About

Mission

Much like the research publications repository is CSIRO’s institutional repository for publications, DAP is CSIRO’s institutional repository for research data and software.
It also proves a mechanism for recording what we call service records. That can be a description of a web service endpoint, so something that links a tool that can be used to cross data, or it can link to data or software that’s held outside of the DAP.
So for example, somebody might have a massive collection of data on NCI, the National Computational Infrastructure, but wans to make everybody in CSIRO and potentially the public aware of it. So the mission of the Data Access Portal is to provide access to CSIRO’s research data and ensure its long-term preservation and persistence.
The objective of the CSIRO research Data Service is to ensure that the organisation captures, publishes and manages the right data to support innovation, collaboration, and scientific integrity. The research data service will ensure research data under the custodianship of CSIRO is securely stored, easily located, and where appropriate, accessible to others. For reuse, it will provide the ability to publish data to support reproducibility and research integrity. It will manage data in an increasingly collaborative research environment, and it will respond to government and funding body requirements to share the data rising from publicly funded research.

The mission of the Data Access Portal is to provide access to CSIRO’s research data, enable reusability, and ensure long-term preservation and persistence. It was publicly released in 2011 and includes data assets from a broad range of CSIRO’s research areas.

CSIRO’s objective is to ensure that the organisation captures, publishes and manages the right data to support innovation, collaboration and scientific integrity. Research Data Services:

  • ensures that research data under CSIRO’s custodianship is securely stored, easily located and where appropriate, accessible to others for reuse;
  • provides the ability to publish data to support reproducibility and research integrity;
  • manages data in an increasingly collaborative research environment;
  • responds to government and funding body requirements to share the data arising from publicly funded research.

The service is a collaboration between Information Management and Technology teams as well as internal research partners to deliver a holistic solution for the management of research data in CSIRO. The Data Access Portal is the point of capture, and discovery portal, for CSIRO’s research data assets.

Through data.gov.au, Research Data Australia and other subject discipline portals, CSIRO makes a broad range of data collections and descriptions available.

The DAP is a certified CoreTrustSeal repository.