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
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
- Ex-officio (NCICS Chair): 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
- Ex-officio: Professor Andy Pitman
- The University of New South Wales, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
- Research expertise: Terrestrial processes in global and regional climate modelling, model evaluation
- 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
