DATASHARE

Section: CCB Online Datashare (7)
Last updated: Wed 10 Jan 16:53:42 GMT 2024
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DEPRECATION NOTICE

This CCB documentation has been superseded by our new website: https://lumin.imm.ox.ac.uk

OVERVIEW

It's a common use case that you need to share files as part of your research. To make this simple, we provide an easy mechanism for putting data onto the internet so that it can be downloaded by other people. The service is called datashare and has two components.

- The folder datashare/ which you can find in each secure collaboration project(7) and which any member of the project can write to.

- The website https://datashare.molbiol.ox.ac.uk : All data stored in /datashare/ is publicly available via this web server.

IMPORTANT

In using the datashare system, it is important to note that it has no guarantees of security whatsoever and that the data is available to the entire internet at all times. As such, you must not use it to share data which has any restrictions on who may have access. We regret that, at this time, we do not have a service which will allow you to securely share data with other people who do not themselves have access to our systems.

Additionally, please note that the datashare service is not a web publishing service. Whilst it is possible to place any data you wish in this folder, including HTML data or reference data, we do not guarantee the long term availablily of the data nor do we guarantee that the URL will be maintained at its current location. Do not use datashare for long term sharing of data and do not include datashare URLs in publications.

HOW TO USE DATASHARE

- Decide which collaboration project you want your data associated with. For this example, I'll use sysadmin.

- If you don't have one already, create a directory in the project's datashare directory for your data.

 $ mkdir /project/sysadmin/datashare/dtooke

- Copy your data into it. Please note that you cannot use symlinks to point to other storage locations on the cluster. For example:

 $ cp /project/sysadmin/dtooke/files.tar /project/sysadmin/datashare/dtooke/

- Your data will appear at datashare.molbiol.ox.ac.uk/public/project/PROJECTNAME/FOLDERNAME/FILENAME. For example, the file copied above could be accessed via datashare.molbiol.ox.ac.uk/public/project/sysadmin/dtooke/files.tar.

PLEASE NOTE

- The URLs are not in the format datashare.molbiol.ox.ac.uk/public/project/PROJECTNAME/datashare/FOLDERNAME/FILENAME and this will not work! Do not add an additional datashare to the URL.

- It is not possible to list files by pointing your browser at a directory - you must give the full path to each file as above. If you wish to transfer multiple files it may be more convenient to create a tar(1) archive and then copy that.

- It not possible to customise web server configuration using htaccess files; if you have a need of advanced features please contact us.

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY

For backwards compatibility purposes, the web address userweb.molbiol.ox.ac.uk is redirected to point to datashare.molbiol.ox.ac.uk

GETTING HELP

You can email the CCB team using the email address help@imm.ox.ac.uk. Using this address ensures your email is logged and assigned a tracking number, and will go to all the core team, which means the appropriate person or people will be able to pick it up.

COPYRIGHT

This text is copyright University of Oxford and MRC and may not be reproduced or redistributed without permission.

AUTHOR

Duncan Tooke <duncan.tooke@imm.ox.ac.uk>