Data storage available for employees and students of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, allows the storage and access to various types of data used by research teams and departments.

  1. Data for websites and virtual servers - web presentations, virtual servers
  2. Live scientific data - data used immediately for research tasks, calculations, models, visualizations, etc.
  3. Static data - data not immediately used, typically basic data, map, and image files shared within the team
  4. Archived data and backups - data that must be preserved but where quick access is not crucial
  5. Data permanently published for publication purposes - data for scientific publications
  6. Support (technical contact)

 

Data for websites and virtual servers

The faculty manages and continuously develops internal disk arrays primarily intended for running central virtual servers. The remaining available capacities are used for specific purposes by departments in agreement with CIT administrators.

These disk arrays are managed by CIT.

 

Live scientific data

Currently, neither the faculty nor the university offer centralized storage for live data, primarily due to the volume of data, varying needs of disciplines, and high acquisition and maintenance costs.

Live data management is typically handled by research teams themselves, or within discipline-specific storage at their departments, or coordinated by sections or departments. Examples include the Biocev storage, the KONFMI laboratory data server, the Geographic Section’s map server, the CUCAM project of the Chemical Section, and others. These storage solutions need to be consulted with CIT to ensure data throughput within the faculty LAN and to the Internet.

The faculty plans to build high-capacity (in the range of PB) storage for live data as part of the infrastructure of the Albertov Campus. Due to the planned capacity and parameters, this infrastructure cannot be physically built under the current spatial and technical conditions.

The university is preparing data storage as part of the JAK projects and support for discipline-specific repositories within the national EOSC infrastructure.

 

Static data

For the storage and exchange of static data, services available within the CESNET consortium are primarily offered. Research teams can use the storage after registration with CIT - see CESNET data storage.

However, this is backup-type storage primarily intended for large file storage. In addition to storage capacity, the Faculty of Science is also limited by the number of files (which the faculty already exceeds due to underutilization of the total quota).

Additionally, cloud storage Owncloud (similar to OneDrive) with a 100GB capacity and a service for exchanging up to 1.9TB of large files Filesender (similar to the security-inadequate Úschovna) are available.

 

Archived data

The CESNET data storage allows the management of archived data, but only to a limited extent and upon request, with approval from the CESNET Data Administration. These data are stored on tapes, and the access time to them (retrieval time) is significantly longer (typically tens of seconds) than for static data.

 

Data permanently published for publication purposes

Neither the faculty nor the university offer storage for the permanent publication of static data within scientific publications, such as Zenodo. The university is considering a similar solution that would cover the needs of the faculties in the future. The coordinator is the Centre for Open Science Support at Charles University, which also provides support for the Data Management Plan (DMP).

 

Support (technical contact)

 

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the helpdesk.