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Policy report

Getting regulation right: approaches to improving Australia’s cybersecurity


Regulatory interventions have an important role to play as one part of a strategy to uplift Australia’s cybersecurity, if done in the right way. This paper presents a framework for the government to make appropriate decisions about whether and how to regulate.
Research Summary

Summary of research: findings from the Building a National Archival Finding Aid Network Project

Lesley A. Langa, Merrilee Proffitt, Bruce Washburn, Itza A. Carbajal

Researchers face significant challenges to finding and using archival collections relevant to their interests. For this project, OCLC was responsible for conducting research to illuminate the needs of both archival researchers and cultural heritage institutions regarding finding aid aggregation and evaluating the quality of existing finding aid data at scale.
Report

Building skills for life


This report makes the case for expanding computer science education in primary and secondary schools around the world, and outlines the key challenges standing in the way.
Blog post

Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (2019)


Twitter and other social media platforms represent a large and largely untapped resource for social data and evidence. In this post, Wasim Ahmed updates his recurring series, to bring you the latest developments in digital methods and methodologies for researching Twitter and other social media platforms.
Report

The state of open data 2018


Figshare's annual report looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of researchers and a collection of articles from industry experts.