Data transfer and data sharing have been a part of NeSI's service catalogue for several
years, but the service priority has always been in support of compute-intensive research
(and related training & consultation). The launching of a national data transfer platform and
a new relationship with Genomics Aotearoa have provided NeSI the opportunity to reevaluate its data service offering.
A key project in the Genomics Aotearoa Workplan is bioinformatics capability (Project
1811), which encompasses the development of a national genomics data repository
including bespoke processes for Māori management of indigenous data, which is actively
populated across all New Zealand genomics research activities.
GA's functional requirements for this repository include securely storing, preserving and
providing mediated access to genomics data for the longer term. It is also intended that the
repository be interactive and usable by a large number of NZ researchers. NeSI's early
response has been to focus on implementing the base -level infrastructure requirements for
the repository while beginning to investigate platform options and prototype permissions
workflows.
This presentation will provide an update on progress to date, including storage and access
management through Globus, and introduce topics from data publishing and discovery
services (from simple metadata to interrogation of genome summaries), to indigenous data
governance requirements, and longevity/persistence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Brian Flaherty is Data Services Product Manager at NeSI. He has a background in digital libraries
digital scholarship, research infrastructure & support and discovery services.