About
The Australian Internet Observatory is a national research infrastructure program established in 2024 to provide new tools, methods and workflows for collecting and analysing social data and digital platforms.
The project will deliver:
Data governance frameworks and implementation plans based on NRI Roadmap and linked data principles
Ethical and legal frameworks and guides for working with crowdsourcing methods and social data
A national research training program for digital platform research
An integrated suite of data sourcing and data donation tools including browser extensions, data donation packages and APIs
Generative AI models for text, audio and image generation
Test environments and simulation tools
An integrated suite of open source machine learning tools and data visualisations for analysis and insights
Co-investment partners
The Australian Internet Observatory is a co-investment partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons through the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (DOI: 10.3565/hjrp-b141). The ARDC is enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Co-investment partners delivering the facility are RMIT University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland, The University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology and Deakin University.
AIO is an initiative of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society (ADM+S) and is being developed in collaboration with researchers and research centres, university partners and organisations across Australia and internationally.
Collaborating Projects
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society
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Digital Child
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Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network
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US National Internet Observatory
A Focus Area of the ARDC HASS & Indigenous Research Data Commons
The HASS & Indigenous RDC includes 6 focus areas across Indigenous data capabilities, social science, creative arts, languages and data integration, along with the Internet Observatory.
The HASS & Indigenous RDC is supported by the Australian Government through the 2023 National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Funding Round
