Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J OF RESEARCH DATA Research Week 2014 THE CARE AND FEEDING

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Who are we?  Luke Edwards Data Adviser at iVEC  Matthias Liffers Coordinator, Research Services at Curtin Library The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J 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

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J RDM101 Luke’s turn The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J WHAT’S HAPPENING AT CURTIN UNIVERSITY The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J What’s happening at Curtin University  Office of Research Development guide  Research Data and Primary Materials Policy  RDM Libguide  RDM Planning Tool  Research Network Drive  Data discoverability The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Libguide The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Research Data Management Planning Tool The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J R: drive The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Discoverability The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Still to come  Data publishing service  DOI minting The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J DATA MANAGEMENT TIPS The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Data management tips  Plan from the beginning and regularly update your plan The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Data management tips  Think about re-use The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Data management tips  Maintain redundant copies in multiple locations The care and feeding of research data

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J SERVICES FROM IVEC Luke’s turn The care and feeding of research data

iVEC Research Data Management Training Luke Edwards Data Adviser (

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What is research data management? Data management is anything involved with development and use of research data IP Formats Access Metadata Storage Privacy / Ethics Collaboration Licensing / Re-use Backup Archiving Version control Standards Research data management 101

Research data life-cycle Archiving / Disposal SharingCreatingPlanning Publication Re-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 Research data management 101

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 ( 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)cortex.ivec.org 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: and click Connecthttps://data.ivec.org/webdav/ 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 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) - Access all iVEC services via: Access all iVEC services via: Services available from iVEC

Interactive discussion (Q&A)

Conclusion Research data consider early … … consider often … … consider context … … consider communication … Borrowed from Monash University ( - Intellectual property and research data management for supervisors)

Useful information - (Online course)