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Are you a data owner? Do you maintain astronomy data collections of national significance? If so,
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">we can help you to improve the provenance and findability of your data collection</span>!</div>
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The ARDC Data Retention Project Phase<span class="ContentPasted0"> 2</span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0"> is </span><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">focused
on identifying important data collections that have not been previously supported by fed</span><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">eral research infrastructure initiatives.
AAL, along with several of our data and computing partners, is looking to identify </span><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted2 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">significant
national astronomy data collections which could be included in this project. Once identified, these collections </span></span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">will be described in a consistent and persistent
manner using the international citation framework, DataCite. This allows researchers to easily and accurately locate their data collections in a digital research infrastructure and acknowledge other researchers’ data collections when they’re reused.</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">We are currently working with 21 astronomy data collections of national significance and are looking to identify more data collections which will be able, with assistance from
the project, to m</span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">eet </span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted3 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">13
key metadata standards from the international data citation initiative. Data collections should be around <span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted4 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">5Tb or larger<span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted4 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> in
size, have a known data owner and publisher, and be able to provide an abstract style description of the data collection. Data collections will be assessed by ARDC for eligibility in the project and then allocated to one of AAL's data and computing partners
who will provide assistance with project completion.</span></span></span></span></div>
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If you have a data collection which you think may be suitable for this project, please contact Shona Madoc, AAL Program Manager: shona.madoc@astronomyaustralia.org.au before<span class="ContentPasted0"> <b>30 November 2022</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color:black; margin:0px; font-size:11pt">E: </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt"><font color="#0563c1"><u>shona.madoc@astronomyaustralia.org.au</u></font></span></p>
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