FAQs

Find Research Computing Training?

   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: Data Carpentry workshops Software Carpentry workshops     The UI Library provides ongoing training workshops on a number of Research Computing topics.   Examples of previous UI Library workshops: Geospatial …

Request development of custom databases or web/mobile applications?

   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.

Find others on campus doing similar work?

   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.

Get help with Data Analysis and Visualization?

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) resources are provided by the University of Idaho Library and INSIDE Idaho. Contact GIS librarian Bruce Godfrey for more details. Web and Mobile Applications Development Need to develop a specialized Web or Mobile data analysis or visualization tool for your funded research project? IBEST’s Northwest Knowledge Network …

Access High-Performance Computing (HPC)

  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. A description of available IBEST …

Get a DOI for my document or dataset?

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

Securely store, preserve, and share my data?

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 …

Create a data management plan?

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 …