State government policies
Open Data policy (2015): http://data.wa.gov.au/open-data-policy
“Agencies are encouraged to adopt a position of data openness, with the prerogative in favour of data release, unless there is a clear need to restrict or preclude access for reasons of privacy, confidentiality, security or other relevant considerations”
“Data will be easily discoverable by being accessible through the Government of Western Australia’s online data portal (data.wa.gov.au). The portal will provide a single and convenient point of access to open data in Western Australia.”
Open Data service: 796 data sets (2231 files) from 56 organizations (October 2016)
Data Science Workbench, with tools such as RStudio, Open Refine, Taverna and QGIS
Open Data WA Team, based in Landgate
University based OA policies, repositories and activities
UWA Open Access Toolkit: http://www.library.uwa.edu.au/research/open-access-toolkit
UWA Research Data Management Toolkit: http://www.library.uwa.edu.au/research/research-data-management-toolkit
Curtin Open Access guide: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/open-access
Repositories:
- UWA http://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
- Curtin http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R?local_base=gen01-era02
- Murdoch http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/
- Edith Cowan http://ro.ecu.edu.au/
- Notre Dame http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/
OA research that is important to WA – publications, data sets and anything else relevant
Maritime archaeological sites (WA Museum): http://catalogue.beta.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/maritime-archaeological-sites
Shipwrecks (WA Museum): http://catalogue.beta.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/shipwrecks
Aboriginal Heritage Places (Department of Aboriginal Affairs):
http://catalogue.beta.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/aboriginal-heritage-places
Heritage Council WA – State Register (State Heritage Office):
http://catalogue.beta.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/heritage-council-wa-state-register
Australian Politics and Elections Database (UWA):
https://researchdataonline.research.uwa.edu.au/handle/123456789/1123
Digital Mineral Library (Curtin):
http://library.curtin.edu.au/about/collections/digital-mineral-library/
Ningaloo Reef Research: http://www.ningaloo.org.au/www/en/NingalooResearchProgram.html
Young Minds Matter: http://www.youngmindsmatter.org.au/
