Arvados

h1. Storing and Organizing Data

Rough demo outline

# Automatic ingest from a POSIX directory to Keep

#* Access to existing staging area (e.g., remote NFS share) is arranged ahead of time as an admin/setup task

#* Optional(?) User can manage staging areas hosted inside Arvados

#* Someone (possibly 3rd party) uploads some files to the staging area via SFTP or whatever

#* Uploader does an API call to {something - ingestor app? directly to arvados api endpoint?}. In the API call, the uploader provides a tag (e.g., a sample ID) and a list of files, checksums, etc.

#* Ingestor daemon reads the data from the staging area and writes it into Keep; creates one collection per API call made by uploader

#* In Workbench the imported Datasets appear as Collections in the designated project

#* After data has been copied into Keep, ingestor deletes the files from the staging area (this had better be configurable!).

# My data gets into the right project as specified by the uploader (API call) 

# Subscribe to notifications (by email and/or Workbench dashboard): when files start/finish uploading; when files are shared with customer; when files are downloaded by third party

# Move/copy collections between projects (Project RX1234, or Customer X’s files), tag them in destination project with the appropriate string (e.g., sample ID) -- defaulting to existing tag used in source project (e.g., provided at time of upload).

#* UI for presenting Groups as Projects/Folders

# “Anyone with this secret link can view/download” mode. Enable, disable, change magic link. Use cases: browser + “wget -r”.

# See log/overview of who has accessed your shared data (incl. “anonymous user” if using secret-link-to-share); when shared/unshared; when each upload started/finished -- for a single project, and across all projects