SustainLife - Sustaining Living Digital Systems in the Humanities

SustainLife - 维持人文学科中的生命数字系统

• 批准号: 379522012
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Frank Leymann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research data and software (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/379522012?language=en
• 关键词: SustainLife; Sustaining; Living; Digital; Systems

Scientific applications have come to play a crucial role in securing outcomes and results from research projects, especially in the humanities. Presentational systems, interactive visualisations, research databases, digital editions and digital research environments serve as working tools, platforms of dissemination and aggregation and have become an integral part of day-to-day research work. Keeping them alive, maintaining them, and ensuring their long-term availability beyond limited funding periods is a major organisational and ultimately financial challenge. While it is comparably easy to conserve static research data in repositories with long-term preservation, living systems face different exposure. They are part of a digital ecosystem and as such need to be adjusted regularly, e.g. by updating the various components. In this project, we seek to transfer solutions developed in the context of cloud computing and provisioning strategies and adjust these methods and technologies towards the living systems that are currently running at the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH) at the University of Cologne. We will use the OASIS standard TOSCA and its open-source implementation OpenTOSCA, which was developed at the Institute of Architecture of Application systems (IAAS) at the University of Stuttgart. During the project period use cases for scientific applications will be analysed in order to identify key components with a high potential of creating synergistic effects, as well as typical software architectures and common management tasks. Findings will be modelled as components and application templates and implemented respectively in the OpenTOSCA environment. These efforts aim at developing a standardised approach to providing and maintaining key components of scientific applications. Results and best practices will be documented and edited in a manner that enables partners and fellow research data centers to apply them practically in their respective institutions. Two workshops will be organised in the course of the project to optimise knowledge transfer to interested parties in the research data community.With this project the DCH and the IAAS will make an important contribution to the development of a more efficient approach towards long-time operation and maintenance of scientific applications in the humanities, and thus also to the reduction of running costs.

科学应用在确保研究项目的成果和成果方面发挥着至关重要的作用，特别是在人文学科领域。演示系统、交互式可视化、研究数据库、数字版本和数字研究环境作为工作工具、传播和聚合平台，已成为日常研究工作不可或缺的一部分。保持它们的活力、维护它们并确保它们在有限的资助期限之外长期可用是一项重大的组织挑战和最终的财务挑战。虽然在存储库中长期保存静态研究数据相对容易，但生命系统面临着不同的暴露。它们是数字生态系统的一部分，因此需要定期调整，例如通过更新各种组件。在这个项目中，我们寻求转移在云计算和配置策略背景下开发的解决方案，并将这些方法和技术调整为目前在科隆大学人文数据中心（DCH）运行的生命系统。我们将使用 OASIS 标准 TOSCA 及其开源实现 OpenTOSCA，该实现是由斯图加特大学应用系统架构研究所 (IAAS) 开发的。在项目期间，将分析科学应用程序的用例，以确定具有产生协同效应的高潜力的关键组件，以及典型的软件架构和常见管理任务。研究结果将被建模为组件和应用程序模板，并分别在 OpenTOSCA 环境中实施。这些努力旨在开发一种标准化方法来提供和维护科学应用程序的关键组件。结果和最佳实践将以一种使合作伙伴和其他研究数据中心能够在各自机构中实际应用的方式进行记录和编辑。该项目期间将组织两次研讨会，以优化向研究数据界感兴趣的各方的知识转移。通过该项目，DCH 和 IAAS 将为开发更有效的长期运营方法做出重要贡献和维持人文科学中的科学应用，从而也降低了运行成本。