Our slides for the lightening talk at the annual RDA in Tokyo. All about the national shared services to support research data infrastructure. March 2016.

1. John Kaye and Rachel Bruce
RDA National Data Services
2nd March 2016

2. Funded By:
• Central Government
(BIS & HEFCs)
• Institutional
Subscriptions
We…
Jisc is the UK higher, further education
and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation
for digital services, solutions & infrastructure
Governed By:
• Jisc Board
• Stakeholder Forum
• Funders and Owners
Group
• Research at Risk
Oversight Group
Stakeholders:
Higher, further education & skills providers, UK research
community, government, research funders, research
systems, services and infrastructure providers

3. 3
Credit for Architecture concepts: John Lewis (Sheffield) & Stuart Lewis (Edinburgh) http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1202230
Research Data Management Shared Service
Pilot Shared ServiceArea Other R@RWork Areas Existing Jisc Services/AgreementAreas
UK Universities must comply with funder mandates to manage RDM through
the lifecycle e.g. EPSRC
Jisc is working with 12-16 pilot institutions of varying sizes and specialisms to provide:
• Integrated shared RDM repository, preservation and reporting platforms
• Shared cloud (AWS), local and archival (Arkivum) storage
• R&D on interoperability with CRIS, publications repositories and lots more!
Currently in procurement. Framework of Suppliers to be decided by May 2016
Business case for production service by December 2017

4. UK Research Data Discovery Service
» National aggregation of
research datasets
» Pilot service with 9 HEI’s and
6 national data centres (e.g.
Nerc, Stfc, UK Data Service)
» Human data discovery
function and API for activities
such as reporting to funders
and linking to global
infrastructure
» IRUSDataUK will track
downloads and usage
statistics – informing
COUNTER standard
» Alpha Product: http://ckan.data.alpha.jisc.ac.uk/dataset

5. Shared Data Centres
» One operational in South of England (Slough) with 15 HEI tenants (and
growing)
» One currently in development for North of England
» Connected to JANET
» Jisc brokered agreement enables the long-term utilisation of the data
centre environment for a range of activities including:
› High performance computing (HPC) systems with high power
requirements but moderate availability requirements
› Administration, teaching and learning systems with moderate power
requirements but high availability requirements
› Other research systems that may have a requirement for higher levels
of data confidentiality, and to operate in an NHS/Higher Education
secure research zone

6. Feedback and collaboration
Thank you!
Email: john.kaye@jisc.ac.uk
Twitter:@JohnPKaye
Blog: http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org
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