{"id":684,"date":"2019-10-30T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2019-10-30T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:35:38","slug":"building-research-data-services-at-nesi-figsharefestnz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/building-research-data-services-at-nesi-figsharefestnz\/","title":{"rendered":"Building research data services at NeSI #FigshareFestNZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building research data services at NeSI
\n<\/strong>Brian Flaherty, NeSI<\/em><\/p>\n

NeSI is a collaboration supporting researchers to tackle large problems (ie super-computers). Core services around HPC, consultancy, training. Two supercomputers Mahuika and M\u0101ui, a couple dozen staff, covering a range of disciplines.<\/p>\n

2011-2014 mostly about computer infrastructure with a little storage and consultancy<\/p>\n

2014-2019 shifting<\/p>\n

2019-future looking at research platforms, virtual labs, scientific gateways<\/p>\n

Data management – mostly want to deal with the active data: collection, pre-processing, analysis and modelling, repurposing pre-publication.<\/p>\n

Refreshing its offering around transferring data – looking at a national data transfer platform. Nodes at UoA, NIWA in Wellington, AgResearch in Christchurch, and Dunedin. (There’s a big need for an Australasian platform as lots of data gets sent back eg to the Garvan Institute sequencing laboratory. Lots of hard drives still being shipped.) transfer.nesi.org.nz has a point-and-click transfer interface.<\/p>\n

Automated workflows: Genomics Aotearoa doing a project sequencing taonga species eg the k\u0101k\u0101p\u014d. DoC was storing data in the cloud in Australia; Ng\u0101i Tahu weren’t happy so have brought it back into NZ stored with NeSI. Genomics Aotearoa Data Repository being developed at NeSI – starting small (“don’t try to boil the ocean”), with downloading, storing, sharing data with group-based access control and group membership management. FAIR – so far at findable (just) and accessible (in that it’s sharable) but still working towards interoperable and reusable.<\/p>\n

Indigenous data: a k\u0101hui M\u0101ori working to make sure M\u0101ori data managed within a M\u0101ori context so need to map this into security, auditing, permissions process, etc. Work in process. Underpinned by “Te Mata Ira<\/a>” guidelines for genomic research with M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

Increasingly researchers want the data to be stored in the same place as the compute so it doesn’t have to be transferred backwards and forwards.<\/p>\n

Security around sensitive data: have firewalls, multifactor authentication, need to look more at privacy policy and standards around health information security frameworks etc.<\/p>\n

Curation: “maintaining, preserving, and adding value to digital data\/object through its life cycle”. Eg transforming formats, evaluating for FAIRness. Knowing what to get rid of when storage is stretched.<\/p>\n

Metadata: Creating README files – getting stuff out of people’s heads. RO-CRATE<\/a> as a way to package it in a human- and computer-readable way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Building research data services at NeSI Brian Flaherty, NeSI NeSI is a collaboration supporting researchers to tackle large problems (ie super-computers). Core services around HPC, consultancy, training. Two supercomputers Mahuika and M\u0101ui, a couple dozen staff, covering a range of disciplines. 2011-2014 mostly about computer infrastructure with a little storage and consultancy 2014-2019 shifting 2019-future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[313,312,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}