Research data infrastructures exist at the national and international level and with the increasing amount of international research collaboration it is crucial that these are joined up. This session showcased collaborative work that Jisc and its partners are undertaking to create a pan-European e-infrastructure solution through the EC funded EUDAT project. SURFSara outlined the approach to research data infrastructure in the Netherlands alongside Jisc's approach for a UK infrastructure.

2. Building an international infrastructure for
Research Data
Jisc, CSC, SurfSara, EUDAT

3. Research Data infrastructure
Jisc, UK
CSC, Finland

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» Research Integrity and
transparency
» Re-use, new research and
innovation
» Research Funder policies
» Changes - culture,
organisation, technical
» Services and support for data
across the lifecycle
Research data

5. UK e-Infrastructure
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6. Data infrastructure
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7. Data infrastructure
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BBSRC Goblet
(Bioinformatics Training)
Digging Into Data (AHRC,
ESRC, NSF, SSHRC
together)
NSF/BIO lead agency pilot
in data driven biology and
systems biology
EU DARIAH (Digital
research Infrastructure for
Arts and Humanities)
Genomic Alliance
Square Kilometre Array
EU T0 (Tier Zero)
Human Brain Project
Cross European
Cohorts and initiative
e.g. SHARE, CHICOS
etc.
International cohort
families e.g. the HRG
ageing family
DASISH European Initiative
for European Data
Humanities Infrastructure
PRACE
World LHC Computing Grid
LSST Large Synoptic
Survey Telescope
ISBE ESFRI project –
preparatory – in Systems
Biology
BBSRC iPlant GEANT
EBI ELIXIR
European Bioinformatics
Institute (EMBL-EBIfunded
via EMBL subscriptions for
EU nations and Australia
EUDAT (EC project)
Research Data Alliance for
Standards and
Communities of practice
Catalogue of data
catalogue
R3 data, datalibmerger
EC projects in data curation
e.g. SCIDIP – ES – SCAPE
(RC involvement)
PANDATA consortium +
EU projects (photon +
neutron community)
European facilities
Funding ops – FW7 –
Newton – H2020
Science Europe Working
Groups
ELIXIR (ESFRI project)
European Life Science data
Infrastructure (10 members
+ lead)
Data beyond/ without
boundaries
Biomed
Bridges
ERICS/
Transnational
Platforms)
MIBBI initiative Journals
Researcher identity
schemes such as ORCID
CESSDA (Consortium of
European Social Science
Data Archives)

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» Janet Network:
› A core across the UK of 200Gbit/s
› 19 regional distribution areas.
› Resilient
› ~900 organisations connected
› IP and circuit connection services
› ~1Tbit/s external connectivity
› Overall availability:>99.9%
Data movement

9. An environment for housing infrastructure
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» Shared data centre:
› £900K HEFCE investment
› Anchor tenants: Crick, KCL, LSE, QMUL, Sanger, UCL
– jisc.ac.uk/shared-data-centre
› Requirements for a second data centre being gathered

10. Research Data infrastructure
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Data
Clouod
Librarians, research managers & IT
have interlocking services, to
support researcher needs and
institutional policies
Researchers have a cohesive suite of
research data management,
publication and discovery services
Research data management
and planning services
Research data storage and archival services
Research data discovery services
UKDA, BADCICSU / WDSEBI / GenBank
Research data management applications
Journal & funder policy
registries Research data registry / Cross
repository discovery service
DMPonline
DMP Registry
SWORD +
Disciplinary data repositories
(National and International)
Institutional data catalogues
Disciplinary research data Discovery
services
Metadata exchange between journals, archives, repositories
Data identifiers, metadata
schema, metrics
Supportfor Research data lifecycle
Storage
Infrastructure
components that
underpin all functions &
services
Researcher identifiers Organisation identifiers RegistriesData Identifiers
Research data management applications
Network / Janet - Security/UK access management federation
Key
Jisc
supported:
Other
supported:
Advice,
guidance & training is
also needed

11. Research at Risk
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12. Shared infrastructure
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13. Shared Infrastructure
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Research data
Discovery service
Usage statistics
for research data
Journal research
data policy
registry
Research data
management
plan registry
Research
information
aggregation
Medical data
sharing tools

14. Shared Infrastructure
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Technical
standards –
common
metadata &
protocols
Experiments
& prototypes for
new solutions
Other shared
services?
Frameworks,
national
agreements
and access to
tools
Preservation
& storage services
Advice,
guidance,
policy,
advocacy
Working with:
» RCUK
» Funding bodies
» Knowledge
Exchange partners
» EC
» Research Data
Alliance
» UKOpen Research
Data Forum

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» Finnish Ministry of Education
and Culture initiative for the
promotion of information
availability and open science
» Outputs include: Open
Science and Research
Handbook, Data management
guide
» Services:
› Etsin research data finder
› IDA research data storage
service
› AVAA open data publishing
platform
› Aila data service portal
› Language Bank of Finland
› Doria &Theseus publication
archives
› FINTO ontology service
Open Science and Research Initiative in Finland

16. Open Science and Research Initiative in Finland
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openscience.fi/services
Open Science and
Research
Handbook
Data
management
guide and
checklist

17. EUDAT
A pan-European e-infrastructure solution
– Where to store the growing amount of data?
– How to find it?
– How to make the most of it?
• Many communities are developing own solutions
– This is good
– but we also need to make sure that the solutions remain interoperable
• EUDAT mission is to fill this gap
– Providing a set of services to help RIs managing their growing amount of
– Providing these services across communities to ensure minimum level of
interoperability
– EUDAT also help to bring data and computing together (HPC centers core
partners)

18. EUDAT Consortium
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19. Bridging National and European solutions
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» Research and infrastructures are still funded at
national levels so we need to make sure that
the solutions remain interoperable
» EUDAT provides a European gateway to
national centers and a European extension to
national solutions
» Making national resources more available and
visible
› Access to European resources through national
catalogues
› Making visible valuable national collections
through EUDAT
Bridging National and European solutions
• Research and infrastructures are still funded
at national levels here again we need to
make sure that the solutions remain
interoperable
• EUDAT provides a European gateway to
national centers and a European extension to
national solutions
• Making national resources more available and
visible
– Access to European resources through national catalogues
– Making visible valuable national collections through EUDAT
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Bridging National and European solutions
• Research and infrastructures are still funded
at national levels here again we need to
make sure that the solutions remain
interoperable
• EUDAT provides a European gateway to
national centers and a European extension to
national solutions
• Making national resources more available and
visible
– Access to European resources through national catalogues
– Making visible valuable national collections through EUDAT
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• Research and infrastructures are still funded
at national levels here again we need to
make sure that the solutions remain
interoperable
• EUDAT provides a European gateway to
national centers and a European extension to
national solutions
• Making national resources more available and
visible
– Access to European resources through national catalogues
– Making visible valuable national collections through EUDAT
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20. Research Infrastructures –Where is it going?
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» ResearchInfrastructuretrends:
› Internationalisation
› Diversification
› Increasingly relying on on ICT
› Data deluge is a common
challenge
» European Ris:
› Around 500
› €100billion investment

21. » The worst case scenario: 500 RI with 500 incompatible self-made
ICT and data management solutions
» Whatcanwedotopromotecollaborationandre-useofe-infrastructure?
EUDAT needs to promote synergy
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22. » Think about the users... and all these acronyms!
› Users should have a “right” to a seamless access to network, data, and
computing resources funded by public money
› It is our role to make it as easy as possible for users. No one should
care about e-Infrastructures as such
» Think global!
› Solutions must also be thought at global level (RDA)
› Cross-continent collaboration is a must (e.g. NDS, ANDS, etc.)
E-Infrastructure commons
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E-Infrastructure Commons
about the users… and all these acronyms!
rs should have a “right” to a seamless access to network,
a, and computing resources funded by public money
our role to make it as easy as possible for users No one
uld care about e-Infrastructures as such
-Infrastructure Commons
the users… and all these acronyms!
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e about e-Infrastructures as such
!
must also be thought at global level (RDA)
inent collaboration is a must (e.g. NDS, ANDS, etc.)
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23. Service-Oriented
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» Covering both access and deposit, from informal data sharing
to long-term archiving, and addressing identification,
discoverability and computability of both long-tail and big
data, EUDAT services address the full lifecycle of research
data
Service-Oriented
• Covering both access and deposit, from informal data
sharing to long-term archiving, and addressing
identification, discoverability and computability of
both long-tail and big data, EUDAT services address
the full lifecycle of research data

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» Using EUDAT services: finding and
accessing data, for instance, or
storing smaller data sets by
interacting with one of the
Collaborative Data Infrastructure
(CDI) public front-end services
vs
» Joining the CDI: implies a tighter
integration with at least one of the
EUDAT centres and a partnership
between legal entities relying on
OLAs and SLAs
Federated and Distibuted

25. Jisc’s Role: Governance model
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» Leading the EUDAT work on governance models for the
Collaborative Data Infrastructure
› Review and draw on the existing arrangements within
nationalgovernmentsandpan-Europeanresearch communities
› Two Case-studies:
– (Working together at national and European levels) how
national infrastructures can work with EUDAT through clear
examples from theUK, the Netherlands, Finland,andGermany
– (Working together with research infrastructures) will
investigate the requirements from the research
infrastructures in terms of service provisioning, contractual
obligations, and governance, starting with the RIs
represented in the project
– EUDAT also help to bring data and computing together (HPC centers core
partners)

26. Jisc’s Role: Governance model
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» With DCC lead EUDAT’s work on data management
planning
› bring expertise on data management plans (DMPs)
› customize the DMPOnLine tool for EUDAT
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/ in order to provide a seamless
data management environment and workflow and support
EC data requirements
› deliver DMP training support

27. » EUDAT Slides courtesy of Kimmo Koski, Managing Director CSC -
IT Center for Science, Finland & EUDAT Co-ordinator
ThankYou!
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28. SURFSARA – AN EXAMPLE OF RESEARCH DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FROM
THE NETHERLANDS
Jisc Digital Festival - Building an international infrastructure for research data
9 March 2015
Jan Bot

29. About SURF

30. SURF research service portfolio
Overview
COMPUTE: highend solutions 1000 times more powerful than your PC
DATA SERVICES: easily accessible storage on disk or tape
VISUALISATION: advanced solutions and support to create visualisations
CONNECTIVITY: fast endtoend connections tailored to your research need
COLLABORATION INFRA: single signon access to many services
INTEGRATION SUPPORT: dedicated integration support by experienced scientists
MARKET: reseller of content, cloud solutions, software and hardware (via partnershops)

31. Connecting Dutch national and
European e-infrastructures
national international
High Performance
Computing
National
super-
computer
www.prace-ri.eu/
www.eesi-
project.eu
Grid & CloudComputing
SURFsara,
Nikhef, RUG-
CIT
www.egi.eu
Network
SURFnet
www.geant.net
Data services
SURFsara,
DANS,
3TU.datacenter,
TARGET
www.eudat.eu
www.pidconsortium.e
u

32. Data centric infrastructure services

33. Example projects
LOFA
R
Large Hadron
Collider
Genome of the Netherlands

34. Data volumes @SURFsara
Community Volume
LOFAR 5,8PB
LHC/ATLAS 3.9PB
LHC/LHCb 1,4PB
BBMRI 115TB
MOLEPI 78TB
LHC/ALICE 74TB
ILDG 43TB
DANS 18TB
OTHERS 50TB
Projects Volume
COSMO GRID (2009) 105TB
RUMC (2013) 90TB
OWLS (2006) 70TB
ESSENCE(2006) 41TB
ENTRAIN(2011) 26TB
ITAMOC (2011) 25TB
EAGLE (2013) 2,5TB (600TB)
TITAN (2014) (1PB)
HPC ARCHIVE (1993) 1172TB
Start
LHC
LOFAR
12PB (2014)

35. Happy Few or.. the SURF Value Chain
S
U
P
P
O
R
T
0 20.000# RESEARCHERS
Appliances for the happy few
Lot of support needed
Tailor made implementations
Blueprints &
Good practices
developed
Long tail
Generic/minimal Support
Commodity

36. ICT support request
Resource selection, orchestration and support
The
scientist
Local ICT
support
staff
SURF
support
4research
find the
best
solution
and
get started
!
Trainthetrai
ner
Advice,
training,
handson
support
Advice, training,
handson support

37. Mastering the data life cycle
with SURF services
giving access
to data
ingest, store, preserve,
share data
transfer
data
Process
data
visualize
data
integrate
data
Lightpaths
Bandwidth on Demand
NetherLight
Long/Shortterm, Disk/Tape
Trusted Digital Repository
Beehub/SURFdrive
B2SAFE/B2SHARE/PID services (EUDAT)
DANS/3TU datacentrum
Communities
eScience center:
Integration support
Remote clusters & GPU
Collaboratorium
Support
Authentication
Authorization
(3rd party) collaboration tools (e.g. FileSender)
Supers
GRID HPC cloud
HADOOP
supporting the
Research Data
Life Cycle

38. Research Timeline
Before During After
CentralArchive
GRID SE
Trusted Digital Repository
Research Data Storage
BEEHUB
B2DROP / SURFdrive
Data Ingest Service
EPIC PID
B2SHARE
B2FIND
B2SAFE
B2STAGE

39. Developments in The Netherlands
» Funding agencies require scientists to add a ‘data paragraph’ to project proposals
» Fraud in scientific publications (Stapel, 2011) raised awareness of the importance of data
provenance
» Decreased (direct) funding of national e-infrastructure changes the role of resource providers

40. RDNL
Research Data Netherlands
RDNL: 3 Organisations
Three organisations serving different research
disciplines.
Annemiek van der Kuil
|PhotoA.nl
researchdata.nl/e
n

41. DANS
Data Archiving and Networked Services
Institute of Dutch
Academy and
Research Funding
Organisation
(KNAW & NWO)
since 2005
First predecessor
dates back to
1964 (Steinmetz
Foundation),
Historical Data
Archive 1989Mission: promote
and provide
permanent access
to digital research
information
dans.knaw.nl/e
n

42. 3TU.Datacenter
3TU.Datacentrum offers the knowledge, experience and the tools to archive
research data in a standardized, secure and well-documented manner. It
provides the research community with:
• A long-term archive for storing scientific research data
• Permanent access to, and tools for reuse of research data
• Advice and support on data management
3TU.Datacentrum currently hosts thousands of datasets.
To see examples please visit: http://data.3tu.nl.

43. Federated infrastructure for research data

44. Front-office Back-office model

45. U2Connect: linking EUDAT services to research
institutes in the Netherlands
Use and build upon the EUDAT services to facilitate researchers
to manage research data and to collaborate on research data
across universities/research institutes
u2connect.e
u

46. From researcher to infrastructure provider
scientist
Local ICT
support
staff

47. Find out more…
Contact…
Rachel Bruce
Deputy chief innovation officer
rachel.bruce@jisc.ac.uk
@rachelbruce

48. Find out more…
Contact…
Matthew Dovey
Principal consultant
(Research e-Infrastructures)
matthew.dovey@jisc.ac.uk

49. Find out more…
Contact…
Jan Bot
Adviser, SurfSara
jan.bot@surfsara.nl