NSC's position is that computing time and project storage are allocated to the project by NAISS, and that NAISS has authorized the PI to decide who gets to be a member in the project, and how much computing and storage resources each member may use.
In order to manage the project storage, the project PI (or someone designated by the PI, e.g the SUPR "Proxy for the PI") can therefore get assistance from NSC with the following:
We strongly encourage PI:s to talk to project members before deleting or changing the ownership of their data.
Please note that NSC considers this to be unrelated to the intellectual property rights of the actual file contents. This just concerns the rights to store and organize bits and bytes on disk.
When a user is removed from a project, files in the project directory owned by that user are not automatically removed. It is up to the project PI to decide if the files should be kept on disk or not.
A user's home directory is considered to be personal and not connected to any project. NSC will not allow PI:s to delete or view contents from the home directory without permission from the user. Home directories of users no longer active at NSC will eventually be deleted.
This situation most often happens when a project ends and the project directory is taken over by a new project. Users who are not added to the new project will then lose access to the project directory after 60 days.
There are three ways to regain access to such data:
NOTE: if the project is a storage-only project (most projects with an allocation larger than 500 GiB are storage-only projects), membership in it will not automatically open your Tetralith or Sigma account if it has already been closed. To reopen the account, you either need to become a member of a compute project, or contact NSC Support to have your account unlocked for a limited time (as long as it takes to copy or move data, usually a week or two).
If the PI for some reason does not want to add you to the project, but agree to letting you copy or move the data:
NOTE: For technical reasons NSC cannot give a user access to only his/her own files in a project directory, it's all or nothing.
If the project PI does not agree to let you have access to the data, we have a non-technical problem. So far this has only happened once. The solution might involve getting your local university to make a decision, or get Linköping University's legal team involved. Please get in touch with NSC Support if this happens, and we will try to advice you on how to proceed.
SNIC's interpretation1 of Swedish law is that data on Centre Storage is not public ("allmänna handlingar").
This also means that NSC is not required to archive data stored on Centre Storage.
The SNIC Partner Committee has held a meeting (early 2017), and informs that the project storage on the centres, are not considered "allmänna handlingar", due to Tryckfrihetsordningen 1949:105 2 kap. 10 § which states that "Handling som förvaras hos en myndighet endast som led i teknisk bearbetning eller teknisk lagring för annans räkning anses inte som allmän handling hos den myndigheten."↩
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