ImPACT (Infrastructure for Privacy-Assured CompuTations)
Scientific progress today requires multi-institutional and cross-disciplinary sharing and analysis of data. Many disciplines, such as the social sciences, face a web of policies and technological constraints on data due to privacy concerns. Issues of privacy, safety, integrity, and ownership have led to regulations controlling data location, availability, movement, and access. Compliance poses obstacles to traditional data-processing practices and slows research; yet, increasingly, pressing scientific problems of great concern to society demand collaborative efforts involving data from multiple stakeholders.
We have designed a Trusted Remote Storage Agent for Dataverse that helps groups share metadata for sensitive data for access by researchers. Dataverse provides the discovery tools and the ImPACT project provides the cyber-infrastructure. This same work flow could also be leveraged for larger datasets that are too big to be migrated into Dataverse as well.
This presentation will give an update on the status as well as a demonstration of current progress.
