ADA Projects

ADA Projects and Project Collaborations

2023

• 2023-2024 ADA is part of the Dataverse and Local Context communities contributing to a Harvard Dataverse Project (NIH GREI funded) to support implementation of Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels, and Notices, in the Dataverse Platform

2022

• 2022-2023 The ADA Director contributed research support for ARDC Project - see Indigenous Data Network Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities: An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Data Commons

• 2022 ADA provided support for a project with Anindilyakwa Land Council language centre to successfully implement a pilot Mukurtu CMS to enable the community to access and describe digitised cultural heritage material held by the Groote Eylandt Language Centre.

2021

• 2021-2022 ADA contributed to the development and implementation of the Data Unit for this project - see ALC Data Report Social Indicators and Data Governance to Support Local Decision Making in the Groote Archipelago | A Report to the Anindilyakwa Land Council prepared under the auspices of First Nations Portfolio Australian National University

Ongoing Projects

• IRISS
• CADRE
• Studies of Childhood, Education & Youth (SOCEY) ARDC
• AURIN Census Project ARDC
• The Indigenous Data Network Catalogue Project ARDC
• Return Reconcile Renew (RRR) commenced in 2014. Its overall aim is to raise awareness and understanding about repatriation and assist repatriation practitioners and researchers in their efforts to bring Old People home.
• Australian Demographic Data Bank (ADDB) Project to recover data and publish with ADA. The Australian Demographic Databank (ADDB) was created in the 1970s and 1980s by scholars in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. It was compiled using national data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and covers the years 1921 to 1981. Volumes archived with ANU Archives ADDB Vol 1, ADDB Vol 2, 1921-1966 recorded by age