PURR Integration with Globus
PURR Integration with Globus: A Big Opportunity for Big Data at Purdue
Purdue University Libraries, School of Information Studies, and Purdue IT’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) are pleased to announce that Globus, a fast and reliable service that provides large scale data transfer, is now integrated into Purdue University Research Repository (PURR). The integration of Globus is a significant step forward in supporting larger scale research data sharing at Purdue. This integration allows the transfer of data from Data Depot to PURR, reliably facilitating larger scale data sharing and publication. It provides greater transfer capacity and connection between the high-capacity, secure data storage service and Purdue’s institutional data repository. It also helps Purdue’s many grant-funded research projects comply with federal mandates for sustainable data sharing. The Data Depot and PURR/Globus integration are available to researchers at all Purdue University campuses.
Over the past decade, the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released two subsequent memos requiring federal funding agencies to implement policies specifying that extramural researchers supported through grants must maximize data sharing and sustainability, specifically providing free and open public access.
The most recent OSTP memo from August 2022 states that funding agencies must “update their public access policies…no later than December 31st, 2025, to make publications and their supporting data resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible without an embargo on their free and public release.” This will significantly impact researchers, who are encouraged to proactively plan for how they will satisfy these mandates.
When submitting proposals for federal grant awards, researchers must include a data management and sharing plan that addresses how they will handle, disseminate, and sustain access to their data and related materials. The PURR/Globus transfer option gives Purdue researchers a reliable, fast, and secure way to publish their data with PURR to fulfill this new federal requirement.
PURR began publishing data in 2012. Over ten years later, it continues to grow as an integral service for Purdue researchers. PURR currently hosts over 1525 published data sets and 2223 research projects, and provides sharing and preservation support to many grant funded projects, with the National Science Foundation (NSF) being most common. PURR is also working towards a CoreTrustSeal certification, a global certification based on a universal catalog of requirements that reflect the characteristics of trustworthy data repositories.
Currently, PURR is in the process of forming partnerships with additional units across campus to develop a comprehensive suite of support services for Purdue researchers facing new challenges based on the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy and the August 2022 OSTP memo. The PURR/Globus integration is an important step.
Globus is already available to the Purdue community in conjunction with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. Together, we have opened a door to Data Depot users who wish to deposit data in PURR for publication and sharing. We’ve started in connection with Data Depot, but we hope to continue partnering with RCAC to enable future options for transfer.”
– Reid Boehm, research data system manager at PURR
Original article can be found on the Purdue University website.