EUDAT Porto Conference 2018

1. Statistical Modelling and Data Analytics
STATMODATICS LTD
35 Guernsey Grove
London, SE24 9DF
+44 20 8671 6464
info@statmodatics.co.uk
Company number 9430845 with the Registrar of companies for England and Wales
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Sebastian Schmieschek
EUDAT Conference 2018

2. Introduction
■ Experience in research and HPC, work at UCL
■ Statmodatics investigating data services consulting (2015)
■ Collaboration with Brave e.V. (de)
■ Planned work with CompBioMed
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EUDAT Conference 2018

3. Data storage requirements
■ Security
● Medical data (Physical location, Anonymity, Encryption)
● Scientific data (Project dependent access control)
● Commercially valuable data
■ Safety / Longevity
● Availability for continued work
● Compliance with legal requirements
■ Accessibility
● Metadata modelling / Data searchability
■ Cost
● Efficiency
● Calculatability
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EUDAT Conference 2018

4. Data storage solutions
■ Academic
● Central IT often not focused on research
● “Best effort” island solutions
● Project-based costing and retention scope
■ Commercial
● Robust solutions
● Data storage location / security issues
● Costing models (transfer volume based) not focused on research
■ EUDAT CDI
● Research data focus
● Offering authentication solution
● Open architecture implementation
● Unclear costs
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EUDAT Conference 2018

5. EUDAT CDI evaluation
■ B2ACCESS
● Good to have external solution to authentication
● Fragile input parsing
■ B2SHARE
● Great deployment flexibility
● Ease of metadata integration
● Fragile dependencies
■ Cost model
● (Long-term) costs have to be clear for planning
● Comparable storage plan offers
■ Metadata flexibility
● Add more than one type of metadata to PID?
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EUDAT Conference 2018

6. Conclusion & Outlook
■ Statmodatics Ltd is an data services consulting SME
■ Requiring commercial, research focused data services
■ EUDAT CDI very interesting option
● Research data focus
● Offering flexible authentication solution
● Open architecture implementation
● Well documented
■ Open topics
● Sensitive data management
● Deployment robustness
● Service / cost model transparency
● Metadata support and flexibility
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EUDAT Conference 2018

7. Thank you for your attention!
statmodatics ltdSebastian Schmieschek
EUDAT Conference 2018