GakuNin RDM is a web service for researchers to manage their research data (e.g. articles, experimental/survey data, programs, images/sounds/video data). You can store your files in storages easily using drag-and-drop on the web browser, and share your data within your research team or with co-researchers in a closed environment.
GakuNin RDM is a service operated by the National Institute of Informatics. This service is currently at the validation test phase and aiming to start real operation in 2020.
The free services GakuNin RDM offers include the basic functions of research management services and a certain amount of standard storage.
GakuNin RDM is available to any researchers and graduate students who are affiliated with the GakuNin member institutions.
GakuNin RDM supports the web browsers for smart phones and tablets.
For details, please refer to the section on the research data management service (GakuNin RDM) within the homepage of the Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS), National Institute of Informatics (NII).
Please contact the Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS), National Institute of Informatics, via email (rcos-office@nii.ac.jp). We will reply to you as soon as possible.
When you use GakuNin RDM, you will need an account on one of the GakuNin member institutions’ IdPs. If your institution is not a GakuNin federation member, they need to consider joining GakuNin before implementing GakuNin RDM.
GakuNin RDM offers a standard storage as well as extra storage, which can be used by linking to the storage of your affiliated institution.
It is a cloud storage service that you can use within GakuNin RDM.
The restrictions on the standard storage of GakuNin RDM are up to 100GB per user and up to 5GB per file.
GakuNin RDM can be linked to object storages provided by major providers and those on on-premise servers of the member institutions.
GakuNin RDM does not publish your data.
You can control versions of the files you uploaded on GakuNin RDM.
GakuNin RDM links to the research data publishing platform (WEKO) and allows you to register your data to repositories.
By using the GakuNin RDM’s repository add-on, just as our storage service, you can drag-and-drop research data and register it to a repository.
As GakuNin RDM’s add-ons, you can link to source code repositories, document management tools, figure and table sharing services, data analysis platforms, workflow engines, etc.
GakuNin RDM provides its source code as open source software. You can develop unique functions as add-ons. We will proactively import add-ons that are in demand and versatile.
GakuNin RDM manages the logs such as registration, editing and deletion of the research data files uploaded. It is effective in preventing research misconducts to manage research trails.
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