ANDS is proud to announce the release of Research Vocabularies Australia, a new controlled vocabulary service, made available to our partners on 23 September 2015. This discussion covered: - Review of the value of controlled vocabularies for making research data connections - Introduced Research Vocabularies Australia, a service that allow you to discover, access and integrate controlled vocabularies into your own information systems as well as create, manage, and publish your own vocabularies in a collaborative environment. This webinar would be of interest to those who who wish to make their data more discoverable and connected to other research in similar fields:: -- Librarians -- Data managers -- Data producers -- Researchers who manage and describe their data Research Vocabularies Australia: -- makes it easy to find and use controlled vocabularies used in research -- makes it possible for Australian research organisations to publish, re-purpose, create, and manage their own controlled vocabularies. The service aims to describe any controlled vocabularies commonly used by or relevant to Australian researchers. Why use controlled vocabularies? A controlled vocabulary reflects agreement on terminology used to label concepts. When research communities agree to use common language for the concepts in data sets, then the discovery, linking, understanding and reuse of research data are improved.