# NAKALA

> nakala.fr | Storage; 2 records: free tier, limits, identity cost and evidence.

HTML https://fshy.ajam.dev/p/nakala/ | JSON https://fshy.ajam.dev/api/v1/entity/nakala.json | how to read a record: https://fshy.ajam.dev/llms-full.txt

## NAKALA (IR* Huma-Num, CNRS / French national HSS data repository)

- `storage/nakala` | qualifies-with-caveat | evidence reported | binding none | category academic
- identity a placeholder: card and phone unknown | verified 2026-10-21 (inherited) | stale on 2026-11-05
- url https://nakala.fr
- disagrees on verdict: `storage/nakala` says qualifies-with-caveat, `storage/nakala-no-formal-size-limit-but-a-humanid-gate-and-a-con` says fails-identity
- free tier: Public deposits are explicitly uncapped: 'Il n'existe aucune limite pour les dépôts publics' (there is no limit for public deposits), and 'Un accès à vos données sans limite de volumétrie, ni de temps' (access to your data with no volume or time limit). The only quota is on PRIVATE staging: 10,000 private deposits or 100 GB equivalent. | unit: GB | metered on: unstated | read on: 2026-10-21 | source: [1]
- per-object cap: not stated | source: [1] | note: not stated
- retention: Publication mints a DOI via DataCite and is irreversible — deletion requires a request to Huma-Num, so this is a permanent archive, not scratch space | source: [1] | note: not stated
- egress: Free. Files are served from Huma-Num/IN2P3-hosted infrastructure in France with no metering and no egress charge; public deposits are downloadable by any visitor and IIIF image endpoints are exposed for tif/tiff/jpg/jpeg/jp2. | metered: no
- identity: institution
- interface: rest, rclone
- limits note: Private staging capped at 10,000 deposits / 100 GB; public deposits uncapped. Publication mints a DOI via DataCite and is irreversible — deletion requires a request to Huma-Num, so this is a permanent archive, not scratch space. Eligibility is the real limit: the depositor must belong to the French academic world, or be part of a project whose lead team is French-academic.
- interface detail: rest
- tooling: Documented REST API split into search / datas / collections / groups / users / vocabularies, with a per-account API key ('Certaines opérations nécessitent ... sa clé d'API disponible dans son compte personnel'); swagger at api.nakala.fr/doc, separate test instance apitest.nakala.fr. Also OAI-PMH (api.nakala.fr/oai2?verb=Identify), a SPARQL triplestore, IIIF Image API, and a published notebook at gitlab.huma-num.fr/huma-num-public/notebook-api-nakala. No rclone backend.
- composes with: Unlimited public deposits per account, no volume cap per deposit — so the account is the only unit and it does not need multiplying for 500 GB. Groups feature shares deposit rights across a project team, so a lab can pour many researchers' output into one quota-free surface.
- reliability: CRITICAL liveness flag: nakala.fr and api.nakala.fr both returned HTTP 503 on 6 consecutive probes across ~25 minutes (site and API, direct and through the proxy), so the quota is docs-verified but the service was NOT live at probe time. Budget-stable (CNRS-funded national infrastructure) but treat availability as unconfirmed.
- notes: the same as the free tier
- evidence:
  - [1] 2026-10-21: 'Il n'existe aucune limite pour les dépôts publics' and 'Le nombre de dépôts privés par déposant est limité à 10 000 (ou l'équivalent de 100 Go)'
  - [2] 2026-10-21: REST API endpoint list, api.nakala.fr/doc, OAI-PMH, SPARQL, IIIF
  - [3] 2026-10-21: probe: GET -> 503 six times; GET https://api.nakala.fr/oai2?verb=Identify -> 503 (service down at probe time)
- sources:
  - [1] https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/
  - [2] https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala-API/
  - [3] https://nakala.fr/

## Nakala (Huma-Num, France) - no formal size limit, but a HumanID gate and a conversation with the team

- `storage/nakala-no-formal-size-limit-but-a-humanid-gate-and-a-con` | fails-identity | evidence reported | binding none | category academic
- needs card no, phone no, ID no, institution yes | verified 2026-10-21 (inherited) | stale on 2026-11-05
- url https://nakala.fr/
- disagrees on verdict: `storage/nakala` says qualifies-with-caveat, `storage/nakala-no-formal-size-limit-but-a-humanid-gate-and-a-con` says fails-identity
- free tier: 'There is no formal limitation on the size of data deposited'; above ~10 GB per file you must contact the Nakala team first. Private pre-publication space is capped far lower (9,999 items or 100 GB), so the large-volume path is publish-as-you-go. | unit: objects | metered on: unstated | read on: 2026-10-21 | source: [1]
- per-object cap: 10 GB per file | bytes: 10000000000 | source: [1] | note: not stated
- retention: not stated | source: [1] | note: not stated
- egress: Free public HTTPS with a DOI per deposit; no egress metering published. | metered: no
- identity: institution | detail: institution
- interface: rest
- limits:
  - per-object-cap: 10 GB per file [1]
- limits note: Account path is HumanID -> request Nakala access -> 'Discuss the scientific and technical project associated with the deposit with HumaNum's team'. Research data only, must be documented to a metadata schema, licence from a closed list, ORCID checked on authors. Published deposits cannot be deleted unilaterally.
- interface detail: rest
- tooling: Nakala REST API plus nakalot (multipart batch uploader driven by a CSV/XLS manifest); OAI-PMH.
- composes with: Per deposit, unlimited deposits - but the gate is identity, not bytes.
- reliability: MESR-funded national infrastructure, data preserved at CINES after audit; ~100 TB of storage on the ISIDORE/Nakala stack. French research context in practice.
- notes: the same as the free tier
- extras:
  - dead_end.failure_class: quota
  - dead_end.why: 'There is no formal limitation on the size of data deposited'; above ~10 GB per file you must contact the Nakala team first. Private pre-publication space is capped far lower (9,999 items or 100 GB), so the large-volume path is publish-as-you-go.
  - dead_end.first_recorded: 2026-10-21
- evidence:
  - [1] 2026-10-21: 'Il n'y a pas formellement de limitation pour la taille des donnees deposees. Cependant... superieur a 10 GOs par fichier, il est necessaire de prendre contact avec l'equipe NAKALA'
  - [2] 2026-10-21: 'Request a HumanID login'; 'Discuss the scientific and technical project... with HumaNum's team'; mandatory pre-curation for level 2/3
  - [3] 2026-10-21: 'Espace de depot limite a 9 999 donnees ou a 100 Go' for the private status
- sources:
  - [1] https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala-faq/
  - [2] https://documentation.huma-num.fr/en/nakala-workflow-en/
  - [3] https://www.orient-mediterranee.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023_NAKALA-Decouverte-Webinaire2909.pdf