Tools & Storage solutions
Document, manage, publish, and archive data – an overview of infrastructure and software services at TUM for holistic and sustainable research data management.
Tools
Take advantage of TUM’s in-house solutions and platform instances to handle research data efficiently and with ease throughout the research lifecycle.
TUM eLabFTW
TUM eLabFTW is the electronic lab notebook (ELN) for TUM. It enables researchers to document their work in a structured, sustainable, and secure way. Laboratory notebook entries and resources can be shared within project teams and with external collaborators. The web-based open source tool enables collaborative work in compliance with DFG standards.
→ Intuitive user interface
→ Seamless collaboration
→ Secure storage and operation
→ Tamper-proof documentation system
→ Granular rights management
TUM DataTagger
The TUM DataTagger is the central open-source tool for collaborative research data management at TUM: easily upload, structure, version, share, and annotate data with metadata. With the web-based software, interdisciplinary collaboration is efficient, secure, and compliant with DFG guidelines.
→ Easy data upload
→ Unlimited metadata annotation
→ Automated metadata assignment
→ Collaborate with data
→ Transparent rights management
mediaTUM
mediaTUM is TUM's institutional repository for research data, university publications, scientific journal articles, image and video collections, and valuable scientific holdings. The publication server enables researchers to publish and archive data in Open Access with a peer-review process in compliance with DFG standards.
→ File upload, e.g. as PDF/X, JPEG, SVG, and MP4
→ Open Access publishing
→ Self-archiving
→ DOI assignment (Digital Object Identifier)
→ Secure local data storage
Storage solutions
In close cooperation with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), TUM offers storage solutions for various demand situations. When storing - and thus selecting storage solutions - a distinction must be made between hot (unfinished) and cold (finished) data.
Hot Data
For hot data, it is relevant how the data is used, such as whether several people are to work on the same file at the same time, and how large the storage requirement is.
Storage solutions by LRZ:
- Personal Cloud Storage
- Project Cloud Storage for workgroups
- Data Science Storage for large data volumes
- LRZ GitLab for joint development and versioning of software
Collaborative work on documents can be done at TUM with Sync+Share and Microsoft 365.
Cold Data
For cold data, the storage solution depends on whether the data is to be backed up or archived, for whom it is to be accessible, and from which storage location it comes.
The Archive & Backup System of the LRZ enables regular and automated data backup of servers and computers. The archiving period is ten years and can be increased if required.
Further information: Handout and Decision Tree on infrastructure offers for storing research data at TUM.
Get in touch!
For questions, please feel free to contact us at researchdata@tum.de!