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Research

Life Cycle

Acquire

Plan

Analyse

Access

Collaborate

Manage

Archive

Publish

Reuse

Data

HPC

Cloud

Virtual labs

Dataset transfer

Collaborative sites

Dataset transfer

Databases

Web-based file sharing

Collaborative sitesAutomated ingest

and management

RDM support

Technical advice

Costing

Grant assistance

Comprehend

Visualisation facilities

Institutional repository

Emerging Researcher Series

Research Collaboration Research Collaboration

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Jason van Rooyen - eResearch Analyst

Heine de Jager – Senior Technical Specialist

Research Collaboration

Tools, platforms and services which assist researchers

to collaborate more effectively locally, nationally or

internationally.

Collaboration

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Lee Lab:• Managing access permissions

• Who and how

• Internal vs. external collaborators

• Privacy and POPI act

• Small vs. large

• Tools

• Firewalls

• Bandwidth

• Costs

• Bandwidth

• Importance vs. other traffic

• Licence fees

//researchdata

Challenges of sharing data

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Collaboration Platforms & Tools

� Research Collaboration Tools:

� Communication tools:

• Web & Video Conferencing

• Blogging & Wiki’s

• Micro Blogging

• Mailing Lists

� Team Collaboration

� Project Management

� Data Transfers

� File Sharing

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Collaboration Sites, Platforms & ToolsCollaboration Sites, Platforms & Tools

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Communication Tools - Web & Video Conferencing

� Local (UCT) Platforms:

� Skype

� Adobe Connect

� Polycom

� National Platforms:

� Vidyo – Managed by Tenet

� MConf Web Conferencing – Managed by SANREN

� International Platforms:

� Google Hangouts

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Communication Tools - Blogging & Wiki’s

� Blogging & Wiki’s

� SharePoint

� Blogs@UCT - www.blogs.uct.ac.za.

� Office365

� Google

� Micro Blogging:

� Yammer -- https://www.yammer.com/uct.ac.za/

� Facebook

� Mailing lists:

� ICTS Mailing List System

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration & Project Management

� Team Collaboration:

� Microsoft OneNote

� Microsoft SharePoint (UCT site license)

� Slack -- www.slack.org

� RedMine -- http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki

� Confluence (commercial)

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration & Project Management

� Project Management:

� Microsoft Project (UCT site license)

� RedMine -- http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki

� Trello

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

� Team Collaboration:

� Microsoft 365

� Google

Team Collaboration – Microsoft OneNote & Class Notebook

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration – Microsoft & Google Tools

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration – Microsoft SharePoint

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration – Microsoft SharePoint

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration – Microsoft SharePoint

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration – Microsoft SharePoint

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Team Collaboration – Microsoft SharePoint

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

• Open Source - RedMine

Team Collaboration – RedMine

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Collaboration & Project Management - Trello

• Open Source - Trello

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Collaboration & Project Management - Slack

• Open Source - Slack

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Collaboration Platforms – A Use Case – Clinical Trials

• Clinical Trial Management using OpenClinica

• Data Management – UCT central research data store

• Document Management using Microsoft SharePoint� Calendar – site visits / patient visits / scheduling

� Audit Trails

� Document version tracking via check-in & check-out

� Co-authoring of documents

� Announcements

� Alerts & Notifications

� Team Discussions

� Team Task Lists

• Data Analysis using Stata

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

The Connected WorldThe Connected World

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Dataset Transfers - Inter-continental Connectivity

� West Coast of Africa:

� SAT3

� ACE

� WACS **

� East Coast of Africa:

� Seacom **

� EASSy

** UCT connects to the rest of the

world via these undersea cables.

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Dataset Transfers - National Connectivity

� South African National

Research Network

(SANREN)

� We have 10 Gbps

connecting all

universities and other

tertiary institutions in

South Africa

� International

connectivity 1.2 Gbps

on the WACS cable

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Data TransferData Transfer

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Data Transfers

< 20MB file � Can Use Email

> 20Mb < 128GB � Use File Sender

Bigger than 128GB � Use Globus or (GridFTP)

Download – Send Link Upload – Send Voucher

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Dataset Transfer Tools – FileSender

• Send files to external

collaborators

• Send guest vouchers

• Not suitable for

multiple files unless

zipped

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Gathering Data

FileSender (Receiver)

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Gathering Data

FileSender (Voucher)

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Dataset Transfer Tools – Globus Online

• GridFTP Made Easy

• Software-as-a-service (SAAS)

• Free Option

• University of Chicago and

Argonne National Laboratory

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Dataset Transfer Tools – Globus Online

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Web-based File SharingWeb-based File Sharing

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Gathering DataResearch collaboration

Web-based File Sharing – NextCloud

2 March2017

Gathering DataResearch collaboration

Web-based File Sharing – NextCloud

2 March2017

Gathering Data

Code Sharing – GitHub

What is GitHub exactly:

� Code sharing and publishing

� Social networking for developers

� Based on Git (started by Linus Torvalds)

� Stores and Manages revisions of projects

� Access Control

� Wikis

� Even Websites

Research collaboration

2 March2017

EndEnd

Research Collaboration

2 March2017

Research Collaboration

Research Collaboration

Dataset Transfer

Can you help me transfer data from overseas?

Databases

Can you help us migrate our old database to a safer more current system?

Web-based File Sharing

Can you help me share data with my project team?

I need to send a large file to a colleague overseas. What’s the best way?

Collaborative Sites & Platforms

Do you offer any collaborative spaces for my team to work and to share data?

What if some members of the team are external to UCT?

2 March2017