As all of you know, at DM we deposit a file of your data sets on magnetic media, along with its documentation. The documentation is always published on the Web but not necessarily its data. At the Institute, we store two copies of your data files on zip drives or floppy disks and, whenever the data is entered by one of our data entry personnel, we update the backups. The whole data set resides on a computer. Before we had to move to the Institute s second floor, all the data sets where copied onto files our Novell Netware 3.11 file server, accessible to the investigators that used our facilities.
All data files reside on different subdirectories that where grouped by projects.
The directories were granted users permissions using Novell s security system. Those Institute s investigators were granted Read Only privileges to their data sets to maintain integrity of the data. Regular backups were performed of the entire filesystem and on individual data sets every time a data file was updated. All the filed documentation resided on a subdirectory of this server and were accessible to the DM personnel and all those that were granted permission. When filed on paper the information was entered in the Paradox Catalog data base and from there incorporated into a Word Perfect file using its programming capabilities.