• Getting started

    If you want to upload research data to DLCM, this series of guides demonstrates the basics of connecting an existing SWITCHaai account to DLCM, requesting the creation of a new Organizational Unit, adding your team members, and beginning to manage your data on DLCM.

    1. Getting started with DLCM: plan your Organizational Unit request

    2. Getting started with DLCM: connect a SWITCHaai account

    3. Getting started with DLCM: create an Organizational Unit

    4. Getting started with DLCM: add team members and assign roles

    5. Getting started with DLCM: explore DLCM

  • FAIR Principles

    DLCM follows FAIR principles and is eligible for funding for data upload for researchers under a SNSF grant.

    Findable

    Datasets are assigned unique and persistent identifiers (DOI), are described with rich metadata, and are indexed in a searchable catalogue.

    Accessible

    Datasets and metadata are retrievable by their identifiers using an open communications protocol, and allow for an authentication when needed. Metadata remain accessible, even when the data is no longer available.

    Interoperable

    Datasets and metadata are provided in a formal, accessible, shared and broadly applicable language, use open vocabularies that follow FAIR principles, and include qualified references to other metadata.

    Reusable

    Datasets and metadata are richly described with minimum relevant attributes and optional custom metadata validated against their respective scheme, are released with a clear and accessible data usage license, and are associated with detailed authorship.

  • Did you know you can customize your organizational unit's logo?

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  • Data preservation good practices

    If your dataset contains .zip files, please use the "structured upload" feature! Any .zip file uploaded this way will be automatically decompressed while preserving its folder structure. This also allows the system to automatically document the contents of such files in the archive's metadata, making it available for preview by end users.

    If your dataset contains any other kind of compressed files, please decompress them before uploading their contents to DLCM.

    In case you are required to upload a compressed file, please include a README file alongside it.