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# HIFIS: Infrastructures for ad-hoc research data management
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## Dirk Baker
#### <a href="https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=45348">Research Data Management, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)</a>
#### Helmholtz Federated IT Services
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### These slides:
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style="height:30vh;width=auto;"/>
<img src="https://rdm.pages.ufz.de/guidelines/img/RDM_subline_fullcolor_rgb.png"
style="width:150px;position:absolute;bottom:0;right:0" />
<img src="https://www.hifis.net/assets/img/HIFIS_Logo_short_RGB_cropped.svg"
style="width:150px;position:absolute;bottom:0;left:0" />
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# HIFIS: Introduction and Organization
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<h2>What is <a href="https://hifis.net">HIFIS</a>?</h2>
<ul>
<li>Helmholtz Federated IT Services</li>
<li>Supports digital infrastructure across Helmholtz centers</li>
<li>Focus areas: <a href="https://hifis.net/services/software/consulting/">Consulting</a>, <a href="https://helmholtz.cloud/">Cloud Technology</a>, <a href="https://www.helmholtz-hida.de/course-catalog/en/?search%5Bq%5D=HIFIS">Education</a></li>
<li>Incubator for research software engineering and data management</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="flex: 1;">
<h2>Organizational Pillars</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>Consulting:</b> RSE and RDM support for researchers</li>
<li><b>Cloud:</b> Helmholtz Cloud services and identity federation</li>
<li><b>Education:</b> Training, workshops, and community building</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
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# Helmholtz Association and Research Areas
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<h2>Helmholtz Organization</h2>
<ul>
<li>18 research centers across Germany</li>
<li>Over 40,000 employees</li>
<li>Research areas: Energy, Environment, Health, Space, Matter, Information</li>
<li>Collaborative infrastructure and digital services</li>
<li>UFZ is a centre focused on Environmental Research with >1k employees
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=47889">
<img src="https://s3.desy.de/hackmd/uploads/f2352866-813e-43c6-83db-f670679173e9.png" style="height:40vh" />
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<a href="https://www.helmholtz.de/ueber-uns/helmholtz-zentren/" style="display:block">
<img src="https://s3.desy.de/hackmd/uploads/2b5dca42-23e4-479b-907b-a8eaca1bf5f8.svg" alt="Helmholtz Centres" style="max-width: 100%; height: 60vh;" />
</a>
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<img src="https://s3.desy.de/hackmd/uploads/9b18692f-2939-4222-9db9-13400501d97b.jpg" alt="Helmholtz Cloud Platform" style="width:100vw; height:100vh; margin: None" />
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# HIFIS and other Incubators
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<h2>HIFIS provides a technical platform</h2>
<ul>
<li>Helmholtz ID: Single sign-on across services</li>
<li>Cloud services: Storage, compute, collaboration tools</li>
<li>Designed for scalability and cross-institutional access</li>
<li>Interfaces with other incubator platforms</li>
<li>Helmholtz AI provides resource funding and RSE is the natural next (required) step for many AI codes</li>
<li>HMC provides more impulses for base services, such as knowledge graphs</li>
<li>HIDA provides teaching framework, HIFIS assists in teaching</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="flex: 1;">
<img src="https://s3.desy.de/hackmd/uploads/d0fd18f7-220c-4156-a2d0-f56aff20e93a.svg" alt="HIFIS Logo" style="max-width: 100%; height: 40vh;" />
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</div>
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# Cloud Access for Most Use-cases
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<h2>Goal: Low Barrier of Entry</h2>
<ul>
<li>Helmholtz researchers have immediate to most tools</li>
<li>Uncomplicated access to larger systems, such as storage</li>
<li><b>Special Use-Case</b>: US Data Rescue for Toxicology</li>
<li>Setup space and booted up workflow within a day</li>
<li>Fast-paced public-facing communication of efforts</li>
<li><b>Special Use-Case</b>: Large-Scale Data Analysis</li>
<li>dCache offers uncomplicated storage access, to be used for ad-hoc data storing for researchers with large experimental data sets</li>
<li>HIFIS offers services to help setup pipelines across centers</li>
<li>We help researchers plug together storage, computing, and data publication</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<img src="https://www.hifis.net/assets/img//hifisfor/poster-2b.svg" alt="Cloud Access Sketch" style="max-width: 100%; height: 50vh;" />
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# Codebase and Service Provisioning
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<h2>Impact of HIFIS Services</h2>
<ul>
<li>Generally strong service offering across centers</li>
<li>Adoption is mixed, some services stand out, others are unknown</li>
<li>Adoption has dependency on institute and/or research group</li>
<li>Challenge: Balancing centralization with local autonomy</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://www.hifis.net/assets/img/posts/2025-10-08-cloud-it-leads-survey/usage.jpg" style="height:40vh" />
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<img src="https://helmholtz.cloud/static/images/undraw/undraw_team_collaboration_re_ow29.svg" alt="Codebase Sketch" style="max-width: 100%; height: 60vh;" />
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</div>
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# Codebase and Service Provisioning
<div style="display: flex; gap: 32px; margin-top: 50px;">
<div style="flex: 1;">
<h2>Impact of HIFIS Services</h2>
<ul>
<li>Generally strong service offering across centers</li>
<li>Adoption is mixed, some services stand out, others are unknown</li>
<li>Adoption has dependency on institute and/or research group</li>
<li>Challenge: Balancing centralization with local autonomy</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="flex: 1;">
<img src="https://www.hifis.net/assets/img/posts/2025-05-12-Results-of-Service-Recruiting-Survey/familarity.svg" alt="Future Services Sketch" style="max-width: 100%; height: 40vh; margin-top:0px" />
<img src="https://www.hifis.net/assets/img/posts/2025-05-12-Results-of-Service-Recruiting-Survey/awareness.svg" alt="Future Services Sketch" style="max-width: 100%; height: 40vh; margin-top:0px" />
</div>
</div>
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# Future Services: OpenEDX and Galaxy
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<h2>Expanding the Service Portfolio</h2>
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<h3>Galaxy and Interactive HPC</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Interactive HPC</b>: Provide convenient access for out-of-the box computing resources</li>
<li>Lower the entrance barrier of running large models or bulk data analysis</li>
</ul>
<h3>OpenEDX</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>E-Learning</b>: A platform for more convenient onboarding of researchers to learn new skills</li>
<li>More aimed at <i>hard-skill</i> development</li>
<li>As Helmholtz platform, it will be self-directed</li>
<li>Example use-case: UFZ provides "levels" for HPC users</li>
<li>Could use e-learning to help users transition to more access</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="flex: 1;">
<img src="https://s3.desy.de/hackmd/uploads/b1b37ace-c461-46ce-a919-a986aa60db4c.jpg" alt="Future Services Sketch" style="max-width: 100%; height: 40vh; margin-top:0px" />
<img src="https://s3.desy.de/hackmd/uploads/a5370bc5-3c89-40e0-b1f3-a09517748073.png" alt="Future Services Sketch" style="max-width: 100%; height: 40vh; margin-top:0px" />
</div>
</div>
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# Relation to Other Projects
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<div style="flex: 1;">
<h2>Interoperability and Collaboration</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>NFDI:</b> National Research Data Infrastructure</li>
<li><b>GWDG:</b> Göttingen-based IT and data services</li>
<li><b>EOSC:</b> European Open Science Cloud</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="flex: 1;">
<h2>Scientific Integration</h2>
<ul>
<li>Cross-project data workflows</li>
<li>Shared authentication and access models</li>
<li>Collaborative infrastructure for European research</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
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# Thank You
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<h2>Questions or Comments?</h2>
<img src="https://www.hifis.net/assets/img/HIFIS_Logo_short_RGB_cropped.svg"
style="height:20vh;margin-top:20vh" />
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