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Technical Report

KAPTUR

Carlos Silva

8th January 2013 - London

KAPTUR STEERING GROUP:8TH JANUARY:LONDON

VADS : GSA: GOLDSMITHS : UAL : UCA : JISC

Objectives



• Environmental Assessment Report

- Data gathered from interviews with researchers

• Technical Analysis Report

- Technical requirements

- Technical systems

- Selection of software

• Costing Model

- Institutionally hosted vs. cloud hosted

• Pilot Demonstration Service

- Figshare

- Datastage

- Eprints

- CKAN

Environmental Assessment Report



• Formed the basis of the technical side of the project

• The report outlined:

- Issues with how researchers handle research data

- Creation of visual arts research data

- Use/reuse of research data not only from them but from other

researchers

- Preservation issues

• The conclusions were:

- Researchers agree research data is important for them, students,

other researchers and the general public

- Researchers want to share data, but with caveats for sensitive

information

- VA researchers document their research process, however this is

following a situated rather than normative archival practice

Technical Analysis Report



• Research Question:

- Which technical system is most suitable for managing visual arts

research data?

• User Requirements Document

• Analysis and assessment of 17 different systems

• The conclusions were:

- Three systems were very close in terms of grading by partner

institutions

- It was recommended piloting of two systems side by side

- Risks to be considered

- Plans to mitigate existing risks if the likelihood increases

Costing Model



• Previous Steering Group Meeting

• Institutional Vs Cloud Hosting

• IT Cost Template

http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur/IT_Costs_Template.xlsx

Costing Model (cont)



• Considerations

- Identify a clear integration strategy for moving applications to the cloud

- Identify resources needed to monitor the points of integration

- Security plan in place to protect sensitive information

- Understand risks associated with cloud computing

- Understand integration (issues of how to integrate data and

applications does not simply “go away” with cloud computing)

- Costs including maintenance of all of the above

Pilot System – Figshare



Pilot System – Figshare (cont)

How is your uploaded data licensed?



Pilot System – DataStage



Pilot System – EPrints



Pilot System – CKAN – Orbital





Pilot System – CKAN – Orbital (cont)

http://orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/

Technical Report

KAPTUR

Carlos Silva

8th January 2013 - London



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