How can cloud technologies help us to address the challenges of re-use of research data and software and reproducibility of experiments? My slides from the University of Birmingham BEARcloud launch event, October 2016
4. About Jisc
About Jisc:
› Registered charity championing the use of digital technologies in
research, education and skills
› Shared services, national deals, advice & guidance:
– Janet: reaches 18m in education & public sector + eduroam wireless roaming
– Digital capabilities programme, supporting next generation of digital leaders
– Embracing student ideas and using them to build new digital solutions
– Helping institutions to achieve efficiency gains through digital technology, e.g.
sector deals for Microsoft Office365 and Azure cloud services
› My role:
– Generating and channelling new ideas
– Building partnerships to bring them to fruition
5. 1. Re-use and reproducibility
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off
http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-
scientists-lift-the-lid-on-
reproducibility-1.19970
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off
http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-
scientists-lift-the-lid-on-
reproducibility-1.19970
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off
http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-
scientists-lift-the-lid-on-
reproducibility-1.19970
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy/
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy/
https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/opendata/
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/opendata/
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
https://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
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1. Re-use and reproducibility
https://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
16. 2. How do cloud technologies help?
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23. 2. How do cloud technologies help?
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/high-performance-computing/b/general_hpc/archive/2014/11/04/containers-docker-virtual-machines-and-hpc
24. 2. How do cloud technologies help?
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/high-performance-computing/b/general_hpc/archive/2014/11/04/containers-docker-virtual-machines-and-hpc
https://www.opencontainers.org/
25. 3. A new paradigm?
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26. A new paradigm
Next steps in open science?
› Identifiers – from Researcher IDs (ORCID)
to Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) +
organisation IDs
› Equipment / calibrations used in an
experiment – potentially building on the
national equipment.data.ac.uk database
› Moving “beyond the PDF” as canonical
research output to individually addressable
components – tables, figures, underlying data and code
› Making it easier to share whole workflows / pipelines
› Bringing in expert Research Software Engineers to work with the researcher – see
http://www.rse.ac.uk
http://www.researchobject.org/
27. That’s all folks…
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Martin Hamilton
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@martin_hamilton
martin.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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