John Kaye and Rachel Bruce

RDA National Data Services 2nd March 2016

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

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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 Service Area

Other R@R Work Areas

Existing Jisc Services/Agreement Areas

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 2016Business case for production service by December 2017

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

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

Feedback and collaboration

Thank you!Email: john.kaye@jisc.ac.uk

Twitter:@JohnPKaye

Blog: http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org

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