National Committee for Data in Science

The National Committee for Data in Science works to enable Australian scientists to more effectively exploit the emerging data-rich research environment in order to conduct data-intensive research and to represent and promote Australian science in international data science and data management forums.

Governance

• Terms of reference (PDF, 308 KB)

Reports and activities

• Submission - 2021 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap Exposure Draft, December 2021
• Submission—University Research Commercialisation Scheme, April 2021
• Submission - State of the Social Sciences 2021, April 2021
• Submission - State of the Social Sciences 2021, April 2021
• Submission – Australian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights and Technology Discussion Paper, March 2020
• Submission—National Archive of Australia Consultation, August 2020
• Submission–2030 Strategic Plan for Science , June 2017
• Submission—Data use, December 2016
• Submission—Targeted consultation on the draft principles for accessing and using publicly funded data for health research, February 2016

Related groups and organisations

• ISC Committee on Data (CODATA)
• Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
• Research Data Alliance (RDA)

Members

• Chair: Dr Adrian Burton
  • Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Director, Data Policy, and Services
  • Research expertise: Computer science
• Committee member: Associate Professor Jessica Kasza
  • Monash University, School of Public Health, and Preventive Medicine
  • Research expertise: Computer science, statistical methods, analysis and communication of data and results
• Committee member: Dr Andrew Young
  • CSIRO Plant Industry
  • Research expertise: Forest conservation genetics
• EMCR representative: Anusuriya Devaraju
  • CSIRO Mineral Resources
  • Research expertise: Intersection of computer science with earth and environmental science
• Committee member: Professor Ginny Barbour
  • Queensland University of Technology, Co-Lead of the Office for Scholarly Communications, Director of Open Access Australasia
  • Research expertise: Library and information studies
• Committee member: Dr Danny Kingsley
  • Australian National University, Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science
  • Research expertise: Policy and strategy, open research, scholarly communications
• Committee member: Professor Louisa Jorm
  • The University of New South Wales, Foundation Director of the Centre for Big Data Research in Health
  • Research expertise: Health services and systems, data engineering and data science, epidemiological methods
• Committee member: Associate Professor Steven McEachern
  • Australian National University, Manager of the Australian Data Archive
  • Research expertise: Data documentation
• Committee member: Professor Lesley Wyborn
  • Australian National University, National Computational Infrastructure Facility and Research School of Earth Sciences
  • Research expertise: Inorganic geochemistry, global information systems, ore deposit petrology
• Observer: Professor Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas
  • University of Melbourne, Head of Electronic and Photonic Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Research Expertise: Microwave photonics, optical communications, science and technology