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Dedicated storage for large volumes of data

In some cases, institutional, national or thematic data centers offer storage and archiving services specifically to that require large quantities of research data (typically terabytes), usually alongside supercomputing facilities. These offer a bigger data container than the average data record unit of a data repository. A case in point from the arts and humanities domain is the French Huma-Num Box (https://documentation.huma-num.fr/humanum-en/). It offers a secure and long-term storage for data sets, mainly large ones (several hundred terabytes in total). The device uses magnetic disks and magnetic tapes to store data. Data deposits can be both “warm” or “cold” , including digitised cultural heritage collections, photos, audio recordings, maps, videos and 3D models. Importantly and to enhance discoverability, reusability and generic user-friendliness of the deposited data volumes, such Huma-Num Boxes can be easily connected to web-based publishing and web application systems such as Omeka or IIIF. Full description of the service is available (in French) here:https://documentation.huma-num.fr/humanum-box/ For further assistance, please contact: assistance@huma-num.fr.

For further reading, see: Nicolas Larrousse, Joël Marchand. A Techno-Human Mesh for Humanities in France: Dealing with preservation complexity. DH 2019, Jul 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands. ⟨hal-02153016⟩