Jetstream2 and Cloud-Based Dev Tools for Data Curation Training

Research data curators draw on a wide range of software tools to manage and preserve repository submissions. There is no singular software "stack" for data curation. However, for the purposes of facilitating workshops on data curation practices, a shared environment with commonly used tools and resources is needed. As part of an ongoing project with the Data Curation Network (DCN), the author evaluated the feasibility of using cloud-based developer environments for conducting workshops on specialized data curation topics. This presentation provides an overview and demonstration of an exploratory infrastructure for data curation workshops running on JetStream2, a computing resource available to US-based researchers and educators through the National Science Foundation. (NSF). Coder (an open-source, self-hosted web service) is used to provision cloud-based environments for workshop participants. The infrastructure is defined using Terraform to facilitate configuration and deployment for each workshop; the code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/srerickson/js2-coder).