search for services connected with that data and make the focus on services in particular. So if you wanted to search over the services we have registered with metadata in Research Data Australia you can do that in our advanced search. So having done a search you'll find a view like this so we call it our collection record. It's this is generated from the metadata in Research Data Australia and it's showing you a small snapshot here but it contains things like a description, a description of the license and the rights over that data set. There's I've got highlighted there's a button to access the data if that is being made available by download or by URL or it might allow you to contact someone and provide an email address. There's a button called site and that pops up a citation which you can copy and paste to that data asset data collection and we provide an indication as I said of the license where that's been stated and the access so whether you can get where there are any barriers to accessing that data if it's restricted in any way if the provider has given us an indication that will be displayed there. We also have information on temporal and any temporal or spatial characteristics of the data that can be specified there. I've highlighted that we provide some statistics on how many views and accesses of the access the data button have been registered and they are displayed on the record. Another feature you see on on the side panel there is similar data sets you may be interested in. So we have a little algorithm sitting behind there that pulls up across a few features things that are similar to the record you're currently looking at and we see this as leveraging one of the benefits of research data Australia being a multi-disciplinary portal with a lot of clustering around particular subject areas and a lot of faceting around temporal and spatial things as I said so it's a way to surf a similar things that perhaps from different disciplines that you might not have thought of going looking for. So further down in that same record view I've expanded it here we have a graph type view network graph type view of the collection and its links to various other collections indicated by the folder symbol or to the services that might be connected to that collection that might be made available through particular service there'll be a connection indicated there or there might have been a research activity that generated that collection. So research data Australia leverages the metadata the richness of the metadata where there are connections described between a data set and other activities services or people or organizations. So on the left side of my screen you can see that textually listed so as related data and related organizations related grants and projects and related services and then it's pictorially representatives and network graph type of view which is clickable and you can play with that in research data Australia and you can navigate to those other connected entities from that central collection. So it's a way to really visualize that and the relationships between those things. Okay I wanted to highlight we also okay I managed this is the page I was looking for before so just stepping back this is our search and showing you how you can use the advanced search here you get a screen with a lot more options to filter by or specify a subject or the provider or an access method or a license and then you get a search result based on that and we get additional filtering options in your search. That advanced search as I said there's another button at the bottom that you can switch to focus your search on services instead of the data itself. So were you to search for a service record or navigate to a service record from a collection which is also possible. You get to a record that looks something like this in research data Australia this is LVO the virtual lab for human communication science and we can see some people who are associated with that service and to the Western Sydney University as the data provider for this record. There's a link provided to access the service and some information about licensing and contact for that service sorry can't scroll down and at the bot and what we'll see on the next screen is again you'll get at the bottom of that record you'll get all the links to other entities within research data Australia that are linked to the service record. So you're seeing the service record in the center of this network graph and all the relationships it has with the other entities in research data Australia so here we're looking you know there's a handful of collections we've got some people and organizations and some links to web URLs as well and they you can see that listed as in the text form opposite as well. So it's very richly connected you can navigate using this network diagram to those other entities. Now for those interested well I hope you all are in providing records to research data Australia and contributing good metadata content to produce those lovely search results and records that we just saw we publish what we call our research data Australia content providers guide. You don't need to know too much about this at the moment it's just that we have one and it's got very detailed description of how you can encode metadata records for research data Australia using best practice what what would be the best thing to do in each context for a good result for discovery in research data Australia so it's a non-technical guide and it describes a lot of our best practice for discovery. We use so getting technical you don't need to know too much the details but we use a metadata schema called RISCS which is the registry interchange format collections and services XML schema and that allows us to share metadata between your source repository and our research data Australia registry and it's an object-oriented relational model that's how we're able to generate those networks and connections and relationships between objects that describes not only data but the researchers and research activities and services that surround and a link to that data. So just to give you a taste of the sort of guidance that we provide in that guide it's in much more detail but what we're looking for when we talk about what makes a good data description or a collection metadata record is we'd be looking for having a persistent idea identify like a DOI on that data set and having that in the metadata the metadata provides access to or information on how to access the data being described and there is citation information I showed you how that displays in a record so that allows people to know how to cite your data set when they reuse it and a license will tell you tell people wanting to reuse the data how they if and how they may reuse that data. The identifies allow you to connect to related outputs such as publications and software people and projects and that all helps with discovery and from navigating to additional entities to give context to that data record and as I said it can data metadata record can be connected to services and their own service description that could be used to support access manipulate that data. A description obviously of how the data were created and how to interpret that which will enable anyone looking in research data Australia to make a determination of where of the value of that data and where the potential for its reuse. Subject information is really really important for discovery as you saw the big feature in our portal is being able to browse by subjects will being to search or cluster around a particular subject so that really helps cut across a lot of the deep content we have in there and spatial and temporal coverage which positions the data in space and time if it's relevant to that data set also very useful in the context of discovery and similarly for a service record what I might pull out here so you'd have access information such as the URL for that service writes again very important who may access that service and under what conditions is it being made available a description for potential users including version configuration or implementation information a persistent identifier a handle can be used as a persistent identifier and we had a presentation last week on identifiers including deal eyes and handles so we have a handle service if you need to know more about that you can find out get in touch or view the previous presentation on identifiers protocol information can be included as related information in the service record again subject terms are useful and we only register services where they're connected to data sets or data collections in research data Australia because that is our focus for discovery so we'll only register a description of that service connected to a collection and those collections are acted on or through that service and also provide any related information you have about the service so it can go to a publication or URL that provides more information and I'm going to hand over at this point to Melanie to finish off the presentation thanks Melanie thank you Catherine so further guidance for depicting this relationship between the data set and the services is also available and this guidance which is frozen Melanie how's my voice is my voice okay if I can I can hear you Melanie okay thank you I'll yeah but I think we can hear you okay oh good okay I'll just keep that camera off and talk okay so in case you didn't hear that so we have further guidance for depicting this relationship between the data sets and the services and this guidance was what we formed following the consultation within our data services interest group 2017-18 so this interest group we agreed on some end user scenarios that we wanted to support and in response we identified shared practice for exposing this information about data and related services across organizations so in that table on the right it's a little bit small there but if you follow that link later this is the resultant core information set for data and related services which can be included within data set metadata and within the related service metadata so providing this information is what would enable those network diagrams that Catherine showed and talked about showing relationships between data and services for example so our next slide please am I still in this is anyone hear me or my bump I can still hear you I can hear you I don't know who's meant to be moving the slides forward I wonder if we've lost Catherine in fact oh no Catherine was back hey Catherine I was just ready for that our next slide number 13 I've lost your you're muted I think yes I'm muted sorry that was my connection dropped out just sharing again thank you thank you this is a demonstration of resilience today fine slides were you on the next one Melanie yeah number 13 thank you thanks for sharing for me great okay so the links included within this slide will take you to the contributor page in RDA and the box on the right is from that contributor page listing the organizations who already contribute metadata if your organization is in the list then ARDC can put you in contact with the people within your organization who manage the relevant metadata so to assist you with constructing and amending metadata for your data and other items and then ADC can assist you or your organization with the corresponding metadata representation within RDA if your organization is not yet within the list then ADC can assist your organization to establish a metadata harvest to RDA next please so as you can see here the RDA harvest accepts multiple metadata schemas and profiles from contributors in either XML or JSON format we reuse the mappings from the various input schemas and profiles to RIFCS where they exist otherwise we construct new mappings we have for example been able to reuse mapping from VIGSHA RDF XML to RIFCS XML for multiple universities and this allows every subsequent update to easily propagate to each provider and then over on the right you can see metadata from the RDA registries consumed by various external systems for example the representation of RIFCS in schema dog allows the data to be discovered via Google data set search next please so as well as accepting multiple types of metadata schemas and profiles the RDA harvester accepts multiple types of harvest endpoints we've listed a few here in the middle that you may be familiar with so we have the open archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting at which has been a low barrier mechanism for repository interoperability we've also got the open geospatial consortium standard catalog service for the web which is for example implemented within the open source geo network metadata catalog and there's also just a simple HTTP get for even a simple web server and just a few records the ccan API provides metadata in JSON format so we've got a crosswalk from its default metadata schema and harvest endpoint types that are not yet supported can be raised with ARDCs so to explore harvesting from them next so metadata is crucial for providing information that enables discovery access interoperability and reuse of data services instruments etc this assists research outcomes and impact while enhancing the potential for collaboration as we have shown metadata can indicate links to other research assets so for example that a particular data set is available via a service of a particular protocol we can include links to people organizations publications grants etc and the metadata can encourage attribution of the data and the appropriate use according to license registering your metadata in publicly accessible catalogs then harvested by RDA further enhances these outcomes and then as we've shown there are benefits within RDA itself so the further syndication and that itself gathers and provides statistics including how often a record is viewed or accessed next so ARDC can help um you are very welcome to contact your ARDC liaison with any queries that you have and your liaison will help you to contact the right people within your organization according to whatever stage that you are at and we will assist your organization with metadata feeds to RDA we can assist with manual entry of metadata records too and we can assist with the metadata content next we have a little summary of resources pertaining to the content that we've covered today and be in touch with us if you can't find what you're looking for or if you have any other questions