Sustainable Services for Managing and Disseminating UNSW Australia Research Data

The incorporation or lack thereof, of sound research data management practices can spell the difference between a successful and unsuccessful research project. This is typically reflected by the quality of the final project outputs. Establishment and sustainability of good institutional research data management practices require an institutional framework that includes policies, infrastructure and support services. UNSW Australia is developing a research data management infrastructure to support institutional research, including provision of tools for effectively managing and publishing research data. This endeavour has been an institution-wide collaboration involving a number of key stakeholders including UNSW Library, UNSW IT and the Division of Research. In this paper, we present UNSW Library´s key contributions to development of this infrastructure that includes a curation-focussed information repository based on Fedora Commons software. In particular, we highlight the important relationships between the key stakeholders that the infrastructure embodies, and discuss the foundation for developing a sustainable information ecosystem for managing and disseminating UNSW research data.