Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs
John Hopkins University
Elliot Metsger
Infrastructure Research & Development Team Learder
John Hopkins University
The Data Conservancy (DC) has completed its first 18 months of prototyping. Working from a modular, service-oriented architecture, DC has prepared content for preservation, ingested content into the archive, analyzed different storage options, and developed pilots that exercise DC APIs and proofs of concepts that highlight more advanced scientific capabilities. This prototyping has led to a “meta analysis” of urban vulnerability to climate change that highlights new forms of science that may be possible using DC. This presentation will include an overview of DC’s technical infrastructure, pilots, and proofs of concepts.
DC also has completed a financial sustainability analysis and planning effort that includes four capstone projects with Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School, development of an initial services stack, and the first version of a sustainability plan. This sustainability process and plan has been tested at Johns Hopkins as part of an effort to support principal investigators with the National Science Foundation data management plan requirement. As a result of this effort, DC has developed a data management plan template available on its Web site that will be discussed during this presentation.
