Online Analysis System (Demonstration experiment)

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.

What we would like you to understand and cooperate with

• The purpose of the demonstration experiment is to evaluate the practicality of the system and identify areas for improvement prior to the full-scale provision of the service.
• Please be aware that there is a possibility that problems may occur with the system and you may not be able to continue using it. Please prepare a backup plan in advance in case this happens.
• Please report any system problems or user complaints to NII. We will respond with best effort. We will use your report as valuable information for improvement.
• 問題発生時の原因究明のため、ユーザーの作業履歴や保存されたデータをNIIの技術者が調査する可能性があります。
• メンテナンスのため、平日昼間にシステムを停止する可能性があります。この場合、実施時期を事前に告知・相談させていただきます。
• 本システム上に保存されたデータは永続的に保持されません。重要なデータの保存場所としては利用しないでください。
• 2021年2月中旬、本システムが稼働するハードウェアが移設される予定です。移設前後のタイミングで、本システム上に保存されたデータが失われます。詳細は決定次第お知らせします。

スケジュール

• 2020年10月～　実証実験（クローズドβテスト）
• 2021年4月～　試験運用（オープンβテスト）
• 2022年4月～　本運用

スケジュールは変更される可能性があります。配慮が必要な場合は個別にご相談に応じます。

連絡先

国立情報学研究所　オープンサイエンス基盤研究センター
オンライン分析システム担当　藤原一毅 <cs-support@nii.ac.jp>