Data storage and IT services for research at JYU
Miika Nurminen & Jarkko Laitinen
IT Services
IT Services
About IT Services for research
- Short introduction (sorry, Finnish only)
- Systems maintenance & development: TUTKA, JYX (with Library), Converis, LARA (e.g. JYU research infrastructures), Dataverse network (experimental)
- Many general-purpose services applicable for research as well: Video services (ACP, Moniviestin), Confluence Wiki, Plone sites, etc.
- Storage & software support
- Server maintenance, network drives
- Research-related training in Koppa: SPSS, questionnaire tools, ATLAS.fi, Excel
- Consulting and basic platform services for departmental computing servers (on request)
- Systems maintenance & development: TUTKA, JYX (with Library), Converis, LARA (e.g. JYU research infrastructures), Dataverse network (experimental)
- Basic data storage services package
- OSC (Library) as "helpdesk" for research support - will act as first contact and alternative to IT service desk (palvelupiste
@jyu.fi) or service-specific support queues
- OSC (Library) as "helpdesk" for research support - will act as first contact and alternative to IT service desk (palvelupiste
Network drives and websites for projects
- Plone CMS (actively supported) or self-maintained (limited support) in JYU servers
- Network drives: preferably as Windows shared folders (S:\)
- Linux shares (optionally visible in www), Windows shares visible in Linux, OS X shares etc. available on request as well
- Secure, fault tolerant, automated backups
- Project materials archiving example: http://imperia.jyu.fi/
- Plone-based project pages
- At the project completion, archival version of the web site relocated under departmental pages
- Permanently storable materials with metadata transferred to JYX
- Contacts: plone-support
@jyu.fi (websites), sovelluspalvelut@jyu.fi (network drives & storage)
Confluence wiki
- https://wiki.jyu.fi/
- Flexible user rights (after the user has been initially added and logged in once)
- Visibility can be set to e.g. public, available to logged in -users or space members, optionally with page-specific restrictions
- Also for external users
- Collaborative writing and sharing of materials, (small-scale) file management, meeting minutes, project documentation, planning...
- Numerous plug-ins
- E.g. custom diagrams in wiki pages
- Contact: wiki-support
@jyu.fi
Dataverse
- https://dvn.jyu.fi/
- Citable datasets with on-line analysis and visualization capability
- Still experimental service, limited support
- Some overlap with planned JYX functionality
- Researchers may upload their own datasets, multiple versions supported
- Contact: dvn-support
@jyu.fi- Dataverse has been covered e.g. in ITP seminars of 2014 and 2015, but no regular training is available at this stage
- You can contact Library or IT Services for request on training tailored for unit's specific needs
Future directions
- Public, university-level GitLab
- Version management, groups, private repositories, issues, wiki, CI
- Used internally by IT Services, public version under planning
- Researcher's Moniviestin
- Concept: video materials with added security and controlled user access
- Possible solution to implement international federated logins: Eduuni-ID
- Secure storage environment
- Piloted in CIBR
- NB. services for research offered by CSC and Microsoft
- CSC: training, Scientist's User Interface, Pouta blueprints (Jypyter, RStudio)
- Some Azure cloud services (e.g. notebooks) available via the campus license
Thank you!
