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CADRE: Coordinated Access for Data, Research and Environments

CADRE established a shared, distributed platform for managing access to sensitive data in the social sciences and related disciplines. It helped data owners and data users deal with the core concerns of governance, creation, management and sharing of sensitive data for research. Research Graph Foundation contributed the integration between the CADRE platform and the Research Graph Augment API.

This page is a record of the completed CADRE project. Research Graph Foundation's part in it is finished, and it has no further work planned.

The team

  • Peter Vats
  • Amir Aryani
  • Martin Fenner
  • Zhuochen Wu
  • Jihoon Woo

The setting

At the time of the project, the Office of the National Data Commissioner (ONDC), within the Commonwealth Government, was developing new legislation and data governance frameworks to make public sector data easier to use and share, within government and with researchers outside it, while keeping the public's trust in how their data is handled.

A central element of that work was the Five Safes framework, a basis for releasing government data and, potentially, research and commercial data.

What the project built

The CADRE platform gave an operational model that answered these challenges. It improved Australian researchers' access to sensitive data by putting the Five Safes framework into practice, and it was developed to fill a gap in national research infrastructure, remove barriers and improve the processes of data access.

The project developed the CADRE protocols and technical specifications and integrated the platform with Research Graph Foundation services. Within that programme, the Research Graph Foundation team built the software that connected the CADRE platform to the Research Graph Augment API.

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