RESEARCH DATA CANADA
(RDC)
RDC Federated Pilot
Purpose:
The TC3+ seem set to introduce Data Management Plans as a
requirement for funding.
The Federated Pilot Project seeks to prototype how services and
infrastructure could be marshalled to allow researchers to not only
develop plans but to follow them. The pilot project wishes to
exploit existing assets embodied in the work of the CARL ARC
Project, CANARIE, Compute Canada, and three major data
repositories to enable services to as yet unserved researchers.
A major goal of the project will be to document requirements and
provide a guide for scaling to meeting the needs of large groups of
researchers as the DMP requirement rolls out.
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Components
ARC - Library-based research data management network
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Support data management planning
Develop plan for Centre of expertise for data curation w/ RDC E&T Committee
Pilot for preservation infrastructure
Report and how to scale up
CADC, CBrain, CPDN - Discipline infrastructure and services
– How much of these infrastructures and services can be adapted to serve wider
needs across unserved communities
COMPUTE CANADA, CANARIE – networking, storage, and computational
infrastructure
– How will such infrastructure need to scale to support large scale deployment.
Metrics - CASRAI/RDC
– DMP Metrics in Peer Review
– Metrics for monitoring and measuring the success of DMPs
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RDC Federated Pilot Project
ARC
Metrics
CANARIE/
Compute Canada
CADC/CPDN/CBRAIN/
UNSERVED
RESEARCHERS
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RDC Federated Pilot Goals
A collaborative and coordinated pilot to:
• Develop and support national approach to data management plans
(ARC)
• Plan for centre of expertise for data curation (ARC and RDC E&T)
• Library-based data preservation network demonstration pilot (ARC)
• Disciplinary infrastructure + demonstration project (RDC+)
• Metrics and evaluation – RDC/CASRAI
• CANARIE/Compute Canada – to understand needs for scaling up
The result will be a report detailing the lessons learned and how these
pilot efforts may be scaled to meet future needs.
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RDC Federated Pilot – Progress
• Committee actively at work
• Islandora and Archivematica installed in
Compute Canada facilities with storage that
can support the project
• Researchers will be selected mid-September
2014
• Pilot underway early October
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