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Welcome to the Research Data Australia documentation page.

Explore how to become an RDA contributor, understand RIF-CS, learn how to manage records in RDA, get familiar with the RDA-related widgets and APIs and find out what changes have been implemented, scheduled or planned. Also find out how to implement your own RDA in your organisation. As a researcher, learn how to use RDA portal for searching and reusing datasets, discover services, people, organisation, grants and projects and also learn how to export records to ORCID and EndNote.

FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Register as a Contributor

Set up a Data Source Account

RDA service schedule (agreement)

Login to the RDA Registry

Obtain an AAF Account

Practice in Demo environment

Content Providers Guide (CPG)

Metadata Syndication

Data Source account dashboard

Data Source account settings

Data Source harvest configuration

Technical Updates/Release Notes

Development Roadmap

RIF-CS Schema Changes

Contact Service Desk

Manage a Contributor Page

Overview of the HDA Data Request platform

Get set up to use HDA Data Request

Respond to a data request

Manage all data requests

FOR DEVELOPERS

Portal and Registry Overview

Service Discovery Overview

OAI-PM provider

Research Activity

Get the software

Server requirements and setup

Access Management System

Discovery Portal

RDA Registry search

Grant ID lookup

ORCID Researcher Lookup

Location Capture

Install Python 3.4 for the ARDC Harvester

Write a custom harvest type for the ARDC Harvester

Write a model for Portal

Write an authenticator for the Access Management System

Write a registry object handler

Install TaskManager for background tasking

Install and Configure SOLR Cloud

Install SOLR as a CentOS service

Write a SOLR Migration

How to contribute to the Research Data Australia software

Troubleshooting

Contact Service Desk

FOR END USERS

Search in Research Data Australia (video)

Use MyRDA (video)

Grants and Projects discovery

Export to EndNote

Import works to ORCID (video)

Contact Service Desk

Research Data Australia Privacy Policy

View a Health Dataset in HDA

Graph Visualisation

Related Parties

How to login using Australian Access Federation (AAF)

How to request access to a Health dataset

Research Vocabularies Australia

Identifier Services: