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THE CARE AND FEEDING. Research Week 2014. Who are we?. Luke Edwards Data Adviser at iVEC Matthias Liffers Coordinator, Research Services at Curtin Library. Overview. Research data management 101 What’s happening at Curtin University Data management tips
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THE CARE AND FEEDING Research Week 2014
Who are we? • Luke Edwards • Data Adviser at iVEC • Matthias Liffers • Coordinator, Research Services at Curtin Library The care and feeding of research data
Overview • Research data management 101 • What’s happening at Curtin University • Data management tips • Services available from iVEC • Interactive discussion (Q&A) The care and feeding of research data
Luke’s turn RDM101 The care and feeding of research data
What’s happening at Curtin University The care and feeding of research data
What’s happening at Curtin University • Office of Research Development guide • http://research.curtin.edu.au/guides/research-data-management/ • Research Data and Primary Materials Policy • RDM Libguide • RDM Planning Tool • Research Network Drive • Data discoverability The care and feeding of research data
Libguide The care and feeding of research data
Research Data Management Planning Tool The care and feeding of research data
R: drive The care and feeding of research data
Discoverability The care and feeding of research data
Still to come • Data publishing service • DOI minting The care and feeding of research data
Data management tips The care and feeding of research data
Data management tips • Plan from the beginning and regularly update your plan The care and feeding of research data
Data management tips • Think about re-use • http://geodesy.curtin.edu.au/research/models/GGMplus/ The care and feeding of research data
Data management tips • Maintain redundant copies in multiple locations The care and feeding of research data
Luke’s turn Services from iVEC The care and feeding of research data
iVEC Research Data Management Training • Luke Edwards • Data Adviser (iVEC@ECU)
Archiving • Metadata • Storage What is research data management? • IP • Licensing • / Re-use • Backup • Data management is anything involved with • development and use of research data • Version • control • Access • Privacy / Ethics • Formats • Collaboration • Standards • Research data management 101
Re-use? • Data • Archiving • / Disposal • Planning • Creating • Sharing Research data life-cycle • (DOI) • Analysis • Publication • Organising • / Storing • Research data management 101
- Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research and funding bodies (e.g. ARC) have requirements Motivation • - Efficiencies / reduce duplication • - Transparency • - Exposure / maximise impact • http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/planning-for-sharing/why-share-data • Research data management 101
http://www.plos.org/data-access-for-the-open-access-literature-ploss-data-policy/http://www.plos.org/data-access-for-the-open-access-literature-ploss-data-policy/ • Research data management 101
What’s happening at Curtin University • Matthias’ turn • Services available from your institution
Services available from iVEC • iVEC • - Supercomputing • - Visualisation • - Data • NeCTAR • - Research Cloud (https://www.nectar.org.au/research-cloud) • ANDS • - Research Data Australia (metadata) • - Persistent Identifier Services e.g. Cite My Data (DOIs) • Services available from iVEC
Services available from iVEC - Compute • Existing resources • • Epic – our supercomputing workhorse • • Fornax – data-intensive, GPU-enabled research • New resources • • Magnus – petascale computing • • Zythos – large-memory problems • • Galaxy – operational processing for radio-astronomy • • NeCTAR – on-demand, research cloud computing • Courtesy of Dr George Beckett - iVEC Annual Symposium, 20th February 2014 • Services available from iVEC
Services available from iVEC - Visualisation • People: • Andrew Squelch - Jonathan Knispel - Paul Bourke - Yathunanthan Sivarajah • Resources: • Stereoscopic 3D displays • Immersive hemispherical displays • High resolution displays • High performance graphics workstations • Spherical display • Specialist still capture cameras • Specialist video cameras • 3D capture technology • User interface and tracking systems • Commercial licenses for a high end visualisation software packages. • Services available from iVEC
Services available from iVEC - Data • Storage • Existing (soon to be previous) • - cortex.ivec.org (HSM based) • needed iVEC account to access, • “command” line required and • “staging” of data required • New • - RDSI storage and “LiveArc” SGI software • - Data portal interface (navigate, search and download) “Beta” • - WebDAV (upload data from desktop) • - Access via application process (>5TB) • Services available from iVEC
Transferring Data - WebDAV • Connecting with OS-X • •Open a Finder window • •Select "Connect to Server" (shortcut cmd-K) • •Enter the URL: https://data.ivec.org/webdav/ and click Connect • •Use your iVEC username and password to authenticate • Connecting with Windows • •Open the Start Menu • •Select "Computer" • •Select "Map Network Drive" • •Choose an unused drive letter and enter \\data.ivec.org@SSL\webdav\ • and click Finish • Use your iVEC username and password to authenticate • Services available from iVEC
Services available from iVEC - Data • Hadoop • - Case studies • Training • - Research Data Management (part of) • - http://www.ivec.org/services/training/ • Access all iVEC services via: • http://www.ivec.org/services/access/ • Services available from iVEC
Conclusion • Research data • consider early … • … consider often … • … consider context … • … consider communication … • Borrowed from Monash University (http://monash.edu/library/researchdata/resources/training/ • - Intellectual property and research data management for supervisors)
Useful information • - http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/ (Online course) • - http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage • - http://www.ands.org.au/resource/data-management-planning.html • - http://libguides.anu.edu.au/datamanagement • - http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/research-data-management • - http://ecu.au.libguides.com/research_data_management • - http://guides.is.uwa.edu.au/RDMtoolkit • - http://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/supportingresearch