Re: Bio Image data retention

Posted by Wiegraebe, Winfried-2 on
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At the Stowers Institute, at this moment users are responsible for their original data. We recently introduced a policy that members of the institute have to post all original data for their publications at our Original Data Repository http://odr.stowers.org/websimr/. To help them to organize the data, we are setting up an OMERO server (http://www.openmicroscopy.org/). We will automatically copy all data acquired at the Microscopy Center into the OMERO database. Our IT department and the Microscopy Center will maintain the server.
Winfried


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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Kurt Thorn
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: Bio Image data retention

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I'm not sure what the official policy is here, but the imaging center I run does not do any long term data archiving. We leave this up to the labs as we neither have the resources nor the expertise to provide long term data storage for the many terabytes of data generated here.

We allow users to keep data on the microscope workstations for 30 days.
We maintain an 8 TB file server for data transfer and temporary storage that we allow users to keep data on for 1 year. If we let users keep data on there much longer it gets full so it seems like users generate data at at least 6 TB/yr, which is a fair amount of data to store.

Kurt

On 4/16/2013 3:30 AM, Christopher Guerin wrote:

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> Hello everyone:
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> Can anyone let me know if you have an official institutional policy on
> the archiving/retention of bio imaging data? I'm particularly
> interested in an policies defining whose responsibility it is to
> retain unchanged raw data and for how long such data must be kept.
> Feel free to contact me off list if you prefer.
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> Many thanks,
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> Chris Guérin
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