What we offer
We provide data management services based on the openBIS platform to scientific facilities and research groups to manage their research data.
ETH Research Data Hub
The ETH Research Data Hub (ETH RDH) is an openBIS-based platform, available to all ETH research groups working in quantitative research fields, to help them in the process of annotating, storing and managing all experimental and computational data at any stage, from initial collection onwards (see IT Service Catalogue for more information).
Access to the ETH RDH for a research group is subject to the following admittance criteria:
- Quantitative experimental or computational laboratories with medium data volumes (less than 500,000 objects and/or datasets).
- Limited lab-specific customisation required.
- No confidential data (human data or any other sensitive information).
Groups that do not meet these criteria can have a private openBIS group instance (see ETH RDN below). The ETH RDH service is free up to 100 GB of data per research group. Storage up to 1 TB will be charged at half the regular rate of the NAS storage provided by ETH IT Services. Regular rates apply for any additional storage.
Access to ETH RDH can be requested via the IT Shop and must be authorized by a fund owner, due to costs associated with the storage. Trainings will be provided on a case-by-case basis or in organized training sessions.
ETH Departmental Data Node
The ETH Departmental Data Hub (ETH DDH) is a service based on openBIS offered to groups of an Institute or Department.
Access to the ETH DDH for a research group is subject to the following admittance criteria:
- Quantitative experimental or computational laboratories with medium data volumes (less than 500,000 objects and/or datasets).
- No confidential data (human data or any other sensitive information).
Department or Institute-specific customisation is possible in this case.
This service is subject to fees, which include openBIS installation and maintenance with regular upgrades, initial training and support for each group wishing to use the service.
ETH Research Data Node
The ETH RDN is a private openBIS instance for a research group. This is available to research groups that do not meet the admittance criteria for the ETH RDH, as well as to groups who prefer to have a private solution (see IT Service Catalogue for more information).
The ETH RDN standard service includes openBIS installation and maintenance with regular upgrades, initial training and support. Requests for ETH RDNs can be sent directly to openbis-support@id.ethz.ch.
openRDM.swiss
openRDM.swiss is a national data management service based on the ETH RDM platform, openBIS. The openRDM.swiss service offers quantitative research groups at all Swiss Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences a reliable and cost-efficient solution for their research data management needs. Currently, such a service exists neither at the national level nor in the majority of academic institutions. Requests for this service can be sent to openrdm@id.ethz.ch.
openBIS
openBIS is a FAIR open platform for managing scientific information. Its purpose is to support research data workflows from bench to publication. As a combined data management platform, electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) and laboratory information management system (LIMS), openBIS facilitates reproducibility of scientific results by keeping track of all relevant information on procedures, original and derived research data, analysis methods and knowledge resources. openBIS is a complete data management solution for quantitative research labs.
Data Management Plan template for ETH openBIS users
Users of openBIS at ETH can download a DMP template for SNSF grant applications with pre-filled answers related to data storage, backup and preservation.
This data management checklist data management checklist created by the ETH and EPFL libraries can also assist you in your planning. Together with the ETH Library we offer consultancy on data management plans for grant applications (contact: researchdata@ethz.ch).
Courses
The upcoming courses will be announced in the News section.
- ETH RDM summer school
- ETH RDM workshop series: twice a year (January/February and October/November)
- openBIS training courses:
- openBIS ELN and LIMS
- Analysis of data stored in openBIS with Jupyter notebooks and MATLAB