Australian Open Research Data Showcase, Hyatt Hotel Canberra | Ministers' Media Centre

"Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here to open the Australian Open Research Data Showcase hosted by the Australian National Data Service. This event highlights the richness and diversity of Australia’s research data collections. It's always a privilege to hear about the work supported by the Government’s commitments to ANDS and other facilities funded through NCRIS since it was introduced by the previous Coalition Government in 2006. In the nearly decade since, we have come a long way. We can see around us the variety of data collections generated and curated by Australian research institutions. These collections range from the very broad, like Policy Online, a research database providing free and open digital access to thousands of public policy resources, one I am sure I have used myself, to the very focused, like the University of Queensland’s Australian Wheat Collection, which provides a centralised access point for Australian wheat breeders and researchers. Some are relatively small such as the University of Melbourne’s Australian Drosophila Data Collection, which contains invaluable data on tiny Drosophila, or fruit flies, while others Are extraordinarily large such as the University of Sydney’s EarthByte collection, which provides rich geological and geophysical datasets for gradually building a four-dimensional Earth model, showing Earth science data through time and space. This event shows how opening data collections for wider use has a multiplying effect, as these collections support researchers to increase and improve research, producing better quality data in higher volumes and often faster ..."