Hi Angus,
Great doc! A couple of resources you might want to include/reference are:
Guidance on cloud storage and digital preservation from The National
Archives.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/archives/cloud-storage-guidanc
e.pdf
Cloud storage profiles from AV Preserve.
http://www.avpreserve.com/papers-and-presentations/cloud-storage-vendor-pro
files/
The authors of the TNA report include Neil Beagrie, who’s obviously well
known in the RDM community, but also Andrew Charlesworth who adds a useful
legal perspective. The report has a good set of assessment criteria and
also case studies that cover Azure, AWS, DuraCloud, Preservica, Arkivum
etc. Not research data repositories per se, but they do come under the
area of your report that mentions cloud storage and data archiving.
In the TNA report Andrew covers many of the points that you have in
Section3 on repository T&Cs but he also highlights the need for a contact
between the provider and the client, e.g. framework agreement or SLA
covering availability, business continuity etc. Maybe it is worth
including a few words on this in your report? I suspect this will become
increasingly important to institutions because I can imagine that there
will be cases where they still retain responsibility for research data
(e.g. EPSRC expectations) even though the functions of retention or access
might be delegated to a third-party repository. If there is well defined
and funder supported transfer of responsibility then fine, e.g. deposit to
somewhere like the UK Data Archive, but if not then I guess that
institutions will feel increasingly bound to have proper T&Cs in place
with a repository so there is some assurance (beyond certification or
assessment according to TDR or some form or readiness level). They might
of course also keeping their own independent and safeguarded copy of
research data as an ‘insurance policy'. For example, just in the same way
that a Research Office might get involved in the contract to do some
research, I can imagine them wanting to be involved in due diligence and
contract review if a third-party repo is then used to hold the results of
that research.
The work by AV Preserve is perhaps less well known, but is a great example
of how the NDSA levels can be applied in practice. They covered
DuraCloud, Preservica, Chronopolis, Dternity and others. Again not
research data repos, but the approach they’ve used is transferrable.
Their summary sheet
(http://www.avpreserve.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CloudVendor_NDSA_Comp
arison.pdf) shows graphically how a set of providers can be compared at
the 4 NDSA levels and in the three areas of storage, integrity and
security. They use a red/yellow/green traffic light scheme on whether
each level is met and this provides an instant way to see how mature a
given service is. They’ve also published the assessment they made of each
provider.
The stuff above is clearly a small corner of what your report is trying to
cover and adding references to this stuff will only serve to make it
longer, but hopefully the stuff is useful enough to warrant a brief
mention!
Cheers,
Matthew
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On 10/02/2015 22:08, "Angus Whyte" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>Joachim thanks very much for these really useful and sensible changes.
>
>On very similar topics, thanks also to Joan Starr for flagging up her
>recent paper with colleagues, at
>peerj.com/preprints/697.pdf <https://peerj.com/preprints/697.pdf> That
>comes out of work with the Force11 group to operationalise the Joint
>Declaration of Data Citation Principles, and is very relevant to our
>checklist.
>
>Best,
>
>Angus
>
>On 10/02/2015 10:48, Wackerow, Joachim wrote:
>
>
>Dear Angus,
>
>Thanks for the possibility.
>
>Overall it looks pretty good.
>
>I have some comments regarding the section “4. Will the repository
>sustain the data’s value?”, Discovery, Integration & Interoperability
>
>Basic level / Domain & contextual metadata
>Suggested addition: ... metadata can be deposited with the collection as
>an XML file (like a DDI [http://www.ddialliance.org/]
> XML file).
>
>Extensive level / Discovery metadata
>Suggested addition: the landing page for a data collection uses Linked
>Open Data standards (like The RDF Data Cube
>Vocabulary[http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/]
> or DDI-RDF Discovery Vocabulary
>[http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/RDF/Discovery]) to make
>metadata machine readable.
>
>Extensive level / Domain & contextual metadata
>Suggested addition: Machine-readable metadata in open standards could
>support processing and analyzing of open data.
>
>In general: Linking of discovery metadata and domain & contextual
>metadata would support purely machine-based discovery and processing. The
>linking could be
> possibly bi-directional.
>
>Cheers,
>Joachim
>
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>Subject: Please comment on our new draft guide 'where to keep your data'
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>
>
>DCC has a new draft checklist for Evaluating Data Repositories titled "
>Where to keep your data: key considerations".
>
>
>This builds on previous work by the PREPARDE project and comments from
>colleagues, and we're now opening it up for wider comment. So we would
>love to hear what you think of it. Can you help us shorten or otherwise
>improve it? Let us know please by Feb 24 at
>http://bit.ly/where2keep
> <http://bit.ly/where2keep>
>
>
>Thanks, -- Dr Angus WhyteSenior Institutional Support OfficerDigital
>Curation CentreUniversity of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a
>charitable body, registered inScotland, with registration number SC005336.
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