This workshop gives a brief overview of the FAIR principles, including a method to make a one-file dataset FAIR.

Anyone who has developed training content - specifically hands-on, short format, data science training - will know that it is expensive and time consuming. As a rule of thumb, one can expect to spend 15-20 hours of development time per hour of delivery time.

Even once the main work is done,...

At the Bureau, data is the core of everything we do. We collect millions of observations from our networks and external sources and convert these into essential weather, climate, water and ocean services. To respond effectively to the rapidly evolving data landscape, the Data 2022 and Beyond...

This presentation looks at how NCI provides training opportunities, supporting users to develop their digital skills with the aim of underpinning the integrity of research. NCI's new training strategy is outlined along with how training is evaluated and impact is measured. Through extensive...

NCI Australia manages a multi-petabyte sized data repository, collocated with its HPC systems and data services, which allows high performance access to many scientific research datasets across many earth science domains.
An important aspect is to provide training materials that proactively...

The focus of this community event arose from the ARDC SKills Summit 2021, hosted in collaboration with eResearch Australasia Conference. Two key themes identified at the Summit formed the focus of this event: 1) How to convince senior management the value of digital skills training so that they...

FAIR Data 101 v3.0 is a self-guided course covering the FAIR Data principles

The FAIR Data 101 virtual course was designed and delivered by the ARDC Skilled Workforce Program twice in 2020 and has now been reworked as a self-guided course.

The course structure was based on 'FAIR Data in the...

A short guide to making software citable using a code repository, an ORCID and a licence.

In this presentation, Paula Petrelli outlines the opportunities and challenges of data management for climate science, and how she implemented DMPOnline to facilitate better workflows for publishing research data. This talk was presented to the Australasian Data Management Plans Interest Group on...

How researchers may license their research software in order to share it with others.

It addresses the types of open‑source licences, and considerations you (as a researcher) should have in deciding which licence to adopt for sharing.

Over the last two years, the Federation for the Advancement of Victorian eResearch (FAVeR) has been working towards some understanding of the eResearch roles space, leading to the establishment of a project called 'Advancing the professionalisation of our eResearch workforce'.

The goal of this...

The Astronomy Data And Computing Services (ADACS) initiative has been working with the Australian astronomy community for just over 3 years now. Our vision is to deliver astronomy-focused training, support and expertise to maximise the scientific return on investments in astronomical data &...

This presentation provides insight into current training efforts at TERN around data collection, data processing and data access and analytics. Highlighting various modes of training including hands-on data collection training, tutorials on deriving data, workshops, user manuals and training at...

This video explains software containers to a research audience. It is an introduction to why containers are beneficial for research. These benefits are standardisation, portability, reliability and reproducibility. 

Software Containers in research are a solution that addresses the challenge of a...

This presentation provides an overview of the approach being taken in the creation of a Data Stewardship framework that looks at the tools, guidance, skills and clarity of data stewardship roles at the Bureau of Meteorology. A major focus of the framework is the creation of role profiles which...

Increasing the availability of research data for reuse is in part being driven by research data policies. While the number of research funders, journals and institutions with some form of research data policy is growing, the landscape is complex and therefore the implementation and implications...

Masterclass activity using Padlet. Questions asked: - How do you set the context for your learners? - What motivates or inspires your learners? - What are some tips to create and foster open communication channels? - How do you keep training interesting for yourself? - Post-pandemic will training...

Keynote Presentation for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023

This keynote presentation provides a brief outline of Jason William’s experience and an overview of the training initiatives he has been involved in. His presentation looks at what makes a good researcher and provokes thinking about modern...

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) skills & training working group

The Australian Research Data Commons is driving transformational change in the research data ecosystem, enabling researchers to conduct world class data-intensive research. One interconnected component of this ecosystem is skills development/uplift, which is critical to the Commons and its...

Introduction and welcome to the Skills Summit, a brief overwiew of ARDC, its purpose, mission and activities, including ARDC's role in skills development.

In this session, questions were asked on how to tackle 'no shows' for training events:

• What are the motivations behind ‘no shows’?

• What % of ‘no shows’ is acceptable? Any data on that?

• Do we need to lay some gentle guilt trips?

• Community Slides

• Tackling ‘no shows’. What is your...

This presentation explores Intersect's training evaluation model. Short term evaluation for immediate satisfaction and value of the training. Long term evaluation methods with a specific survey design to determine behavioural change and impact over time of the training on researchers' workflows,...

This presentation outlines the digital reserach skills training evaluation methods used at Pawsey. Using the Kirpatrick Training Evaluation model in designing their training evaluation survey, Pawsey measure learning motivation (How did the participant respond to the training?), improved...

Co-authored by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Universities Australia (UA), the Management of Data and Information in Research Guide contains guidance for institutions and researchers on how they can implement the new Code as it...

Over the last two years, the Federation for the Advancement of Victorian eResearch (FAVeR) has been working towards some understanding of the eResearch roles space, leading to the establishment of a project called 'Advancing the professionalisation of our eResearch workforce'.

The goal of this...

This presentation provides an overview of the approach being taken in the creation of a Data Stewardship framework that looks at the tools, guidance, skills and clarity of data stewardship roles at the Bureau of Meteorology. A major focus of the framework is the creation of role profiles which...

This Jupyter notebook presents a low-barrier entry to using the DataCite REST API to mint, update, publish, and deleted DOIs and their associated metadata.

It was designed specifically to not use any third-party libraries so that it can be reused in almost any Jupyter notebook environment

Code...

Introduction and welcome to the Skills Summit, a brief overwiew of ARDC, its purpose, mission and activities, including ARDC's role in skills development.

This lightning talk provides an update on the current state of machine lerning training activities. Additionally, the talk will introduce the training portal on the ML4AU website, which has been created to address some of the challenges faced by the trainer community.

You can watch the YouTube...

This community discussion seeks to bring together the instructors and facilitators tasked with upskilling researchers and support staff. While this collective dialogue among instructors is not new, what is new is the traction that various groups are getting.

The newly formed group of...

This presentation explores Intersect's training evaluation model. Short term evaluation for immediate satisfaction and value of the training. Long term evaluation methods with a specific survey design to determine behavioural change and impact over time of the training on researchers' workflows,...

In this Community Action session working groups will be formed based on the challenges/opportunities that were prioritised in Community Action session #4.

• Skilled trainers / facilitators

• National training registry

• National training event calendar

• Jointly developed training

• Research...

In this session, questions were asked on how to tackle 'no shows' for training events:

• What are the motivations behind ‘no shows’?

• What % of ‘no shows’ is acceptable? Any data on that?

• Do we need to lay some gentle guilt trips?

• Community Slides

• Tackling ‘no shows’. What is your...

This is a guide for those developing or updating policies and procedures related to the management of research data as an institutional asset.
The guide covers:
- Why have a research data management policy or policies?
- Possible approaches to constructing a research data policy suite
- Examples...

As a lead contributor to the OECD's Building Digital Workforce Capacity and Skills for Data-Intensive Science (2020) report, Dr Michelle Barker outlines in this presentation the goal of the report, i.e. to make recommendations to policy makers on how to facilitate the digital workforce...

The focus of this community event arose from the ARDC SKills Summit 2021, hosted in collaboration with eResearch Australasia Conference. Two key themes identified at the Summit formed the focus of this event: 1) How to convince senior management the value of digital skills training so that they...

A practical guide for people and organisations working with data, about rights information and licences, and to raise awareness of the implications of not having licences on data.

Who is this for? This guide is primarily directed toward members of the research sector, particularly data rights...

ARDC's Data Management Planning Interest Group hosted a meetup on persistent identifiers and data management planning infrastructure on 17 June 2021. These slides accompanied Siobhann McCafferty's talk on PIDs infrastructure, RAiD and the Instruments for Identifiers Australasia Interest Group...

This presentation showcases the impact of the Monash Data Fluency Community of Practice upon digitally skilled Graduate Research students involved as learners and instructors in the program. The strong focus on building community to complement training, has fostered an environment of learning,...

This project explores the options for access to sensitive data sets; what authentication technologies (e.g. multi-factor authentication) are needed to access sensitive data and secure compute environments.  This project seeks to position choices around authentication technologies within the Five...

This presentation outlines the work completed during a consultancy for ARDC by Dr Paula Martinez to develop new and publish existing national skills materials for reuse by the sector. She was responsible for the work package targeted to co-develop national skills materials with a strong emphasis...

Find out why metadata are important for your research data collection. This brochure shares the reasons why researchers should use metadata for their data collections.

This brochure was prepared for the ARDC Data Retention Project...

This lightning talk provides an update on the current state of machine lerning training activities. Additionally, the talk will introduce the training portal on the ML4AU website, which has been created to address some of the challenges faced by the trainer community.

You can watch the YouTube...

This document provides answers to common questions about the Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA), and the Health Data Australia (HDA), including the usage of the health data platform, sharing, contributing and accessing clinital trails data, governance, and potential risks. 

MetaSat is an open metadata toolkit for describing small satellite (and even large satellite) missions in a uniform and shareable way. Optimised for small satellite missions, MetaSat fills an informatics gap. Although there have been a number of relevant metadata sets, there has been a...

This presentation provides thoughts and reflections from the Digital Research Skills Australaisa (DReSA) project team on DReSA. Team members highlight their perspectives on value propositions and benefits for their respective institutiosn/organisations and nationally, as well as individual...

We describe the peer network exchange for training that has been recently created via an ARDC funded partnership between Monash University and Universities of Queensland under the umbrella of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). As part of a training program in machine learning,...

23 (research data) things is a set of training materials exploring research data management. Each of the 23 things offers a variety of learning opportunities with activities at three levels of complexity:

• Getting started
• Learn more
• Challenge me

All resources used in the program are online...

A practical guide for people and organisations working with data, about rights information and licences, and to raise awareness of the implications of not having licences on data.

Who is this for? This guide is primarily directed toward members of the research sector, particularly data rights...

How researchers may license their research software in order to share it with others.

It addresses the types of open‑source licences, and considerations you (as a researcher) should have in deciding which licence to adopt for sharing.

This presentation outlines the Burnet Institute and its Coding and Software Club. What motivated the establishment of the Club and what keeps it going, the tools used to engage, teach and learn and finally, how the Club has impacted people at various levels of the organisation. Also explored are...

A short presentation for reuse includes speaker notes.

Making software citable using a code repository, an ORCID and a licence.

This video contains key information for those who make research data-related decisions. It will help project leaders to start investigating ways to develop their own data governance policy, roles and responsibilities and procedures with the input of appropriate stakeholders.

If you want to share...

Over the past year, a group of Carpentries instructors have been working on an open source textbook called Research Software Engineering with Python. The book is a ready-to-go university semester course aimed at helping learners go from writing code for themselves, to creating tools that help...

Find out why metadata are important for your research data collection. This brochure shares the reasons why researchers should use metadata for their data collections.

This brochure was prepared for the ARDC Data Retention Project...

This presentation looks at how NCI provides training opportunities, supporting users to develop their digital skills with the aim of underpinning the integrity of research. NCI's new training strategy is outlined along with how training is evaluated and impact is measured. Through extensive...

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Guide to Designing Digital Research Skills Training Materials: Presentations and Videos aims to support training materials creators, trainers and national training infrastructure providers in the design and delivery of presentations and videos while...

This presentation was part of an “Orientation to ARDC services and expertise” series, specifically aimed at people involved in one of the ARDC co-investment projects commencing early 2021. In addition to co-investment of money, ARDC contributes expertise and services in a range of areas: research...

23 (research data) things is a set of training materials exploring research data management. Each of the 23 things offers a variety of learning opportunities with activities at three levels of complexity:

• Getting started
• Learn more
• Challenge me

All resources used in the program are online...

At the Monash Data Science and AI  platform, we believe that upskilling our research community and building a workforce with data science skills are key to accelerating the application of data science in research. To achieve this, we create and leverage new and existing training capabilities...

In this Community Action session working groups will be formed based on the challenges/opportunities that were prioritised in Community Action session #4.

• Skilled trainers / facilitators

• National training registry

• National training event calendar

• Jointly developed training

• Research...

A short presentation for reuse includes speaker notes.

Making software citable using a code repository, an ORCID and a licence.

This guide to certification is for those who currently design, develop and deliver training as full-time trainers or where training is part of their role, and for those who are considering becoming a skills trainer.

Anyone who has developed training content - specifically hands-on, short format, data science training - will know that it is expensive and time consuming. As a rule of thumb, one can expect to spend 15-20 hours of development time per hour of delivery time.

Even once the main work is done,...

Opening Address for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023

This presentation provides a welcome to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023, and includes an outline of the importance of digital research skills to data-enriched research, the value of skills training and highly skilled research workforce to the broader...

Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Lightning Talks Day 2 - February 10th, 2023)
Dr Nisha Ghatak - From local to the global: NeSI's efforts in building digital skills capabilities across Aotearoa
Dr Melissa Burke - No one has time for training. Is doing less the answer?
Dr Giorgia Mori...

As a lead contributor to the OECD's Building Digital Workforce Capacity and Skills for Data-Intensive Science (2020) report, Dr Michelle Barker outlines in this presentation the goal of the report, i.e. to make recommendations to policy makers on how to facilitate the digital workforce...

We describe the peer network exchange for training that has been recently created via an ARDC funded partnership between Monash University and Universities of Queensland under the umbrella of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). As part of a training program in machine learning,...

This project explores the options for access to sensitive data sets; what authentication technologies (e.g. multi-factor authentication) are needed to access sensitive data and secure compute environments.  This project seeks to position choices around authentication technologies within the Five...

MetaSat is an open metadata toolkit for describing small satellite (and even large satellite) missions in a uniform and shareable way. Optimised for small satellite missions, MetaSat fills an informatics gap. Although there have been a number of relevant metadata sets, there has been a...

This presentation outlines the work completed during a consultancy for ARDC by Dr Paula Martinez to develop new and publish existing national skills materials for reuse by the sector. She was responsible for the work package targeted to co-develop national skills materials with a strong emphasis...

This community discussion seeks to bring together the instructors and facilitators tasked with upskilling researchers and support staff. While this collective dialogue among instructors is not new, what is new is the traction that various groups are getting.

The newly formed group of...

A short guide to making software citable using a code repository, an ORCID and a licence.

Co-authored by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Universities Australia (UA), the Management of Data and Information in Research Guide contains guidance for institutions and researchers on how they can implement the new Code as it...

NCI Australia manages a multi-petabyte sized data repository, collocated with its HPC systems and data services, which allows high performance access to many scientific research datasets across many earth science domains.
An important aspect is to provide training materials that proactively...

This presentation outlines the Burnet Institute and its Coding and Software Club. What motivated the establishment of the Club and what keeps it going, the tools used to engage, teach and learn and finally, how the Club has impacted people at various levels of the organisation. Also explored are...

The Astronomy Data And Computing Services (ADACS) initiative has been working with the Australian astronomy community for just over 3 years now. Our vision is to deliver astronomy-focused training, support and expertise to maximise the scientific return on investments in astronomical data &...

This presentation showcases the impact of the Monash Data Fluency Community of Practice upon digitally skilled Graduate Research students involved as learners and instructors in the program. The strong focus on building community to complement training, has fostered an environment of learning,...

The ARDC Training Materials Metadata Checklist aims to support learning designers, training materials creators, trainers and national training infrastructure providers to capture key information and apply appropriate mechanisms to enable sharing and reuse of their training materials

This presentation provides insight into current training efforts at TERN around data collection, data processing and data access and analytics. Highlighting various modes of training including hands-on data collection training, tutorials on deriving data, workshops, user manuals and training at...

This workshop gives a brief overview of the FAIR principles, including a method to make a one-file dataset FAIR.

Increasing the availability of research data for reuse is in part being driven by research data policies. While the number of research funders, journals and institutions with some form of research data policy is growing, the landscape is complex and therefore the implementation and implications...

Masterclass activity using Padlet. Questions asked: - How do you set the context for your learners? - What motivates or inspires your learners? - What are some tips to create and foster open communication channels? - How do you keep training interesting for yourself? - Post-pandemic will training...

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) skills & training working group

The following recommendations were inspired by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Digital Research Skills Summit 2023, that brought together Researchers, Learning Designers, Skills Trainers, and Librarians in productive discussions on how to run effective researcher skills training....

FAIR Data 101 v3.0 is a self-guided course covering the FAIR Data principles

The FAIR Data 101 virtual course was designed and delivered by the ARDC Skilled Workforce Program twice in 2020 and has now been reworked as a self-guided course.

The course structure was based on 'FAIR Data in the...

This presentation outlines the digital reserach skills training evaluation methods used at Pawsey. Using the Kirpatrick Training Evaluation model in designing their training evaluation survey, Pawsey measure learning motivation (How did the participant respond to the training?), improved...

This informational flyer outlines the value of skills frameworks and describes at a high level the various elements of the ARDC's Capabilities and Skills Framework.

Capabilities and Skills Landscape
Glossary - Framework terminology
Data and Digital Research roles
Skills/Role...

In this presentation, Paula Petrelli outlines the opportunities and challenges of data management for climate science, and how she implemented DMPOnline to facilitate better workflows for publishing research data. This talk was presented to the Australasian Data Management Plans Interest Group on...

The Australian Research Data Commons is driving transformational change in the research data ecosystem, enabling researchers to conduct world class data-intensive research. One interconnected component of this ecosystem is skills development/uplift, which is critical to the Commons and its...

This video explains software containers to a research audience. It is an introduction to why containers are beneficial for research. These benefits are standardisation, portability, reliability and reproducibility. 

Software Containers in research are a solution that addresses the challenge of a...

At the Monash Data Science and AI  platform, we believe that upskilling our research community and building a workforce with data science skills are key to accelerating the application of data science in research. To achieve this, we create and leverage new and existing training capabilities...

ARDC's Data Management Planning Interest Group hosted a meetup on persistent identifiers and data management planning infrastructure on 17 June 2021. These slides accompanied Siobhann McCafferty's talk on PIDs infrastructure, RAiD and the Instruments for Identifiers Australasia Interest Group...

The ARDC's Digital Research Capabilities and Skills Framework, released in 2022, provides a structure for training programs to develop essential and advanced digital research skills. It aims to help researchers and professionals identify the necessary skills they need to leverage emerging...

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Guide to Designing Digital Research Skills Training Materials: Textual Materials aims to support training materials creators, trainers and national training infrastructure providers in the creation of textual guides while also encouraging the sharing...

This presentation was part of an “Orientation to ARDC services and expertise” series, specifically aimed at people involved in one of the ARDC co-investment projects commencing early 2021. In addition to co-investment of money, ARDC contributes expertise and services in a range of areas: research...

Over the past year, a group of Carpentries instructors have been working on an open source textbook called Research Software Engineering with Python. The book is a ready-to-go university semester course aimed at helping learners go from writing code for themselves, to creating tools that help...

This video contains key information for those who make research data-related decisions. It will help project leaders to start investigating ways to develop their own data governance policy, roles and responsibilities and procedures with the input of appropriate stakeholders.

If you want to share...

This presentation provides thoughts and reflections from the Digital Research Skills Australaisa (DReSA) project team on DReSA. Team members highlight their perspectives on value propositions and benefits for their respective institutiosn/organisations and nationally, as well as individual...

This is a guide for those developing or updating policies and procedures related to the management of research data as an institutional asset.
The guide covers:
- Why have a research data management policy or policies?
- Possible approaches to constructing a research data policy suite
- Examples...

This document presents a theoretical framework for the use of clinical trials and other health data for secondary research purposes, which was derived from research papers, consultation with stakeholders and the research community.  Four overall scenarios for data reuse were identified; scenario...

At the Bureau, data is the core of everything we do. We collect millions of observations from our networks and external sources and convert these into essential weather, climate, water and ocean services. To respond effectively to the rapidly evolving data landscape, the Data 2022 and Beyond...

Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Lightning Talks Day 1 - February 9th, 2023)
Dr Pablo Franco - Assessing the effectiveness of training: Teaching digital skills to researchers
Aidan Wilson - Scaling training operations & succession planning
Dr Paula Martinez - Building...

Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Panel Talks Day 2 - February 10th, 2023)

Dr Peter Derbyshire - Unpacking the ATSE report - Our STEM skilled future and the need for a national skills taxonomy
Anthony Beitz - Applying Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) within DSTG
Kate...