Introduction
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Welcome – this is not intended to be an all-encompassing session, but will hopefully open your eyes to what the potential is with open data and other open resources. There is so much stuff out there!
Research Data Australia http://researchdata.ands.org.au/
Demo:
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Explain collection v activity
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Show UTS Researcher record – Dr Michael
Johnson or Prof Cynthia Whitchurch
Search ‘corporate governance’ ‘consumer behaviour’
Search ‘frog’ and explain results
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Discovery service for Australian research data
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Can search by subject, researcher name, institution
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Locate where data is and
 conditions of access and use
In some cases, you can download data. In most however you can only find out something actually exists and who to contact .
Group discussion – how did you go? Discover anything new?
Data Archives Directory
UTS Library > Research > Data Archives https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/research/data-archives
Demo
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Show page
– browse by FOR code
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Explain archive record
DataBib http://databib.org/index.php
Demo
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Searchable directory of
Australian and International research data archives
 If you know of any we haven’t listed please get in touch!
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Searchable directory of 986 research data archives
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What would you like to look at now?
Social Sciences – ADA & ICPSR
Health – BioGrid
Marine
– AIMS
Humanities/Cultural datasets – HuNI
We can search data archives directories for others – depends on group response.
Featured archives
HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) https://staging.huni.net.au/#/search
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Australian collection of cultural datasets
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In its early days
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Can curate your own collections to share
Australian Data Archive http://www.ada.edu.au/
Accessing data instructions: http://www.ada.edu.au/ada/data-access
Demo
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Show website and do basic search ‘crime’
Inter-University Consortium for Political and
Social Research (USA) http://www.icpsr.umich.edu
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National service for the collection and preservation of digital research data, for the purposes of secondary analysis by academic researchers and other users.
Quantitative, Qualitative,
Historical, Longitudinal,
Indigenous, Crime & Justice,
International catalogues
 All visitors to the ADA Data
Catalogue can browse and search the catalogue, view study and variable documentation
(including frequencies) and download related material
(questionnaires, codebooks, etc). Registered users can also analyse and visualise most data online and users who have completed the relevant undertaking form(s) can download entire studies or subsets of variables in a range of formats
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International consortium of about
700 academic institutions and research organisations
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Demo
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Show website
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ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences.
It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
 US focus
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Marine data AIMS http://www.aims.gov.au/docs/data/data.html
Demo
 Search ‘penguin’
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Click through to data description and show option to download
BioGrid http://www.biogrid.org.au/
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Health data
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Search available datasets – need to apply for full access
Own searching – 10-15 mins. Trainers walk around and assist
Group discussion – how did you go? Discover anything new?
Open government data data.gov.au http://data.gov.au/
Demo
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Search crime
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Explain potential use eg fusion tables exercise
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Australian Government Data
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Currently 3,500 datasets from
128 contributing agencies
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data.gov http://www.data.gov/
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US Government Data
 Over 90,925 raw and geospatial datasets
Data.gov.uk http://data.gov.uk/
Demo
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Search crime
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Explain potential use
– eg., expanded crime stats fusion tables exercise, London riots,
MP expenses
DataCatalogs.org http://datacatalogs.org/
Demo
 Use ‘browse’ to find Mosman and click through
Big Data
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UK Government Data
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Currently over 8600 datasets available
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Developing catalogue of open data – overlaps with
Government Open Data services
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European focussed data
Open Science Data Cloud https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata/
Demo
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Scroll down list of public data sets
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Highlight size of datasets
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UTS eResearch in ITD can assist if you want to access or play with any of these
IDIES http://idies.jhu.edu/datasets
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Collection of public data sets that require high performance computing to download and/or analyse
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Collection of large science and engineering data sets that require high performance computing to download and/or analyse
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Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection http://snap.stanford.edu/data/index.html
Helpful tools
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datasets used to support analysis of large social and information networks
Google Fusion Tables http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/
Demo
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Show crime map from data viz session
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Promote classes
Google Refine http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
Promote classes
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Data merging and visualisation
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Data cleansing tool
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Normalise names etc to make analysis easier, particularly when dealing with multiple data sets
Excel
Promote classes
Wrap up
Getting help https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/help/ask-librarian
Feedback
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Please take a moment to complete the feedback linked from the event page
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