Policies
Materials Cloud Policies v1.1, November 2018
- Scope: Computational materials science. Content must not violate
privacy or copyright.
- Eligible depositors: The Materials Cloud ARCHIVE is open to the
computational materials science community at large. The Materials Cloud
LEARN, WORK, DISCOVER and EXPLORE sections are limited to work involving
at least one author affiliated with the partnering scientific consortia
(while the submission processes are being streamlined).
- Ownership: Uploading content to Materials Cloud does not affect
ownership of the content. In particular, no property rights are transferred
to Materials Cloud.
- Licenses: Users must select licenses for their publicly available
contributions. While open licenses, such as Creative Commons, are preferred, users are free to choose from the SPDX license list. Details may vary between the sections of Materials Cloud.
- Language: Please use English for any textual items.
- Infrastructure: Materials Cloud is hosted (and all data is stored)
at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Availability: The Materials Cloud team and CSCS
do their best to ensure constant availability. We do not sign service-level
agreements.
- Personal Data Protection: See the Materials Cloud Privacy Policy.
- Terms of Use: Material contributed to or downloaded from the Materials
Cloud is subject to the Materials Cloud Terms of Use. See in particular Sections 3.4 and 4. on User Responsibilities and
Liabilities.
See below for the section-specific policies.
- Scope: Educational materials, such as video lectures, slides and exercises.
- Copyright: Copyrights are held by EPFL unless otherwise indicated.
- Licenses: CC-BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise indicated.
Acknowledgement: This document is loosely based on the policies of the
zenodo research data repository
and the arXiv preprint server.
Tools
- Scope: Stand-alone tools with web frontends, hosted by Materials Cloud.
AiiDAlab
- Scope: Running and developing materials science workflows using jupyter notebooks and AiiDA.
- Quotas: We reserve the rights to impose quotas on disk, RAM or CPU usage when necessary.
- Backups: During the alpha phase, users are responsible for making their own backups.
- Availability: During the alpha phase, despite best efforts the service may be unavailable for a day or more.
- Privacy: User data is stored in their own docker container and is not accessible by other users, except for administrators.
Acknowledgement: This document is loosely based on the policies of the
zenodo research data repository
and the arXiv preprint server.
- Scope: Web frontends that provide intuitive entry points to existing records in EXPLORE.
Acknowledgement: This document is loosely based on the policies of the
zenodo research data repository
and the arXiv preprint server.
- Scope: AiiDA databases of research data.
- File formats: Submissions must use the AiiDA export file format as produced using the verdi export command.
- Volume and size limitations: 50 GB for AiiDA databases. For larger datasets please contact us.
Acknowledgement: This document is loosely based on the policies of the
zenodo research data repository
and the arXiv preprint server.