We offer tailor-made solutions to fulfill the needs of your research projects. We develop these solutions on top of a range of platforms, which we also built, to efficiently leverage a wide variety of functionality. We are sharing a few details here to help you understand what is possible.
Research Computing
- We design, develop, and host websites for research projects, programs, conferences, and more.
- Our responsive layouts offer advanced functionality and easy navigation.
- We work collaboratively with you in the design, but YOU manage the content independently.
- We take care of technical maintenance of your site
- We have secure, online data management solutions designed for flexibility and long-term preservation
- Collect, organize, and share your digital data, including images, videos, documents, free text - whatever you've got
- Standard and custom metadata sets are available to describe your data
- Your data is easily exported for further analysis or preservation
- Design data collection forms with advanced functionality
- Surveys can employ text, images, audio and video
- Participation can be opened to the public or restricted to focus-groups
- Collected data can be multi-format: text, files, or audio recorded on-the-fly, and can be described using standard or customized metadata
- Organize, share, and export data for further analysis and collaboration
- We can give you access to a network of virtual servers for research projects
- Dedicated servers can be created with IST's virtual environment (at an annual cost) or with the Compute Canada cloud (free)
- We support administration of these servers, including regular updates and the installation of special applications