Standards, Definitions and Enabling

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Standards, Definitions and Enabling (truths, damn
truths and statistics)
Data Sharing Network Peter Haines, ANU Rob
McCormack, UWA Dan McHolm, Adelaide Jenny Vero,
Monash Michael Beaton-Wells, Melbourne Kim
Koorey, Sydney Aleks Alimpijevic, UNSW Ken
Richardson, UQ Alan Mackay , Go8 Secretariat
Helen Montesin, Go8 Secretariat May 2009
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Terms of Reference

• establish key data sets
• provide support relating to institutional data
• encourage consistent definitions and standards
• benefit from work of common interest

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Terms of Reference

• establish key data sets
• provide support relating to institutional data
• encourage consistent definitions and standards
• benefit from work of common interest
• Student-Staff Ratio some limitations
• No distinction of teaching versus research
  proportion of staff
• Ignores the level of the teacher (e.g. Level A
  or E)
• Staff data are as at 31 March, student data are
  actual full year EFTSL

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Policies to date

• Terms of Reference
• Priority Setting document
• Data Sharing Deed of Agreement

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Policies to date

• Terms of Reference
• Priority Setting document
• Data Sharing Deed of Agreement
• Consistent approach to third party requests

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Strategies and priorities

• Executive Dashboard

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Strategies and priorities

• Executive Dashboard
• Establish key data sets of detailed information

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Strategies and priorities

• Executive Dashboard
• Establish key data sets of detailed information
• Programme of analytical work on these data

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Strategies and priorities

• Executive Dashboard
• Establish key data sets of detailed information
• Programme of analytical work on these data
• Explore other datasets

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Joint activities

• Executive Dashboard
• Data Sharing Agreement
• DEEWR student data sharing exercise
• Advice to, and support for, other Groups
• Established a shared, secure website for online
  collaboration

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Future plans

• Establish standard reports from DEEWR student
  data
• Catalogue and share adhoc reports from these
  files
• Support the Higher Degree by Research project
• Expand the key datasets to include staff,
  finance, facilities, and research information

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Collaboration

• enabling Group
• links up with most other Groups
• DSN members might attend some meetings of other
  Groups to discuss data needs
• DSN membership of joint working parties

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Questions