Online Storage Solution for Researchers | Collaborative Data Sharing Platform
"Discover a cloud-based service, B2DROP, that offers online storage for researchers to collaborate, share data, synchronize across devices, and publish documents. Learn about its architecture, access methods, and motivations for seamless research workflows."
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EUDAT B2DROP Service description Dissemination level: Public eosc-hub.eu @EOSC_eu EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
Content * Motivation and driving consideration about the service * Service architecture and interfaces: overview - How the user can access the service E.g.: REST, GUI, CLIs, etc. - Service options and attributes * Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP) * Access policy and business model * Use cases * Documentation/tutorial/information 4/4/2025 2
Motivation * This service provides an online storage for researchers * Researchers can collaborate with others and work together on the data. * The data can be shared with external collaborators (no user of B2DROP) as well as collaborates who uses B2DROP too. * Shares can be done to users and as link. * The data can be shared with other platforms, which support the open cloud mesh. 4/4/2025 3
Motivation * Researches can synchronise their data across several computers/mobile devices. * Researchers can organise their work with (shared) calenders and address books. * Concluded documents can be published directly through B2SHARE. 4/4/2025 4
Service architecture and interface * B2DROP uses a web-server for user interaction and a database server to store data. Files are stored within the file- system of the web-server. * The underling open-source software is build up modular which allows to extend the system easily. * Additional features are enabled by different apps. * B2DROP creates deposits, including file transfer, at B2SHARE by the B2Share-bridge app. * B2DROP depends on B2ACCESS because B2ACCESS does the user authentication for B2DROP. 4/4/2025 5
Service access * Users access the service by web browsers (GUI). - The authentication of the users is done by B2ACCESS. - Shares are created within the GUI. * Synchronisation of data is done by WebDAV protocol. - Clients, e.g. Nextcloud or ownCloud, and WebDAV mounts could be used for access. - The authentication depends on the used client and is done by B2ACCESS or an app password, created in the web frontend. 4/4/2025 6
Service access * Synchronisation of calendars and address books is done by the Cal- and CardDAV protocols. - Clients are applications which supports this protocols native, like email applications, or applications which synchronise the data between B2DROP and other applications, like DAVdroid or CalDav Synchronizer. - The authentication depends on the used client and is done by B2ACCESS or an app password, created in the web frontend. 4/4/2025 7
Service options and attributes * Service options for the Data & Storage service: - EUDAT B2DROP * Service attributes: - Storage capacity (20 GB), - Access Type (Reserved), - Start of Service (01.09.2011), 4/4/2025 8
Acceptable Usage Policy * B2DROP Terms of Use: https://b2drop.eudat.eu/themes/b2drop/terms-of- use.html * B2DROP Data Privacy Statement: https://b2drop.eudat.eu/themes/b2drop/data-privacy- statement.html 4/4/2025 9
Access policies and Funding models * Access policies: - Policy-based - Other needs, like an own instance or dedicated storage, has to be discussed - Maket-driven (Other needs, like an own instance or additional storage) 4/4/2025 10
Featured use cases * Shared calendar within a research group/community - The calendar extension of B2DROP is used to satisfy the needs of the research group. - The group has a shared calendar with all members and appointments get automatically synchronised to all involved users. - Appointment exchange with all users by email is obsolete. - One member created a calendar within his account and shares it with his colleagues. - The calendar is synchronised with members local calendars on Android, Linux, Mac and Windows. 4/4/2025 11
Documentations * B2DROP documentation: https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2drop * B2SHARE bridge documentation: https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/publish-from- b2drop-to-b2share * B2DROP training suite: https://www.eudat.eu/b2drop-training-suite 4/4/2025 12
EUDAT B2DROP Service Description 20.02.2020 @EOSC_eu eosc-hub.eu
