2. Project Drivers
RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy:
‘Publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the
public interest, which should be made openly available with as
few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner’.
University Research Strategy aims:
‘to deliver a high quality research base by focusing support and
investment on areas of strength and research excellence,
supporting growth of a strong research portfolio and delivery of
strong outputs and impact’.
3. Requirements gathering
Functional requirements and Business case
Jan 2015
CARDIO
March 2013
UoS Data
Audit
Survey
Jun – Sep 2014
Interview’s
with
researchers
October 2014
Functional
Requirements
November 2014
Solutions
assessment
November 2014
Business
case
January 2015
4. RDM Policy
• Sets out clear principles for the management of
research data
• Defines the responsibilities of the University,
researchers and research students
• Aligned with funder policies
• Developed after extensive consultation with researchers
and research leaders
• Informed the development of our RDM service
5. Solution Architecture
Client Device
Windows PC, Mac, Linux
iOS, Android
Online Storage
££
Nearline Storage
£
UoS Data RepositoryUoS Institutional
Repository
DOI Proxy Service
Research Data Consumer
Data Repository
Harvester
USDR AdministratorFederated Identity
Provider
OAI-PMH Interface
Research Data Storage
Service
File Synchronisation
Web-based Access
Researchers and Collaborators
Online Storage
££
File Sync Client
DOI Minting
Service
ORCID Validation
External
preservation
services e.g.
CLOCKSS
Archive?
Web Browser
Other Interfaces?
Research Project
Collaboration Space
Project Landing Page
Document Collaboration (Async)
Real-Time Collaborative Editing
Web Conferencing
Wiki, Blog
Backup
£
Metadata
Standards
Deposit Data
External Data
Repositories
During Project End of Project
ISDADS (UoS)
Directory
UK Access
Management
Federation
Other IdP –
Google, Office 365,
Facebook,
LinkedIn, etc.
AuthZ and AuthN
AuthZ and AuthN
UoS Government
Agencies
Commercial
Organisations
Other Universities
(UK and Intl)
Source Code
Repository
Source Code in Development
Key
Existing Service
External Service
New Service
DMPOnline
Data Management Plan
Creation
Research Data Support
Service Website
Guidance
Before Project
Catalogue
6. Client Device
Windows PC, Mac, Linux
iOS, Android
Online Storage
££
Nearline Storage
£
UoS Data RepositoryUoS Institutional
Repository
DOI Proxy Service
Research Data Consumer
Data Repository
Harvester
USDR AdministratorFederated Identity
Provider
OAI-PMH Interface
Research Data Storage
Service
File Synchronisation
Web-based Access
Researchers and Collaborators
Online Storage
££
File Sync Client
DOI Minting
Service
ORCID Validation
External
preservation
services e.g.
CLOCKSS
Archive?
Web Browser
Other Interfaces?
Research Project
Collaboration Space
Project Landing Page
Document Collaboration (Async)
Real-Time Collaborative Editing
Web Conferencing
Wiki, Blog
Backup
£
Metadata
Standards
Deposit Data
External Data
Repositories
During Project End of Project
ISDADS (UoS)
Directory
UK Access
Management
Federation
Other IdP –
Google, Office 365,
Facebook,
LinkedIn, etc.
AuthZ and AuthN
AuthZ and AuthN
UoS Government
Agencies
Commercial
Organisations
Other Universities
(UK and Intl)
Source Code
Repository
Source Code in Development
Key
Existing Service
External Service
New Service
Solution Options
1. Syncplicity – on-premise or hosted
2. MS OneDrive for Business – on-
premise or hosted
3. Janet File Sync & Share Framework
supplier e.g. Box
4. Cloud Service with Linux client
support e.g. Dropbox
5. FOSS solution e.g. Dropoff
1. SharePoint/Office 365
2. Lync or Jabber for real
time video/audio
3. Figshare
4. Formalise use of
commonly used Cloud
services e.g. Google
Docs/Hangouts
Strategic option to develop
‘Community Portal’ platform,
adding DB, Big Data,
Visualisation, etc.
1. GitHub Enterprise
2. Mercurial with web front-end
3. MS TFS on Azure
4. etc.
1. Another backup product/license
2. Distributed replication rather
than traditional backup
1. Figshare – cloud or on-premise
2. Existing repository (FOSS or
COTS) e.g. Eprints, Dspace
3. SharePoint with bespoke
development
4. Shared Service/Partner with
another HEI
5. Other CMS e.g. TikiWiki CMS
used by the BBC
1. EMC isilon scale-out NAS
with Smartdedupe and
Smartpools
2. Amazon S3
3. MS Azure
1. EMC Isilon
2. Amazon S3
3. MS Azure
1. Nothing if online storage is cheap enough
2. EMC Isilon (with Smartpools)
3. Arkivum – cloud or on-premise
4. Amazon Glacier
1. Federation Services
2. Avoid through developing
Accman self-service
provisioning
8. • Compliance with EPSRC expectations
• Enables research data publishing
• Facilitates discoverability and re-use of data
• Ability to control access to sensitive data
• Support for diverse file formats
• Large file upload limit
• DataCite integration
• Arkivum integration
• Simple curation workflow
Why Figshare?
9. Data Publication Process
Publication
Process
Existing Meta Data
inc DOI
Add Public
Research Data to
Meta Data Record
Full Research Data
Openly Accessible
Add DOI to article
Add DOI to & write up
Data Access Statement
Discoverable
Data
End
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
RDM.BP06: Research Publication Process
+
Closed
Embargoed
Externally Hosted
Define Date Range Upload Data
Flag as Closed Upload Data End
End
Create Meta Data Only
Create Meta Data
inc Reserve DOI
Yes
Figshare Boundary
Externally
Hosted Data
Backed up to
Arkivum
Backed up to
Arkivum
ProvideLink to
External Data
Meta Data
Only
Yes
No
Embargo
Ends
Publicly Available Data
Unavailable(to Public)
Data
Yes
No
End
Unavailable (to Public)
Data
12. • Strong support from Senior Management
• Excellent Researcher engagement and culture change
• Bringing together skills and expertise from across the
university
• Good vendor engagement
– Responsive and flexible to changing user needs
– Knowledgeable
– Supportive
• Positive initial response to the new service
Our Experience
13. • Pilot Research Data Management Service
• Evaluate and develop business case for scaling
service up and rolling it out across the University
• Learning, developing, growing!
• New territory for the University but an exciting
opportunity
Next steps
Notas do Editor
Hannah
This is our Figshare homepage image – we asked our creative team to design something which represented the diversity of research occurring at Salford, and I thought it’d be nice to share it with you. Obviously, the next step is to get some datasets uploaded which will appear here as well, but we did only go live on Monday!
I’m just going to mention our experience of our research data management project and the implementation of Figshare.
As David has already mentioned, we’ve had strong support from Senior Management.
We’ve worked really hard to engage our researcher’s right from the start of the project and it’s been really valuable time spent interacting with researchers on a 1:1 basis, making sure we’re listening to their needs and challenges. It’s been a really great feeling to be able to go back to them and say, here’s what systems and support we’ve put in place for you. It’s been important to keep them informed throughout and to manage their expectations, especially as we’re piloting the infrastructure with a small group initially.
We couldn’t have achieved as much as we have without the involvement of departments from across the university – in particular IT Services, but also Research and Enterprise, Information Governance, Finance, and our Quality and Enhancement Office. Also, the RDM community within the UK has been, and still is, incredibly interactive and helpful, and I’m sure many of you will share this opinion.
We’ve had great vendor engagement - our needs did change a bit as we progressed through implementation of Figshare but it wasn’t a problem, and they were responsive and flexible. They’ve also been knowledgeable and supportive throughout.
So since Monday, we’ve had a positive response to the new service and already academics beyond the scope of our pilot Service are knocking on the door wanting to access these systems. I met with our Acoustics team yesterday and they were really impressed with the Service, even to the point where they independently offered to migrate data from personal Dropbox accounts to our systems! Some people have mentioned a few concerns around ethics and commercially funded research for example, but they are practical about it and they understand the benefits and impact it can have.