Presentation at the Open Knowledge Foundation workshop on CKAN for Research Data Management in an Academic Setting, London, February 2013.

1. data.bris Use case, role and
functionality for CKAN adoption
Simon Price
Assistant Director, R&D/ILRT
London, 18 February 2013
CKAN for Research Data Management in an Academic Setting

2. Research Data Storage Facility (RDSF)

3. data.bris

4. data.bris Deposit Interface

5. data.bris Deposits
Deposits can consist of many parts: perhaps thousands of files
organised in directories.
Wide range of formats.
Total size can easily exceed hundreds of megabytes even in
Arts projects. Some are in terabyte range (not arts – yet).
Deposits that are also Published are assigned a DOI.

6. data.bris Deposit Interface

7. DOI  Dataset homepage (non-CKAN)

8. data.bris – CKAN workflow

9. DOI  Dataset homepage (CKAN)

10. Types of access to research data in data.bris
Research data publication
– Read-only access to published data (DOI + data discovery)
Research-active data sharing
– Read-only access to unpublished data ("Web Sharing")
– Read/Write access to research-active data ("Collaborative Sharing")

11. Web Sharing
Create links to files in your project space that can then be
forwarded to collaborators.
– Suitable for sharing with collaborators who only need read access.
– Low security: traffic is not encrypted, links are not secured.

12. Collaborative Sharing
Create project file space
that can be shared
securely with your
collaborators.
– Supports both read-only
and read/write access for
collaborators via SFTP.
– High security: traffic is
encrypted, only
accessible by registered
collaborators.
– Supports resumption of
interrupted file transfers.

13. Next steps
Two instances of CKAN:
– Public read-only "catalogue" of research data publications
– Controlled access "full CKAN" for research-active data
• Also for teaching – apps and data
Data summarisation (deterministic)
Automated dataset labelling (probabilistic)
New domain-specific previews?

14. Further information: http://data.bris.ac.uk