Mediaflux

The University's research data management (RDM) platform for securely storing and sharing your data with others.

If your research involves generating big data, or has special data needs (like metadata discovery and curation), then you'll need a secure and extensible platform for storing, managing, collaborating on and sharing your outputs.

Key capabilities of Mediaflux include:

• ingest, store and discover any data type – structured or unstructured, simple or demanding

• better describe and search your digital assets with a rich, configurable metadata environment

• maintain provenance by keeping track of entire histories, life cycles and relationships

• upload and download data in a variety of ways and with a range of translatable protocols

• collaborate on the data with other researchers, both from and external to the University of Melbourne

• tightly control access to every aspect of the system and every datum

• audit who accessed what, when and from where

• extend and flex your data management with our many customisable APIs (application programming interfaces)

Read more about Mediaflux here.

Getting started

Acquiring a Mediaflux project space

1. Create an Activity (skip this section if you have an existing RCP Activity that you want to add your Mediaflux resource to):

   • Go to your Home page in RCP.

   • Press Create New Activity.

   • Fill out the resultant form and press Submit.

   • If you were able to list yourself as RCAO in the form, you should see the Activity on your Home page, ready for use. If you had to list someone else as RCAO, you should see the Activity on your Home page but it won’t be ready for use until the RCAO approves the new Activity.

2. Add a Mediaflux resource to your Activity:

   • On your Home page in RCP, locate the Activity that you want to add your Mediaflux to.

   • Press Add Resource inside the given Activity.

   • Locate the Mediaflux tile in the resultant pop-out, and press its Add Resource 0/5 button.

   • Press Provide requirements.

   • Fill out the resultant form and press Submit.

3. Acquire a storage allocation in your Mediaflux resource:

   • On your Home page in RCP, locate the relevant Mediaflux resource.

   • Press its Request an Allocation button.

   • Set a storage quota and a name for the allocation, then press Request.

   • When the allocation has been provisioned, your Mediaflux resource will have a green message saying ‘Allocation ready to use!’, meaning that you’ll be able to access your storage (using further steps below) – provisioning can take up to 48 hours.

Accessing your Mediaflux storage

Once you have a project space, you’ll need your University credentials, and Mediaflux Pocket MFA, to access it. With these, you can access your Mediaflux storage via a variety of available protocols.

Giving access to external collaborators

Local user accounts are also available for external collaborators (non-UoM employed research staff). See our guide to getting access for external collaborators.

Using your storage

Check out our Mediaflux user guides for key help topics such as:

• How to access Mediaflux (in particular, how to choose an access method , or 'protocol', that suits your work best)

• How to upload/download project data

• How to share project access with other users

• How to use Mediaflux on Spartan HPC

Managing your storage

Once you’ve acquired a Mediaflux resource and an associated storage allocation, you’ll see a ‘Manage’ button on your Mediaflux resource in RCP. This feature allows you to:

• View your current allocation details

• Edit your storage quota

• Add/remove users from your storage allocation

• Delete your storage allocation

• View your allocation use over time