The document discusses the JISC Research Data Shared Service (RDSS) as a multi-tenant, interoperable solution aimed at improving the management of research data in universities. It highlights the need for a shared data model and showcases the development process from alpha to beta, supported by community engagement and technical evaluations. Challenges faced included compatibility issues and the need for a sustainable and user-friendly architecture.

1. Jisc Research Data Shared Service
A Samvera case study, Open Repositories 2018, Bozeman, MT
6/5/2018

2. Why a Shared Service?
There is no single “solution”
easily available and that meets
requirements for Universities to
enable better management of
research data
research data network: http://researchdata.network
web: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-data-shared-service
github https://github.com/JiscRDSS
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3. Jisc national shared research platform
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Information sources
» Publications Router
» Publishers
» Crossref
» ORCID
» DataCite
» PubMed
» Sherpa policy tools
University systems
» (SingleSign-On,
Finance, HR..)
Information
destinations
» Google etc.
» Discovery services
» Jisc CORE
(global OA aggregation)
» Jisc Monitor
(compliance checking)
» JiscCollections
» Funders systems
» OpenAIRE + for EU
Preservation
services
Reports and
dashboards
University X repository
Open Access publications
Research datasets
University Y repository
Open Access publications
Research datasets
University Z repository
Open Access publications
Research datasets

4. The Challenge
»To meet the sector’s requirements we need
› True multi tenant
› Multi content
› Shared data model
› Interoperable
› Sustainable
› Much improved user
experience

5. Pilot Alpha MVP
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6. Samvera users in RDSS
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7. Demo
Pre-recorded short demo
showing data being uploaded
into a test Samvera repository
instance, with automatic ingest
into Preservica.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-l1ARNUwWA&t=13s

8. Stage Gate Review
RDSS Alpha to Beta
»Review by RDSS Steering
Committee on go/no-go to Beta
› Technical Review
› Financial Model – Business
Case
»Review concluded RDSS should
move to beta
Paola Kizette Cimenti -Traffic Light Tree https://www.flickr.com/photos/kizette CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

9. Stage Gate Review
RDSS Alpha to Beta
»Took into account many factors
› Cost ofAlpha to run at scale
› Market Research
› Competitor Analysis
› Indicative pricing
› Jisc Research Strategy goals
»Led to aTechnical Review of
Alpha
Marco Verch -Weight scale https://www.flickr.com CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

10. In RDSS we found
»That…
› Separate clusters were
needed
› Existing solutions require too
much customisation
»Which leads to…
› A solution that doesn’t scale
nationally
› Economically unsustainable

11. Canonical Data Model & Message API
»Problems encountered:
› Lack of compatibility between
PCDM and RDSS CDM
› File fixity in the message
payload
› Message implementation

12. Data Model
https://github.com/JiscRDSS/rdss-canonical-data-model
RDSS Data Model
pre-production phase
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13. UX tests

14. Positive outcomes
»Samvera adapter for RDSS (Hyrax 2)
»Messaging developments for RDSS architecture
› Asynchronous operations
› Agnostic messaging
› Automated validation
»IRUS analytics gem – full code refresh
(now Hyrax 2 compatible)
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15. Samvera community feedback report
https://goo.gl/g2BGkQ
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open for comment
And discussion!

16. jisc.ac.uk
Except where otherwise noted, this work
is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Thankyou and questions
Dom Fripp
Senior curation metadata developer
Jisc (Digital Futures)
dom.fripp@jisc.ac.uk
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Twitter: @Domicus
ORCID: 0000-0001-5352-4666