RDM Infrastructure components at Lancaster University
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Lancaster University has various infrastructure components to support research data management (RDM) including data management plans, a data registry, data deposit, and data storage. The university uses systems like DMPOnline, Pure, Mint, Box, and Hitachi for these functions. Lancaster provides 1TB of storage per person by default and has 300TB of total usable storage replicated across two data centers. While the infrastructure supports RDM, the university faces challenges around system interoperability, vendor dependence, and justifying resources across the full data lifecycle.
RDM Infrastructure components at Lancaster University
- 1. RDM infrastructure components at Lancaster University Masud Khokhar, Head of Digital Innovation, masud.khokhar@lancaster.ac.uk @mkhokhar
- 2. • Approx. 13,000 students • Many international teaching partnerships and Ghana campus • 1161 FTE Academic staff members • 1415 FTE other staff members • ROADMaP (Research, Open Access, Data Management and Pure) steering group About Lancaster University
- 3. Lancaster University’s position “Management of data is an essential part of good research practice and all researchers in the University have an obligation to record, store and archive their data appropriately” Lancaster University Research Data Policy SEC/2013/2/0776
- 4. LU’s RDM infrastructure Internal project External project DMP, Ethics and Costing Publications Datasets Local Store (slowest tier) Cloud Store Mint
- 5. • Data Management Plans (DMPOnline – in production) • Data registry mechanism (Pure – in production) • Data deposit mechanism (Pure – in production) • Data catalogue (Pure Advanced Portal – in production) • DOI provision (Mint – in production) • Data preservation (Archivematica – in progress) • Data store (Box – in production, Hitachi – in production) • 300TB usable replicated across our two data centres • RDM reporting (DMAOnline – in progress) • Data costing (Agresso – in progress) LU provision for RDM
- 6. • New opportunities • Hitachi Data Systems – HCP and COMET • Box subscription – 1TB per person by default • Contribution to the N8 reference architecture diagrams including users, roles, processes, services and systems • Archivematica and Digital Archivist • Issues • Variety of systems and interoperability issues • Vendor dependence and response quality/rates • Justification of resources/systems along the full RDM life-cycle LU experience
- 7. Average position 6-8 systems/software used 2-5 departments involved
- 8. • A shared RDM infrastructure just makes sense • Economies of scale • A complete solution out of the box is super attractive • Think about the issues of security, researcher satisfaction, compliance, monitoring and reporting • Institutions should be focusing on advocacy and training, not on systems, suppliers and vendors • Thanks for listening and happy to take questions Conclusions
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- #2: Key slide – 15 min.
- #4: Key slide 15 min. RDM is part of Good Research Practice and helps you save time. It has also been proven that published data gets your research more citations and enhances the impact of your work.
- #5: Key slide 15 min. RDM is part of Good Research Practice and helps you save time. It has also been proven that published data gets your research more citations and enhances the impact of your work.
- #8: Key slide 15 min. RDM is part of Good Research Practice and helps you save time. It has also been proven that published data gets your research more citations and enhances the impact of your work.