Recently I learnt that The University of Queensland’s Research Data Maganger (RDM) supported WebDav apps. Why is this exciting and worth blogging about?
I use Zotero as my citation manager. It is free and open source, which means I don’t run into issues when jumping between academia jobs when I want to bring my virtual library with me. However, I still have issues when I lose all the attachments to my records. From time to time I have subscribed to Zotero, to back-up my attachment library of PDFs. However currently I am not subscribed and recently my hard-drive failed on my work laptop, which mean’t I lost the links to all my stored attachment library.
Zotero also offers functionality where users can back-up their attachments through WebDav software.
While working at The University of Southern Queensland I was able to use the ARDC Cloudstor with WebDav to back-up and sync my library, however in 2022 this service was discontinued.
I have been eying off purchasing pCloud storage, which would allow me to store data and access it through WebDav. I have also been considering creating a home server with WebDav storage.
Only recently I learnt when trying to access data from my UQ RDM from a ARDC nectar instance I was made aware of the WebDav support.