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Tasmanian Data Linkage Unit: supporting innovative research, planning and policy formulation in Australia through the provision of high-quality linked-data services

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posted on 2023-05-20, 19:18 authored by Stokes, B, Natasha WigginsNatasha Wiggins, Timothy AlbionTimothy Albion, Alison VennAlison Venn
As a member of the Population Health Research Network Australia, being an Australian collaboration established to support the use of linked data for research and other purposes, the Tasmanian Data Linkage Unit [TDLU) provides linked-data services in Australia's smallest state, and as part of the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the state's only University, the University of Tasmania. The TDLU works in close collaboration with the Tasmanian Government Department of Health and other key stakeholders both in Tasmania and Australia representing government, education, research, and the community sector. The TDLU is one of the newest data linkage services in Australia, and the smallest node of the PHRN having operated for almost nine years by less than three full time equivalent staff. However, despite its size and relative maturity as a provider of linked-data services, the TDLU continues to grow the number of datasets linked on a routine and ad-hoc basis, the number of projects completed, the size of its Master Linkage Map and number of 'keys' stored in this Map. The TDLU places high-emphasis on security, privacy preservation, innovation, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement and providing responsive and exemplary services to users of linked-data.

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Publication title

International Journal of Population Data Science

Volume

4

Article number

09

Number

09

Pagination

1-7

ISSN

2399-4908

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

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Swansea University

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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Copyright 2020 The Authors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

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Health system performance (incl. effectiveness of programs)

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