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Birgit Plietzsch, Research Computing Team Leader & Sarah Mechan, Research Computing Advisor Research Computing S

Birgit Plietzsch, Research Computing Team Leader & Sarah Mechan, Research Computing Advisor Research Computing Service School of Biology away day, 12 September 2013. Contexts for the service. Vision

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Birgit Plietzsch, Research Computing Team Leader & Sarah Mechan, Research Computing Advisor Research Computing S

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  1. Birgit Plietzsch, Research Computing Team Leader & Sarah Mechan, Research Computing Advisor Research Computing Service School of Biology away day, 12 September 2013

  2. Contexts for the service Vision To provide innovative and advanced digital technologies and research computing services of nationally and internationally recognised quality and standards, which will facilitate research excellence at the University of St Andrews. (Research Computing Strategy, http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/itsupport/academic/research/about/strategy/ )

  3. The team Swithun Crowe Applications Developer (Research Computing) 2004 MA Philosophy University of St Andrews MSc Information Technology Herriot Watt University Dr Birgit Plietzsch Research Computing Team Leader 2003 MA British and American Studies, Business Studies and Russian Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Dr phil. British Cultural Studies Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Sarah Mechan Research Computing Advisor 2013 BSc Biotechnology MSc Bioinformatics PG Information Technology University of Abertay Dundee PG Statistics Trinity College Dublin Athos Georgiou Applications Developer (Research Computing) 2013 BSc Computer Science BSc Maths University of Louisiana at Monroe MSc Computer Science DePaul University, Chicago

  4. RC service provision

  5. Liaison services • Bridging the gap between different cultures and mind sets: • research community and IT specialists in central services • different professional language, expectations and working practises • management of a research project usually requires a different, iterative methodology than a corporate IT infrastructure project having a more clearly pre-determined end point • Leveraging expertise within and external to the organisation (coordinate ‘specialists’)

  6. Research projects Service perspective

  7. Research projects Funder perspective

  8. Research projects Our expertise I am writing on behalf of the AHRC to thank you for your outstanding contribution to the work of the Council over the past year. … We continually monitor the contribution made by College members. This is not only to maintain the quality standards of peer reviews, but also to identify College Members who have made a particularly significant and valuable contribution to our activities. … [W]e feel that your contribution is worthy of special praise. (Prof. Mark Llewellyn, AHRC Director of Research)

  9. Research projects Researcher perspective “I can affirm without hesitation that the support that you have provided at a range of levels has been by far the most valuable that has been available to me.” “I can’t tell you how grateful I am to you and Swithun for your continued support for this project. In fact I was thinking about it yesterday and really you have helped make it a much better project.” “I have found integrating images with text a very stimulating process which is greatly helping the research element of the project and my own traditional publications (forcing me to think things through in order to explain them clearly to the target audience!).”

  10. Research projects: Current involvement Funded projects: • A Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches • £487k, Art History, AHRC • The Islamisation of Anatolia, c.1100-1500 • €1.3m, History, ERC • Language-Philology-Culture: Arab Cultural Semantics in Transition • €1.5m, Modern Languages, ERC • Victorian Science Spectacular • £28k, History, ARHC • Publishing the Philosophical Transactions: the social, cultural and economic history of a learned journal, 1665-2015 • £800k, History, AHRC • Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Communities in Europe • £250k, International Relations, HERA • Scientists in Congregations • £800k, Divinity, John Templeton Foundation

  11. Research life cycle • Formative Questions: • Data Quality? • Metadata standards? • Long-term repository? • Audience? Funder Requirements • Responsibilities: • Metadata • Data Formats • Data Cleaning • Confidentiality • Archiving • Retrieval Data Analysis & Sharing • Tools: • Data Standards • Masking • Data Synthesis Agents • Ethics Protocols • Storage Protocols Electronic Resources • System Triggers: • Data Acquisition • Restrictions • Multiple Data Streams • Collaborations • Linkages to other Data Life Cycles Systematic Storage of Outcomes Innovative ICT to enhance Research discovery Systematic Data Storage Hartteret al. (2013) PLoSBiol 11(9): e1001634. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001634

  12. Any questions ? research-computing@st-andrews.ac.uk Attribute University of St Andrews, images on slides 5, 9 & 10: www.digitalbevaring.dk

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