data.bris Use case, role and functionality for CKAN adoption

Simon PriceAssistant Director, R&D/ILRT

London, 18 February 2013CKAN for Research Data Management in an Academic Setting

Research Data Storage Facility (RDSF)

data.bris

data.bris Deposit Interface

data.bris Deposits

Deposits can consist of many parts: perhaps thousands of files organised in directories.

Wide range of formats.

Total size can easily exceed hundreds of megabytes even in Arts projects. Some are in terabyte range (not arts – yet).

Deposits that are also Published are assigned a DOI.

data.bris Deposit Interface

DOI Dataset homepage (non-CKAN)

data.bris – CKAN workflow

DOI Dataset homepage (CKAN)

Types of access to research data in data.bris

Research data publication– Read-only access to published data (DOI + data discovery)

Research-active data sharing– Read-only access to unpublished data ("Web Sharing")

– Read/Write access to research-active data ("Collaborative Sharing")

Web Sharing

Create links to files in your project space that can then be forwarded to collaborators.

– Suitable for sharing with collaborators who only need read access.

– Low security: traffic is not encrypted, links are not secured.

Collaborative Sharing

Create project file space that can be shared securely with your collaborators.

– Supports both read-only and read/write access for collaborators via SFTP.

– High security: traffic is encrypted, only accessible by registered collaborators.

– Supports resumption of interrupted file transfers.

Next stepsTwo instances of CKAN:

– Public read-only "catalogue" of research data publications

– Controlled access "full CKAN" for research-active data

• Also for teaching – apps and data

Data summarisation (deterministic)

Automated dataset labelling (probabilistic)

New domain-specific previews?

Further information: http://data.bris.ac.uk