Deposit
Getting data in
The web form for small things, the CLI for everything else. Both produce the same record.
01
Describe
Title, authors with ORCIDs, abstract, licence, related publications and grants.
02
Upload
Resumable, parallel, checksum-verified. A 4 TB deposit over a university link typically takes an afternoon.
03
Review
A curator checks metadata completeness and file readability, usually within two working days.
04
Publish
DOI minted, mirrors seeded, aggregators notified within the hour.
Depositing from a compute cluster
deposit.sh
ol auth login --orcid
ol deposit create --metadata metadata.yaml
# → deposit ol_9c31f0a2 (draft)
ol deposit upload ol_9c31f0a2 /scratch/fields/ \
--parallel 16 --resume
# 18.4 TB · 41,208 files · sha256 verified
ol deposit submit ol_9c31f0a2Limits and requirements
Size
- Per dataset
- 20 TB (soft, negotiable)
- Per file
- no limit
- File count
- 1 million per dataset
- Upload rate
- as fast as your link
Metadata
- Required
- title, authors, licence, abstract
- Strongly encouraged
- ORCID, ROR, grant IDs
- Schema
- DataCite 4.5
- Formats
- any, but open formats preferred
Tell us before you upload more than 5 TB. Not because we will refuse — because we will open a dedicated ingest path so your transfer does not compete with the reading public, and we will schedule the mirror seeding sensibly.