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Research Data Storage

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LSU has several research data storage options available to on-campus researchers.

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Research Data Storage

LSU has several research data storage options available to on-campus researchers. Check them out or use the data storage selection tool to find the option that works best for your research (coming soon).

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Tiger Den

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Tiger Den is the LSU on-campus research data storage solution available to all LSU campus.

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LSU Scholarly Repository

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Open access to LSU scholarship including articles, dissertations & theses, research data, and more.

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Research Data Management

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Support for planning, storing, preserving, and accessing LSU research data.

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David Lowe

Research Data Management Librarian

David Lowe

Research Data Management Librarian

https://lib.lsu.edu/staff#davidlowe

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Responsibilities

Responsibilites

Facilitating access to campus research data, working with faculty to ensure their projects’ datasets are kept in optimal places to make them findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible.

Experience

Texas A&M University: Digital Collections Management Librarian
Florida Institute of Technology: Data Librarian
University of Connecticut: Data Management Librarian

Education

University of Michigan, MILS, 1996
University of Texas, MA, Russian Literature, 1987
Rice University, BA, English and Russian, 1985

Presentations

Lowe, David B., Jeannette Ho, Dong Joon Lee, and Bruce E. Herbert, “Integrating VIVO and the Campus Repository: Representing Curated Teaching Materials in Scholarly Profiles of Faculty in Different Career Tracks,” 11th Annual International VIVO Conference (May 2020). https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188198

Publications

Lowe, David B. and Wendi Arant Kaspar, "The Space Between Data Producers and Consumers: Mediation Strategies for Researchers," Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall 2023)
Lowe, David B., Dollinger, Ian, Koster, Tristan, & Herbert, Bruce E. (2021). “Text Mining for Type of Research Classification.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 59(8), 815–834. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.1998281

Awards

2022 Texas Digital Library Scholarly Communication Award

Research Interests

Machine Actionable Data Management Plans
Contributor Role Attribution with the CRediT taxonomy
Digital Collections as Data
Text Mining in Digital Collections
Digital Humanities and Cultural Analysis
Institutional Repositories
Open Scholarship and Open Access
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

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Data Storage Options

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Sharing/Collaboration--LSU faculty and staff

Sharing/Collaboration--LSU students

Sharing/Collaboration--non-LSU affiliates

Cost

Web-based access

File-level access

POSIX compliance

Performance

Meets Common Federal Data Protection and Security Regulations

Capacity

Maximum Individual File Size Limitation

Scholarly Repository

Yes, read-only global access

Free

Yes

Low

Unlimited

1GB

Tiger Den

Yes

Yes,
via Globus

$50 per TB per year,
first TB is free, paid yearly

Yes,
via Globus

Yes,
NFS & SMB

Partial

Moderate

100 TB,
can request an increase

4TB

Wasabi

$80 per TB per year,
paid yearly

Yes,
Wasabi console

Low

Unlimited

1TB

OneDrive

Yes

Free

Yes,
OneDrive Sharepoint web console

Yes,
OneDrive Desktop Sync

Partial

Low

5TB

250GB

Box

Yes

Free

Yes,
Box web interface

Yes,
Box drive and Box tools

Low

Unlimited

150GB

Network Attached (Bulk) Storage

Yes

$480 per TB per year,
paid monthly

Yes,
NFS & SMB

Yes

Moderate

50TB,
can request an increase

50TB,
can request for larger files

Block (Performance) Storage

Yes

$960 per TB per year,
paid monthly

Yes,
attached to compute node

Yes

High

50TB,
can request an increase

50TB,
can request for larger files

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