The Australian Research Data Commons

ANDS' task is to create the infrastructure to enable Australian researchers to easily publish, discover, access and use research data.

Its approach is to engage in partnerships with the research institutions to enable better local data management that enables structured collections to be created and published. ANDS then connects those collections so that they can be found and used. These connected collections, together with the infrastructure form the Australian Research Data Commons.
 
These collections descriptions exploit the ISO 2146 standard, with the model that researchers need rich paths to data collections that might be important - discipline paths, institutional paths, ANDS published collections pages that can be found through international serch engines and other paths yet to be developed - the ARDC must be more than a catalogue - it has to be a rich mesh of description.

To find out more, please visit the ANDS website.