THE CARE AND FEEDING

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OF RESEARCH DATAResearch Week 2014

THE CARE AND FEEDING

14.07.2014

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Who are we?

Luke EdwardsData Adviser at iVEC

Matthias LiffersCoordinator, Research Services at Curtin Library

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Overview

Research data management 101

What’s happening at Curtin University

Data management tips

Services available from iVEC

Interactive discussion (Q&A)

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RDM101Luke’s turn

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT CURTIN UNIVERSITY

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What’s happening at Curtin University

Office of Research Development guidehttp://research.curtin.edu.au/guides/research-data-management/

Research Data and Primary Materials Policy

RDM Libguide

RDM Planning Tool

Research Network Drive

Data discoverability

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Libguide

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Research Data Management Planning Tool

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R: drive

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Discoverability

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Still to come

Data publishing service

DOI minting

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DATA MANAGEMENT TIPS

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Data management tips

Plan from the beginning and regularly update your plan

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Data management tips

Think about re-usehttp://geodesy.curtin.edu.au/research/models/GGMplus/

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Data management tips

Maintain redundant copies in multiple locations

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SERVICES FROM IVECLuke’s turn

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iVEC Research Data Management Training

Luke Edwards

Data Adviser (iVEC@ECU)

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What is research data management?Data management is anything involved with

development and use of research data

IP

Formats

Access

MetadataStorage

Privacy / Ethics

Collaboration

Licensing / Re-useBackup

Archiving

Version control

Standards

Research data management 101

Research data life-cycle

Archiving / Disposal

Sharing

CreatingPlanning

PublicationRe-use?

Organising / Storing

Analysis

(DOI)

Data

Research data management 101

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Motivation

- Efficiencies / reduce duplication

- Transparency

- Exposure / maximise impact

- Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research and funding bodies (e.g. ARC) have requirements

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/

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

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

Services available from iVEC - Compute

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

https://data.ivec.org/

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

Interactive discussion (Q&A)

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