Federation of Compute and Infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities

This project on scoping Arts and Humanities (A&H) federation infrastructure contributes to the community pillar of the NFCS NetworkPlus project. Its aim is to engage with the A&H communities and stakeholders interested in federation and produce validated requirements for federation based on existing approaches, needs and user stories. It will build on existing insights and efforts from the A&H communities through investigation, surveying the community and community-facing events.

Three areas of interest are at the project’s core:

• eliciting and validating requirements for federation within the A&H communities;
• identifying existing and emerging user stories, where federation is used or will be of benefit to user workflows on Digital Research Infrastructures (DRI);
• investigating skills gaps and opportunities to scale up existing training and paths to access pool of expertise and experience (mainly via the RSE in DH summer school).

To investigate the above areas together with colleagues from the University of Brighton and the e-Research unit at King's College London, KDL will contribute to the following core activities of the project:

• conducting a user survey and investigation of user stories on existing federation practices;
• stakeholders’ event enabling participants to contribute best practices, current needs, workflows, and prediction of future needs regarding DRI federation;
• testing a federated service prototype using HPC infrastructure.

As an outcome, the project will contribute to the development of a strategic roadmap for a national federated compute service including computation and data federation which supports the research of the A&H communities.

Team

• Arianna Ciula ^KDL Research Software Analyst
• Arianna Ciula ^KDL Co-Investigator, KDL
• Karina Rodriguez Echavarria Principal investigator, University of Brighton
• Matt Penn Co-Investigator, KCL eResearch
• Neil Jakeman ^KDL Research Software Analyst
• Neil Jakeman ^KDL Co-Investigator, KDL

Project Status: Active