1. Research Data Management in Munich a LMU-LRZ-TUM working group‘s perspective
S. Hachinger, H. Nguyen, T. Weber (LRZ) U. Eisold, M. Hora, T. Mader, C. Wolter (TUM) R. Gnan, S. Kümmet, V. Schallehn, J. Schulz , M. Spenger, A. Weiss (LMU)
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2. Outline Academic landscape in Munich & RDM demands
RDM services of TUM/LMU/LRZ
Summary and discussion
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3. Academic Institutions in Munich perspective of our working group
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Technical University of Munich
Leibniz
Supercomputing
Centre
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4. Academic Institutions in Munich a broader perspective
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5. Customer Demands
TUM (40’000 students) & LMU (50’000 students) among “top” German universities
RDM demands: general-purpose plus individual needs, e.g.:
TUM  large data sets in technology, science (simulations, etc.)
LMU  digital humanities, complex metadata
Increasing usage of LRZ infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
Cloud Storage
Compute-Cloud and HPC-Cluster systems
pure data-storage solutions have existed for long
full RDM solutions have been implemented since ~2010
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6. Technical University of Munich (TUM) University Library & RDM System
Large university library (~2 million records)  Archival of scientific output & research data
RDM project “eRIC” consists of various components:
Guidelines: “customized, open-source, scalable, sustainable”
mediaTUM
(research data & document system)
Workbench
(research data- and project-management toolbox)
Consulting,
dissemination,
co-development
RDM
life cycle
support
Plan
Create/Collect
Analyse/Process
Archive/Publish
Reuse
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7. TUM RDM Services – Secure long-term data store (up to several TB)
Secure long-term data store (up to several TB)
Metadata annotation at registration time (different schemas)
Publication:
DOI and permalinks
Data access via rsync/ftp
Access rights management
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8. TUM RDM Services – Workbench
Electronic lab book / Project MGMT tool
Basic RDM features
Data MGMT plan tool
Collaboration and sharing tools
Link data or documents  lab book entries
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9. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) University Library & RDM Services
Very large university library (~ 5 million records)  Archive of scientific output & research data
RDM Platform “Open Data LMU” (
RDM project “eHumanities – interdisziplinär”, funded by Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts
 Partners:
University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
IT-Group for the Humanities (ITG)
University Library LMU }
LMU Data Center Digital Humanities
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10. LMU RDM Services – Open Data LMU (since 2011)
Interdisciplinary low-barrier research data repository
Using EPrints 3
Publication
DOI
Subject cataloging
OAI-PMH API (incl. DataCite)
Next steps
Discovery service based on Apache Solr
Adding Fedora cluster
Tests with Blazegraph
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11. LMU RDM Data Center Digital Humanities
IT-Group for the Humanities (ITG)
Primary contact for researchers
Research and development process
Data quality management
Provision of data
University Library (UB LMU)
Metadata management
Hosting of research data
Data curation
Long-term archiving
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12. LRZ RDM Services LRZ is a world TOP-10 HPC centre
computing centre for Munich universities + more
part of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)
LRZ-RDM project adds RDM on top of pure data repositories
LRZ-RDM customers
Users of LRZ HPC and data facilities (large-volume, high-performance, high-throughput)
Researchers not served by TUM or LMU (e.g. BAdW)
Main focus on consulting within LRZ’s ticket system (ITSM, ISO 20k)
Consulting services are in place, first technical RDM services are tested with pilot users.
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13. LRZ metadata store & indexing/sync services (on VMWare IaaS Cloud)
Data Storage & RDM Architecture at LRZ – a simplified Overview see also talk of T. Weber on Tuesday / Session 267
LRZ metadata store & indexing/sync services (on VMWare IaaS Cloud)
Mid volume <10TB
MWN Cloud Storage
CIFS or NFS export
Large volume (100TB), HPC
Data Science Storage
NFS export (trusted IPs)
AAI & MGMT Portal
Data transfer: GLOBUS
Archive (PB)
IBM Spectrum Protect
Tapes, HDD buffer
Currently ~ 50PB

14. LRZ RDM: Collaborations with Scientists & BAdW Partners
Co-development with researchers:
ClimEx project (
SeisSol project (
Repository integration:
VerbaAlpina ( verbaalpina)
ClimEx Pilot Use Case
Collaboration between LRZ, LMU and Ouranos (Québec)
Aim: FAIR access to 400TB of climate simulation ensemble data; rich annotation (time, geocoding, quantities, …)
SeisSol Use Case
Collaboration between LRZ, LMU and TUM
Aim: FAIR access to code, reproducibility
Collaboration with researchers from the BAdW (two RDM project proposals in evaluation)
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15. RDM at Munich – Infrastructure Summary (Hardware / Platforms)
LRZ
RDM
Services
SaaS
MediaTUM, Workbench
LMU Open Data, DC Digital Humanities
PaaS
Web, “FTP” and Database
Servers
PaaS
Web, “FTP” and Database
Servers
IaaS Compute: VMWare & OpenNebula Cloud, HPC
Storage: Cloud Storage, Data Science Storage, Tape
Local Servers,
Storage
Clusters
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16. Summary Contacts: LRZ RDM Team: rdm@lists.lrz.de
UB TUM RDM Team:
LMU RDM Team:
Munich: Universities with over 90’000 students
RDM activities with focus: annotation, metadata servers, DOIs
Pragmatic split for pushing forward efficiently:
UB TUM: general-purpose RDM / repository electronic lab book
UB LMU & ITG: general-purpose RDM / repository extended tools for Digital Humanities
LRZ: RDM on top of storage solutions high-throughput/high-volume specialization
Co-development (use-case driven development) in all institutions
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