EKOJ118 Introduction to open science 21.11.2016

Data storage and IT services for research at JYU


Miika Nurminen & Jarkko Laitinen
IT Services

About IT Services for research

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
  • NB. services for research offered by CSC and Microsoft

Thank you!

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