Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

The ARDC Engagements team is available to you to assist with your data and digital research challenges including providing information on the FAIR principles, assistance with data description and preparation for publishing and sharing, identifying appropriate national infrastructures available for your use, and to help you conduct data intensive research more efficiently and effectively. 

The ARDC Nectar Research Cloud provides Australia’s research community with freely available and nationally accessible computing infrastructure and software. It is available to all Australian researchers via AAF authentication and researchers can store and access data and run analytical and publishing tools remotely, rapidly and autonomously.

ARDC-supported digital research platforms are rich domain-oriented online environments that draw together research data, models, analysis tools and workflows to support collaborative research across institutional and discipline boundaries.

RDA is an online portal to find research data, associated projects, researchers and data services. You can publish your data via RDA and find, access, and reuse data for research from over one hundred Australian research organisations, government agencies and cultural institutions.

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are the keystone of reproducible and accessible research and ARDC provides PID services to help you select and use persistent identifiers for research data, research samples, files, documents or other digital objects.

Controlled vocabularies enable you to describe and organise your data using recognised and standard structures, greatly increasing their reusability. The ARDC run RVA makes it easy to find and use controlled vocabularies in your research fields and also makes it possible for you to publish, re-purpose, create, and manage your own controlled vocabularies.