NordForsk Open Access Reykjavik 14-15/8-2014:NeIC

NeIC for

Open Access to Research Data Adding value to national initiatives

Gudmund Høst, Director

Reykjavik 15. August, 2014

Outline of presentation

1. What is NeIC?

2. NeIC engagement in open data

3. Nordic opportunities

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2001 2002 2012 2006 2003

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Facilitating development and operation of high-

quality e-infrastructure solutions

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NeIC ‘Owners’

Some Operational Principles

• Openness, on

– Activity initiation process

– Collaboration model

• Collaboration, by means of

– A common project-based model

– Systematic stakeholder engagement

– e-tools that are being used (wikis, chat rooms, VC, …)

– Face-to-face

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Two modes of project initiation

Top-down: by research councils or e-infra providers

Bottom-up: by research communities

NeIC

Some Open Access challenges

1. Easy sharing of data

2. Sensitive data

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Easy sharing

• NeIC engages with Nordic communities having such

needs

• Customizing an EUDAT service for Nordic communities

– BBMRI

– EISCAT

– ICOS

– INCF

– EPOS

– CLSi (NO), NRM(SE)

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B2Share Nordic

- 4-click service

- Long-term

store & share

- Persistent

identifiers

- Metadata

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Sensitive data

• Why?

• Nordic research communities asked for this

– BBMRI

– ELIXIR

– EUROBIOIMAGING

– …and others

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Tryggve - A Nordic platform for sensitive BMS research data

Metadata:

%males, contact info, tissue types,

Public

Shareable Anonymized, non-identifiable data

Signed terms of use

Non-shareable Directly identifiable data:

Gene sequences, face images,

keys to real identities, …

Current procedure for sharing sensitive data

1. Discover data, and legal ownership

2. Do legal work to conform to terms of use

3. Send contracts around for signature

4. Save data on encrypted CD

5. Send CD and encryption key separately

6. Store CD in safe, in a locked room, so only signed parties have

access (etc).

7. Work with data in environment that meets these standards.

Note: It is easy to make mistakes in this procedure, but it is illegal:

• To save data on a USB stick

• To work with data on your laptop,...

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Tryggve

• Nordic platform for sensitive data

– storage, computation, legal sharing.

– anonymized research data, subject to terms of use.

• Enable and strengthen research

– Increase findability and reuse of data.

– Increase potential cohort sizes.

• Use cases

• 3 year project run by NeIC

– ELIXIR SE, NO, FI and DK funds 4 FTE.

– NeIC funds 4 FTE, and 0.5-1 FTE for a project manager.

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Goals for Tryggve

• Build upon national initiatives and solutions.

– TSD2.0 (NO) Mosler (SE), Pouta cloud service (FI),…

• Facilitate bureaucratic procedures

– Resource Entitlement Management System (REMS), Finland.

• Interconnect platforms with ‘military grade’ security.

– NSC in Sweden, USIT in Norway, CSC in Finland…

• Make existing data discoverable by making metadata searchable.

– e.g. MIABIS,

• Offer scientists the tools they want in a secure way.

– Protect the integrity of individuals by using private cloud technology

(so that horrible software cannot leak sensitive data)

• Prove that this will be safer than current best practice.

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Use cases

• Tryggve is use case driven

– Secure platform-as-a-service for biobanking (BBMRI)

– Micro- and macroscopy (Euro-Bioimaging).

– High throughput human sequencing (SciLifeLab genomics platform)

– Nordic e-Science centers of excellence (NeGI NIASC)

– Bio-cloud for enterprise and academia (DeIC)

• Use case stakeholders are represented in the project reference

group.

• Tryggve will provide baseline functionality.

• Perfect fit will be achieved in follow-up projects.

(Tryggve will NOT change or break the law, but simplify following the

law)

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Opportunities for Nordic

collaboration e-infrastructure

Future prospects for Nordic collaboration on data

• Work together on concrete data infrastructure projects – Build trust

– Develop human factor of e-Infrastructures

• ESFRI projects of particular Nordic interest – Ex EISCAT_3D, LifeWatch, ICOS, EPOS, …

– Ensuring ‘open’ paradigm

• “Support development of technical solutions to enable secure transfer, storage and access to personal records and research data across borders”, Könberg, NCM report 2014

• A Nordic data management «group» – Proposed by national e-Infrastructure providers

– Sharing best practises

– Defining common activities and directions

AND: Convergent research agency policies would be helpful

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End here

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FI building block: REMS

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Principal

investigator

Applicant

Research group

Members of the application

Metadata on

dataset 1&2

Dataset 1

Dataset 2

DAC 1

Approver

DAC 2

Approver

REMS

Workflow

Reports

Entitlements

IdP

IdP

IdP

SP

1. Apply for access

4. Approve

5. Access

3. Circulate to approver

2. Commit to licence terms

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Gateway

HPC VM-server

Storage

Internet

1 (project)

1 (storage area)

n 1

Secure encrypted network to special high volume data production sites

NO building block: TSD