docs: working on data governance #15
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| AIND’s high-performance on-premise storage system (VAST) is sized to be a ~2-week transfer buffer that enables low-level computing (e.g. compression, format conversion) and rapid transfer to cloud storage systems. Any data stored in on-premise scratch space for more than two weeks is subject to requests for deletion at any time. | ||
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| The VAST system has two partitions: |
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Is this implementation section correct for a philosophy/governance doc? Should we put it somewhere else?
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Moved to data organization for now under a new Implementation heading, I think that's fine until we see a better place to put it
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| When manually uploading data to cloud buckets, it is easy to make mistakes that can affect others’ data. The data transfer service is designed to automatically organize data and metadata consistently and prevent accidentally overwriting data. | ||
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| Cloud storage is organized as follows: |
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Same as above - should we migrate this to a separate doc specific to AIND?
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or, maybe this is better for data organization?
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I moved this to data organization under the same Implementation heading, we can move it again if needed
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This PR adds the data_governance.md page and copies the contents of https://alleninstitute.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/NeuralDynamics/EQ_KJ0W263dKhmlL8pRZxPEBwv128ioM3HyFsLXSSA8bxQ?e=dPQtEk&wdLOR=c7EFAE067-11AE-A94D-B15E-3D8C9F486FA3
That file is now archived.