The 2024 HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (RDC) Computational Skills Summer School aimed to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within these research communities.

Participation was aimed at researchers in the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS) and Indigenous fields of study. Themed streams explored geosocial and geospatial data applications in HASS and Indigenous research, using Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) tools and services. Participants gained experience through seminars and workshops, and were guided through hands-on use of free tools and platforms provided by the ARDC and its partners.

For the ARDC Summer School, IDN and LDaCA led a stream on the governance, management and usage of data, especially Indigenous data.

• A series of seminars will focus on sustainability, storage, usability and description of data.
• A case study will highlight how data is being managed for long-term access.
• A hands-on session will use Python code notebooks to analyse data.

The case study and hands-on session will focus on geospatial aspects of data. Prior coding knowledge is not required for the hands-on session.