PANGAEA (Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science)
- Free allowance
- Free to publish ('PANGAEA can be used free of charge'; a voluntary 500 EUR contribution is appreciated, not required).
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Free to publish ('PANGAEA can be used free of charge'; a voluntary 500 EUR contribution is appreciated, not required). No total-volume cap found; the stated cap is per file. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB in size.' Retention: permanent (WDS member, DOI per dataset). Between per-file cap and total there is a human editorial gate — 'might take up to several weeks'. Read constraint: no rate limit observed; the per-dataset bundle zip (allfiles.zip) is 401-gated while individual originals are 200. |
| Identity | institution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence |
| Egress | Free, anonymous, direct HTTPS with Accept-Ranges: bytes and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *. Originals served from download.pangaea.de. |
| Per-object cap | per-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB (15000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | per-object-cap: 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB in size.' Retention: permanent (WDS member, DOI per dataset) |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | No upload API — submission is a web form + editor-issued upload link. Read side is fully scriptable: https://download.pangaea.de/dataset/<ID>/files/<FILENAME>, allfiles.zip/tar, and ?format=textfile|metadata_jsonl|linkset_json on the DOI resolver. Works with plain curl/wget (the documented 'download multiple files' page is a file list). |
| Composes with | Unlimited datasets per login; each DOI mints a fresh dataset directory with independent quota. Originals are addressable per-file, so a caller can pull exactly the bytes wanted rather than the whole bundle. |
| Reliability | Submission queue is weeks long and editor-mediated; data may be reformatted on ingest for tabular submissions (originals are kept as binary objects and served byte-for-byte). |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Binary_objects | 'Individual files must be less than 15 GB in size' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.pangaea.de/submit/index.php | 'PANGAEA can be used free of charge'; 'might take up to several weeks' |
| 2026-10-21 | download.pangaea.de/dataset/958362/files/PS122_1_6_16_201911 | probe: GET -> 200, Content-Length 1962969, downloaded 1962969 bytes, body starts ffd8ff (real JPEG, original retrievable) |
| 2026-10-21 | download.pangaea.de/dataset/958362/allfiles.zip | probe: GET -> 401 Unauthorized (bundle gated, individual files not) |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read