| 12th of March 2018 |
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| CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP) passes 1 Petabyte milestone |
| by Sue Cook (CSIRO IM&T) |
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Last week the
CSIRO Data Access Portal
(DAP) passed the 1 petabyte (PB) mark. This means that it now
holds over 1 PB of CSIRO data and software files which are
preserved and encapsulated together with their metadata for
long-term discovery. Over 900 terabytes (TB) of the data in the DAP is
astronomy data from the Parkes and ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre
Array Pathfinder) radio telescopes. Not all the data in the DAP are
publicly accessible. CSIRO researchers can also use it to archive data
for internal use. Every record in the DAP has a persistent URL, and
public records have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), used for data
publication and citation.
With the first public
release in 2011, storage growth has jumped from an average of 18 GB a
week between Sept 2012 and Feb 2013, to an average of 8 TB a week between
Sept 2017 and Feb 2018.
For more information see CSIRO DAP Help or contact researchdatasupport@csiro.au
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