InvenioRDM platform

data.caltech.edu · Storage · 2 records · JSON

CaltechDATA (InvenioRDM, California Institute of Technology) Storagefails: identityinstitutionno cardR
InvenioRDM platform class — CaltechDATA, TU Graz, TU Wien, TalTech, KTH, Bamberg, MSD-Live Storagefails: identityinstitutionno cardR

CaltechDATA (InvenioRDM, California Institute of Technology) Storage

fails: identityinstitutionno cardR

data.caltech.edu · academic · storage/caltechdata · JSON · compare

Free tier	1 TB of free storage per user, announced 2026-06-26, 'made possible through a National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure grant' and backed by the Open Storage Network. Additional storage $200/TB one-time. 550 files max per record. unit objects; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Unmetered — no egress terms; downloads stream straight from data.caltech.edu (I saw no redirect). Content-Security-Policy references caltech2.osn.mghpcc.org, i.e. storage sits on the Open Storage Network, an NSF-funded academic fabric
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: e $200/TB one-time. 550 files max per record. Anonymous API reads work and are generous (X-RateLimit-Limit: 500 observed on /api/records). The 1 TB allocation is explicitly funded
Binding	none the quota is real and unreachable: identity is the binding constraint, and it is not one of the six limits kinds
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	InvenioRDM REST API (/api/records, files under /api/records/<id>/files/<key>/content); purpose-built client caltechlibrary/caltechdata_api (github.com/caltechlibrary/caltechdata_api, 13 stars); the whole instance's source is public at caltechlibrary/caltechdata (11 stars) so the quota config is auditable
Composes with	1 TB is the largest single free allocation I found in this niche and it is per user, not per record. Records themselves are not account-capped, so 1 TB is a floor rather than a ceiling. Institutional deployments like this are exactly the 'more generous than Zenodo' pattern the brief predicted.
Reliability	Anonymous API reads work and are generous (X-RateLimit-Limit: 500 observed on /api/records). The 1 TB allocation is explicitly funded by a time-bounded NSF grant, so the number has a funding horizon attached.
Notes	1 TB of free storage per user, announced 2026-06-26, 'made possible through a National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure grant' and backed by the Open Storage Network. Additional storage $200/TB one-time. 550 files max per record.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	libanswers.caltech.edu/faq/163212	read live (Last Updated Jun 29, 2026): 'All users with an access.caltech account get 1 TB of free storage through CaltechDATA. Additional storage requires a one-time charge of $200 / TB ... Individual records can include a maximum of 550 files.'
2026-10-21	library.caltech.edu/blogs/news/caltechdata-expanded-storage	read live, dated 06/26/2026: 'All researchers at Caltech can now upload up to 1 TB of data for free ... possible due to the Open Storage Network'
2026-10-21	data.caltech.edu/api/records?size=1	probe: GET -> 200 with X-RateLimit-Limit: 500; GET /api/records/mhmjd-4pr39/files/... content endpoint -> 200, files.enabled: true, per-file links resolve

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "1 TB of free storage per user, announced 2026-06-26, 'made possible through a National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure grant' and backed by the Open Storage Network. Additional storage $200/TB one-time. 550 files max per record.",
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  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
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$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

InvenioRDM platform class — CaltechDATA, TU Graz, TU Wien, TalTech, KTH, Bamberg, MSD-Live Storage

fails: identityinstitutionno cardR

data.caltech.edu · academic repository / InvenioRDM 14.0–15.0 · storage/inveniordm-platform-class-caltechdata-tu-graz-tu-wien-ta · JSON · compare

Free tier	Per-record, NOT per-account: RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_QUOTA_SIZE = 10 GB and RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE = 10 GB, with APP_RDM_DEPOSIT_FORM_QUOTA maxFiles = 100. Records are unlimited. This is the structural inverse of Dataverse: InvenioRDM ships a real quota and it is per-object, so total space is unbounded while each record is capped at 10 GB. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	10 GB/file (10000000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	Cloudflare-fronted on every instance checked.
Identity	institution institution
Limits	per-object-cap 10 GB/file source per-object-cap 10 GB/record and 10 GB/file, 100 files/record. No per-account cap exists in the platform, so no instance can report one.
Binding	none the quota is real and unreachable: identity is the binding constraint, and it is not one of the six limits kinds
Interface	rest, rclone, cli REST (/api/records), InvenioRDM REST API v1
Tooling	curl / invenio-cli / rclone via REST
Composes with	Excellent for the archive workload if registration were open, because 10 GB x unlimited records is unbounded in aggregate. It is not open on any instance tested.
Reliability	All seven instances 404 on /signup/, which in InvenioRDM means SECURITY_REGISTERABLE is off; only Zenodo (already counted elsewhere) and the CERN demo return anything other than 404.
Notes	Per-record, NOT per-account: RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_QUOTA_SIZE = 10 GB and RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE = 10 GB, with APP_RDM_DEPOSIT_FORM_QUOTA maxFiles = 100. Records are unlimited. This is the structural inverse of Dataverse: InvenioRDM ships a real quota and it is per-object, so total space is unbounded while each record is capped at 10 GB.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 10.0 GB

Evidence (10)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio-rdm-records/blob/master/i	RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_QUOTA_SIZE = 10 * (10*9); RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE = 10 (10**9); RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_MAX_ADDITIONAL_QUOTA_SIZE = 0
2026-10-21	github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio-app-rdm/blob/master/inven	APP_RDM_DEPOSIT_FORM_QUOTA = {'maxFiles': 100, 'maxStorage': RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_QUOTA_SIZE}
2026-10-21	data.caltech.edu/api/records?size=1	200, records served; /signup/ — 404
2026-10-21	repository.tugraz.at/api/records?size=1	200; /signup/ — 404
2026-10-21	researchdata.tuwien.ac.at/api/records?size=1	200; /signup/ — 404
2026-10-21	data.taltech.ee/api/records?size=1	200; /signup/ — 404
2026-10-21	datarepository.kth.se/api/records?size=1	200; /signup/ — 404
2026-10-21	fd-repo.uni-bamberg.de/api/records?size=1	200; /signup/ — 404
2026-10-21	data.msdlive.org/api/records?size=1	200; /signup/ — 502
2026-10-21	inveniordm.web.cern.ch/signup	308 (registration enabled on the demo); https://zenodo.org/signup — 308

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Per-record, NOT per-account: RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_QUOTA_SIZE = 10 GB and RDM_FILES_DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE = 10 GB, with APP_RDM_DEPOSIT_FORM_QUOTA maxFiles = 100. Records are unlimited. This is the structural inverse of Dataverse: InvenioRDM ships a real quota and it is per-object, so total space is unbounded while each record is capped at 10 GB.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (5)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted