Most research funding agencies now require comprehensive Data Management Plans as integral components within submitted grant proposals. These Data Management Plans must typically describe the data collected within the project, how that data will be managed, documented, shared, and disseminated. Special attention must be paid to how data will be licensed for re-use and made discoverable by the public within a reasonable timeframe. Different funding agencies have different requirements.
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- Become familiar with data management practices by reviewing the University of Idaho Library’s Data Management Guide.
- Contact the Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) at UI. NKN helps researchers with grant proposal development, particularly with writing comprehensive data management plans.
Most funding agencies require that publicly funded research projects make their data persistently accessible and reusable to the research community and general public within a reasonable time frame.
Contact the Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN), UI’s official data repository. NKN helps researchers with the acquisition, storage, management, sharing, curation, and archival of research data in a way that fully meets the requirements of most funding agencies.
NKN can provision Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), used to permanently identify your data and make it globally discoverable. NKN maintains and cultivates connections to relevant national and international data repositories.
If your project has a need to share data and resources securely and seamlessly across institutions and agencies, NKN provides a cloud-based collaboration and file sharing solution via ownCloud. In simple terms, ownCloud is an open-source alternative to Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive, empowering and simplifying cross-institutional research data sharing.
Learn more about data management
IBEST’s Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) can issue document-object identifiers (DOIs), used to make your data or document citable, findable, and persistent.
Learn more about data management and DOIs at NKN
The IBEST Computational Resources Core (CRC) is the primary on-campus provider of High Performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Idaho. The IBEST CRC provides researchers with large computing clusters, big memory machines, specialized GPU nodes, and massive data storage capacity for use in analyzing and managing large volumes of research data.
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) provides state-of-the-art High Performance Computing (HPC) resources free of charge to research users within Idaho and beyond. INL operates the new 64,000 square foot Collaborative Computing Center (C3), which is the hub for modeling and simulation at INL with connections to Idaho’s research universities.
Visit hpc.inl.gov to learn more and request a free account.
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. Access to researchers is free of charge and managed through resource allocation grants. The UI’s Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) officially serves as the UI Campus Champion for XSEDE.
Learn more at XSEDE.org
VIVO a research-focused discovery tool that enables collaboration among scientists across all disciplines at the University of Idaho. Fed from institutional and publicly accessible data, VIVO includes a network of experts, web profiles, and an archive of publications.
IMCI Find a Modeler or a find a Working Group.
Explore IBEST’s Interactive Research Network Graphs.
The Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) provides services to help you develop powerful databases and data-driven web and mobile applications for your research projects. These include interactive data analysis and visualization tools.
The IBEST Computational Resources Core (CRC) can also provide database and web application development services, including powerful data visualization tools.
The UI Institute for Modeling, Collaboration, and Innovation (IMCI) has joined with the Carpentries Foundation to provide foundational research computing and data science training for researchers:
The UI Library provides ongoing training workshops on a number of Research Computing topics. Examples of previous UI Library workshops:
- Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
- Data Visualization
- Organizing your Research and Data Management
- Metadata Tools
- Introduction to Web APIs
- Text Mining
- ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, R
- Introduction to Linux
Library workshop resources:
The IBEST Computational Resources Core (CRC) provides Research Computing Workshops as needed.