 Welcome everyone. This is Karen Visif from the Australian National Data Service here in Canberra. Please say hello in the question pod. So we've got some State Library of New South Wales people and somebody from Golben Library. We've got Tasmania, Fremantle, Bundaberg, Townsville, Macquarie, Curtin, Japan. Welcome, Macquarie, Griffith, RMIT, Palmerston North coming in too fast for me to see. So it's wonderful to see so many people engaged. So the first thing is that I would like to welcome everyone and this is a pretty amazing thing both for the research data community and for Ann's. Those of you who are not aware, we've got over 950 people who have signed up for the webinar. We've got 37 local community groups who have let us know that they're planning on getting started and we have people around the world are watching with real interest about how 23 research data things will go. So we're ready to begin our exciting journey. I don't know about you but we're at Ann's and all the people who have been helping to organize this. We're pretty excited about 23 things and we'd like to say particular thanks to Michael Witt from Purdue University who kickstarted this idea by producing a 23 Things America and we've taken his basic idea and made it a little bit different added a few things and also I have to say shamelessly plagiarized some of their great many of the great ideas in the original 23 Things for America. I'll just give you a couple of ideas first about how it's going to run. This is what you're seeing on your screen now is the 23 Things homepage and you can see where it is. We're in Ann's, Partners and Communities here, 23 Things and it's also there's a link from the Ann's homepage. You can see there are four subgroup pages here. Thing one is just saying welcome and to get organized. Thing number one, two and three are already up so let's have a look at thing number one just so to explain a couple of things. You can see here that there are three streams of activity getting started, learn more and challenge me. You can choose whichever stream you like. You can even change horses and streams midway through the journey. There's three different activities for each one of the things and they will ramp up. So challenge me starts pretty simple but there are three you'll see three highly colored buttons. Do you have to do all three things or three streams? No, pick and choose. If you know if one thing really captures your imagination you might like to have a go for some things to do all three. You might not. It's entirely up to you. Equally if you find a thing and you're starting to do the thing and you're not from Australia or you're in a specific discipline feel free to change the activities to suit yourself to go in and do something. I think oh well you've given me three ideas for particular repositories but I'm actually interested in something else. Please, this is about you. It's all about what your learning needs are. So feel free to change things for those in New Zealand and other countries because there are some things such as thing nine is licensing data. When we get to thing nine that week on Meetup we'll be having somebody from the New Zealand licensing will also be following along so to provide any specific advice but clearly we can't do that for all the countries who are with us. So please feel free to adapt and change anything that you want. One of the questions that we've had is I can see thing one two and three but what about all the others? I want to get going. We'll be revealing the things consecutively. So each week a new thing will be revealed and two weeks in advance. So for example this week is thing one week one if you like but you can see thing one thing two and three thing three. Next week you'll see thing two thing three and three thing four. There's a few break weeks in which case we will have a break that week that's around Easter so what we'll be doing after that you'll you will all have a break and then we'll start again so you'll always be at least two weeks in advance and you can sort of go forward or catch up. How will you know when a new thing is going to be there? You'll know that because we'll either send it out in Hands Up. We'll tweet it and for those of you who don't know Hands Up you can see here if you haven't subscribed to Hands Up you might like to do that because it'll just keep you up to date. There'll be a special 23 things box and it will tell you which thing you're up to for that particular week. So that's Hands Up. Just subscribe there. No spam, promise, promise no spam. It's just a fortnightly e-newsletter. I'm just going to go back to thing one now so that most people can see your screen, sorry see my screen and you'll see thing one, thing two and thing three. If you're up here in thing one, thing one to 23 that's the general page so you need to come into here, thing two. I'm going to hand over to Judy Brookner now from Alia and for those of you who are Alia members or who would like to become Alia members have a look in the handout screen. You'll be able to see the two PDFs that Judy's put in there regarding this specialisation. So Judy welcome. Judy's in Canberra. Would you like to tell us a little bit about the research and academic specialisation which is new today? Okay thank you Karen excellent thank you. I first of all I'd really like to congratulate Ann's on the development of the 23 things. I think you've done an amazing job and it's really timely. We've had a lot of feedback from our members that they are really interested in this topic so first of all congratulations to all the team at Ann's for making this happen and I'm sure it will be really significant in the sector. I'd also like to just explain that Alia is the peak organisation for library and information science in Australia and my job here is the director of learning and I look after ongoing learning and also course accreditation and education in Australia. The basis of our ongoing learning is the Alia PD scheme that was created in the year 2000 so it's been going for a long time. We have had a promotion of constant improvement to the PD scheme and as a result of that about three years ago we added our first specialisation which allowed us or allowed our members to identify key competencies in the area of health and relate their ongoing learning specifically to that. The PD scheme works by people accumulating points over a period of time over 12 months it's a minimum of 30 points and over a period of three years what we call the triennium it's 120 points and that roughly relates to one hour of work and learning to one point and there are special categories if you look on our website that explain this how it works. The real push behind this is Alia is supporting people and rewarding those who make the effort to keep their learning up to date so after you've done your initial qualification you can join the Alia PD scheme. The health specialisation was three years ago we've added quite a few specialisations to that sense some of you will be members of those or just the general scheme as it stood all of those are valid the one we are launching today is special to this new webinar and the 23 things and that is our research and academic specialisation. So Karen if you can just click on the research and academic specialisation button that will take you through to the page in our website about the specialisation explains that we have chosen four streams for the specialisation and if Karen just scroll down we've those four streams allow you to specialise during a general say you you feel that you're best suited to cover both areas of research and academic you can choose the general stream if your particular interest is just in research you can choose just the research one or you can choose just the academic one and then at the bottom there you can see coming up on your screen now is the data one so you can choose a specialisation stream just on data in that research academic area and what you what how it works is that you relate your learning to those competencies so when you're doing your entry into your pd record and that you can use our mighty my pd tracking tool or you can use an e-portfolio you can use a blog you can use anything that's suitable we don't want people having to rewrite but the main thing about our our learning scheme is reflective learning and that is how you're audited so you need to write against your competency for everything that you learn a brief summary of different things and you can see down below on that page the coloured dots and they're just prompts to help you under to help your you go through in your mind what you're actually getting out of your learning because when you're doing this 23 things if you have those questions in your mind you'll get much more out of them and that's one of the key benefits of being part of the alia pd scheme is is that emphasis on reflection and it's just simple things like I want to find out more about this covers competency numbers three or something so have a look at those when you audited that's what you're audited on we don't ask for tax receipts or we don't ask for certificates of attendance or so forth and we are now we're launching this specialization today and there will be over the next few weeks supporting resources for that and one of the key resources that we develop our skills audit checklist and they are there with the meat of the specialization lies that's where they all the detail is in the skills audit checklist so you'll be able to go through those and tick off whether you know something whether you need to learn it whether it's not applicable to you and that will guide you through through your your chosen specialization or the general pd scheme if you have any questions at all I have there's Lauren is our is that person who looks after the pd scheme so she'll be responding both to tweets and any questions if you want to email alia pd directly and by doing the webinar series over the next few months you'll be earning anybody who wants to join up will earn 20 points towards their 30 points for the year so it'll be really worth it to to keep in there and keep going right through to the end and finish finish the webinar series and I wish you all good fortune in your learning this is really exciting it's it's new stuff and we're just very grateful to Anne's for all the effort they put into this development thank you very much Judy I'd now like to make Susanna the presenter and tell us a little about two things what we're moving now into ways to be part of the 23 research things community so Susanna is going to take us through the website very briefly and then what are the catch up webinar sessions and how they work thanks Susanna great hi guys as Karen said my name is Susanna I am part of the team here at Anne's in Canberra who is doing the technical stuff and running the things from behind if there's anything on the website which goes wrong that's probably my fault if it's not up there when it should be that's my fault if you want to get on to the community's page and everything and you're not there that's probably my fault too but we'll try and get it on there now this here is the 23 research other things main page it's got the latest news on it and just an ongoing thing about what's happening down here are various questions that we've had people ask us and they all link to answers that are here on the FAQ page and they're all linkable down here so you know what are the webinars they come down here and so on now while we're at it what are the webinars the webinars is this initial one that we've got that's kicking it all off where we go through what's happening and you're able to see the website and what's going on the follow-up webinars which you have to register for separately though you register once and you get that registration gets you on for all six I think they are of the follow-up webinars so this is a kickoff register webinar that we're on here today and then these national these catch up webinars are here now you don't have to turn up to these webinars these webinars are basically a what's happening how are we going a little bit about the things that have happened and a little bit of looking forward about the things that are coming up and your chance to ask questions you don't quite understand what's going on my comment and things like that so you can either come to the webinars or maybe you might want to do all these things just in your local community groups there is no requirement to turn up to any of those webinars there's no requirement as Karen said at the beginning to do all of the 23 things you could do one you can do all 23 or you can do all what's that 69 of them if you want to do all three streams all the way through and Jerry will talk a little bit later about the meetup which is how we can sort of also have a way of connecting with people with regards to what's going on and 23 things now the rest of the website I'll go back up to that on so there's things zero which was a bit of a getting started before we you know there's people going what's happening where are these things where are these things before we kick off today and things one to 23 now there's a little bit of an explanation at the top that about what the various things are and honestly guys I promise you I put more things on this page this morning and they are not there so thing two and thing three with their three colored buttons should were there they are look look at that refresh the webinar I put them on this morning and as we go through the various different things come in as we go on and thing four will be released next week and things five to 23 will be progressively released as we head towards October when we actually finish up now from each of these you can go directly to that part of the next one so if you click there on thing one you go to the getting started part of thing one so you get that same little explanation box at the top you get what you need to do and then how to sort of share your thoughts and go further on from there and then when you finish your thing one you can get your preview date which will be talked about later you can go on the thing too if it's open or you can go back to that page we were just done with all the things on it or if you want to you can go and do the other two parts of thing one so the the learn more and the challenge me now Karen did explain a little bit about these you don't have to do them all you can do just the getting started ones or you maybe in a couple of weeks you might think oh my goodness is getting started once I understand them I'm getting them fairly quickly done through well challenge yourself and go on and do the others but as we said there is absolutely no requirement to do any of any of them or all of them it's really up to you and what you're going to get out of it and what you think you're going to get out of it so thing two has been released as well see there it is all the websites working for me how wonderful it's exactly the same format you'll see that same big buttons at the top which will jump you down to there if that's what you want to if that's where you want to go and your various things are there go on thing three is there ready waiting for you so as soon as you're ready for them you can get to go now at thing four thing four is not there yet because we're not haven't released it yet as Karen said we release them slowly as we go through the year and that will be ready and available March 8th we will also have let you know by hands up and Twitter and so on when they're available now Jerry I think I hand over to you so that you can talk about the meetup thank you Susanna so I'm Jerry Ryder I work with the Australian National Data Service in Adelaide Australia I've spoken an email with many of you over the last few weeks as we've got this program up and running so Susanna has shown you the 23 things webpage and the individual pages for each thing and she's also spoken a little bit about the webinars which are an option for people who want to join a virtual community to discuss things to ask questions that they may not have seen resolved through meetup or through their community group get-togethers and meetup is another option for people who want to interact with this program virtually so essentially we'll be using meetup just as a discussion forum for things the website that Susanna has just shown you is our main communication channel in terms of the latest news and the reveal of things but meetup is our space for actually posting questions sharing thoughts providing comments starting a discussion about things we have as you've seen three streams of activity for each thing and what we've chosen to do with our discussion boards is to actually set up a separate discussion board for each stream of activity for each thing so if for instance you're doing the getting started activity for thing one there is a dedicated message board just for discussion around that particular activity all the discussion boards will be set up in place so you won't need to create a discussion board just simply use this add a reply function to put your comments in or or your questions what we're really hoping is that you the community the people participating in the program will jump in help answer questions contribute to discussions share comments and thoughts obviously we at Anz will be keeping an eye on this space but we really want this to become a space where the community to can get together and share ideas in a virtual way now again like the webinars it's not compulsory for you to contribute to the meetup site if you're contributing to part of a community group you may prefer to instead share your comments and questions with your community group and perhaps just have one or two members of your group keep an eye on this space and perhaps contribute to this space on behalf of your group now you will need to register to join meetup it's very very simple process that you can do and then you can come and go from this space and use it as I said to post your questions add comments and just to see what other people are saying there is a possibility to to um I've got it up here to track at this a discussion so if you really want to keep an eye on what's happening with a particular discussion stream you can opt to track a discussion and then be alerted when new things are added to it so that's essentially how we will use meetup is really just for the message board facility and at the moment we've got message boards for the activities up to thing four no content in any of them yet obviously because we're just kicking off but again more of these message boards will be added as things are revealed so that's a quick look at meetup if you have any questions about it please don't hesitate to ask we did set up a thing zero message board that you're welcome to use to introduce yourself to others in the community and perhaps sort of indicate a particular interest where you might be able to connect with others that share that particular interest the other thing that Susanna alluded to were our community groups and what we've um I guess encouraged here is for people in the community to set up face to face groups or or a mixture of face to face and virtual groups whereby people who are the work in the same institution or in the same geographic area can get together to actually discuss the 23 things so hopefully you can see on my screen that we have already about 37 groups from New Zealand and all the states of Australia that have emerged and we would certainly encourage others who might be interested in starting up a group to do so I think it's a great way to network in person and if you're a work group to actually perhaps talk about how you might implement some of the learnings from doing the 23 things a geographic group is obviously a great way to go as well particularly perhaps if you're working on your own in research data management in your organization and you want to connect with others who are also interested in doing this program and we'll hear shortly from a couple of people who are actually running community groups but if you do have a community group or would like to start one please let us know we're happy to put it up here on a very long list mainly just so that others can have a look and see oh yep there's a group in my area or there's already a group in my organization I know who to contact to find out more about that group so please take the time to have a look through that and think about starting up a group if there's not one already in place and you can certainly use Meetup and Twitter account to promote your group as well so that's a quick overview of the community groups so now we've got a couple of people to talk about their groups okay so first up first up today we've got Leanne Griffiths from the CSIRO who's just going to quickly tell us a little bit about her group thanks Leanne thanks Jerry just quickly CSIRO has a distributed workplace and no two team members actually sit in the same location to enable us to provide support to each other as we progress through the 23 research data things we decided that we would begin with a monthly virtual get together where we could discuss things that had happened in that month and we'll be starting our first one on the 8th of March so it gives people an opportunity to work through a couple of the things and then we'll have a catch up news just breaking to my team is that I've actually had some thoughts over the last couple of days and I'm going to introduce in addition to the monthly catch up a 15-minute scrum type session so that we can come to a quick 15-minute session once a week and bring any learnings that we wanted to share or any problems that people are having as they progress to underpin these sessions we have our three and newly on board fourth data management librarians assisting the outreach librarians team and the information resources team to engage in the research data things so the other thing we need to work through is looking at tracking and rewards that will be something that we'll be looking at as well we would also like if possible where we have stuff on site if we could join in a local group as well and engage with the local group as well but certainly for us the virtual catch up is what we're planning to work through initially that's it for me that's great thank you Leanne so Anthea Harris from Perth did you want to just quickly tell us a little bit about the group that you're planning? I just thought it turned out interesting and I thought right I'll get a group together and if I say I'll have a group then people will come but nobody's come yet and I've decided that we could actually get a definite venue on Jerry's advice and so the Windsor hotel in South Perth next Tuesday at half past six I'll find a table 23 in the beer garden and if anyone wants to come to that then we'll start off then and see what our group's like. Thanks Anthea, I think that's for you I've got to say I'm sorry. No that's lovely and the beer garden sounds like a wonderful option and Anthea's email is up on the community groups page if you want to touch base with Anthea before next week I'm sure she'd love to hear from you and essentially her group's open to anybody in the Perth area that's interested in doing the program and I might come under the AU West umbrella. Great thank you Anthea finally for this session Anton we have Anton Angelo from University of Canterbury over in New Zealand. Anton do you want to tell us a little bit about your group please. Thank you Tena kouta katoa. We are a surprisingly large group actually I've been amazed how many people are interested in this I think we're doing this at the right time I'd like to thank our hosts here Anne's for arranging something which I think is just amazing and for us to be able to piggyback on so thank you very much for doing that. What I would like to do is invite other New Zealanders who may be a bit further down the track on research data especially things like copyright and storage in the New Zealand context to get in touch with me and then we can we can mold some of the things later on to have a more of a New Zealand component in them. My address as well is up there on the meetups page and we're just going to work out I'm going to brush down and talk to our group in a minute and we're going to work out a bit democratically how we're going to meet and how we're going to do that and the thought of a beer garden is extraordinarily attractive but I somehow I don't think we'll get away with that unfortunately but there you go and we're probably just going to have to have lunch or something like that and even bring our own unfortunately yeah so thank you again to Anne's for doing that and really looking forward to any other New Zealanders who want to get in touch with me and we can mold some of that later but those things great thanks Anton and we've been delighted at the response from New Zealand it's and it's terrific to be able to share this program across across country borders so next thing we just wanted to quickly cover off on was rewards now for those people who are a member of Aaliyah we've just heard previously about how you can earn PV points through Aaliyah the other mechanism that we're using that we hope may provide some motivation for people to keep going with their 23 things is digital badges now we scratched our heads a little bit about what we could do in the context of a program like this to reward people for actually completing things and hopefully provide a bit of motivation and we came up with the idea of digital badges and we're using the credley system so I've just clicked back now to meet up a discussion page for thing one and what I can what I hope you might be able to see is this link here where it says completion of thing one means you've earned a digital badge claim it here and what at that same that same link is available on the thing description pages that Susanna showed us earlier so that when you finished your thing you can click on that link and go off and claim a credley badge with we've created badges for each of the 23 things so that you've got a little bit of recognition as you go along for complete thing there's no proof required this is an honesty system to claim your badges we're not going to be monitoring who's claiming for what and actually have they've done their thing we can't possibly know who's done what things because this is a self-directed program but we hope that you'll find that that's a little bit of fun a little bit of motivation and perhaps the basis on which perhaps your community group may itself have a leaderboard or some other mechanism for motivating people to keep going and to contribute to the program as well now the credley badges are free but you will need to register first which will be prompted to do when you first go to claim a badge is a short free registration process to do that and then we do encourage you to claim your badge when you complete each thing there will be the link as I said from each discussion page as well as from each thing page on the website so it's easy to find very could I just add in there there's been some really interesting chat on in the question pot about how some people are also doing rewards and from M we've got chat with you managers if it's in your pdr decide which stream of things you're going to aim yourself at so that's another way of ensuring that managers are aware of what you're doing as well that's something that you might want to consider as well yes so we so we as I said we at ants can only do so much in terms of rewards but hopefully if you're a part of a community group and particularly one within a within an institution you may come up with your own mechanism for rewards celebrations you know as you complete things or sections of things just a bit of fun and a bit of recognition for working through the program and sticking with it there's someone who has asked for a week sorry gerry i'm just jumping in here someone's asked if we get a big badge at the end we can put on your staff home page that's a really good idea when we get to the end we may have a surprise for you i'm not sure there is one now but we'll look into that and somebody else has said that they're getting drinks and food when they finish i hope that's management and things okay hello it's judy here just saying that um anyone who's going through the 23 things and doing the alia pd scheme specialization um after the 12 months and if they do some extra work and get their extra 10 points they can be an alia certified professional academic research specialization so extra reward and extra encouragement there to keep going thanks judy just a a question in the question pod which it might make it easier for people to understand just to show where the link is to the discussion board so someone's asked how do we get to the discussion board you can go directly to the meet-up site or at the bottom of each thing activity you'll see um a section like this where it will take you there's a link there to meet up that takes you directly to the discussion board for that particular activity so um you can access it from here or go to the meet-up site directly and um access it from there you noticed that i did click on it and i haven't actually logged in to meet up here so you do need to log in um it is also a closed group too so you have to be accepted to come into the group so it's not you know free to the world for everybody to work out and see what's going on if we should hopefully then not get anybody who's not interested in what we're doing there now i need to let you guys know about the twitter handle here's our twitter handle 23 rd things um and that was an earlier one and i think if i refresh it yes there's all sorts of things sing one thing too who put that one up thank you i did have a thought when we were doing the badges whether we could get things you know up to thing 23 but then i thought no maybe that's just too much and there's obviously a group there i can't sit moment where they are but they're all listening to us and that's fantastic and somebody's obviously got all the rewards happening already fantastic none of that around here caren you're slipping see this is the twitter handle that we'd like you to post too if you're mentioning about the 23 research data things would i also like if you could to add the ans data um twitter handle realize of course there's only 140 characters but that just links it back to anybody else who's following us at ans who may not know about the research data things and what we're doing now the other thing that we've come up with but we haven't really started using yet is a so those who are being a community organizer so it's thing os and i can't for the thing organizers thing what's organizer yeah thing organizer that's what that thing was so if you've got um questions that you want to ask to other community group leaders just tag it with this and and that will be another way of keeping yourself from going insane because you there on your own you've got you know there's great big room full of people who are looking to you and you may want to help with some ideas or things like that and of course we will be monitoring these various twitter streams to see what's going on what questions are being asked and um we're trying to help you wherever we can so i'd like to thank everyone for coming along today and let's get started this is a pretty exciting opportunity we're keen for all of you to let us know how you're going look if you've got any queries or questions or good ideas tweet them or what you can do is you can just drop an email to anyone at ans on our web page i think there's a general contact at ans email address you can use that um but i'd like to thank you all for your support the 23 organizing team has drawn on expertise literally from around the world and our local community members have been really forthcoming in supporting us and each other to get started we wish all of the groups all the best and if you don't have a group in your local area don't forget there's the catch up webinars and there's twitter and there's the ans staff who can answer any questions or help you get started or if you're not sure what to do we can set up one of these um go to webinar meetings just one on one if you're not sure how to get started so just let us know so i'd like to thank you all for coming along and wish you all the very best and we're looking forward to seeing you all either at webinars in your local groups and ans staff by the way are also available to come along every so often if you'd like us to join in with your your groups um we're happy to come along and sit in and provide any support that we can so on behalf of all of the people here at ans and all of the community who have supported each other to get these 23 things going let let the fun begin let the games begin let the things begin so we'll see you all probably at our next catch up webinar or in your community groups or we'll see you on meetup