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PANGAEA (Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science) Storage

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Free tierFree to publish ('PANGAEA can be used free of charge'; a voluntary 500 EUR contribution is appreciated, not required). No total-volume cap found; the stated cap is per file.
unit mixed; metered on unstated
Pricenone stated
Per-object capper-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB (15000000000 bytes)
Retentionper-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB in size.' Retention: permanent (WDS member, DOI per dataset)
EgressFree, anonymous, direct HTTPS with Accept-Ranges: bytes and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *. Originals served from download.pangaea.de.
Identityinstitution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Limits
  • per-object-cap per-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB source
per-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB in size.' Retention: permanent (WDS member, DOI per dataset). Between per-file cap and total there is a human editorial gate — 'might take up to several weeks'. Read constraint: no rate limit observed; the per-dataset bundle zip (allfiles.zip) is 401-gated while individual originals are 200.
Bindingper-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interfacerest rest
ToolingNo upload API — submission is a web form + editor-issued upload link. Read side is fully scriptable: https://download.pangaea.de/dataset/<ID>/files/<FILENAME>, allfiles.zip/tar, and ?format=textfile|metadata_jsonl|linkset_json on the DOI resolver. Works with plain curl/wget (the documented 'download multiple files' page is a file list).
Composes withUnlimited datasets per login; each DOI mints a fresh dataset directory with independent quota. Originals are addressable per-file, so a caller can pull exactly the bytes wanted rather than the whole bundle.
ReliabilitySubmission queue is weeks long and editor-mediated; data may be reformatted on ingest for tabular submissions (originals are kept as binary objects and served byte-for-byte).
NotesFree to publish ('PANGAEA can be used free of charge'; a voluntary 500 EUR contribution is appreciated, not required). No total-volume cap found; the stated cap is per file.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:per-object-cap 15.0 GB
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Binary_objects'Individual files must be less than 15 GB in size'
2026-10-21www.pangaea.de/submit/index.php'PANGAEA can be used free of charge'; 'might take up to several weeks'
2026-10-21download.pangaea.de/dataset/958362/files/PS122_1_6_16_201911probe: GET -> 200, Content-Length 1962969, downloaded 1962969 bytes, body starts ffd8ff (real JPEG, original retrievable)
2026-10-21download.pangaea.de/dataset/958362/allfiles.zipprobe: GET -> 401 Unauthorized (bundle gated, individual files not)
Unknown or withheld values (4)
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted