# LABDRIVE

## LABDRIVE

- [What is LABDRIVE](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/master.md)
- [Architecture and overview](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/architecture.md)
- [Organize your content](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/content-organization.md)
- [OAIS and ISO 16363](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/oais-and-iso-16363.md): This section describes the "gold standard" for digital preservation.
- [Understanding OAIS and ISO 16363](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/oais-and-iso-16363/understanding-oais-and-iso-16363.md)
- [LABDRIVE support for OAIS Conformance](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/oais-and-iso-16363/labdrive-support-for-oais-conformance.md)
- [Benefits of preserving research data](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/oais-and-iso-16363/benefits-of-preserving-research-data.md)
- [Planning for preservation](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/oais-and-iso-16363/planning-for-preservation.md)
- [ISO 16363 certification guide](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/oais-and-iso-16363/iso-16363-certification-guide.md)
- [LABDRIVE support for FAIRness](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/concepts/oais-and-iso-16363/labdrive-support-for-fairness.md): This section contains and evaluation of how well LABDRIVE supports the FAIR guiding principles.
- [Create a data container](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/create-a-data-container.md)
- [Upload content](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/upload-content.md)
- [Download content](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/download-content.md)
- [Introduction to metadata](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/add-metadata.md)
- [Search](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/search.md)
- [File versioning and recovery](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/file-versioning-and-recovery.md)
- [Work with data containers](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/working-with-data-containers.md)
- [Functions](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/execute-lambda-functions.md)
- [Storage mode transitions](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/storage-mode-transitions.md)
- [Jupyter Notebooks](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/get-started/jupyter-notebooks.md)
- [Archive organization](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/configuration/archive-organization.md)
- [Container templates](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/configuration/container-templates.md)
- [Configure metadata](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/configuration/metadata.md)
- [Users and Permissions](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/configuration/sharing-and-permissions.md)
- [Running on premises](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/configuration/running-on-premises.md)
- [Introduction](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/introduction.md): This section uses the OAIS principles as a guide to planning and using LABDRIVE to ingest, preserve and use digitally encoded information.
- [Information Lifecycles](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/information-lifecycles.md): This page describes the important steps in the creation, (re-)use and preservation of information.
- [Collecting Information needed for Re-Use and Preservation](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/collecting-information-needed-for-re-use-and-preservation.md): In order to be able to (re-)use information and preserve information, appropriate information should be collected as soon as possible during its planning and creation, before it is forgotten or lost.
- [Planning and Using Additional Information in LABDRIVE](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/planning-and-using-additional-information-in-labdrive.md)
- [How to deal with Additional Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information.md): This section described how to deal with all the other types of Additional Information, which is encoded as Data Objects.
- [Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/representation-information.md)
- [Provenance Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/provenance-information.md): Provenance information is important if one is to be able to reproduce the object's creation and processing.
- [Context Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/context-information.md): This page describes some examples of Context Information.
- [Reference Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/reference-information.md)
- [Descriptive Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/descriptive-information.md): Descriptive Information allows users to locate information of potential interest, analyze that information, and order desired information.
- [Packaging Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/packaging-information.md): This is the information that describes how the components of an Information Package are logically or physically bound together and how to identify and extract the components.
- [Definition of the Designated Community(ies)](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/definition-of-the-designated-community-ies.md)
- [Preservation Objectives](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/preservation-objectives.md)
- [Transformational Information Properties](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/how-to-deal-with-additional-information/transformational-information-properties.md)
- [Preservation Activities](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities.md): OAIS identifies the general types of activities needed to preserve information as things, such as technology, environment, tacit knowledge, change.
- [Adding Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information.md): As technology, environment and tacit knowledge change, the bits in the digital object may not be usable/understandable. Extra Representation Information can overcome such changes.
- [Semantic Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/semantic-representation-information.md): The Representation Information that further describes the meaning of the Data Object, and its parts or elements, beyond that provided by the Structure Representation Information.
- [Structural Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/structural-representation-information.md): This page describes a number of ways in which Structural Representation Information may be created.
- [Other Representation Information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information.md): A type of Representation Information which cannot easily be classified as Structure Representation Information or Semantic Representation Information. It is a type of Information Object.
- [Software as part of the RIN](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin.md): Software is an important type of "Other Representation Information". It will require its own RepInfo and will itself need to be preserved.
- [Preserving simple software](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-simple-software.md): Some software is relatively simple, for example single applications running on a single computer.
- [Jupyter Notebooks as Other RepInfo](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-simple-software/method-2-interactive-computational-notebooks-jupyther-notebooks.md)
- [Preserving complex software](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software.md): By complex software is meant software which currently requires many computers and is made up of many separate software applications, some of which may be relatively simple.
- [Emulation/Virtualisation](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/emulation-virtualisation.md): Preservation of more complex software systems must consider the operating system and various pieces of hardware.
- [Virtual machines as Other RepInfo](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/emulation-virtualisation/method-3-emulation-i.e.-true-emulation-virtualization-and-containerization.md): Virtual machines (VMs) can provide independence from specific hardware and software, but the VMs must themselves be preserved.
- [Docker and other containers as Other RepInfo](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/emulation-virtualisation/containers-dockers.md)
- [Use of ReproZip](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/adding-representation-information/other-representation-information/software-as-part-of-the-rin/preserving-complex-software/method-4-migration-1.md)
- [Transforming the Digital Object](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/transforming-the-digital-object.md)
- [Handing over to another archive](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/preservation-activities/handing-over-to-another-archive.md)
- [Reproducing research](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/reproducing-research.md): The ability to verify results by re-doing experiments (observational, physical or computational) is fundamental to science. This page discusses how LABDRIVE supports this.
- [Exploiting preserved information](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/data-curation-and-preservation-1/exploiting-preserved-information.md): This page discusses various ways in which LABDRIVE supports the exploitation of preserved information.
- [Introduction](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/developers-guide/introduction.md)
- [Functions](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/developers-guide/functions.md)
- [Scripting](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/developers-guide/scripting.md)
- [API Extended documentation](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/developers-guide/api-extended-documentation.md)
- [LABDRIVE Functions gallery](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/labdrive-functions-gallery.md)
- [AWS CLI with LABDRIVE](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/aws-cli-with-labdrive.md)
- [Using S3 Browser](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/using-s3-browser.md)
- [Using FileZilla Pro](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/using-filezilla-pro.md)
- [Getting your S3 bucket name](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/getting-your-s3-bucket-name.md)
- [Getting your S3 storage credentials](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/getting-your-s3-storage-credentials.md)
- [Advanced API File Search](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/advanced-api-file-search.md)
- [Tips for faster uploads](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/tips-for-faster-uploads.md)
- [File naming recommendations](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/file-naming-recommendations.md)
- [Configuring Azure SAML-based authentication](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/configuring-azure-saml-based-authentication.md)
- [Exporting OAIS AIP Packages](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/cookbook/exporting-oais-aip-packages.md): The platform provides the capability of exporting any folder (or group of folders) as an OAIS AIP package, encoded in a JSON file.
- [Supported formats for preview](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/file-browser/supported-formats-for-preview.md)
- [Known issues and limitations](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/file-browser/known-issues-and-limitations.md)
- [Changelog and Release Notes](https://docs.libnova.com/labdrive/release-notes.md)