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Description
In 2020, the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (HASS and Indigenous RDC) was established to create a comprehensive digital HASS and Indigenous research infrastructure capability as part of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The HASS and Indigenous RDC is developing infrastructure across a range of focus areas to serve the needs of diverse HASS and Indigenous research communities with shared approaches to common needs.
All research disciplines served by the HASS and Indigenous RDC use Indigenous data, making Indigenous Data Governance a central shared consideration across the entire RDC. Indigenous data governance refers to the right of Indigenous peoples to autonomously decide what, how and why Indigenous Data are collected, accessed and used. The HASS and I RDC has utilised strength-based practices by centring Indigenous leadership, worldviews, knowledge, and aspirations. Through a critical analysis of current practices and national research infrastructure priorities, it has highlighted the importance of Indigenous-led approaches to implementing and Indigenous Data Governance.
The HASS and Indigenous RDC approach to Indigenous Data Governance centers around five guidelines:
- Recognising the data assets owned by Indigenous people and entities and observing their legal rights to use, share, store and report such data and comply with their decisions while also supporting their status as data custodians.
- Partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Ensuring collective benefit, meaningful representation of, and collaboration with, Indigenous communities, respecting their perspectives and complying with their rights.
- Building and enabling data-related capabilities: Empowering Indigenous data custodians and stakeholders with the skills and resources necessary for effective data management and utilisation, and especially data ecosystem maturity including cybersecurity measures to enable their qualification for data access.
Building and enabling data-related capabilities: Empowering Indigenous data custodians and stakeholders with the skills and resources necessary for effective data management and utilisation, and especially data ecosystem maturity including cybersecurity measures to enable their qualification for data access. - Providing knowledge, accessibility, and usability of data assets: Ensuring Indigenous communities have access to and benefit from data resources, emphasising transparency and inclusivity.
- Building an inclusive data ecology: Fostering collaboration and inclusivity within the research data landscape to promote greater accessibility, collective growth and understanding.
This panel will bring together Indigenous team members from across the different focus areas that make up the HASS and Indigenous RDC, as well as the ARDC’s Program Manager, Indigenous Data Governance and Indigenous Intern. Together they will discuss how each focus area is addressing Indigenous Data Governance, and the importance of embedding Indigenous Data Governance into the design and provision of research data infrastructure.
Format:
60 minutes structured panel discussion
30 minutes panel Q&A with the audience
Speakers:
(note: speakers to be confirmed closer to the date)
Distinguished Professor Marcia Langton (University of Melbourne) is Project Lead of the Improving Indigenous Research Capability focus area. This focus area is working to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and researchers at the interface of research data science and Indigenous knowledge systems to have access to effective research data tools.
Robert McLellan (University of Queensland) is Program Manager of the Language Data Commons of Australia focus area. This focus area is working to secure vulnerable and dispersed language collections of written, spoken, multimodal, and signed text, and to link these with improved analysis environments for new research outcomes.
Neenah Gray (UNSW Sydney) is Indigenous Research Fellow in the Australian Creative Histories and Futures focus area. This focus area will improve interoperability of cultural data sets about the arts consistent with FAIR and CARE principles.
Dr Danielle Armour (University of Queensland) is an Activity Lead in the Social Sciences Research Infrastructure Network focus area. This focus area aims to improve discoverability, accessibility and usability of social science data (particularly linked government data assets).
Gavin Stanbrook is Program Manager (Indigenous Data Governance) at the Australian Research Data Commons.
Casey Haseloff is Indigenous Intern at the Australian Research Data Commons, located at the Indigenous Data Network at the University of Melbourne.
Moderator: Grant Sarra has spent over 40 years working hands-on with clients from many different urban, rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Grant uses his own experiences as an Aboriginal man to anchor meaningful conversations, foster respectful relationships and create accountability as individuals.
