Re: [ccp4bb] Should we still keep copies of all raw data?

2018-07-14 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
Dear James, Perhaps it is time for us to admit that this is too large, expensive and complex a problem for us to resolve without help from one or more of the commercial data managers, such as Google or Amazon. I know that dealing with ads is a nuisance, introducing a loss of time for research,

Re: [ccp4bb] Should we still keep copies of all raw data?

2018-07-14 Thread James Holton
Why not just upload it to proteindiffraction.org ?  Or the SBGrid data bank (https://data.sbgrid.org/) ?  Or both for "redundancy" ? Yes, I did once do some calculations on what it would take to preserve data for tens of thousands of years, and the only proven storage medium for that timescal