National Institute of Informatics (NII) is developing an "Online Analysis System" as part of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) project to promote the construction of a data infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences.
This system started a demonstration experiment (closed β test) in October 2020, and is currently looking for universities and research institutions to participate in the experiment. If you are interested, please contact the person in charge at the bottom of this page.
What is our Online Analysis System?
NII provides Jupyter Notebook and RStudio execution environment on the cloud.
Researchers can log in to the online analysis system and immediately create and run programs in R or Python.
Collaborators and students can import publicly available research data and programs into the online analysis system at the touch of a button and begin analyzing the data immediately.
It is also suitable for use in seminars, lectures, and exercises where the analysis environment is provided to a large number of students. This reduces the burden on teachers and instructors to build the environment.
Outline of the Demonstration Experiment
Please see this slice.
Participation Requirements
This system is available for those who belong to institutions (university, etc.) that are the users of the Academic Access Management Federation in Japan, “GakuNin”, and have accounts linked to GakuNin.
To find out if your institution is a user of GakuNin, please check if it is listed in “Identity Provider: IdP” on the GakuNin page.
Please contact your institution's information infrastructure staff to find out if your account is linked to GakuNin.
•Before starting to use the system, initial setup must be performed at the department in charge of information infrastructure.
We are also accepting OpenIdP accounts registered with the email addresses from the ac.jp or go.jp domains on a temporary basis so that academic research institutions which are not GakuNin users can try it out.
If you are a university or an academic research institution with a domain other than the above, please contact the person in charge below to try out the online analysis system.