Data in the RDMS

In the RDMS we use these concepts about data storage:

• Personal area: In the RDMS, you have by default your own, personal data storage space. In the web portal, your personal RDMS Home Drive is marked as My folder.
• Group/shared area: This area is used to store data for a team or research group. In the RDMS, we call this section RDMS Team Drives and users have to be added to such a shared drive before they become accessible via the web portal or other clients.
• Project area: This special area is used to store data that belongs to a research project that aims at publication (e.g., thesis data, data underlying a scientific papter). In contrasts to the two other areas, the RDMS Projects allow to add additional special policies like automatically removing the permissions of participants after a certain date. Moreover, it is possible to initialize the RDMS internal archiving workflow at the end of a finished project from this area.

We support access to the RDMS via the web portal, WebDAV and the command line or iCommands. The Web App was specifically written for the management of RDMS projects as well as for easy user management.

In the RDMS it is possible to change permissions and inheritance of rights, share files and folders. These tasks can be performed within the Web App, or via the command line using iCommands.

On the basis of our testing, we provide extensive information about uploading files and the preferred file transfer options.