Navigating Research Technology

NYU Research Technology provides an advanced infrastructure of cutting-edge technologies, specialized services, and superlative expertise to enable NYU scholars to conduct transformative research and scholarship. This page outlines the services available at each phase of the research life cycle, from gathering data to publishing.

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Find and Collect

Identify data needs; search, collect, and evaluate data sources

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• Data Management Consulting
  Get Data Services' help in developing a data management plan
• Digital Publishing & Preservation Consulting
  Work with staff to digitize or preserve your data
• Digital Scholarship Services Support
  Infrastructure for digital humanities research and development
• Digitization
  Digitization of physical media and conversion of digital media
• Finding Data
  A variety of data sets for your research from Data Services at Bobst
  
• Globus Data Transfer Node
  Transfer files to and from NYU HPC storage
• HPC Research and Grant Consulting
  for High Performance Computing
• Research and Development at Digital Library Technology Services
  Leverage world-wide digital curation, preservation, and infrastructure initiatives to find or share data
• Surveys
  Administer web surveys powered by Qualtrics

Store and Manage

Create a data management plan; store and manage data throughout your research

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• Data Management Consulting
  Get Data Services' help developing a data management plan
• Faculty Digital Archive
  Share data globally, with NYU, or with a specific group 
• Globus Data Transfer Node
  Transfer files to and from NYU HPC storage
• HPC Archival Storage
  Purchase additional storage beyond standard allocation
• Q&A Consultation (LaGuardia Studio)
  Additive Manufacturing & 3D Digitization at LaGuardia Studio
• Research Workspace
  Centrally housed storage that can be mounted locally for individual or collaborative use.

Analyze

Check, validate, and clean data; analyze and interpret; and plan and prepare outputs

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• 3D Scanning at LaGuardia Studio
  High-accuracy 3D scanning of objects ranging in size from small to large
• GIS Data Services
  Software, training, and support for geographic information systems (GIS) software packages
• High Performance Computing Tutorials and Training
  Self-directed learning and periodic training sessions in the library.
  
• High Performance Computing Storage
  Short-term storage of analysis-ready data sets
• HPC OpenStack Environment (BRC)
  Infrastructure as a Service from the Brooklyn Research Cluster
• HPC Hadoop for Big Data Analytics (Dumbo Cluster)
  High performance cluster equipped with a variety of research software packages
  
• HPC  Massively Parallel Cluster (Prince)
  High performance cluster equipped with a variety of research software packages
  
• Project Development Consultation at LaGuardia Studio
  In-depth planning, design assistance, and training for additive manufacturing & 3D digitization
• Qualitative Data Services
  Software, training, and other support for qualitative software packages
  
• Quantitative Data Services
  Software, training, and other support for quantitative software packages
  

Make

Utilize data outputs to create, explore, and visualize research findings

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• 3D Printing at LaGuardia Studio
  Design and produce work through additive manufacturing (AM) processes
• Data Visualization
  Assistance with creating visualizations with our supported tools
• Holodeck
  Advancing from projection to functional AR, MR and VR simulations

Publish and Preserve

Identify appropriate formats for storing and publishing data

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• Archivist Resources (ArchiveSpace, Special Collections Discovery)
  Development and advanced technical support for archivist resources
• Data Management Consultation
  Get Data Services' help in developing a data management plan
• Digital Content Publication
  Use the Faculty Digital Archive's interface for publication
• Digital Preservation
  Submit content to Digital Library Technology Services for long-term storage, backup, and and future retrieval
• Faculty Digital Archive
  Share data globally, with NYU, or with a specific group
  
• Globus Data Transfer Node
  Transfer files to and from NYU HPC storage
• Spatial Data Repository
  Store or access spatial data