RF1 - Pecha Kucha: Datacloud for Research
Channel: OpenRepos2012
Date: 11/07/2012

This talk was a Pecha Kucha from Session RF1 at Open Repositories 2012 (http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/). 

Preserving Research Data in the Cloud: The DuraCloud DfR Project - Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace, United States of America

Since the major research funding organizations, from NSF to NIH to private foundations, have begun enforcing data management plan mandates as a prerequisite for grant proposal acceptance, research institutions have been struggling to build enterprise solutions that meet the requirements of research faculty. DuraSpace has been awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop an enterprise application to meet this challenge. In this presentation we will discuss the resulting DuraCloud for Research (DfR) project--a cloud-based preservation and curation solution--and its progress to date.