Presentation slides (Pauline Mak)
Authors
Florian Goessmann and Pauline Mak (ARCS)
Abstract
Today's research is producing more data then ever before at increasing rates of growth. In order to help researchers to stay ahead of this ever growing avalanche of data they are facing rather then being buried by it, the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) established ARCS Data Services.
The ARCS Data Services Team's mandate is to provide researchers with tools, services and expertise to help them deal with the storage, transport and sharing aspects of their data. The tools and services provided by ARCS Data Services are build around three core products:
1. the ARCS Data Fabric - a service to store and easily share data of any kind
1.1. the ARCS webDrive
1.2. the ARCS OPeNDAP Network and Digital Library
2. the ARCS Database Service - a service to host MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
3. the ARCS Data Transfer Service - a service to allow researchers to transport large datasets over the network.
These products where developed in close consultation with research groups to cover an as wide range of researchers' requirements as possible. However, where a research group requires custom or customized solutions, the ARCS Data Services Team makes every effort practicable to provide researchers with the tools required.
About the speaker
Florian Goessmann is a staff member of Curtin University, fully seconded to ARCS for his role as the ARCS Data Services Manager. He has been heavily involved in the planning and deployment of the ARCS Data Services and in particular the ARCS Data Fabric since the beginning of ARCS. Florian became interested and involved in eResearch during his studies of geography, remote sensing, physics and meteorology at the University of Munich and physics at Curtin University. He received his Masters in physics from Curtin University of Technology in 2007.