Open source database as a service (with data publishing)
1. Research data spring
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We’ve got a service
It’s called the Online Research Database Service (ORDS)
We think you’d benefit from such a service
We want to help you get one
2. Team
»University of Oxford and OSS Watch
»Plus interest so far from:
› Bristol
› Leicester
› LSE
› Manchester
› St. Andrews
› And (hopefully) many more!
27/2/2015: Open Source Database-as-a-Service with Data Publishing
4. Impact and Benefits
» Designed for non-technical researchers wanting to just dial-
up a database
» All online – no user installation
» Built for collaboration
» Easy to expose data to public as and when desired
» Can save datasets and reference them from publications
» Facilitates metadata capture
» One-click deposit (forthcoming)
» Encourages good practice in research data management
27/2/2015: Open Source Database-as-a-Service with Data Publishing
5. Sustainability
»Software can grow bigger, better, faster if implemented
at other institutions as well
› pooling resources and working together to identify
and fix issues and improve functionality
»Hoping to become an Apereo incubator project
»Issues list currently on Google Code
27/2/2015: Open Source Database-as-a-Service with Data Publishing
6. Outputs, milestones and indicators of success
»It already works! It has users!There is user
documentation and course material!
»1.We’ve open-sourced the software
»2. Other institutions have set up an instance of their own
to play with
»3. Researchers at other institutions are using it in anger
»4. A software development community has formed, with
contributions coming from many sources
27/2/2015: Open Source Database-as-a-Service with Data Publishing
7. Funding
»Give us the money, and we’ll give it back to you
27/2/2015: Open Source Database-as-a-Service with Data Publishing
