Schlagwort: ‘Coscine’
Discontinuation of Single Sign-On Login
As previously announced in the newsletter and other user-specific emails, the Single Sign-On login will be discontinued. The discontinuation is scheduled for the next live deployment on September 1, 2026. We therefore ask all users who have not yet linked their accounts to do so. Instructions for linking accounts can be found in the documentation.
New Coscine Community Feature
When dealing with data requiring a high level of protection, the question often arises as to how secure cloud storage really is. For anyone facing this issue – as well as all users with heightened security needs in general – the Coscine Community section now features a new project on “client side encryption.” There, various solutions are explained for different levels of prior experience, and the advantages of encryption are weighed against its disadvantages. Since the Cyberduck S3 client is easy to use, there is a separate section introducing the Cryptomator plugin integrated into the client.
Read-Only Is the New Archived!
DataArchive.nrw creates additional storage space, which is intended primarily for “cold” and archived research data. While planning the workflow, we realized that the current archiving process for a resource is misleading for users. A resource can be archived in the resource settings. From a technical standpoint, however, this simply means that the data is set to read-only mode. We have therefore decided to change the terminology to avoid future misunderstandings once DataArchive.nrw goes live. Starting with the live deployment on September 15, resources will likely be able to be set to read-only status in the settings, meaning that files can only be downloaded and not edited starting on that date
Deleting Folders
At times, it was not possible to delete empty folders. The development team has resolved this issue, and the update addressing it will be deployed within the next few days. Once deployed, empty folders can be deleted manually, and all existing empty folders will be automatically removed by the Coscine team. When deleting folders manually, please note that deleted items are not permanently removed from the system until seven days after the deletion date.
S3 Policies
The Coscine documentation has been expanded to include a page on S3 policies [4] in response to an increasing number of user inquiries on this topic. The new page is aimed specifically at power users and provides a concise overview of the policies that have been set. It also highlights which policies are intentionally not supported.
TS4NFDI Incubator
As part of the TS4NFDI Incubator, the AIMS project is currently working to improve federated search in order to enable more precise and detailed results from ontologies. Users can choose from domain-specific collections that bundle ontologies from various NFDI consortia (e.g., NFDI4Ing, NFDI4Chem, FAIRmat). In addition, widgets for improved visual representation are being integrated.
The goal of the incubator is to facilitate the use of standardized terminologies and to make the user interface even more user-friendly. Further information is available in the dashboard.
Changes to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Due to a new feature, we will be updating the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Starting in early June, it will be possible to integrate stored metadata into community-specific searches (e.g., subject-specific searches for engineering) and thereby build a knowledge graph. The Coscine knowledge graph can also be searched using SPARQL queries. This feature will be available for all metadata stored in Coscine, provided that the visibility of a project or resource is set to “Public.” If you do not wish to use this feature, please set the visibility of your projects and resources to “Project Members.” A prompt asking all Coscine users to reconfirm the Terms of Use after logging in to the platform will be displayed starting next week.
