RDAP Summit 2025
- Lev Gorenstein – University of Chicago, Globus
- Online
If you are participating in the RDAP summit be sure to join the following sessions:
Date: March 10, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speakers: Lev Gorenstein, Solutions Architect, University of Chicago, Globus; Deb McCaffrey, Arizona State; Venice Bayrd, Montanta State; Erin Foster, UC Berkeley; Tobin Magle, Northwestern
Title: Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data
Research data continues to evolve and research data management needs to evolve with it. The 3-2-1 backup rule has served a useful purpose, but it’s time to evolve this rule as well. This workshop aims to create replacement content for the 3-2-1 backup rule to use in presentations and documentation.
The session will start with introductory material about data storage from a technologist’s perspective. What can go wrong with data and how can that be mitigated? What storage services come with mitigations built in and what mitigations will researchers still be responsible for? How do you talk to the staff that administer the storage services? After that, the workshop will become a working session to create the replacement content.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own use cases to serve as test cases for the replacement.
Session 1A: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Partnerships
Date: March 11, 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Speakers: Lev Gorenstein, Globus; Deb McCaffrey, Arizona State; Erin Foster, UC Berkeley; Tobin Magle, Northwestern University; Venice Bayrd, Montana State University
Lightning talk: Send it away, or put it on display? How to talk with research computing staff
Rapidly occurring changes continue to impact the data services landscape. From shifting quotas and costs on cloud data storage platforms to increasing funding agency focus on cross-disciplinary research, landscape changes are necessitating a more collaborative and dynamic service portfolio.
Data librarians in this context are increasingly becoming boundary-spanners, forging relationships with research computing professionals. How do we begin those early conversations? What are some pitfalls to avoid? This presentation will offer a brief comparison of terminology and services, highlighting varying uses of common terms such as archive, metadata, and provenance, then outline implications for collaborative conversations. Next we’ll briefly share the presenters’ experiences building library-research computing partnerships, from conversation starters to shared initiatives to shared funding proposals. Session participants will walk away with a set of collaboration ideas and strategies to use in future meetings with research computing professionals.