Data Lifetime Management and Archiving

Common policies for data lifetime management and archiving need to be established within the project. These will address the following questions: What kind of data is going to be archived? How long will it be kept? Will published data be made publicly available? etc. According to these policies, hierarchical storage management (HSM) and corresponding archiving facilities will be implemented, and be made available to all project partners. A possible candidate for this implementation is again dCache. In this case DESY already possesses significant expertise and can assist partners in providing a commonly available dCache infrastructure.