Storage
Storage provided by UFIT Research Computing (UFRC) is only for research and educational data, code, and documents for use on HiPerGator and with HiPerGator services. UFRC creates, modifies, and enforces quotas based on group allocations. See: https://www.rc.ufl.edu/documentation/policies/storage/
Data that are to be saved for the long term should conform to quality standards which include quality metadata, appropriate file formats, etc. See: Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement 202-2021 – https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/
Archiving Options at UF
- Large data, small data with limited access
- Gatorcloud offers shorter-term storage that may be helpful while identifying a long-term solution.
- UF Research Computing offers affordable storage options.
- Datasets up to 50GB per record – Zenodo generalist repository (approved by UF Integrated Risk Management (IRM) Fast Path Solutions (FSP) for for open datasets)
- Contact us for discussion and referrals: datamgmt-l@lists.ufl.edu
- Small data that can be publicly accessible
- Permanent, Open Access storage from the UF Libraries’ Institutional Repository (IR@UF): http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufirg
- Generalist Repositories – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/NIHbmic/generalist_repositories.html
Archiving Options beyond UF
- Discipline repositories — see options on the Datasets guide
- Journal publishers may offer archival storage for data that are supplementary to published articles. Examples:
- Elsevier (ScienceDirect) Content Innovation
- Mendeley Data – https://data.mendeley.com/
- Wiley-Blackwell Supporting Information
- Springer Manuscript preparation — scroll to “Electronic supplementary material”