2026-05-19 –, Hans Idzerda
Data transfer orchestration: any help needed?
Do you need help in copying data, especially large data sets, from a data repository to a compute environment?
Do you want to share data with other researchers and you do not find an obvious way to do it?
Do you experience frustration when you need to first download those data to your laptop and then copy them somewhere else?
Then this session is for you.
You will hear about a new data transfer tool, Neptune, which allows you to orchestrate large data transfers between different storages and data repositories.
It comes with an intuitive Web UI and an API that allows you to easily integrate with other tools.
Are you familiar with SURFfilesender?
Just as SURFfilesender helps you to upload data from your laptop and share them with other users, Neptune helps you to copy data between different remote storages and to share those data with other users.
We will show you how to do all this during an interactive session.
researchers, data stewards, IT support
What is the key take away of your session?:data management should not be hard, anyone should be able to orchestrate large data transfers and share data, independently from where data are stored.
I am a physicist, but I have worked in the research data management field for the last twenty years. I have been working as advisor in the Data Management Service team at SURF (surf.nl) since 2019. I support researchers in using data management tools and services, like Yoda and iRODS, applying the best practices in research data management. With my team and other colleagues, I design new data platforms and solutions, in national projects, like Yoda as connecting infrastructure for seamless open science, within the Open Science NL program, and in EU projects, like Sustainable Green Europe Data Space (SAGE).