Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research Open access and research data management: Horizon 2020 and beyond University College Cork, April 14th & 15th 2015 Lessons learned developing the Digital Repository of Ireland Dermot Frost Trinity College Dublin Talk Outline • DRI Introduction • Policy • Procedure • Platform • Partners • People • Summary Digital Repository of Ireland • The Digital Repository of Ireland is an interactive trusted digital repository for contemporary and historical, social and cultural data held by Irish institutions • €5.2M grant from HEA PRTLI • 6 academic partners • Royal Irish Academy Dublin Institute of Technology • Trinity College Dublin NUI Galway • Maynooth University NCAD • Public launch June 2015 at DPASSH DRI Vision Statement • The Digital Repository of Ireland links together and preserves the rich data held by Irish institutions, providing a central internet access point and interactive multimedia tools. • DRI is an educational resource used by the public, students and scholars, and will provide preservation and access services for our stakeholders and partners. • DRI acts as a focal point for the development of national guidelines and policy for digital preservation and access. DRI Project Structure • Four project strands and ten work packages • Strand 1 – Management (RIA led) • WP1 – Long term planning • WP2 – Project management • Strand 2 – Context (MU led) • WP3 – Requirements Analysis • WP4 – Policy and Guidelines DRI Project Structure • Strand 3 – Design and Implementation (TCD led) • WP5 – Architecture • WP6 – User Interfaces • WP7 – Data Management • WP8 – Storage • Strand 4 – Rollout (RIA led) • WP9 – User support, Training and Advocacy • WP10 – Demonstrator projects Policy • Trusted digital repository status achieved in 3 ways • Data Seal of Approval • ISO 16363 – Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories • De-facto trust within the community • Strong emphasis on policy and audit • Policies need to be based on reality and common sense • Input from all parts of the project • Ideal policy may not be technically feasible • Desired technical solution my not be legal Policy • DRI follows the OAIS model • Strands and Workpackages map onto the model Policy • LESSONS LEARNED • Policies need to be clear • Policies need to be public • Policies need to be regularly reviewed • Policies may need input and drafting with legal expertise • Engage with your community • Consensus approach better than top down Process • DRI built by a distributed team • Strong requirements gathering and analysis phase • These inform the design and implementation phase • Agile methodology • Daily stand-up calls • Regular face to face meetings • Code sprints • Executable specifications and automated tests • Rspec & Cucumber Process • LESSONS LEARNED • Communication is vital • There are (almost) no stupid questions • Agile works but requires buy-in from management • Requirements need to be complete Platform • DRI is a green-field repository • No legacy systems or data to migrate • Could start from scratch – ‘vim repository.php’ • Better to select best of breed components and then customize as appropriate Platform Platform • Open Nebula as a private cloud platform • Fedora Commons as core repository software • Currently upgrading to FC4 before launch • Hydra framework for building on top of Fedora • Apache Solr industry leading search engine • Blacklight provides the discovery interface • Shibboleth for federated identity management • Ceph scalable, robust, parallel data storage • Ansible for configuration management Platform • LESSONS LEARNED • Quality open source solutions are out there • Get involved with the relevant open source community • Talk to your tech transfer people • Mixing technologies (Java, Ruby, SQL) not an issue • IRC is not dead Partners • A repository needs data to justify its existence • Need depositors to provide this data • DRI has spent a lot of time working to build relationships with the community • Stakeholder advisory group (met yesterday!) 40 people from diverse groups including • Raidió Teilifís Éireann • National Museum of Ireland • Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht • UCC Library • IBM Partners • DRI is well connected and represented • Europeana • Research Data Alliance • DARIAH • European Data Forum • Horizon 2020 Expert Advisory Group on European Research (e-) Infrastructures • National Steering Committee on Open Access • Open Repositories Conference Partners • LESSONS LEARNED • Engage with your stakeholders • Take comments and suggestions on board • Don’t become a slave to the stakeholders • Build a reputation for getting stuff done People • None of this could be done without talented and dedicated staff • DRI is truly an inter-disciplinary affair • Librarians • Archivists • Software developers • Systems architects • Photographers • Historians • Geographers • Social Scientists People • Full details on http://dri.ie/dri-team People • LESSONS LEARNED • Language barrier (tech vs non-tech) is not trivial to overcome • Technical people are hard to hold on to in the public sector • Given freedom and a challenge, good people do great work Summary • The Digital Repository of Ireland is Ireland’s trusted digital repository for humanities and social science data • Building it has been challenging but a lot of fun and immensely rewarding • Nothing beats engaging with others to exchange ideas Open access and research data management: Horizon 2020 and beyond This event was funded by FOSTER through the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme http://www.fosteropenscience.eu and organised by • University College Cork http://www.ucc.ie • Teagasc http://www.teagasc.ie • Repository Network Ireland http://rni.wikispaces.com